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I wonder why this “fine art memes” have so much strange unanimity. it feels like they were all generated by the same engine.
This time we have visits to friends and to doctors. Let’s dive in. The very same weekend that Sky and Ara arrived back in town, we had made plans to go visit Jacquee up in Washington. We took a couple of hours to drive north, knowing...
We have read many stories of the ancient sages who achieved enlightenment by sitting in silence for long periods. A similar kind of advice is given by the neo-sages {not sages in true sense but still have some hint of that experience} in...
We just released an entirely revised video on how to build a comb-back stick chair. But before you consider purchasing it, check your email. If you bought the original video sometime during the last four years, you should’ve received an...
Portrait of a Pulp Jockey Post Nutrition Label Content Type: Text Read Time: 5 min Topics: Simplification, Capitalism I used to think on paper. I used to bullet journal. I used to focus on the experience rather than on the results of...
All the good aliens have left the planet. And now this news. Fair winds and clear skies, Dolly.
I wish Bill were correct about me getting paid to write this blog. If that were true, I'd easily be able to be at the courthouse every day to watch his trial. Unfortunately, he's wrong about that. I do, in fact, have a day job - and I...
Fujitsu’s A64FX was a pivotal core. For the Arm ecosystem, it introduced SVE. SVE continues to define Arm’s vector execution strategy to this day, with newer extensions like SME adopting a similar vector length agnostic approach. For...
I’ve hit 92 days of walking at least 10 miles per day, covering 1034.8 miles which is about 11.24 miles per day. I’m down about 18lbs., and finally able to fit back into my medium hoodies which is good news since the evenings are getting...
After Saragossa Manuscript, another Wojciech Has movie full of madness, beautifully filmed, and based on an eccentric novel, which didn’t really work for me. Jan Nowicki (Barrier) goes to a time-warping hospital to find his not-dead-yet...
Perfume PosseThwarted: Erno Laszlo Pop-up in LA So I spent this Saturday thwarted. I woke up early to go to the bank, which is now in the valley. My accounts had lapsed from non use since they had moved but I wanted to reopen. In any...
This semester, I am giving four lectures in a third-year undergraduate course on statistical mechanics. Last year, I gave a guest lecture on the Ising model.The first thing I want to emphasise is that the whole course is built around...
There are I few “easy” pastry skills that I have yet to master. Marbling is one of them. I’m not mad at the way my Coconut-Milk-Chocolate Marble Cake looks, but you can see on the inside that it is more chunked than marbled. I guess that...
Mothership Month is coming November 1 - November 30, back to our regularly scheduled time slot. With one big caveat: No crowdfunding this year. I don’t know how you all feel, but I’m exhausted. We’re not saying we’ll never do a group...
This morning, I went to get a bunch of lab tests done at the Palo Alto Medical Foundation (for a nephrologist consultation tomorrow) and discovered that a lot of the phlebotomists recognized me, greeted me enthusiastically by name, and...