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A simple way to control locomotive speed whilst playing realistic "steam engine" sounds.
We're set to travel and a bevy of things need to be taken care of before we hit the road.Currently Listening: Glen Hansard “The Parting Glass”Reply via email
I picked this one up in the limited offers middle aisle at Lidl, which is how you know it's going to be either amazing and you'll never find it again, or there was a good reason why they had excess stock of it. I like it when a pack of instant noodles follows The Standard Process. This one plainly states you just...
Wasn’t at my computer much this week, but still ended up with a decent batch of links from social.omgmog.net, 3-9 August: some N64 homebrew, Quake’s 30th birthday, and a paper globe you can print and fold.
I forget how I started making this for breakfast, but I first wrote about it all the way back in 2012. It's still pretty much the same recipe, but it has evolved a little. I prefer lots of veggies in my omelets, so that's how I do it. When I get omelets from a restaurant, they seem very light on the veggies to me....
Pink and white flowers blooming under a bright blue summer sky. Related: Silent Sunday (coffee)
There’ll probably never be another museum quite like the Apple Museum in Prague, which featured almost every Apple product ever made in pristine condition, before it closed in September 2020 after a dumbfounding dispute between its founders. The entirely unrelated Apple Museum in Utrecht doesn’t come close, not by a...
How two people selling something taught me about generosity and productivity Photo of hands by Mikhail Nilov, photo of background lights by Ave Calvar Martinez — images altered and combined by me I’ve just read two truly useful articles, pointing to products I have no intention of using. I’m nodding my head at the...
“Most of a good life is simply refusing to do what is bad.” — Tommy Dixon, How to end your extremely online era Reply by email
The art of tempering your fury with an infuriating existential truth. The vast majority of our mental, emotional, and spiritual suffering comes from the violent collision between our expectations and reality. As we dust ourselves off amid the rubble, bruised and indignant, we further pain ourselves with the exertion...
Václav Špála, 1924. Public domain image courtesy Wikimedia Commons. I continue to return to variations of the same conclusion: I lack the artistic creativity, vision, and intellectual confidence of true masters; in this case, Derek Jarman or Ansgar Allen. More than any of the other factors, the real lack may be the...
New York is a graveyard of former theater houses, and in recent years these vacant venues have been repurposed into retail shops, boutique hotels, a workout studio, and even a Starbucks. So why not a one-time dramatic stock and vaudeville theater transformed into a church? A Pentecostal Christian congregation...
Moments of self-reflection on the moveWhen you run, Londoners do not move out of the way and let you pass like people in Belfast do. You have to find your way through them, a little forcefully sometimes. When I run, my mind wanders. I couldn't let that happen when I ran in St. James's Park yesterday. It was far too...
I do not think that it does. At least not necessarily. Lets not put the cart before the horse here. In truth: The long arc of history veers towards winners, so the real question is.... why does it look like progressives keep winning in the long run? The Diary of a Girl in France in 1821, by Mary Browne (1821)....
My wife has insisted for some time that my hearing sucks. Meanwhile, I think she’s a bit of a low talker. I had my ears checked this week by an audiologist, and my hearing is “borderline” normal except for a particular band of frequencies in which I have achieved “mild” hearing loss. And it just so happens that the...
Visiting a beloved children's franchise late in life has been a trip Sometime around last summer I started reading the Redwall books with my kids; I've known a lot of people who'd read them growing up or for whom those books meant a lot but they'd missed me entirely until the year of our Abbot 2025 and so I'm coming...
We have a psycho kitty. He’s always been a psycho kitty. We thought he always would be a psycho kitty. Except. Since moving to the woods, he has mellowed considerably. He was never a mean cat, just prone to panic attacks and freaking out over… well, things. Here is a partial list of causes of his freakouts: The dog...
Almost all my photos contain the coordinates of where the shot was taken in the EXIF metadata of the respective file. For this purpose, my Android smartphone has a built-in GPS receiver, and I equipped my Nikon D500 with a Dawntech di-GPS Eco ProFessional 2 a couple of years ago, although I sometimes forget to...
I started something on an impulse. I realised after a while that while it might be a great idea, it would be an even better idea as part of something already existing. Now I’m ignoring it altogether and for some reason started Captain of Industry again, which is really, really bad. It’s crack. I should delete it and...
2026-08-09Hello! I must have underestimated the amount of photos from that photowalk in the woods. When I'm used to the grays and greens of a controlled living space, any bits of organic color from the wild pop out to me.I also must have underestimated the amount of photos taken with this wide-angle lens. The look...
if anyone read my writing from last year, they'd know I was obsessed with a guy 5 years older than me who was my closest friend. Sound shady?
Something different for today: a one-hour episode of a podcast A Life Well Wasted from 2025. (I can’t link to it directly, but it’s the most recent episode, called “Game Over.”) It’s a human story whose beats might be familiar to some of you: a long software project that ultimately failed despite the enormous...
