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The summer is usually a pretty busy time of the year for me. Since my wife works at a school and doesn't work in the summer, we're usually out and about at the pool, grill-outs, tubing in the river and anything else you could imagine. My...
[Living with Machines exhibition photo from the British Library]After Ethan wrote his statement about using AI I thought “Hey that is a good idea, I should do that.” I don’t use AI on this blog (or any of my writing) to the best of my...
A close-up view of a village now in the kill zone (text and video): “‘Make peace, you two Vladimirs’: the battle for Mezhova” hromadske.ua/en/war/26…
I recently fell down the mechanical watch rabbit hole, and in doing so inadvertently discovered that maps and watches have a long history with each other. It’s a relationship that started long before smart watches… More
The surest way to ruin an engineering team is to believe it will survive whatever you do to it.
The Walt Disney Concert Hall, where the LA Philharmonic plays, is a pretty crazy looking building! It was designed by Frank Gehry and it looks like a bunch of fucked up aluminum boxes. I like it a lot. I also like its air conditioning....
Dot Con was good but I felt it was lacking a lot of color, what it was like to experience the the bubble from the inside. Burn Rate has it in spades. This is the story of a single CEO in the midst of the dot com boom running around and...
Thanks to Charlie Horse 47 and Killdumpster for their sponsorship of this post, via the magic of Patreon. ***It's July 1976 and there's a record-breaking heatwave going on.I know; I'll take refuge in a cinema. It's always cold in...
Tea and Cake, Shorne Village Cup of tea dear? Happy to find this one while out on my bike this morning. Another one for the collection.
No, you did not find something in the rules that breaks D&D. That’s a categorically true statement, based on “observations” in that world, and operates under the same family of logic that demonstrates how any infinite time loop...
I play a lot of games. I also teach a lot of games to people, in the pursuit of playing more games with more people. As a result I've come to some fairly obvious conclusions that I nevertheless want to write about here. The following is...
today there was a weird guy on the bus. he was a normal guy really but he was wearing a bright pink helmet and on the seat next to him was a big cubic bag that said DOOR DASH. so he wasnt weird but it was weird he was on the bus and not...
Some time ago I mentioned that I’d stumbled upon a QuickTime sample encoded on NeXT using MicroWavelet codec which was used only there. I also expressed a regret of it being completely lost to time. And what do you know, it’s yet another...
A trailer has been released for the incoming new Avatar: The Last Airbender animated film.Avatar Aang: The Last Airbender is the first animated project to be released by Avatar Studios. Headed up by original Avatar: The Last Airbender...
It’s Button Week here on Unsung, and here’s a 10-minute video by Jago Hazzard about the door opening/closing buttons on London’s tube: We previously covered elevator buttons and the enduring myth that – at least in America – they are...