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Thanks to Charlie Horse 47 and Killdumpster for their sponsorship of this post, via the magic of Patreon. ***Plans are of no use to a man like me. Like all men of destiny, I rely on random happenstance to guide me.Therefore, let's see...
I've been making more tunes lately, so I finally got enough mojo to think about posting my music again. I renewed my Distrikid account, and now I'll think a bit more about each song, and just make them more like 2 minute bass tunes for...
Now here’s a neat concept. You heard of Chess Boxing? Introducing: Shotgun Golf. Apparently it’s from an article written by Hunter S. Thompson but the whole game has the aesthetic of a NES golfing game made by drunk people. The concept...
"Consulting giant Accenture is trying to figure out how to stop non-technical workers from blowing through companies’ AI token budget on trivial tasks like converting PDFs to presentation slides"The Tokenpocalypse Is Here: Companies Are...
I got in this argument with my mother in February: We live in Toronto. Toronto is a city that does one particular thing very well. It is great at delivering a liminal feeling. There are vast open spaces in the Northern part. Sometimes,...
The week began with the news that, as The Onion declared Keir Starmer Resigns Amid ‘Not Being Very Good Prime Minister’ Scandal. I made a popular post on mastodon and bluesky re. the resignation lecterns of recent prime ministers. Cinema...
We started a discussion in the comments on certain word usages…. Villages, Reginald Hill, and Pictures of Perfection Reginald Hill a great one for using obscure words, and I had mentioned ‘wrack’ and ‘desert’ used in a specific and...
Have a great weekend!!!!!!! The Pilgrim
The South Hams WayTotnes throws off quirky Glastonbury vibes. Interesting people, independent shops and three Good Beer Guide Pubs. Just the one open for business at midday on a Sunday - but they do Sunday Lunch. A suitable enough...
It always surprises me how well watermelon, some salt, olive oil, and feta work together. Even without the feta it would be a delicious salad. Admittedly, there was a bit too much feta, but in this heatwave the watermelon is strictly...
The Space Shuttle's five1 general-purpose computers played a critical role in each flight: controlling the engines, monitoring thousands of sensors, displaying data to the astronauts, and navigating the Shuttle. Each computer consisted...
The rain started last night. The forecast has completely changed. According to the app on my phone, we’re expecting to have rain and thunderstorms for the rest of the week. The app on my desktop shows a more moderate forecast, with...
John Wyver writes: For the second Sunday running I have simply been too busy to compile the Sunday dozen. Apologies. But the preparations for The Cultures of Early Television conference next Thursday and Friday at the University of...
This week’s Sunday Stills challenge theme is ‘Future.’ See more responses here. These days, our photos and videos are in the cloud, our music is in the cloud, our backups are in the cloud, our records and files are in the cloud. One day,...
Euripides, Heracles 676 (tr. David Kovacs): May I never live a Muse-less life! μὴ ζῴην μετ᾽ ἀμουσίας. The same, tr. Edward P. Coleridge: Never may I live among uneducated boors. Godfrey W. Bond ad loc.: