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Pascal Bideau is the musician / composer behind Akusmi. On his third album, “Terra Incognita”, he uses the alto-saxophone to lead the listener through 7 soundscapes that blur and blend the traditional musics of Africa, Latin America,...
Toured the gallery of NSW on a perfectly gallery touring sort of day. That is, fairly chucking it down. Paintings from the Archibald Prize entries were on show. At its heart, the Archibald Prize is about storytelling. Who are the people...
I returned to Kyoto to explore more of the city. For this photo, I arrived at the shrine at 04:30 to catch the sunrise.
A ten-year update to the original 2016 article and its 2021 follow-up, highlighting the apps we currently use for our outdoor jaunts. Read More ... Continue reading There’s An App for That: 2026 Edition at PMags.com.
Not the kind of lottery that makes a fellow rich in Trump meme bitcoin. On our second try, we won the lottery for a Grand Canyon National Park Backcountry Permit. Looks like we may be hiking down to Bright Angel Campground sometime in...
Last month I posted about my journey migrating my site server from an old Ubuntu server to FreeBSD. Some people on Hacker News noticed that, when I showed the fastfetch result, I said I was confused with the RAM usage compared to btop...
Parts 1 and 2 were about people who at least pretend to contribute. This one isn't. Cloned repos, faked commit history, blockchain-rotated malware C2, and a takedown that got re-squatted within a day. The impersonators don't want your...
MongoDB closed to fight AWS in 2018. Elastic closed to fight AWS in 2021, then reopened in 2024 once the fight was over. Ghostty, tldraw, NetBSD, and QEMU closed in January 2026, and there's no company to make peace with this time. Two...
curl and Jazzband and Ghostty didn't close the door because of an abstract "AI problem." They closed it because of specific people. Eight archetypes, all real, all currently in your notifications.
IF YOU MAKE A POST BLOG THAT IS ONLY A THEORY OR A NEW COOL RULE OR CLASS OR A SORD OR A THEORY AND WHEN I READ ITIT MAKES A SNIKT SHINK SOUND, YOU HAVE TO PROVE TO ME THAT YOU'VE ACTUALLY TESTED IT AT THE END: PU´T A PLAY REPORT TELLING...
I had my first jury summons arrive in the mail a couple of weeks ago. I got them once when I was in college but I was able to defer as I was a full-time student. So now, at my big age of 28, I didn't have any way to get out of it. Last...
The Beeline Imagine how attractive these flowers would look if you were a bee. According to the invaluable Plantnet app, it’s Verbascum chaixii ViLL. Which is ‘Nettle leaved Mullein’ to the rest of us. Quote of the Day ”The only function...
I probably own more than a thousand game CDs, cartridges and floppy disks and yet I’d be hard-pressed to tell you the last time I physically touched a piece of game media. My gaming nowadays is nearly all downloaded – most frequently...
A big thank you to a donor from Instagram for this – she sent two varieties of Chun Noodles after seeing my initial review. Taiwanese dry noodle is truly a favorite of mine – let’s cook it up! Chun Noodles Spicy Peppercorn Noodles –...
The annual prediction market conference was earlier this month. This was the year prediction markets went from an obscure hobby to a multi-billion dollar industry; from semi-illegal to having the President’s son as an advisor. I can’t...