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at 44 years of age I am just now realizing that my favorite food is fat
Here is a list of headlines; perhaps you will spot a theme: “Six new Apple products will launch early this year, here’s what’s coming” “Apple has five all-new products launching this year, here’s what’s coming” “Apple will launch 20+ new...
This week we’re doing another one of our series of military theory primers, this time focusing on a fairly simple contention: that the United States Navy is a load-bearing component of the global economy. I considered attempting to work...
Run classic After Dark screen savers on modern macOS. Pro Tip: When I first installed this I couldn’t figure out how to use it. After you install some screen saver packages, you have to add it to System Settings by going to Afterglow >...
Tsukimi Dango are traditional Japanese rice dumplings made to celebrate Tsukimi, the autumn moon-viewing festival in Japan. These soft and chewy white dumplings are shaped to resemble the full moon and are traditionally stacked into a...
If a tool is not reliable, that it doesn't just work, is it still a tool? ~ Link: AI Ruined Some of My Most Precious Accessibility Tools., by Strayblog
the thing about the art I love most is that it looks messy but messy without a base ability to actually make art just ends to with trash.I don't knowI don't know what I'm doing. I don't know what I'm doing. I don't know what I'm doing. I...
This week at school has been workshop week. Teachers and paras are coming back, everyone's getting ready for students next week, and my job is suddenly full of interruptions. "Please print this," "What classroom is this student in," "I...
Interesting article: Are AI Agents Becoming Autonomous Coworkers? This is fundamentally about a version of the principal-agent problem and managing the right balance between highly controlled (and slow, manual but low chance of damage)...
[in the same tone of "i frewed up"] I didn't make the logs for this session. Playing after work during the week with no dinner or cameras was very demoralising, but I did my best to have a good time, and overall I'd say I did, but with...
All previous photos on this blog were taken by me. Lately, I've been experimenting with Google Gemini to create images for presentations and desktop wallpapers. Since AI-generated artwork isn't subject to copyright, you are welcome to...
I realize that I haven't been posting photos for a while, but I thought I would start by putting up a photo of the Hungarian Parliament Building in Budapest. We spent two lovely weeks in Europe with one whole week in Budapest. The...
An old friend from work is joining me in the ranks of we, the gratefully unemployed and idle pensioners. To mark the event, I was invited on a small pubcrawl the other day playing my role as, I suppose, the ghost of retirement to come. A...
So Queen Victoria’s a vampire and the Devil wants to visit a church bazaar…That’s a glimpse into the world of Demons and Democracy. It’s a funny and spicy book, with a wonderful cast of characters, some human but mostly not. My friend...
This is a game I feel I shouldn't like, but I end up quite enjoying it. It's almost a heavy game, with lots of stuff to do. An island with many never-seen-before creatures has been discovered. Many scientists flock to it to discover new...