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I have much to say about what it was like to live in Costa Rica for six months. So, just warning y’all, I’ll probably be talking about this for the rest of 2026. The first thing I realized is that I have been worshipping at the god of...
Do I play 40K? Not anymoreDo I have space orc minis? NopeIs there a single reason I should be working on a Killa Kan for a game I don't play, to go with minis I don't have? Yes, Gork and/or Mork inspired me. And with that, I grabbed an...
Hallstatt Salt Mines, Austria / Permian Salt Diapir The Hallstatt Limestone is the world's richest Triassic ammonite unit, yielding specimens of more than 500 ammonite species. Along with diversified cephalopod fauna — orthoceratids,...
There's a photo in my library from years ago showing my computer running AIM. A wave of nostalgia washed over me, as expected. Then, yesterday I read Here's how I host my own AIM server and I had to try it. Read Veronica's post for...
As I mentioned yesterday, I started organizing (and cleaning) my Emacs config. What may have seemed like an annoying and boring task has proven to be fun and addicting (reminds me of this, which is part of this video 😂). I’ve already...
Kevin M. Levin: “Why Lindsey Graham Abandoned the Confederate Flag” kevinmlevin.substack.com/p/why-lin… “What the Confederate battle flag’s slow exit from South Carolina reveals about his entire career”
Pigeon coming in the door (photo from Wikimedia) 13 July 2026 There’s a famous problem that humans get wrong almost all the time but pigeons get right. It’s called the Monty Hall Problem, named after the TV host, co-creator and...
London has changed enormously and so have the English in the past decade. They’re more like Americans and more like Europeans, too. They’re always eating out, and when they’re at home they don’t cook the way they did ten years ago....
A pair of shoes, a shirt,a known article of clothingand a memory that serves you wellin your future life. I watched something pure happen.I saw a father and his son at the beachyesterday.They were looking through the shallowscollecting...
John Stossel's latest column is eye-opening for three reasons, perhaps the least being the astounding safety record of Waymo's driverless cars:Waymo claims its cars are 10 times safer than human-driven ones. I wouldn't believe that if...
In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book. Previous contributors include Jesmyn Ward, Lauren Groff, Bret Easton Ellis, Celeste Ng, T.C. Boyle, Dana...
In Kidz Fun Art, I recently increased the resolution of images by two, letting young artists draw at much higher quality (important for my 10 year old who was hitting the limits of the program, she’s amazing). However this introduced an...
Clear and cool—the first morning of a dry high. A hummingbird visits the orange jewelweed below the porch. A pungent, camphor-like odor makes me think of blossoming yarrow, but I finally decide instead it’s coming from the black locust...
Stefan Zweifel shares how he reorganized his dotfiles into a minimal setup, split private config into a separate repo, and streamlined setup and Brewfile syncing with a few small scripts. Read more
Basement dehumidifiers seem to be treated as disposable appliances. You buy one, run it for a year or two, and then replace it when it stops pulling water out of the air. I was hoping to escape that cycle when I bought an AlorAir...