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All the good aliens have left the planet. And now this news. Fair winds and clear skies, Dolly.
I wish Bill were correct about me getting paid to write this blog. If that were true, I'd easily be able to be at the courthouse every day to watch his trial. Unfortunately, he's wrong about that. I do, in fact, have a day job - and I...
Fujitsu’s A64FX was a pivotal core. For the Arm ecosystem, it introduced SVE. SVE continues to define Arm’s vector execution strategy to this day, with newer extensions like SME adopting a similar vector length agnostic approach. For...
I’ve hit 92 days of walking at least 10 miles per day, covering 1034.8 miles which is about 11.24 miles per day. I’m down about 18lbs., and finally able to fit back into my medium hoodies which is good news since the evenings are getting...
After Saragossa Manuscript, another Wojciech Has movie full of madness, beautifully filmed, and based on an eccentric novel, which didn’t really work for me. Jan Nowicki (Barrier) goes to a time-warping hospital to find his not-dead-yet...
Perfume PosseThwarted: Erno Laszlo Pop-up in LA So I spent this Saturday thwarted. I woke up early to go to the bank, which is now in the valley. My accounts had lapsed from non use since they had moved but I wanted to reopen. In any...
This semester, I am giving four lectures in a third-year undergraduate course on statistical mechanics. Last year, I gave a guest lecture on the Ising model.The first thing I want to emphasise is that the whole course is built around...
There are I few “easy” pastry skills that I have yet to master. Marbling is one of them. I’m not mad at the way my Coconut-Milk-Chocolate Marble Cake looks, but you can see on the inside that it is more chunked than marbled. I guess that...
Mothership Month is coming November 1 - November 30, back to our regularly scheduled time slot. With one big caveat: No crowdfunding this year. I don’t know how you all feel, but I’m exhausted. We’re not saying we’ll never do a group...
This morning, I went to get a bunch of lab tests done at the Palo Alto Medical Foundation (for a nephrologist consultation tomorrow) and discovered that a lot of the phlebotomists recognized me, greeted me enthusiastically by name, and...
My previous post explored the first of three passages in The Wealth of Nations in which Adam Smith explicitly refers to the concept of probabilty. Today, I want to discuss another such passage: the retaliatory tariff passage in Book IV,...
2026, it's turning out to be a year for many changes as forks in the road of life have become evident.The TW200 had become unreliable to me for quite a while now. Yesterday, she started to have charging issues again and it looks like the...
I found this odd leather octopus at a Renaissance Fair a few years back. Now it lives in my home office. Selfie a day for a year, day 7: Aug 25, 2026 edition.
Radio Free Fedi, in partnership with NHAM, is hosting another summer festival to celebrate independent musicians who are active on the Fediverse! The Sockpuppet portion of the festival will be streamed from our Owncast instance, but...
The first recording today starts with the end of Louie. There’s a trail for Dirtgirlworld. Then it’s Kerwhizz – Daredevil Dreamway. Media Centre Description: Children’s quiz. The teams find themselves in a raceworld which is particularly...