Sun Sep 27
The big 3-9. Friday was my birthday.I woke up that morning free of new mosquito bites. Perhaps Ms. Mosquito decided to give me a break; or she's just so FULL from 2 days of drinking our blood that she's hidden herself somewhere and is now laying eggs. (The hunt continues...) Despite my previous reservations about...
21st September - 27th September The moon's full, uncaged by clouds and low over the horizon — a cold, golden colour. Stark as midnight. But this is five a.m. Not an ungodly hour by most people's standards. It shows autumn is here, and I'm feeling the witchy fingers of spooky season. Towards the end of my walk, about...
I was writing up my main post reverse-engineering Skyrim pickpocketing and found myself going a little too deep into how Non-Player Characters gain skills. Once again the wiki had the wrong formula, which was making it hard to answer my question: who has the lowest and highest pickpocketing skill?
Vladimir Campos, posting on Masterdon last week: Catching up on my RSS reader today, I came across really nice posts from @ellane [Ellane], @disassociated, and @dcbuchan [David Buchan], and had the same thought I’ve been having for so long: why isn’t there an easy way to reply to articles when using an RSS reader?...
For me GTD was lifesaving. More than once actually. I would be dead if I hadn’t found it. When I was getting into GTD, one of the things I liked to read for entertainment was productivity blogs. I realized that reading them wasn’t “doing” anything, it was just reading. I didn’t find it any less worthwhile and any...
Apparently while having a shower people have the best ideas. Drawing in the wet room is a little bit hard though. The other place where great ideas occur to my brain and where the pencil is perfectly allowed is the toilet. And this is where I created a logo for the meetup that I run with my good buddy Darren, NN1...
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Leibnitz hatte in seiner Theodizee festgestellt, dass wir in der besten aller möglichen Welten leben. Weil Gott vollkommen und gut ist kann er gar nichts unvollkommenes und schlechtes hervorbringen. Soweit so Barock, was mich daran stört ist eigentlich nur, dass diese Position von manchen – Voltaire zum Beispiel –...
It is a Mid-Autumn Festival custom to gift mooncakes. In this Mid-Autumn Festival in 2026, we both bought and received mooncakes, but also received a different, special present: the keys to our new house! My parents purchased a terraced house in a new residential area in our city last year in 2025. Originally, the...
讀《13·67》 《13·67》 是 陳浩基 寫的一本推理小說，書名《13·67》含義是從 2013 年到 1967 年之間的故事，以香港和當時的一些歷史事件為背景。整本小說由 6 個相對獨立的案件組成，通過反複出現的人物將故事串聯起來，每個獨立案件都挺精采的。作為一本推理小說，我覺得這几個故事已經挺好的了，看得得過癮，但小說還在結尾給我一個意想不到的結局，讓這本小說在我心裡又上了一個高度。從小到大接触了很多香港的警匪片，也去過几次香港，書裡的地點、對話、用語等都給我一種熟悉感。 書裡打動我的，除了精彩的推理故事，還有人物的選擇和坚持： 有人只是把員警當作一份換取薪資的職業；有人把員警當作除暴安良、维持正义的神圣工作。...
Over the Labor Day holiday I made use of my zoo membership and went to the downtown San Diego Zoo. I don’t think I’ve ever gone to the zoo by myself so I was kinda nice being able to spend my time wherever I wanted. Naturally I spent more time in the aviaries than anywhere else. So I’ve compiled my favorite bird...
The name 'Vist' is not used in Hathaway 2, please make it stop With the second film in the Mobile Suit Gundam: Hathaway franchise, The Sorcery of Nymph Circe (probably shortened to Hathaway 2 from here on out) now available on demand and streaming, a lot more people have seen it...and this repeated misconception...
Wenn man Menschen ihre Geschichten erzählen lässt, einfach mal die Klappe hält und genau zuhört, durch sie hindurch hört, wie sie berichten von ihrer Überforderung, von ihrem Schmerz und den Vernarbungen, dann finde ich es zutiefst bemerkenswert, wie sie da durchgekommen sind, und schön, dass sie überhaupt noch da...
2026-09-28: Joined the CDRing webring, fixed my last.fm widget, fixed RSS templates for bookmarks and site updates
2026-09-27Hello!This is director Lee Chang-dong, who presented his drama film Possible Love first to Venice and now to New York City. Before the screening, I photographed him during an afternoon photoshoot.I haven't been back at the red carpet since April, but when registration opened to take portrait photography...
The last few days of September, and summer is showing one last time what it’s capable of this year: 28 degrees Celsius. People are flooding the city in T-shirts, the parks are packed, and scooters are rattling through the streets. Oh, how I’m going to miss this… It’s much the same in Thomas’s garden. All the insects...