Here is a little August nocturne by Thomas Hardy, a man who has been strangely present to me since my recent reading of Max Gate (in which he is, for the most part, strangely absent). Hardy's nocturnal visitors are a daddy-longlegs or crane fly (of which, fact fans, there are more species than there are of birds),...
Buzzworthy Introduction On October 9, 2008, Residential Aliens, an online speculative fiction blog, published a story titled A Taste of Honey by Fred Warren. Mr. Warren, who Residential Aliens described in his author bio as having recently retired from the U.S. Air Force and living in Kansas with his wife and three...
In Devtools must be open source1 (via), David Crawshaw makes the case that, because of coding agents, we’re now in an era where devtools will be personalized by individual users. Specifically, agents’ ability to jump into new codebases and build whatever we want means we’ll be hacking on the source of the devtools...
The track of the Seattle monorail, built for the 1962 Seattle World's Fair, passes through the Frank Gehry designed Museum of Pop Culture (2000). 未来へと続くモノレール 1962年のシアトル万国博覧会のために建設されたシアトル・モノレールの線路は、フランク・ゲーリーが設計したポップカルチャー博物館（2000年）を通り抜けている。
Tech bros across the world have been giving everyone a right ear-bashing in the last few years about their AI agents, and the need for data centres to power them. And they’ve been crying foul in response to the environmental concerns many have expressed. Tech bros worldwide are annoyed we don’t want to share our...
This is something that I’ve been thinking about for awhile. How do you think of the Internet? Is it social for you? A source of information? A simple tool? A burden? A toxic place filled with assholes? All of the above? For me, I have a hard time narrowing down what the Internet even is. Oh, I know the technologies...
I watched this video that shows (and also explains) the universe from the Big Bang till now. The moment you see the human is the last thing, as a fraction of a second. That tells how insignificant we are in the universe. However, it's also impossible to comprehend billions of years. We don't need to go too far;...
Years ago, I started using Duolingo to learn French. I made it two or three years daily, until they completely changed the app and I left because I hated the changes. I downloaded it a couple months ago because I wanted to learn again, and found… ugh, it’s just horrible now, how do people even use it still? So I...
Aloha from Kauai! Here's another snail for your enjoyment. Since I'm still on vacation, here’s a repost with edits from 2011 and from my 2019 book A Theory of Jerks and Other Philosophical Misadventures. [giant African land snail, seen in southern Kauai] I've been told that Kant and Hegel were poor writers whose...
Caloncho es de esos artistas que, para mí, son estacionales y temporales, y asociado a contextos más o menos concretos. Hace música que me pongo en casa para estar tranquilo y de buen humor. Ya os enseñé otro disco en el que participó: el (para mi gusto) excelente “Tiempo Compartido” que hizo con El David Aguilar. Y...
Eu não tinha a intenção de falar sobre esse filme quando comecei a assistir ele. Dito isso, eu notei que eu (propositalmente) escrevi a mesma coisa aqui do que no post sobre o filme anterior. Mas minha intenção quando sento pra assistir algum filme não é vir aqui escrever sobre, talvez fosse até bom já que me...
No introduction, no filler, just some facts. You can check some existing facts about me on this post from last year’s Blaugust and this other compilation. Even though I am Mexican, there’s a lot of Mexican food everyone seems to love, but I just don’t like as much. I can eat it if I have to be polite, but yeah, I’d...
Liked After Nearly a Decade of Distro Hopping, I Realized It Was Never About the Distro by Bhuwan Mishra (It's FOSS) If you're picking your first Linux setup, this is the question worth asking before you pick a distro: what desktop environment does it ship, and does that match your hardware and your preference? This...
Parking a vehicle for a concert at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts, is quite a challenge. Before heading to the BTS concerts this past week I did some research, even asking Chat GPT about how to handle parking. To its credit, with my hints about what I wanted, it ended up putting us at a pretty good...
a half-assed review"> So yeah, AC: Mirage was pretty bad. So disappointing, in fact, that I decided to turn back to the older AC titles that I really played a lot, and I started with the first AC title I ever played, Syndicate. youtube • video ID: oi4MyjD71dYclick image to load player Set in the Victorian era...
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Album#47 收斂水 图1 《收斂水》專輯封面 专辑信息 专辑名称： 收斂水 歌手： 蛋堡 Solf Lipa 年份： 2009-07-22 时长： 約 52 分鐘 這張專輯是在 Verdant 的 Tracks#2：收斂水 發現的，聴了几遍了，是我喜歡的那類說唱。 蛋堡的聲音給我一種少年感，可能和臺灣口音有關，臺灣口音總會讓我想到一些青春偶像劇。在歌詞裡很少聴到「蛋堡」兩個字，更多的是他的英文名「Soft Lipa」，會聴到「軟嘴唇」、「SL」等字樣。 喜歡這張專輯的詞作，寫得都蠻有趣的。詞好還不够，還要唱得清晰，我不喜歡那些唱得飞快，聴不清在唱什麼的說唱。說唱也要有韻律感、有律動，這張專輯裡蛋堡都做得很好。...
