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Part of the User Manual Series where I give some brief overviews of the media, experiences, thoughts that help make me...me. Released hourly on my 32nd birthday. Pokémon Heartgold I vividly remember playing Pokémon Blue in the back of...
R2-WRWLF Halloween Edition Star Wars Droid Factory Item No.: ??? Manufacturer: Disney Number: n/a Includes: Wolf ears Action Feature: Comes apart Retail: $14.99-$17.99-$14.99 Availability: August 2026 Appearances: n/a Bio: All different...
It makes sense to me now, in a way it never did before—the idea of performers failing to adapt to a new medium, as they used to say of the stars of the silent movies. I think I must always previously have parsed this as a sort of...
Paninaro.uno
This popular US R&B quartet were billed as The Original Coasters because they were led by tenor singer Cornelius “Cornell” Gunter who’d been an “original” member of The Coasters who had moved to New York from Los Angeles to record for...
Fictional schools: there’s a new one in town I recently did this post LIVING A LIFE IN BOOKS: HOLIDAYS on fictional holidays I would like to enjoy. I like the idea and want to do more such posts, and the next one invited itself in with a...
Oura faces lawsuit accusing it of misleading consumers about sleep-tracking accuracy:“To capitalize on consumers’ desire for a tracker that could actually track sleep and monitor their sleep cycles, Oura sold expensive tracking rings,...
There are a lot of guides online for recording cassettes This is another one, because why not. This isn’t a guide for how to get the ~best~ sound, it’s just how I figured out to do it using stuff that was already around or easily...
In the mountains.
Years ago I read this attractive Pushkin Press paperback which, unusually for a 19th century novel, comes with no introduction or footnotes. The publisher's website provides a brief summary of this 'little known' 1864 novel by George...
There is a childlike innocence in modelling prototypes we are less familiar with - and despite my best endeavours I’m still wonderfully uninformed about so much about Canadian railways in the prairies during the late 70s and 80s… I read...
I don't think it's going to work out the way everybody thinks it will. The current narrative, at least the one pushed by the companies selling the shovels, is that AI will become centralized. Anthropic and OpenAI will offer safe, vetted...
A couple of days ago, I had a professional organizer helped me tackling down my kids’ room. I asked the kids, though! And they agreed to have someone checking and “fixing” their rooms; hence, Ms. Iffah and her team from IZ Organizing...
This is an anecdote, not a data point, yet. I'm a firm believer in functional programming and I consider myself a `mostly functional` programmer. I use functional programming when I can, but when a side effect is required, I'll use it....