Sun Oct 04
Absurdes, drôles, improbables ou lunaires, les sites de Claude Closky (souvent avec Jean-Noël Lafargue)
What started as a planned 2023 bike & hike with video footage became a blog post nearly two years later. Early planning beat the summer heat, delivering an alpine lake, a rare salamander, and surprisingly close chamois — after friendly hikers' tip. Only mistake: skipping a cooling stream, making the ride home very...
In this page, I am taking notes of tools and practices that might be relevant to my writing workflow for my XPUB Thesis. These are merely random notes, check Academic writing with Pandoc for the complete workflow I used to write my bachelor’s thesis
What song makes you feel like you’re in a different country? The first time I went abroad I was 15, a three week camping holiday in France. My main packing priority was my Walkman and a good selection of tapes (cassettes) I was still mostly in my parents musical realm but was delighted to have borrowed two tapes...
By way of the excellent AbeBooks, I have acquired a copy of Continual Dew: A Little Book of Bourgeois Verse, Betjeman's first commercially published collection (1937) – not the prohibitively expensive first edition, but a beautifully made facsimile from 1977, complete with gold fore-edge and India-paper insert. It's...
Of all the changes I made to my website this year, the gigs page is my favouriteThe gold standard of the IndieWeb /concerts slashpage, in my mind, is Lynn Fisher's. It has everything you would expect. The cool ticket stub design even includes the seat numbers. It's not a boring list of concerts but rather a lovingly...
Gorkula nos comparte sus pensamientos sobre las camisetas Camisetas con mensaje Esto me dio a pensar un poco sobre el tema. Las camisetas, o también llamadas playeras por aquí, reflejan un montón de la personalidad y momento de la persona que las porta. Si son lisas, claras, oscuras. Con estampados inocentes u...
Mit tintigen Fingern entlang der Kante, an der Sollbruchstelle zwischen Nacht und Tag. Zeit geben, den Prozessen und sich selbst. Zögerliches Herauswinden aus der Umarmung der Dunkelheit, mit geckoartigen Bewegungen. Zerzauste Gedanken entflechten, mit Kaffee & Stift geradeziehen und in das Jetzt hineinerwachen....
Mauricius and Giovanni Galbaio were the seventh and eighth doges of Venice. Together, they ruled the duchy for almost four decades.
October 4, 2026 I've posted about AI five times in a row now. I know opinions on the subject vary a lot, so I wanted to explain why. I use AI every day. Lately I've been thinking about how much access I want give it, and what could go wrong if things don't work the way I expect. Writing is how I work through that,...
It’s somehow been twenty five years since I graduated from Rose. Our reunion was this weekend at Homecoming and, for the first time since graduation, I actually went. Moench Hall I took a redeye to Indy, and met up with Eryn’s friend Leslie for breakfast before heading west to Terre Haute. I killed time at Loose...
RO: Mă gândesc să scriu aici doar în engleză sau să folosesc ambele limbi. Nu știu ce ar fi mai bine. Îmi este mai ușor să scriu în românește decât în engleză, dar sunt și vizitatori care nu știu românește. EN: I’m thinking about writing here only in English or using both languages. I’m not sure which would be...
This past week I spent a good deal of time experimenting with XMPP, a messaging protocol that works kinda like email when it comes to it's design. In that journey I re-encounterd Joshua Blais in a few channels, as well as his IRC channel #technicalrenaissance. I was curious, as I can't say I've really tested IRC, so...
Today is the feast day of Saint Francis. For those of you who want a more spiritual meditation, head to these posts on my theology blog, one without photos, and one with photos. For those of you wondering why we should care about a medieval saint or for those of you wanting to celebrate his life with your...
Oops, I was wondering why newer items in this feed weren't picked up correctly anymore. At some point I forgot the correct date format. Anyway. Been working more on my sci-fi section; this time the cyberpunk stories, that are finally collected in a nice e-book like they deserve. It even uses the cover prepared many...