I enjoyed this new documentary about AI. It’s a good primer for people who don’t really know too much about it. I can imagine those who are more well-versed being a bit more critical, but there’s only so much you can cover in 100 minutes. Also, it’s still all rather new and we have no idea where this story goes...
#Fahrenheit451 #InteligenciaArtificial #quemadeLibros #DestruciondeLibros #IA Si Ray Bradbury hubiera sabido que con sus libros estaría prediciendo uno de los tantos destinos que le depara a la humanidad por las consecuencias de sus propias y grandes acciones que ni los vaticinios de Michel de Nostradamus o los del...
“Triple Threat” Josh Collinsworth has a brand new daily puzzler game called Tupo. On it’s surface it looks like a simplified 4×4 Sudoku block but with colored squares. That is the foundation for a simple ruleset: Every row and column contains each number exactly once Every row and column contains each color exactly...
Social sciences of digital systems and research in AI in general are extremely confined to particular research environments. Most particularly western environments or places like the high spheres of the Chinese government. This means for me that I either have to be the person to bring this back home, or stay here....
Rene Descartes left us with a very insane quote. “I think, therefore I am”. It’s not about existence as a whole, it’s about progress. It’s about thought. What makes us human is the ability to autonomously decide. In the age of Artificial Intelligence, where the frontier is actively fucking up all over the place, the...
La vuelta a la rutina está siendo complicada. Verdaderamente, a lo mejor, es por agotamiento o síndrome post-vacacional. En todo caso, es un ciclo extraño: comienza con incomodidad, dejarse llevar, indiferencia, preocupaciones externas y dejadez. Cómo no quiero llegar a ese último punto, estoy escribiendo esta...
Aerial views are great, but they eat up too much spaceThis is not so much a "hack" as a "how on earth did I let that happen!" I realised while looking at the Storage on my MacBook Air M1 (great machine, still going strong after 6 years of use) that System Data was taking up 70+ gigabytes of space. This isn't an...
Dan Sinker asks, What If We Just Stopped? Nikole Hannah-Jones asks, In Fighting for Every Black Child, Did I Betray My Own? (via Kottke) Equality PAC, Political Arm Of Congressional LGBTQ Caucus, Endorses Marcy Kaptur Days After Her Anti-Trans Ad, by s. baum. W3C IRC bots now open source, by Gerald. DOJ asks SCOTUS...
This idea jumped in my head when I pondered my blog and it set up a whirlwind of thoughts. Time to get them out of my head and on my blog. The reason for writing this list is that when words just don’t want to get posted, focusing on the who may help you to write. In random order, I write my blog for: myself. My aim...
What is a song that feels like home to you? Physically, home to me is the house I grew up in, the place of my childhood. Emotionally, right now, home to me is sitting in the chair opposite me drinking coffee. This one is for her. “Northern Sky” by Nick Drake Listen on Apple Music Your browser does not support the...
I get annoyed with something, and then I go “I’ll buy/build this gadget, and that will make me less annoyed”. Which is true — I’ll be using the gadget for a while and almost every time I use it I’ll think “well, this really fixed that annoyance”. Success! But then the gadget invariably breaks down, and I have to fix...
Imagine a story where a young couple who are distant cousins wants to get married but the family warns them that if they do it, their offspring will be born with a pig's tail and die a horrible death. They both become worry but in the end, you can guess, they did not take the superstitious warning seriously and...
Kolektyw Kariatyda. CC BY-SA 4.0 image via Wikimedia Commons. Thanks to the bitchy ways of teenage girls and a classmate’s whiny-victorious, “Miss, she has a slam book,” my equally bitchy eighth-grade computer science teacher confiscated the fantastic slam book I’d created.1 We’ll set aside the fact that said...
September 2026. Flixton. Greater Manchester. By Tuesday I was itching at the bit to get out of Sheffield, determined to walk off that leg injury I don’t like to talk about. Ideal, then, that Flixton in the middle-class suburbs of west Manchester Trafford has the UK’s largest collection of crumbling pavements,...
Siglo XXI (21 para los no-romanos), década de los 20s. Más concreto 2026. Un poco más, Septiembre. ¿Quieres précision de un segundo? bueno... 1790516633 segundos desde 1970 Yo nos lo decían por cientos de años, que enfocarse tanto en el pasado y en el futuro no es nada bueno. Una sociedad ansiosa y deprimida –...
A round-up of what caught my eye on social.omgmog.net between 21 and 27 September, an AI let loose on Pokémon, an actual paper on Monkey Island’s grog, and a koi pond that cost me more of my afternoon than I’d like to admit.
For a long time I enjoyed Black Metal Bathory as my primary theme, and I used it just about everywhere. Eventually I just couldn't deal with the #000000 black background and wanted something more subtle. Out of this a new theme was born, which I called Darkmatter. Over time I built ports for all the apps I used, and...
