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Hi everyone! Today’s prompt for #SoCS is “starts with ‘gl'”. I immediately thought of the word “glimmer”. This is a beautiful word with an even more beautiful meaning. It is the positive counterpart to a trigger. That is, well, in...
What I'm...Working on Chasing course issues in our online content packages. That's again the majority of my time this week Getting a bike rack installed on our Venue Rehearsing Sides for an audition of Significant Other Eating The...
We don’t need no stinking DRM I found a book in Amazon Kindle format that I wanted to read. I couldn’t find it anywhere else, and I had some Amazon credits, so I bought it. The problem is, I don’t have a Kindle and don’t want one. I knew...
I'm used to seeing pigeons, crows, mynahs, and gulls as the most populous species in cities. But coming to Bangalore, I realised that black kites are such a common sight. They are so well-established that I saw 15-16 kites thermalling...
On the evening of Thursday, August 27th, a beautiful eclipse of the Moon will be visible throughout North America. In a lunar eclipse, the Moon and the Sun are exactly opposite each other in our sky, and the Earth gets between them. This...
This is an EP with a set of rare mid-10s-era remixes of k.h.d.n. tracks; some very dark techno, definitely among their darkest sound. These are rare enough I didn't have an easy time finding a version of the music I could share here as...
“Mathematicians have to grapple with being replaced by AI.” This has become a constant refrain among the media and concerned mathematicians alike. For example, the article “THE CRISIS OF AI-GENERATED MATHEMATICS” (all caps) went viral,...
Great news for whiny piss-babies who can’t wait five fucking minutes for an actual human to make their coffee. Source, via the Superhuman newsletter.
I received a message from an ex-client; he demanded me to answer his questions. Two weeks back, him and the committee made me wait for an hour to present the renewal quote. When was my turn to present, the whole committee left with the...
It started in early 2024, or so. I didn’t follow any sports besides Hockey, and figured I would dabble in hockey sports cards. I’d mainly collected some nonsport cards at other times in my life, such as superheroes (I’ve always loved...
Made my way down to Shelburne and the local brewery of course! Time for a small flight. I’m at: Boxing Rock Brewery, Shelburne, Nova Scotia Location map: https://misterchrisjones.ca/location/chris/7324/ Note tags: checkin, shelburne,...
Obit: Poemsby Victoria ChangGenres: Poetry Pages: 123 Rating: Synopsis: After her mother died, poet Victoria Chang refused to write elegies. Rather, she distilled her grief during a feverish two weeks by writing scores of poetic...
From Ryan Tamares, on a postcard arriving yesterday (8/21) at my place (it was mailed much earlier at Stanford, passed for some reason through San Francisco, and then shunted back down to Palo Alto; the ways of the USPS are sometimes...
Mars low-society underdog ascends.By Pierce BrownRating: 4 / 5.If George Saunders was right that a story is “a continual system of escalation,” then this was a masterful one. I won’t ruin anything for someone that wants to go for a ride...
Three days before my first 10K in years, I caught a cold. The day before, I nearly phoned in sick from work, then thought better of bragging about a race I'd skipped the Friday before it. I ran it anyway, nearly gave up on a hill nobody...