Bubbles
Latest Posts
You don’t hear that someone has “gone postal” much anymore. Yet decades ago, it was a hot catchphrase until the early 1990s. […]
A photo dump of Theo at the farm. He was a little camera shy, but I managed to get a few good shots of him.
Spent last week at the farm. Took a lot of photos. These are the keepers.
So, summer gets really hot, and it's not going to get better anytime soon. At my place, it isn't actively dangerous yet, but it's still unpleasant. A normal air conditioner uses a low boiling-point liquid: something like liquid propane...
Breathing Is How Some People Stay Alive is a loosely connected series of short stories often gave me the heebie-jeebies, but always kept me interested. The author, Alison Gadsby, blended horror, science fiction and more than a bit of...
polyagency: the practice of engaging in or being open to using multiple AI agents concurrently.
Today at Crucial Tracks: Sabotage, by Beastie Boys What’s your go-to song for getting ready in the morning? This is more of a gotta go, gotta go now kind of song, but it’s definitely right for some kind of mornings.
Little Alligator
When Mark Frost and David Lynch’s Twin Peaks first aired on April 8, 1990, newspapers and magazines had wall-to-wall coverage of the show that was unlike anything ever seen on network television. Two days after the pilot was show, the...
I am the proud owner of a lightly used bread machine.It’s a white appliance about the size of a microwave, and it sits on my kitchen counter,It cost about a hundred bucks.The ingredients for a basic loaf are flour, water, yeast, and...
A few months ago I planted three small pots of Fennel in the herb garden I made at the music school. Now they're rampant! Fennel will tough it out on poor, parched ground but here it grows in a rich loamy compost that's watered...
I wanted to run LLM models locally on my machine. I discovered that llama.cpp is how people run models locally, and that the popular LLM servers like Ollama and lmstudio and unsloth use llama.cpp under the hood. llama.cpp is, of course,...
Power Cat Sunday 2026-07-12
You Might As Well Be the One by Megumu Seto tells a classic romance storyline well. Ichika’s in college and looking for a boyfriend. She wants a serious relationship, with someone she can talk with, someone who sees the real her. She...
I was an early adopter of KDE’s activities when they were first introduced in KDE 4. From what I read of various blog posts by KDE developers I’m in the minority. It’s hard enough for folks to get the concept of virtual desktops...