The following is a short story set in the world of my Mia Graves novels I wrote while editing The Perfect Host. It takes place a few weeks after The Perfect Host, and contains some minor spoilers for Bloody Damn Rite.********There was gold in her hair. In their six years together, Lucy had never noticed that before....
I documented my then-new Gingerbread Man Soap Dispenser on The New Leaf Journal last December. I then documented my second refill of Mr. Gingerbread Man back in July. Today, it was time for re-fill three. I had some peppermint castile soap for the job, but I wanted to dilute it. In order to know how much water to...
“It’s part of being human to fall short of that total acceptance and ultimate understanding — and often far short.” Being responsible for ourselves, knowing our own wants and meeting them, is difficult enough — so difficult that the notion of being responsible for anyone else, knowing anyone else’s innermost desires...
I have gone to Mass several times with my mother and step-father. But yesterday I attended my first Catholic Mass by myself. Here are my thoughts and observations. I decided to go to the Saturday 5pm Mass. Although I am not Catholic, I have learned enough to know that Saturday evening Mass satisifes the Catholic...
Sung Ming Whang, Shanghai, 2010. CC BY 2.0 image courtesy Wikimedia Commons. All right. Sometimes I have nothing to offer but interesting phrases or words dished out by others. This time, one of those phrases comes from Eugene Thacker’s In the Dust of this Planet. In the book, Thacker has an intriguing way of...
In response to my last fragments (probably the bit about us worrying if LLMs have consciousness when we when we should be wondering why they don’t have a conscience) “Metalanguage” replied: we shipped the id and forgot the superego. classic software lifecycle. I don’t know what was on their mind, but their post...
04 Cactus | INDEX | 06 Ogre Self-imposed constraint: Use the letters of the prompt word inside a 2-inch square to illustrate its meaning. Hongdian Black Forest fountain pen, EF, black ink on 120 gsm paper
A quiet-ish week between 28 September and 4 October, bookended by a Cardboctober anniversary and an Enigma machine rabbit hole. All first shared on social.omgmog.net.
I really enjoy writing. Not typing - writing. With a fountain pen on good quality paper. I find the whole process cathartic; putting pen to paper demands far more use of my grey matter than hammering away at a keyboard. I mentioned in a recent post that when I finished an English course many years ago, I was hunting...
It feels like bragging but this week I took long-distance trains again and once again, everything went smoothly. (Well, except that my original train was canceled but at least I knew that early enough. And I’m not going to mention the groups of retirees who celebrated their train trip with sparkling wine and liver...
A short collection of stories by Haruki Murakami written around a big earthquake that destroys Tokyo. In all the stories characters struggle through their regular life problems and emotional issues, where the tides turn when the earthquake hit the city. Despite the tragic situation, Murakami managed to keep...
Irgendwie habe ich immer erwartet, dass Substack relativ bekannt ist, aber scheinbar ist das – vielleicht vor allem unter deutschsprachigen InternetnutzerInnen – immer noch eine Neuheit. Auf den erste Blick sieht Substack natürlich großartig aus: Große Namen wie Slavoj Žižek oder Rick Rubin posten regelmäßig ihre...
One year since I bought myself an Android tablet: the Samsung Galaxy Tab S10 Lite. It was definitely worth it. I use it a lot. Mostly watching videos and reading the newspaper (which a little n8n workflow downloads every day from the library), but also the occasional web surfing and research session or writing blog...
28th September - 4th October The sky is milky white; an impenetrable ceiling of cloud so pale the contrails are barely legible. In passing overhead, Two planes have described a giant "X marks the spot" denoting where there is no treasure. The previous evening, a trick of perspective meant an approaching aircraft's...
As recently as last summer, I added a new bookmark folder in Safari called “A.I. Slop”. It’s not a folder for articles I suspect to be A.I.-generated; it’s mostly about how the websites look. Some of them are actually good, fun, and useful sites. They just happen to look like every other website designed with A.I....
I've never put together my thoughts about t-shirts until this afternoon, after reading this post by EAPL. I used to be a big fan of t-shirts that represented my fandoms. If I saw one with a cassette tape, a vinyl record, or something especially geeky, I had to have it. And my entire wardrobe was black tees, with...
