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This is still not a link blog, but here are some links that I've enjoyed, that I am delighted to share them with, and which I have nothing else to add. Adventures in Utopia, by Carline Tromp, translated by Caroline Waight, The Dial On...
Zeiss-Großplanetarium Berlín. Cámara: Olympus Mju-1. Comentar · Me gusta · Newsletter · Office Hours
Committed in speech, by me, on 7/27/26: help get through me the day [1] This is an error in the ordering of the parts, localized in the underlined portion. [1] is the production. What was the target? What did I intend to say? There are...
In 2022, hit by nostalgia for that beautiful macOS Lion look, I purchased this gorgeous set of wallpapers. Now that the latest macOS 27 beta has ~re~introduced ~Aqua~ Liquid Glass traffic light buttons, it's finally time to dust them...
It upsets me that we have been through so much bullshit in recent years to the point that when someone sends me a news article nowadays, I can no longer distinguish satires from real reports without mucking around a bit. Are you fucking...
There's a bit of business that inevitably comes up whenever a friend or acquaintance has a brush with fame. I hear something like this: "Sure, I'm just a golf columnist [or singer/songwriter or ceramicist or small town mayor or juicing...
“This is the strange thing about life, when people are confronted, they all say that the truth is what they want but when the truth disagrees with them, they balk at it as if it were an unwanted zombie apocalypse that only wants to...
There are a few ways to know that a file is a symlink. Here’s one I learned today.
We take a minor break in our Blockbuster posts for a A Few Good Things. I figured this would also be a good place to share a bit of information about The Blockbuster Chronicles. The entire series of posts is eleven posts, that will be...
Executive Summary: Improved buses to major shopping centres are the 'low hanging fruit' of the bus world. They have high patronage gains relative to their cost and often do not need network reform or new bus purchases. Many examples...
OpenAI has some severe misalignment problems, and experienced total failures of its infrastructure and supervision. I chronicled that in a series of posts, which also cover similar less severe incidents elsewhere: OpenAI Shares Some...
Even now, as you’re reading these words, hundreds of robots are poring over them, and carrying them away. Winging their way over the internet to massive data centres, joining trillions of their brethren in the mad dash to get eaten by...
"Oblivion of the Waves" by Anton Smit, side on Looking into the hollow head from behind I've seen the hollow-face illusion plenty of times in textbooks. It's something else to come across it as a massive sculpture in woodland. For some...
A year ago, I made the leap to lithium (LiFePO4). My lead AGM gave up the ghost, the result of a failed solar panel allowing it to go flat for too long. It was also long in the tooth. I wrenched my shoulder maneuvering it out of its...