Listen I understand that technically I am capable of wearing a sweater at anytime but that’s not what I mean and you know it I can’t wear a sweater right this minute because it’s the hottest part of the day and the hottest part of the day is still a little too hot for sweater. But morning? Evening? SWEATER TIME....
Domenicus Monegarius was the sixth doge of Venice, following the deposition and blinding of duke Galla, who in turn had blinded and deposed duke Deusdedit.
The following is an excerpt from my journal. I was discussing with someone how the interpersonal experience of depth feels to me. Namely, how the deeper you delve into any given topic, the fewer the people you will find around you who are willing or able to follow you. And if you do find someone, their energy levels...
2024 2025 Last year I made it to day 20 before giving up. I was proud of myself for getting that far. Let’s see what this year brings! I’m contemplating using the one-continuous-line method for some or all of them. OFFICIAL 2026 PROMPT LIST 01 APPLE 02 RELIC 03 MINIATURE 04 CACTUS 05 SMACK 06 OGRE 07 PANIC 08 STINKY...
Spectacular clouds from Hurricane Odalys illuminate the evening sky, at 2nd St in Hermosa Beach. This is a two shot panorama, to give my already wide angle lens some extra width. 雲の風景 ハモサビーチの2nd Stで、ハリケーン「オダリス」がもたらした壮観な雲が夕焼け空を照らしている。 これは2枚の写真を組み合わせたパノラマ写真で、ただでさえ広角のレンズに、さらに横幅を加えている。
Over the last few weeks, I’ve been contemplating how exactly I would like to set this Model rail diorama. My primary concern was mobility. I want to be able to dismantle it quickly if needed and pack these all up into two or three big boxes. Ideally I would stage this on a wooden platform, staged on a wall at...
Dating back to 1824 when it was a free library founded specifically for tradesmen, the Brooklyn Museum is a magnificent repository of 140,000 pieces of art spanning ancient Egypt to contemporary America. But beneath the museum at the grimy subway stop that takes you directly in front of the Beaux Arts building...
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Trying to work with an intermittent connection to the internet. The fact that Teams messages end up in a ‘failed to send’ or ‘failed to schedule’ state instead of being queued is very frustrating. Is a poor network connection an edge case now?
“We built Muse to help people build the world they want.” — Alexandr Wang of Meta Most people never say what they want. It’s not because we don’t want. We want fiercely and constantly. We may not say it, but we do type it. Not directly, but it’s implied in every search we make. Every post we thumbs-up. Every video...
1. One of the classic parables about loading goes as follows. A building manager had a problem: people were complaining about the elevator being too slow. But upgrading the elevator was an enormous expense, so the manager came with an alternative solution: they put a mirror next to the elevator call buttons. Even...
Yesterday I drove down to the Wisconsin Dells to have lunch with an old friend. Chris is arguably my oldest friend, and at the very least my oldest friend who I talk to with any regularity. We've known each other for a very long time, and he was the best man at my wedding. Both of us are also very bad at maintaining...
I finished Bad Blood recently :) It is a must-read if you want to understand what happened with Elizabeth Holmes and Theranos. It is very specific and focused in that regard - it isn't a general observation about Silicon Valley or Palo Alto startups with her as an example (which parts of the cover may suggest), but...
Book Do Walk by Libby DeLana. I’ll never fault a book that extols the virtues of walking, but it’s the first time i wanted to put one through the shredder. DeLana is an executive creative director, whatever that means, so she felt the urge to trademark her practice as ‘ThisMorningWalk’. (Of course there’s a...
Test flight around GSV. Things need fixing still (plate terraij too simple, clouds are currently fixed, but its got a nice sense of scale and ability to manually or autopilot to a spot. I need to think up more greeblies. #rasdFastwalkerLeague View on Bluesky
Last night, roaming among the more remote and obscure outlying TV channels, I happened upon that greatest of all the Ealing comedies, Kind Hearts and Coronets, which I happily watched to the end – it never palls. Next up after that was another fine Ealing comedy, The Ladykillers, featuring another extraordinary...
I made the mistake of having a big breakfast before sitting down to write and now I’m lethargic and rather want to take a nap. I traveled for work this week, which was all nice and dandy. The trains were on time and pretty empty, taking them during the less busy hours makes quite a big difference.The hotel was a bit...
So there I am reading Unsung when I come across this quote from Jef Raskin: An interface is humane if it is responsive to human needs and considerate of human frailties. This articulation perfectly captures why I recoil at modern “growth tactics” in user interfaces and experiences: they are designed to exploit human...
Dat komt dat ze over de gehele breedte niet in staat blijken mee te denken met de organisatie, maar enkel en alleen nee verkopen en zichzelf als uiterste macht zien. Play stupid games, wins stupid prizes.Functionarissen Gegevensbescherming (FG's) binnen de publieke sector krijgen steeds vaker te maken met nieuwe...