Sat Aug 29
No, the blog does not now have public conveniences. But it does have an added convenience. This is just a brief post to direct readers to a new feature added to my blog, which I've only been able to add as Vincent, the developer of the Scribbles platform, has just added the ability for me to add it if I want to. And...
The New Patrol (Liam Scott #2)Author: Andy McNabGenre: Military FictionReleased: 2014Rating: ★★★☆☆KNOW YOUR ENEMY. Liam Scott is back in Afghanistan, this time with 4 Rifles. No longer the new guy, it's his chance to prove himself and take the lead. But the warzone has changed dramatically, and so have the rules....
Share a song that feels like it’s giving you permission to feel everything. I have a melancholy side. I’ve been through depression. It still sits in the background making me question everything. I now know that I don’t need permission to have feelings and emotions. I know that many people share these thoughts, I am...
A super social day for this little introvert heart. I checked off a few firsts today, including riding the ferry and Muni. We spent some time strolling through the farmer's market before meeting up with friends at the Giants game. I finally got myself an SF Giants hat1, and LC bought me dachshund earrings -- another...
At one point yesterday evening, as I began to despair at ever getting my huge quilt done, I thought of my grandmother. When I asked her to teach me to quilt, she snorted and said, "Why would you want to quilt when you can just go to Wal-Mart and buy a blanket for six dollars?"That price tells you how long ago it...
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The idol is a reflection. In Greek, from where we get the English word, we say that “I am staring at my idol in the mirror” («βλέπω το είδωλο μου στον καθρέπτη»). The idol is a representation: it consists in indirectness. When we think of something as a false idol, we are either referring to an inaccurate...
I am currently reading Solito, a memoir by author and poet Javier Zamora, about his migration from El Salvador to the United States. His parents fled El Salvador when he was young child as a result of the civil war, leaving him in the care of his grandparents and aunt. Javier undertook his journey to rejoin his...
Here’s some comics I’ve read over the past couple weeks. I bought another one of these DC collections of 70s comics for nostalgic reasons — I vaguely remember reading some of these when I was, like, ten. What I remember most is Jim Aparo’s artwork (who does all the art on all the issues) — it’s not hard to describe...
I lost count of how many times I looked—and photographed—Mount Krn over the past decade. It’s impossible to miss, standing right there in the background of almost all my walks around the valleys, with its 2245 meters and its characteristic gently sloping side. And yet, I never hiked it. The reason why I never hiked...
2026-08-29Hello!There are subway stations that are so above the ground, I took the stairs up to the top of a several-story building. The view was great.I made a similar image in the metro stations of Washington DC. This one is an improvement, I think. It's not as shaky, and the colors turned out better since it's...
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August 2026. Sheffield. Nearly six (6) years in Sheffield now, and there’s still several dozen pubs I’ve still to visit, including this one a mere 7 minutes walk from my front door; Sadly, he Rose has been closed a year now, and I feel guilty I never popped in, having stood outside during Lockdown mouthing “Open the...
While I am slowly getting back up on my feet after a tough time, I am catching up on emails (will still take a bit!), my RSS feed reader, and several newsletters that have accumulated in my inbox. Here's what I picked out to read and share: This Is Capitalism: Apple's Hidden Data Workers at the Shadows of the AI...
(this is a stream of consciousness post about how you can use your journal to find what you need to write) I feel lost, a bit, sad in my body. I don’t know why, really, I just feel it. I need to write a blog post. There’s a video playing in the background of a woman doing everything to avoid packing. She has a...
Last edited 7 minutes ago. Fair warning: unfiltered rants on depression, death, grief, parentification, and hormonal changes (perimenopause, menopause, body image). I've got so many things I want to write about and post here, so many monologues going on in my head that I want to commit to screen, and yet... I don't...
I tried to pay for a Starbucks today. The payment failed. The coffee was mediocre, at best, but I liked drinking Starbucks. It has become a bit of a habit for me. After I finish my examinations, my parents always take me to one to celebrate, and we were doing just that. Anyway, the payment failed. I am not sure why,...
Un hábito que se me ha quedado es el de tratar de responder a mis propias dudas, desde que puedo recordar muchas veces salían (y salen) en la platica con mi familia dudas sobre cierto tema "¿como se llamaba tal cosa?, ¿porque pasara esto? " y nosotros tratamos de crear una respuesta antes de buscarlo en alguna otra...
“There is but one solution to the intricate riddle of life; to improve ourselves, and contribute to the happiness of others.” Half a century before Walt Whitman considered what makes life worth living when a paralytic stroke boughed him to the ground of being, Mary Shelley (August 30, 1797–February 1, 1851) placed...
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Kutná Hora. An old, medieval town about an hour train ride from Prague that would do well as the setting for a videogame. Narrow streets with cobblestones sway between buildings, some of them leading to cozy courtyards you won't find if you'd stick to the main road. Of course, there's St. Barbara's Church. There's...
