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I am essentially, deep down, still the same little boy who couldn't get to sleep if I knew my dad was going to take me fishing tomorrow, the same little boy who woke up hours before the alarm was meant to sound and then couldn't get back...
It’s a couple days late, so I was about to fire off a quick post saying “sorry, no weekly ‘Boston-shows’ update this week, too busy, too unfocused”, then wondered if anyone has even noticed, and then figured, well, what the hell, let’s...
[I have so many Section 230 cases backlogged in my blogging queue, but this one is jumping the queue because of its comparative novelty.] This is a defamation case between a professor and a student in the Emory School of Medicine. It is...
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With the decline of small field farmers, this hay field is no longer mowed. It has overgrown with . . . Eutrochium purpureum . . . Sweet Joe-Pye weed (Eutrochium purpureum). Up close with Joe: A flower head and florets of Sweet Joe Pye...
17:15 - I feel like a blob today. I did my laundry and wrote a blog post. Saving up energy to cook for the virtual potluck. Was I meant to be a rotund seal?
My colleague Marissa Mission and I sat down with Ben Kornell to talk AI and ed tech for his Ed Tech Insiders podcast. We ranged across a few things including my belief that human aspects this work, not tools, will ultimately be the...
Mit ein paar Tagen Verspätung wünsche ich dem Journal von Markus alles Gute zum 25. Jubiläum. Es ist immer wieder eine Freude einen neuen Post im Feedreader zu sehen. Auch die kurzen Einträge auf GrumpyOldMan bringen mich regelmässig zum...
A Mastodon post by computer scientist David Chisnall has a very Unsung opener: I have used vim since around 2000. I have written five books, a PhD thesis, a few dozen papers and over 150 articles with it. At this point, my higher brain...
Hello, loves! Let’s see if we can sort out the scaling issue with the inventory display. Tout le monde déteste l’IA. The scaling issue is this: to get the inventory pictures to display in the inventory panel, we have to scale them up:...
About a year ago I started looking at digital cameras. I describe myself as a perpetual hobbyist because I love trying out new things. I wanted to take a photography class, and the good classes near my house required a fancy camera. The...
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) offers a blunt title for its most recent review of US fiscal policy: “The Nation’s Fiscal Health — Urgent and Sustained Action Needed to Improve the Fiscal Outlook (June 2026). This figure shows...
One of many gullies that run down the side of Kohala Mountain. When it rains at the top, which it does often, water funnels down the gullies to the ocean. Heavy rain, such as during the recent hurricane, can cause flash floods and dump a...
I'm traveling to Chicago for VCF Midwest next month. I'll be demoing NTP time history on vintage Macs, with my own GPS-derived NTP service hosted on an Xserve G5, synced via NTP or a strange AppleTalk timing extension from the 1990s. So...