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I'm foolishly taking another crack at getting the holder of the jimmitchell.net domain to sell to me. I'm not going to get my hopes up, but it's worth a shot, because, why not, right?
Natalie writes about being grateful to have many Little Free Library book-exchange boxes in her neighborhood. I am happy to be surrounded by such literary neighbors and I hope that this movement continues to spread. We have a few here in...
It was a short work week. I took Thursday off because we had some registration related work in Denkanikottai. The morning drive was easy and fun, but then, like any government work, it didn’t get done on time. So we entered the city...
Once upon a time, goes the story, a lady named Dottie got bored and started playing with her calculator, pressing the cosine key over and over again. At first the numbers fluctuated wildly, but over time they always settled down to...
Claude fixed another bug in elementaryOS, with notify-send notifications not showing up in the notification center after a sleep: Root cause was a GDK bug, not the carousel at all. After sleep/resume, Gala's compositor isn't ready to...
Today is the last day of work at Isthmia for this season, and I went out to get some photos of the Roman Bath that we’ve been studying. These aren’t the sexiest photos, but they give you a sense of the building that we’re studying and...
A while ago I completed the Decision Making Intensive workshop by AORTA. Making a decision as a group often takes incredible patience and no small amount of skill. I've been in groups that stumble to a resolution even where our values...
Quick status check from the part of the saga nobody warns you about: the long, boring, grinding middle. If you are just joining us — and at this point I assume the spreadsheet people have a whole pivot table — the ankle itself is fine....
When I placed my order with Cult Pens UK a few weeks ago, I threw in a few other exclusive items just because. One of those was the Grey Skies No More ink which is part of the exclusive Diamine x Cult Pens Summer Fountain Pen Ink (30ml...
Rob Matthews’s Entopic Graphomania series, connecting the use of a single letter across a page, produces related variants.
★★★★☆ An unsigned hike along the coastal side of the hills on the west side of the Palos Verdes peninsula. A lot of it is just on the edge between trees and chaparral. In the morning there’s shade along most of the upper part of the...
At the end of April, I wrote about stepping back into the driver’s seat. I ended that post with two remarks: that I was going to take a refreshers lesson, and that I wanted to try a manual transmission before the lesson. It’s been a...
We have a new standard policy for releasing frontier AI models. It is not good. We are now, it seems, going to have the White House individually, in an opaque ad hoc manner, deciding who can access which frontier AI models when. One...
Being a celebrity stylist is not what you might think. The main job of a celebrity stylist is to interact with brands; either get the celebrity in question free clothing, or arrange to get them paid to wear a given outfit (usually one...
As I mentioned in my previous post (see here), between the publication of the second and third editions of his Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith published a separate 79-page pamphlet titled Additions and Corrections to the First and Second...