Bubbles
Latest Posts
As I alluded to a short while ago, this blog is now on Post 500. I began this blog innocently enough in April 2013 with the goal of sharing my passion for railways with like-minded people. I had a small trove of photos from the 1990s...
Like sight, knowledge depends on an element of duality. Grammar distinguishes the ‘knower’ from ‘the object of knowledge’. Aside from the fact that the Creator of all cannot be any kind of ‘object’, the divine activity of ‘onyng’ [Julian...
I fall asleep holding you near where my fears live hoping the distance away I wake up with you holding me
Some of my oldest habits as a human creator have become markers of AI slop. Example one: I love the em dash. I use it all the time. But for some reason LLMs, especially early chat models, developed a conspicuous fondness for the em...
I realised something today while sat in the chair at the hairdressers as Suzanne got out the razor. The fact that, as a child probably from the age of 4 onwards, it wasn’t my mother who took me to the hairdressers to get my hair cut, but...
One of the memes on Twitter is that “programming is solved now.” I’m not sure to what degree it is, but one thing is pretty clear: the act of familiarizing yourself with a language no longer matters and some of the friction that mattered...
I wrote a tiny language implementation: Calcium. It’s meant as a demonstration of how languages like Python are implemented. It has a tokenizer, a parser, an AST, a compiler, bytecodes, and an execution engine, all in about 300 lines of...
The option to play a dwarf or elf has been part of Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay since its first edition – an inheritance from the original 1983 release of Warhammer, which somewhat muddied the waters between wargame and roleplaying game...
The other day I was complimented, albeit in a jokey way, on the neat organisation of a word document I had produced. I said nothing, I don’t have a working copy of word on my computer. I do have access, via glow, to the online version...
Visiting DC this week, and I continue to laugh at Americans who stand directly in front of subway doors to board and then get shocked when they have to move to let people off the train first.
Ask a fighter which punch put them down and you will usually get a shrug. They can describe the round, the taste of the mouthguard, the ceiling lights swimming back into focus. The punch itself is missing from the record. That absence is...
Want to own an inn with a dozen rail cars? A historic station in beautiful Tatamagouche, Nova Scotia? A dining car?
Want to own an inn with a dozen rail cars? A historic station in beautiful Tatamagouche, Nova Scotia? A dining car?
It took me a whopping 21 days to send 100 emails. That's 66 unprompted emails and 34 replies in total. I sent 53 messages to Bear Blog users and 47 to others. The most messages I sent in a single day was 24. The most messages I sent to...
I'm just waking up and I'm so confuseddd. I checked my bank account, cause I used my credit card to pay for gas the other day, and my credit card is in the negatives cause apparently I got some kind of refund from planned parenthood for...