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After taking a few snapshots of these cherry fritters, I knew there was no need to carry around a camera the rest of the day.Currently Listening: Cocteau Twins “Cherry-coloured Funk”Reply via email
Last week I posted a link to a news aggregator website, which collects links to all different kinds of news articles and blog posts. It was brought to my attention that one of the links on this site pointed to a post titled "Stop Making...
Cuando leí este post "a bearblogger taught me this word..." me pareció un tema interesante, y hoy hojeando mi cuaderno de notas encontré que ya había escrito algo al respecto, no me acordaba de nada. También había creado unas palabras...
The berth was the tightest on the short arm and everyone said so. Notwithstanding had understood, coming in, that this was the thing to be glad of. Cane had traded a good adjustable for the curtain — heavy stuff, weighted at the hem —...
La clase de griego es el primer libro que leo de la autora surcoreana Han Kang, quién acabaría recibiendo el Premio Nobel de Literatura en el año 2024. Esta obra se publicó en 2011 y aunque es posterior a su éxito La vegetariana mantiene...
One of the things I’ve most read about Dolly Parton in posts online is that people say there will never be anyone as good as her. I have pondered that ever since I read the first couple posts. Yes, there might not be anyone like her ever...
While physically the old retired guy body has been back for a day now, the sleep and dreams and wishing seems stuck. What I do enjoy about being back in Siem Reap is the daily walking. I’d never call it a routine. It is more like this...
August 27, 2026 I'm thinking about how I'm using AI and whether I've allowed Claude, ChatGPT and Gemini too much access to my data through plugins, extensions, MCP, Work or Cowork. This all started after watching The A.I.s Are Already...
Eu honestamente demorei mais do que deveria para escrever sobre esse jogo. Foi um dos jogos que realmente mudou a minha concepção de como jogos poder ser extremamente "simples" mas se essa simplicidade for bem executada tudo se encaixa...
The client certificate management PR for Rogallo is very close to completion now -- although the thing has grown arms and legs and turned into a bit of a UI overhaul1. Something I wanted to add was a quick and easy way for the user to...
So sad I don't even wanna watch what I wanna watch, u feel me? For my own future reference, here's a list of videos I find interesting/want to watch but won't bc depression: Mary Cassatt: The Impressionist Who Painted The Mind by...
(CAMERA zooms in on Earth, on North America, on the state of Illinois, on the city of Chicago, onto a crowded street on which The Top Hat Tavern is located.)(VOICE OVER begins:) On Earth, there exists a most extraordinary species. With...
... I'm playing around with the idea of making a funnel neck jacket.
The best home automations are the ones that you don't think about. If you're visiting family or staying in a hotel, you notice that the automatic thing didn't happen. Here is our list! Automatic lighting schedule: Lights come on when...
I’d suggest listening to this song while reading this post — it’ll help you understand the point of my use of italics. Most of my work is about literature and the arts, and I like it that way. I plan to keep it that way. In fact, I plan...
In 2019 three students in their mid-teens – Paul Makles (Insert), Rene Vinter (Nizune), and Martin Löffler (FatalErrorCoded) – established Riot (stylised RIOT), an online chat platform targeting gaming communities. Funded by donations on...
M-am uitat la trailer-ul GTA VI de pe Netflix și îmi place ce am văzut, păcat ca nu am PS5 sau PC pentru el. Mulțumesc că urmărești Jurnalul lui ThinkRoot prin RSS. Poți folosi și Atom sau JSON Feed.
I've just realised that today is the 450th anniversary of the death of the greatest of all Venetian painters, if not of all painters – Tiziano Vecello, aka Titian.
Nothing's more of a first world problem than the WiFi not working on your plane. Hell, it can even be a bit of a boon if you use your productivity right. But you're annoyed, you're stuck in a tin can miraculous invention, you've already...
This is what rainy days were made for. 🌧️🐶 Thanks for reading this post via RSS. RSS is ace, and so are you. ❤️ You can reply to this post by email, or leave a comment.
Roshan: Wikipen [[File:{{#setmainimage:Falun_Dafa_Protest_at_APEC_2023.jpg}}|thumb|Yayoi Kusama had an exhibition back at the SF MOMA coincidentally during APEC]] In the last day, a bunch of famous artists died and it made me reflect on...
At least once a week, I get to spend time with my nephews. They are little guys (elementary school), full of energy, and wonderfully curious. So many questions! The heat in Arizona (114 degrees yesterday) makes our afternoons challenging...
Am I scrolling too fiercely or I've had relatively mixed luck with computer mice over the years. I bought a Cyborg Rat 7 when I was competitively playing Starcraft 2 during the beta, so like early-mid 2010 and I didn't need to replace it...
Apparently a Federal Court has said that it’s now okay for people to bring guns into the post office as long as they are “law-abiding citizens.” As a postal worker, this makes me feel [sarcasm] SO MUCH SAFER [end sarcasm]. (Actually,...
I'll keep this short because it's just going to be me whinging. Who would ever want to live in rural or suburban areas? (Well, it's because white people fled cities to get away from black people in the 60s, but that's beyond the scope of...
It's been a while since I've messed around with my website. While Jekyll has served me very well, and until recently I had a workflow that worked very well for me. But then I went and messed around with my Obsidian Vault (yes, since the...
Deze vrijdag komt het kabinet met de nieuwe AIVD en MIVD wet. Wat daarin staat weten we niet, maar wel zeker is dat we er heel kritisch naar moeten gaan kijken. De diensten hebben recent de verkeerde mensen laten arresteren en kwamen ook...
Galen Strawson kindly shared this address John Searle gave at a memorial for Peter Strawson, which includes, among other things, a charming description of tutorials with Strawson: Searle memorial talkDownload Early on, Searle writes that...
