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My daughter and son-in-law are away right now on the mainland, leaving me in charge of keeping Bowser and the chickens alive and happy. So far so good. She texted me a couple of days ago to let me know she got a call from the vet that Bowserās lump is benign. Hoorah! Mr. Bowsie is healing like a champ: He is not...
Quick bits I met up with fellow weeknoter Coffee for a cup of Tom. Oops! Fellow weeknoter Tom for a cup of coffee. Clearly lacking coffee this morning. It was excellent conversation with excellent coffee. Speaking of coffee: Iāve held off on buying fancy coffee beans because one gets used to having good coffee and...
A weekly digest? But itās been over a month! Happenings Iām broken up from school for the year. Iāve been working on an extra-curricular project for some of my top students for next year. A couple of years back I did something similar with a small group and it was a lot of fun and quite inspiring for them. A lot of...
This week, I presented this paper at ICCCN'26. This is joint work with Aleksey Charapko (University of New Hampshire) and my MongoDB colleagues Matt Broadstone, Daniel Gomez Ferro, and Akshat Vig. The paper investigates how to build a metastability tolerant execution control system (ECS) for a database.Why?Modern...
It's August, which means it's time for the annual Summer Under the Stars month on Turner Classic Movies!As always, TCM's August festival started today, on the 1st, and runs through the 31st. During this month the regular franchises, including Noir Alley, Silent Sunday Nights, and TCM Imports, will have the month off...
Gianni Infantino has scrapped his plan to sell stakes in FIFA's competitions, including the World Cup, to investors. It was always the wrong idea ā custodians don't get to sell what they're only trusted to protect. | Read full post >>
Based on the recurring statements from most of my readers, our days of actively acquiring perfumes are in the past. I rarely hear about new perfume loves from you these days. At the same time, the second often mentioned sentiment is that our collections, as they currently exist, will outlive us. This tells me that [ā¦]
July was a month full of unexpected events, milestones, and just busyness in general. Itās crazy that weāre way past the half of 2026, and that weāll be soon ā depending on how you look at āsoonā ā embarking into the autumn. š Life At the beginning of the month, we had some friends visit, which is always nice. It...
This years summer vacation we spent in Italy. Our first stay was close to Lago di Bolsena, at the border of Lazio and Tuscany. It was hot but the pool was refreshing. The large agritourism estate was quite empty ā somehow there was just on other family, so we often had the garden, the pool and so on for ourselves.
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