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Grayson Highlands Camping 2026 A heatwave hit the east coast just in time for the July 4 weekend. It was over 100F (38C) in RVA. Luckily we were 240 miles away and 1 mile up camping, where the 80F (27C) temps also constitute a heat wave,...
This is a two part series focusing on what I believe is perhaps the least understood upcoming shift in AI economics. If you've enjoyed this and want to be notified about the second post, please feel free to sign up for my newsletter. The...
AI gets good at anything with an answer key. Your career is everything that doesn't have one.
Here is the end of book 2 (lines 430-434) of Homer's Odyssey in Daniel Mendelsohn's new translation (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2025), followed by the Greek: Once they had bound fast the tackle on the swift-running,...
One of today’s tasks was preparing my quilts for the Festival of Quilts 2026. This involved added a hanging sleeve to each one (I am entering two quilts) attaching a label to the back and then packing them carefully over cardboard rolls,...
Enlarged and realThe potato chips on this potato chip bag may look a bit "off". That is because a real potato chip from inside this bag has been placed on top of the "enlarged to show texture" potato chips. The real potato chip is close...
Hello again, from Hotness! Yes, it does get warm in Minnesota— yesterday the high was 95 degrees. The cantaloupe I'm trying to grow likes it, at least?(This is a little bit late because family stuff— everything's good, but I had to...
Eric Klinenberg at CNU34Twenty-first century social infrastructures are already reviving civic life in nations across the planet: public plazas in low-lying cities that double as massive water storage systems during extreme weather...
I've been using Hermes a lot lately. Especially after reading Duarte's post At first it was interesting mostly as a tool. Another AI agent, another interface, another way to ask models to do things. I've tried Openclaw, Nanoclaw and many...
09:19 If for nothing else, I love following FIFA matches live just for the atmosphere. 22:33 There was a time when I enjoyed playing PC games. Even though I was never good at them. I was reminded of this while listening to Tom Scott...
“It is the first thing any one has to learn in order to live,” Henry Miller wrote in comparing the art of living to dance, driven by rhythm into which the dancer must relax. “It is extremely difficult, because it means surrender, full...
Table of Contents 1. The Night Feeling 2. Nighttime on the Farm 3. After Hours 4. Night Weather 5. Closing Thoughts 1. The Night Feeling There is a feeling I’ve had most of my life that I’ve never had a good name for. It shows up at...
there's a particular sadness to witnessing life happen without you pictures of happy moments yourself not included because you wanted to believe you didn't need that connection that's just the way we are, you know we don't keep in touch...
14 years, still going strong. People don’t realise that “Just get a Brother laser; it’s fine” is the highest possible compliment for printers. If you want a printer to (1) sit near-dormant in deep sleep for weeks or months on end, and...
Mario Kart World for the Nintendo Switch 2 adds a new unique game mechanic for the series where courses that neighbor each other in the sprawling world map can physically and thematically morph over a short transitionary “lap”. These...