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A memory of the old timey internet: in the early 2000s I used to listen to a Christian rock internet radio station. No idea what it was called. It was broadcast live, with actual DJs. It was the station that first introduced me to...
Always the way of it - really scraping to find something to go to some days, then more than you can watch are on the schedule, but also, a thing theaters have been showing previews for is not coming out unless you want to spend twice as...
Thanks to Daring Fireball, I discovered the Eliza Archeology site. As the site explains: ELIZA is the original and highly influential chatbot that launched the genre of human-computer interactions using text-based agents. It was created...
I love reading and writing on paper, and do read and write quite a bit on computer screens. Phone screens are too small and uncomfortable for me. No TV at home. And even videogames, which I love, have been less interesting lately unless...
It's a Friday night in thanks to Typhoon Bavi and I spent it with a few tall boys and watching Kenny Omega defeat MJF on AEW Dynamite to become world champion for the second time. The last time he was champion was way back in 2021, which...
It's 1983, and Doctor Who is celebrating twenty years on air - and this time around, they're going to make sure you know it...
I use my own player for playing videos. It’s not very optimised (video frame decoded with VA-API gets downloaded to my own frame structure in main RAM, which gets uploaded to SDL texture and only then displayed—the proper way is to...
The following is excerpted from “Doormaking & Window-Making,” and refers to frames for exterior doors. (The book instructs that interior “doors are usually hung in “jamb linings,” instead of door frames, these being fixed in the walls...
Yesterday I visited a client who wasn't happy at all. The guys at the office, who book my jobs, told me about it beforehand. They explained that her house inspection had been rescheduled twice because colleagues of mine had called in...
My arch nemesis lives only about 1.5 blocks away from me. It’s a coffee shop door. More specifically, it’s a sign on that door: This is what happens with embarrassing regularity: I am inside, about to step out, my brain reads PUSH from...
Because I've been on holiday recently and am indeed on holiday now, I've been running into one of my pet peeves of being a tourist: the lack of signage. Before I go generalising, I have always found Scotland to be good at road signage....
I read my first Doris Miles Disney mystery back in 2017. It was Family Skeleton (1949), and it featured her series sleuth, an insurance claim investigator, Jeff DiMarco. This is a brilliant read, and one I can highly recommend. Off the...
This morning, I heard on the radio that a Partenavia P.68B Victor (reg. OY-BSE) had landed at EKSN for refueling. I took a chance and biked like hell to catch it, but alas, I missed it by only a few minutes. Instead of heading straight...
../_Attachments/Banner 1.png *Private education at Gordonstoun introduces traditions of brutality - dog fights. Purchasing and rearing hounds to kill each other in illegal rings excites the lingering arrogance in the youth. A demolished...
If you're receiving this email, you either opted into announcements after purchasing one of my games or signed up for one of my newsletters.Hi, folks,Asa here. Apologies for the interruption. I'm reaching out with some exciting news and...