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Read: The End of Everything by M John Harrison ★★★★ 📚 'Summer. I stood in a long shallow chalk valley half a mile from the sea, listening to the sound of the waves – the sound waves! – amplified by acoustic lensing conditions in the...
I. The world’s shortest critique of Pavlovian reason: if the pointer address of dopamine response can slide backward from stimulus (beef) to cue (bell), then it makes sense to start looking at every particular experience as cue to a...
Even marshy habitats are dry. I have always known this shallow natural pond on Oughtonhead Common to be full (as seen above in March). But not now...
Todays big story, from Time, “Promising Results for mRNA Cancer Vaccine from Moderna and Merck:” In a release, the two companies report that people with melanoma who received intismeran, jointly developed by Moderna and Merck, and...
Almost all of Ivan Doig's novels are, like Doig himself, rooted in Montana - even when they stray out of the state. Prairie Nocturne takes as its jumping off point the communities of Two Medicine County, the fictional area of Montana...
This is what AIDS is after all, isn't it? One long set of disappearing acts. First is watching the friends and family disappear. Second act is when people try to disappear you. Third act is watching your body vanish from itself and...
Two years might not seem like enough of an interval to warrant a second edition, but Connor Wake’s Out of Sorts is not your average board game. Actually, it’s become something of a counterpoint for me. While Wilmot’s Warehouse has become...
Bun has always been divisive because of its approach, and its acquisition by Anthropic and subsequent AI-driven port to Rust haven’t helped (especially given the way some people these days react to both the company and the “process” that...
Recover files from a failing drive without cloning posted to the docs section.
GENKI MANTA: Beyond the Pro Controller "A deeply tunable controller with MantaOS built in, analog Pulse Buttons, adjustable TMR sticks, TriStage Triggers and Maglev Haptics." That's a whole lot of branding jargon to say this thing has a...
1 - i didn't know you were special quite from the start, but it was pretty close 2 - i think that we've both grown so much. we've seen so many version of each other. i'd love to see who we both become, i think it'll be beautiful. 3 - i...
Early this morning I was stretched out in bed scrolling on my tablet a bit when the glowing sky caught my attention. It was glowing pink and orange brightly, so I had to go get my pants on to go outside and check it out. I went in the...
I have an iPod Touch 7th generation and for the longest time I had it in a clear case; I wanted to show off the nice space grey back. Unfortunately all the cases I got (the first one my wife purchased, an official Apple case I believe)...
I remember what programming used to feel like in my body. There was a file open in Sublime Text, a terminal beside it, and one problem occupying the whole available field of consciousness. I would change a line, run the program, read the...
In 2023 we were lucky to have the Grey Cup visit our house. We gathered the Argonotes Alumni Choir around my piano to serenade the Cup with a rousing chorus of Go Argos Go I had sort of forgotten about that but came across the video of...