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August 28, 2026 I keep track of what I wear – I actually have an Excel spreadsheet that I’ve been keep for years… But I don’t often actually USE this data for analysis… Until just a few days ago, I decided to see what I could learn about...
Virtually no cask ale means absolutely no warm cask ale: a win for the Dublin pub scene, there. At JD Wetherspoon, the cellar cooling system was well able to deal with anything the summer threw at it.To wit, at The Silver Penny, Hook...
[I played the original Japanese release for this article, which is a touch different from the later international releases. You can read more about the alterations here.] Final Fantasy‘s been many things over the years. Turn-based RPG....
Hi pals…I haven’t had the blogging time I’ve needed for my longer-form posts lately. I still owe you all a follow-up spoiler-riffic post about the recent Swamp Thing 1989 mini-series, which I discussed in a more-or-less spoiler-free...
Here's a pair of pretty Disneyland photos from March 28, 1972. With a specific date available, it's always fun to consult "Jason's Disneyland Almanac"; that was a Tuesday, and the park was open from 8:00AM until midnight. The temperature...
While I was reading Kafka’s “The Castle” recently, I checked out the bibliography in the back and saw mention of an interesting sounding title – “Kafka’s Other Trial” by Elias Canetti. The latter is an author I’ve only started reading...
Spoopy! Felt a bit weird reading a gothic horror ghost story in 37ºC summer heat but here we are. My first Henry James book! A novella really, read it in two short sittings. Surprisingly unsettling for a victorian-era book, v creepy....
A to-do says what. An implementation intention says when, where and how. “Write the proposal” is a task. “I write the proposal tomorrow at nine, at the kitchen table, before I open my mail” is an implementation intention. Gollwitzer...
Stewart Brand’s Pace Layers model is a curiosity. It has little theoretical basis, and Brand himself is the first to admit that it is “completely data free”. It’s not been widely enough used, it seems, to have built up a body of practice...
the saying goes something like “happy wife, happy life” and the improved version is “happy spouse, happy house” i appreciate that i don’t need much to be happy. i don’t know if i would call it a privilege. but i am blessed for sure not...
Today (August 28 2026) marks twenty-five years since the first broadcast of Go Digital, the World Service radio programme that became Digital Planet, then Click, then Digital Planet again until it ended in April 2023. I appeared as...
This is extremely impressive, not just from a design and kinematics perspective, but because the entire 50Hz control loop runs locally on an RK3566 (not the RK3588 I first assumed), with the ONNX movement policies running on the robot...
NHAMFest ‘26 was a huge success this year, and was great for bringing together two of my favorite spaces: the VRChat music community and the Fediverse music community.Here’s some stuff about the specifics that went into producing this...
There are no rules in writing, but if you break them… Here’s a thing. There are certain ways of writing, certain ways of doing all sorts of things really, that are frankly naff and yet there are people who do them well. I would tell you,...
Python A-Z is a blog series about Python. Each day, I share insights, ideas and examples for different parts of Python development that match with the letter of the day. Blaugust is an annual blogging festival in August where the goal is...