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It's time again to plumb the depths of that most bizarre and inexplicable place:The mind... OF A CAKE DECORATOR. Buckle up, it's going to be a wrecky ride. I can't decide if these are supposed to be teeth, eyeballs, or mini-marshmallows:...
On the bank holiday morning of 27 August 1979, Lord Mountbatten walked down to a small harbour in County Sligo to go lobster potting, the same routine he'd followed every summer for thirty years. He climbed aboard a wooden boat called...
📷 212/365 - Contrast. The first thing that caught my eye when seeing it all this morning. The road, the sky, the corn,… As shot with nofusion.
The Bridge Over “Content Marketing” Bulls*** Introduction I went down a rabbit hole recently, or at least I tried to. I found it difficult to come up with the information needed to write about the topic I was researching. But while I did...
A tree on the sidewalk in downtown Denver, on Wazee, between 17th and 18th streets, wants to grow into the human passageway.
GCC drive error on macOS: This seems to show up with almost every new Emacs package I’ve been trying recently on my Mac. I remember trying to dig into it, and I went in circles trying to install something from Homebrew. Has anyone fixed...
AI Before AIEons ago (i.e. before 2012), “AI” referred to an assortment of techniques that people hoped would get computers to be intelligent, even if it didn’t involve any “learning” by the machine. For example, Deep Blue was considered...
I’m back from my summer break!One thing the relentless heat wave has given us in Europe this summer is endless sunsets in a clear sky. The moment when the sun finally goes away and you can open the windows often was the first moment of...
The daughter of a Philadelphian bandleader and a Cuban dancer, Carmen Taylor was born in Cuba ca. 1928. She came to the United States of America at age two, began singing at age three. She sang with musicians like Tito Puente and Duke...
Venus and the Moon at 16:20, 1 hr 24 minutes before sunset. 10x zoom. Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra ƒ/3.4 1/5001sec exposure 18.6 mm ISO32;Venus and the Moon at 16:21, 1 hr 23 minutes before sunset. 30x zoom. Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra ƒ/3.4...
27 August 2026 It’s almost September and the final 2026 generation of eastern monarch butterflies is heading south for their wintering grounds in the Mexican states of Michoacan and Mexico. For some of them it will be a journey of 2,500...
Hand and Knife’s People living on mainland received wandering strangers. They claimed to be from a distant tower temple of Greedy Noble. They wished to acquire beautiful things like art, treasure and jewelry. Hand and Knife’s People were...
My gym locker requires me to have a small lock, that I carry in my backpack. After (presumably) leaving the lock unlocked in my backpack and it shuffling around, it is now closed with a different combination that the one I had previously...
The Fair opens today, and so it’s only right to link to an article about the Giant Slide’s family legacy. It also has their lemonade recipe, with the secret ingredient (the “entire lemon, rind and all”), which is used at their Fresh...
After leaking last month, Xbox has officially confirmed a program to let users turn physical games into digital licenses. Players have spent decades building their XBOX libraries. Some games were purchased on disc. Some were purchased...