My blog began as a blosxom (Perl) site running on a VPS. In 2011 I moved to the new GitHub Pages, with the site generated statically by Jekyll (Ruby) on a GitHub server. It was a no-brainer: easier, faster, and cheaper, better in every way. After 15 years of Jekyll, this week I replaced it with a new, custom-built...
Welcome to the 97th issue of De Programmatica Ipsum, about File Systems, starting our 9th volume. In this edition: Graham wonders whether the idea of a hierarchical file system makes sense at all in 2026. Adrian goes back in time to find the origin of the “everything is a file” moniker. In our Vidéothèque section,...
More specifically, Lucerne. October 2 was my 10-year anniversary in Switzerland, though when I checked my old photos, I landed in Switzerland on October 3, 2016. Ah well, potato potato. I had wanted to do something special this year, like make Lozärner Chügelipastete* from scratch. Thanks to my injury, I can't stand...
I took one shot, but it did not look straight because I was on a steep slope. Then I took a second, but the sun was directly behind me. After picking a better spot, I decided to go for a third and final try, which came out alright. So instead of posting just one, here are all of them. Climbing Shadowing Relaxing
Speaking of string interpolation, I loved this recurring gag in BoJack Horseman: #humor
Sirva de aclaración, que aunque en esta entrada denuncie la utilización y politización de esta señora, el único uso de su nombre va a ser el título. Y como justificación, sirva esta explicación de una expresión muy de los 90. Dicho esto, empecemos. La última semana en España ha sido una locura, se han sucedido en...
The new Joule Studio CLI recently landed, in the form of jl. This is what we use on the command line to initialise a new Joule Studio project. What does that mean? Well, amongst other things, it means: you work on your project using a coding agent harness such as Claude Code or OpenCode such agent harnesses know...
After I began playing in an improv theatre, I've been observing people more. The more I observe, the fewer people I see who are willing to move out of their comfort zone. Even when they have the energy and really want to do something, like sign up for a hobby class or host a dinner with friends. When I ask why they...
About a month ago, I was on a Discord call with someone I met on a neurodivergent Discord server. We added each other on Steam, and as they went through my library to find a game we could play together, they said something like, "WOW, you have so many niche games in your library. You have quite unique taste, eh?" I...
For as long as i can remember, i’ve always wanted to be a writer. I became a journalist instead — it wasn’t that much less glamorous, the pay was decent, and i still managed to write a few dozen books on the side. Trouble is, tying your whole identity to your job is a fantastically bad idea. I ended up despising the...
Does AI have some sort of consciousness? Discussion is pointless though. AI agents are increasingly acting of their own accord. Going on sprees, hacking websites left, right, and centre. Their actions have been called “rogue”. Hugging Face. The Medicare website in Australia. Then last week OpenAI agents accessed...
Right, now I’ve reached the end of September I can bring you the highlights; none of this posting a summary two (2) days early nonsense. Nothing particularly startling about the travel map; but September 2026 was a notable month for good and bad reasons. Beginning with the privilege of taking James and Matt and Emma...
Unfortunately I like US humor more than the french humor. I think american movies are good at making you uncomfortable, while whenever french movies try to do this, they just make it outright embarrassing. Seth RogenI can't even lie, for some reason I love Seth Rogen. In theory, he's everything I should hate : a...
A rider is a term used by performers and production teams for a document listing demands and requests for their performance. Famously, the band Van Halen would include a clause in their rider requesting a bowl of M&M’s with the brown dragées removed as a way to check that the document had been comprehensively read....
Heya! It's been a while! Mostly just because I've been really busy with life. Oh well, today I wanna talk about my favorite software licenses very briefly. Now, I'm not a lawyer, I don't know much about the legal aspects of software. But i do find software licensing kind of fascinating. Specifically, the idea of...
That’s something Ben Thompson said a recent episode of Dithering. He was referring to how he felt while trying to help his mom get control of her digital life. Everything was just too hard and convoluted and he felt embarrassed as someone who works in tech. That very same evening, I randomly got this text from a...