This book is a collection of nine short stories written by Indian American author Jhumpa Lahiri, exploring the life of migrated Indian families in USA. These stories give you a window to see in the life of Indian families living in America, especially the cultural shock, loneliness, and their struggle to adopt the...
Our third day of bikepacking took us from Stowe to Montpelier -- not far, as the crow flies, but with many lovely dirt road diversions and several good eateries along the way. Our penultimate day began with a lazy start, lounging around in our luxurious (for us) indoor sleeping space. But we eventually dragged...
During the last week, 39 per cent of visitors to Newsonaut were using Linux. That’s about as hard-core indie as you can get when it comes to systems. And it was ahead of all the others. Although I’m on macOS myself, I’m glad to see that my small indie contribution is making headway among Linux users. I respect their...
Reading Dave's post, Prepare, has me thinking about my own preps, so I wanted to write down a few things about our own plans and approaches. Threat model # In order to plan properly, I took the time to think about the things I felt could affect us. I see a fair amount of people on the preppers subreddit planning for...
#YayoiKusama #Arte #mujeresArtistas #Japon #ArteContemporaneo “Mi arte es una confesión. Es mi forma de luchar contra el miedo, contra la soledad, contra el vacío.” — Yayoi Kusama Pocas figuras en el arte contemporáneo condensan con tanta intensidad la contradicción humana como Yayoi Kusama (松本 瑤子, nació en...
The premise: A trad-wife influencer tragically finds herself back in the 1800's to live a truly rustic life. I thought it sounded zany. It was painful.Currently Listening: Oingo Boingo “Flesh 'N Blood”Reply via email
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Around the mid 90s, my dad used to sit in his chair in the mornings and read the Atlanta Journal and Constitution and we always had a copy of the Atlanta Business Chronicle downstairs next to some old Campmor paper catalogs in our bathroom that was the "community bathroom" in our house growing up. He would sit in...
As a kid with a passion for science and learning I was granted the greatest gift: a public library a couple hundred meters from home. The library was one of the facilities at a 1960s brutalist concrete building. The building also housed municipality offices, a theater, a resident register office, and other services...
According to the Coeur d’Alene Press, the Coeur d’Alene City Council, the World Triathlon Corporation, and the North Idaho Sports Commission are about to sign a three-year contract that keeps the Ironman 70.3 in Coeur d'Alene through 2029, with races set for June 27, 2027, June 25, 2028, and June 24, 2029. It also...
I bought a DJI Mic 3 to improve my audio quality during calls. Better audio input, and I can also use normal headphones like my Soundcore AeroFit 2, so I also have better audio output compared to my Aftershokz OpenComm or the Anker PowerConf S330. I bought a set with two senders and one receiver and the charging...
The Pink Cloud, c. 1896. Henri-Edmond Cross (French, 1856–1910). Oil on canvas. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley Collection Gift, 2020.106 A brilliant explosion of colour on canvasJames and I are doing an art exchange, where we each give the other a painting to write about. You can find...
This is my monthly link dump, a regular monthly series containing a mix of links to interesting blog posts I’ve read from the past month covering arts & culture, myth, folklore, landscape punk, hauntology, anarchism, utopianism, the gothic, neo-fabulism, and the Weird - all discovered through my RSS feed reader...
A critic can recommend a book that changed him. What he cannot do is recommend, at scale and in advance, the book that would change him next — because what a critic sells is continuity of criteria, and that book’s whole function is to break them. This isn’t a complaint about any particular paper. It’s a description...
Socialism In Space, Cosmic Horror Penguins and Godzilla Fighters, oh my!! Gamescom just happened (maybe is still happening??) and while I'm basically paying zero attention to it as a conference, it does mean that things are being announced and despite having very little time for them until we move, several things...
Hello! How are you? (I moved to a new email address to match my blog URL, and from now on I'll be sending you an email from this new address. Don't forget to add it to your contacts when you receive the email.). It's been a while since I sent you an email. I've been debating the value of the Mediations newsletter in...
In the 730s or early 740s, Hildeprand, nephew of king Liutprand, and Peredeo, duke of Vicenza, managed to take Ravenna, the capital of the Exarchate of Ravenna.
Played on Nintendo Switch Apidya‘ Special is a weird game with a weird history. Inspired by other weird shoot-‘em-ups of the time, notably Gradius and R-Type, Kaiko, a German software developer, created Apidya. Released on 20 April 1992 (that’s 4/20!), the game weirdly featured Japanese text on the main menu, and...
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I've just released v2.0.0 of Rogallo. This release has quite a lot of changes, one or two of them "breaking changes", hence the bump to v2.0.0. I will add though that, when I say "breaking changes", nothing should actually break, it's just some features have changed in an incompatible way and some application...