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There is so much happening in Bye Bye Bunny, a degree project animated short by Rubika students, that it could easily be extended into a full-length feature. Having said that, it would probably give the world’s children nightmares as...
“America appears to be suffering from a fun shortage. For the industries supplying recreational amenities, this deficit is a business opportunity.” That’s a line from an article by Ben Steverman for Bloomberg (via Kottke.org). It argues...
A few weeks ago, I wrote about what happens when a destructor actually throws and why it is a dangerous idea. One of the readers commented that he was once in a situation where he had to propagate an exception from a destructor. But as a...
I solved the puzzle ‘Choice Words’ in 2:11:06 with 1 friend using @crossmate.inqk.net.
★★★½☆ The PineTab2 is not a great computer. But it is a hyper-mobile Linux tablet that can run desktop and command-line apps natively, with a touchscreen and an optional physical keyboard, for a budget price. As a touchscreen tablet, it...
A practical guide to prevent transient model provider errors, tool call failures, or good old network hiccups from breaking your agents.
New article: "Why I Cut Ties with Wizard aka th3w1zard1".
Stories of New York City, Mapped is an interactive map of the New York Times' long-running Metropolitan Diary column. For nearly fifty years, the Metropolitan Diary has been the Times’ home for reader-submitted vignettes, eccentric...
From late April to early May 2026, I spent a lot of time talking to Wizard, aka th3w1zard1, an acquaintance in the Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic (KotOR) modding community via Discord DMs, and he turned out to be one of the most...
Twenty Years Ago on FITK One third success. Two-thirds disaster.The New Guthrie Theater complex is complete. My Weekend of Culture™ continued with a tour and preview of the facility that is located on the banks of the Mississippi River...
How pleasing to learn that friends, seemingly unknown to each other -- compartmentalized as friendships often are -- intersected before we knew either of them. Sixteen years ago today, the late D.G. Myers published on his Commonplace...
William the Conqueror, 1066 – played on the Saxons cruel tricks. I don’t know if you are old enough to remember the first lines of a poem I was forced to learn at school which detailed several important historical dates, beginning with...
We need more foggy mornings on Long Island ! Image was taken with an iPhone 17 Pro.
So this is the point I want to make here: we take for granted the world and how it has been constructed for us through language and experience and then how we have constructed it through narrative. Yet sometimes language and those...
I had an acoustic live set epiphany this morning. Obviously it’s going to be me and an acoustic guitar, because it’s being billed as an acoustic set by me. I have the Fender Highway dreadnought, and I love it. The battery-powered preamp...