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“If you choose not to find joy in the snow, you will have less joy in your life but still the same amount of snow.” I saw this in James Clear’s newsletter and chuckled. For what it’s worth, there’s a lot to love about the snow.
I thought of a new idea for finding new material for my blog. I asked Google AI if there had been any new discoveries of Pleistocene fossil remains in Georgia since 2018. Google AI said “yes” and it cited a paper published in 2012. I...
This year's edition of the traditional post, odometer honest: Sixty-six today, this guy. When we met in 5th grade fifty-six years ago neither of us predicted the weirdest year of our lives would be 2026. Always this: thirty-three years...
I had about 10 minutes to sketch yesterday, so I took my new Stillman & Birn Nova sketchbook (5 1/2 in. x 8 1/2 in.) a fineliner in sepia and black and a sepia brush pen and sketched this: Sketch of people waiting to see the sunset over...
Look at the past history of this blog. There are many blog posts about programming with AI, a few of them date back to January 2024 (like this: https://antirez.com/news/140). I’m a relatively well regarded programmer, after all. I don’t...
One of my favourite coffee places in Malmö is Café № 6, on Mäster Henriksgatan. I first visited when I was staying around the corner some years ago, and I like stopping in for a coffee every time I’m in the city.When we were in Malmö in...
Back in February 2026, I documented my work setup based around my trusty M1 Pro Max. In that blogpost, I mentioned that things have changed significantly. For a recap:My work stack from 2020 to 2025This blog post is to document my work...
So Much Meat on the Hoof. Can Cornel Bring One Down?STS: Three That Speak to SurvivalBeen fasting this week. Told by You Tube that it’s a good idea. They could be wrong, in which event I’m in little better circumstance that casts of...
Just to show that life is full of unexpected turns, on June 18, 1178, a group of medieval English monks threw a fine puzzle in the laps of astronomers that lingers to this day.On that day, shortly after sunset, five monks at the abbey of...
I was very sad this morning to read the news that Sam Neill has passed away at the age of 78. He was a very fine and exceptionally versatile actor. Among many other roles I remember him well as the sadistic and corrupt Chief Inspector...
Welcome back to the Gridiron Deep Dive everybody, where it’s a sad one today.In case you somehow haven’t heard, on June 29, former NFL RB Chris Johnson took to Good Morning America to reveal his diagnosis with Amyotrophic Lateral...
Mini-Server, Part 27 Entropy Arbitrage Scrawls Notoboto Library Updates Next While the date changes depending on exactly where one lives—by a lot, I mean, not the usual week or so that you’d expect from asymmetric calendar...
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Dragons in the Backyard. Clarkesville, Georgia. One pleasant early fall day as my son Rob and I were wandering around northeast Georgia to see (and photograph) whatever of interest we might find, we were driving along a street that ran...
Pick up where we left off in June. As is so often the case, this story in the New York Times is less of interest for the facts, which have been reported earlier and in greater depth by other news organizations such as NPR, Reuters, CNBC,...