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Details from the Oroboros sculpture by Lindy Lee.
Brexit was the inevitability that nobody (including a number of its high-profile supporters, apparently) saw coming. I was out of the country for most of the run-up so maybe my excuse for missing the surge of contrarian fuck-you that...
A couple weeks ago, the lead maintainer of a well-known game engine admitted to using LLM for development since 2021. While not vibecoded (the lead maintainer insisted that stringent procedure was put into place to heavily filter the...
My thoughts on 📦 Don't put yourself in a box My personal mantra regarding blogging has since the beginning been that I am doing this for myself. That's not to say that you, dear reader, are unimportant. But if a writing a post didn't...
Practicing Mozart for a thousand hours means something different than whistling a tune. https://strolling.rosano.ca/0268/ 07h27 from Berlin / Germany
Tyrannicide Brief: Story of the Man Who Sent Charles I to the Scaffold King Charles I came from Geoffrey Robertson. Charles triggered the tragic civil wars (starting in 1642) when one in ten Englishmen died. But in 1649, Parliament...
I know enough about home cinema audiovisual to know there's a lot I don't know. It's conscious incompetence, if you like, which is different to the unconscious incompetence most people have on the topic. That's not to sound derogatory...
“たまゆらを愛してくれた全てのみなさまへありがとうございました” After the Shokei-no-Michi Festival ends, Fū returns to Hinomaru’s shop to pick up her Rollei 35S. Hinomaru indicates that while he was able to repair it, he cannot guarantee that the camera will be...
Twenty Years Ago on FITK The sandals of my life, I guess, have met the hot summer asphalt of adulthood… all warm and gunky, trapping my shoes, leaving me either stuck there in my melting sandals... or running out and burning the pads off...
An old friend, just months older than me, is taking longevity hard. We’re not that old – he just turned seventy-four, I’m still seventy-three – but he frets about decrepitude, pain and death. I remind him there’s an alternative to a long...
In another life, I should have studied comparative religions. There is an amazing (and short) book by Kosuke Koyama called Three Mile an Hour God. He touches on materialism a lot, and as it relates to whatever religion you are—God,...
Specifically, while I am seeing constant, if incremental improvements (incisions continuing to heal, puffiness around the big one reduced substantially) I am leaning more toward it taking additional weeks to return to normal…if that...
Did all the servicing make a difference? There was only one way to find out. A dryish Thursday evening saw me at the L&WMRS outdoor track with a box full of gas and water. First out, the Lady Anne. She fired straight up, was soon in...
Recently, we lined up for 45 minutes to try some pastries from a bakery in the Yanesen area, very simply named Think. Only 3 people are allowed in the store at a time, so as you get closer and closer, you are left to stare hungrily at...