Some link titles have been slightly modified for style. Arts and entertainmentBreak out of convenient boxesSylvia's open letter encourages artists to be as creative as they desire. Create freely, and make your art bright and exciting....
Path of the Idle: Old Gods Rising was released in full. I had a whole post about the beta for the game, but it seems to have been lost in my drafts. The beta was out for about 3 months on Steam and was genuinely the first idle game beta...
Expectation, possibility, and the futures we quietly claimRecently, a friend of mine was trying to make sense of a difficult situation in her relationship.She said to herself, “If I expect nothing, I won’t be disappointed.”What struck me...
On Friday, August 30th, 1996, I published a message on the “soc.culture.argentina” Usenet newsgroup, announcing the existence of a new page on this thing called “the web”: the URL was http://sc2a.unige.ch/~kosmacze and it was my first...
Watching this movie tonight. Spielberg, Hanks, DiCaprio, Williams soundtrack, hard not to fault. What’s struck me is the other actors, Amy Adams, Jennifer Garner, Ellen Pompeo, Martin Sheen, Elizabeth Banks, all of whom I’d totally...
807 blog posts across 14 years. That’s how much I’ve published on my blog at the time of this writing. And here’s the question I’ve been turning over in my mind: “How do I convey that kind of volume across time in a more interesting way...
So, I’ve been no fan of Gumroad for quite some time, and now they’ve gone even further all-in on using AI for everything and being especially gross about it.Here’s some alternatives that are worth considering. Ko-FiIt’s what I use for my...
the saying goes something like “happy wife, happy life” and the improved version is “happy spouse, happy house” i appreciate that i don’t need much to be happy. i don’t know if i would call it a privilege. but i am blessed for sure not...
Bookmarked Extract and Review Web Page Links Using a Bookmarklet by Adam Douglas (Adam Douglas) To help combat these obstacles I set out to figure out a solution to extract and then review all web page links using a bookmarklet. I’ve...
August 2026. Sheffield. The rain returned to Sheffield today. I’d forgotten the joy of a good soaking. It came in quite a rush, heading down the hills to the Don, and tonight the interweb is full of pics of water rushing through Kelham...
Talk about defying the odds. Maybe. Late last year, Operation Bluebird lunched a bid to “revive” Twitter, the micro-blogging platform Elon Musk bought in 2022. Operation Bluebird claimed — rather optimistically I thought — they could...
The temperature dropped by about ten degrees, bringing clouds and even a little bit of rain. I went in search of a pair of jeans for the first time in a couple of months, putting away the shorts for a while. I promise I’ll never complain...
Today, I was browsing youtube for some unrelated reason and randomly clicked on a video, which looked like a mixtape in the vein of "2 Hours of Deep House". I listened to it, and quite liked it. I started to dig a bit into this artist...
Browsing through old photos I came across this candid view of ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti and yours truly. Simon Bierwald took the photo on September 18, 2011 at an event in Cologne, Germany. ESA invited dozens of space...
The almost complete lunar eclipse in Southern California. With the moon so dim, I can turn up the brightness to show more of the sky, stars, planes and clouds. 月食 南カリフォルニアで見られた、ほぼ完全な月食だ。月がかなり暗いため、明るさを上げて、空や星、飛行機、雲をもっとよく見えるようにした。
♠ Problem statement: given my miniflux server with hundreds of RSS feed subscriptions, add emoji country flags to each feed title, representing their country of origin and/or the country they’re associated with1. For example: Before: Not...
Ayer leí este post de Nick Simson y me recordó de que yo ya le había agregado soporte de human.json a mi blog. Traduzco directamente del post de Nick: Uno de los grandes problemas del internet hoy en día es que muchísimo contenido es...
HWC Asia Pacific: Round 3The second HWC: AP had only minor “AI disruptions” and was nowhere near as bad as the first. The AI agent(s) that were causing the disruption actually apologised on the IndieWeb chat and promised they will stop...
If you've been on the job hunt lately (and that's rather a lot of us) you've probably been doing some combination of sitting on Google/Teams/Zoom/whatever calls, and possibly sharing your screen so that the other end of the connection...
It has been a while since I updated this page, and quite a bit has happened since the last one. I am still writing about security and working in the MSP world. Outside of that, I have spent a lot of time on self-hosting, physical media,...
Este script para sistemas GNU/Linux muestra una monitorización de la potencia de la señal WIFI en nuestra terminal Hace unos días el compañero bloguero Jose, en el blog de Tecno Y Soft, compartió un alias para zsh para monitorizar la...
Check out As in guillotine... for more. NOTE: One week late and my commentary may be more scattered than usual because I’m in the final stages of a big move that’s dominated my summer and I’m exhausted af, so as always, be sure to click...
Today marks one year since I was laid off from a role I had for over six years. I still remember exactly what I was doing when I received the dreaded email from someone I thought I could trust. No, just kidding. I knew he wasn't someone...
Academia is in turmoil regarding partially or wholly AI-written research. AI-written work is being submitted to journals, but it isn’t clear how much. Publisher, journal, university, and department policies are emerging and fluctuating....
Last night my father-in-law came over for dinner. We had chicken, which he loves, and drank a great chilled Falanghina he’d picked up the previous weekend in Guardia Sanframondi. Then my daughter suggested he see the photos from our last...
¿Sabéis que día es hoy? 27 de agosto y hace 35 años del famoso correo que mandó Linus Torvards pidiendo ayuda para un nuevo sistema operativo que estaba haciendo y que se considera la fecha de nacimiento de GNU/Linux.Como regalo de...