Many years ago I remember seeing an interview with Linus Torvalds, where he said “… and that change is to keep the weird folks, like the rubyists, happy”. I loved that. The rest of the software development world thinks we’re odd. And not just because some key figures in the ruby world have taken a trip down nazi...
L’arnaque du bilan carbone Pourquoi nous nous sommes fait avoir dans notre soi-disant lutte contre le réchauffement climatique Ne plus prendre l’avion, acheter des électroménagers de moindre consommation ou se déplacer en voiture électrique semblent être les mesures antiréchauffement climatique dont j’entends le...
John Crowley has died, one of the finest and most distinctive American writers of our time and the author of Little, Big, the best fantasy novel this side of Tolkien. In fact, if I were not a Christian I would probably think that Little, Big is even greater than The Lord of the Rings, because there is no more...
Nu înțeleg un lucru: la oameni le trebuie să locuiască la orașe, dar să trăiască ca la sate - cu tăiat de porc, cu ținut de animale și păsări, afumătoare pentru carne și ce se mai face la sate. Mulțumesc că urmărești ThinkRoot prin RSS. Poți folosi și Atom sau JSON Feed.
“Dignity” by Deacon Blue Listen on Apple Music Your browser does not support the audio element. What’s a song you associate with your hometown? The town I grew up in, like many a small provincial town, is slowly morphing into yet another satellite town. The pubs are closing, the high street is being dismantled, and...
How to restore man pages and other stripped content in minimized Ubuntu Docker images.
Beseelt. Das ist das Wort, das es am besten trifft und das J und ich auch immer wieder benutzen, wenn wir uns auf dem Rückweg von irgendwelchen Kreativ-Events befinden oder bei einem Kaltgetränk noch etwas deflaten. Wir saßen eben noch im RB zurück von Wuppertal nach Köln und waren also wieder beseelt. Von Wuppertal...
Why I added a Markdown representation to the Kyoto Tech Meetup website, and where it fits alongside WebMCP and APIs.
As Rogallo got close to being "stable", I did a fair bit of work on its documentation. Something that I wanted to include in the site was a good collection of up-to-date screenshots. These are all created on the fly. To do this, of course, requires something that looks like a Gemini server. Initially, this was...
What brought me joy New coffees!! Got some new medium-dark roast coffee for espresso and my first ever bag of decaf beans, both from Propeller Coffee in Toronto! Sometimes, in the evening, I crave the act of brewing coffee and so I thought, why not give decaf a try? I’ll have to learn how to brew decaf beans as...
Thanks Joe for hosting HTML Day San Diego 2026. I had a great time exploring some CSS features I use less frequently while getting fresh air. Plus I met some great new people! It’s not much but I’ve published my HTML page with a few additional edit. As I expected there was a lot more I wanted to do but not enough...
A distant thunderstorm at work strikes far and wide across the ocean cool and dry wind blows through the tents where we sleep— all less than 5 minutes’ walk from Patision Street. --------------------- •2 Cups of coffee •Flahavan's Irish oaty flapjacks 40g •1 can of beans - low sugar •4x Jacobs elite chocolate...
During my last vibe check the kids were still in school. Time has flown by. Work-life balance disrupted. Camps attended. Vacations were had. Bank accounts drained. A normal summer routine. Inbound and outbound travels Since the last vibe check I’ve been on a handful of airplanes visiting both work and family. We...
Este fin de semana ha sido bastante complicado en temas de ansiedad. Desde 2022 soy usuario de la app para loterías TuLotero. Quizás la app más importante y más usada en la gestión de loterías en España. El 14 de Julio, TuLotero identificó un acceso no autorizado a su sistema de verificación de usuarios (DNI por...
It is you our sea who connects us with the further places You gives us the motive to strive for knowledge ships to build distant trades to do and thus to cooperate with people everywhere without ever wanting to enforce on them our own beliefs Είσαι εσύ θάλασσα μας που μας ενώνεις με τα πέρα μέρη Εσύ μας δίνεις το...
August 2026. Skegness. Lincolnshire. We stayed at The Vine, as we did back in 1999 when our 6 month old cried through Roger Protz’s dinner in the oak panelled dining room. A week later we found out James had a hernia, bless him. I’m not sure if this Best Western even is the smartest place in Skeggy; as I mentioned...
For the year of content creators 1996, I found 234 items. It’s actually one of the biggest amounts per year until the late 2000s. That’s gotta be due to the web, right?
3rd August - 9th August #SilentSunday Car boot sales are so full of broken dreams; musical instruments, skateboards, home fitness equipment. They are also a monument to maturity; books read, films and games completed, toys and clothes outgrown. We also see the inexorable march of progress in the "obsolete"...