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Dresden presentation in the can. Accounting taken care of. Laundry done. Inbox 0, RSS 0. I can now spend the next couple of days tending to house things before boarding my flight with little worry. From Ahmed Naji's latest: “There is a...
Jill Pelto: Field painting of new large bedrock exposures in the big icefall on Easton Glacier, Mt. Baker. The 2026 field season of the NCGCP brought dramatic changes. While we expected most of these, it doesn’t make them any easier to...
Some things I saw on my exercise walk in #SanFrancisco this morning: Another Outside Lands leftover mural by Indelible Funk, this one advocating Music for the People. When your home looks boring so you try to spice it up with a couple of...
Crivelli’s Room I (1967) by Gillian Ayers. • “This is the first film ever made about HP Lovecraft—and almost no one has seen it. Shot in 1989–90, it features unique interviews with Lovecraft’s friends and colleagues. It has sat...
The other week I watched the worst film in the world, for the seventy-eighth time. A terrible thing. I was looking forward to it, but yet again it ended unhappily and made me cry. There's this scene though. Maybe not even a scene. Maybe...
this is the second night in a row that i havent been able to relax and fall asleep i forgot to take part of my meds last night and i thought that was the cause of it, but everything is normal tonight. except that i'm still awake. i was...
TL;DR: I added 4x Intel I226-V 2.5GbE network cards to my NucBox G9. You can do it too. Download the files and print them yourself.↗ Backstory A few months ago, I blogged about using an Intel n150 based mini PC as my home router running...
About a month ago, I undertook the “10 Fountain Pens” prompt challenge, in which I pulled 10 fountain pens from my collection that I would keep “if I could only keep 10.” Rather than just photograph them, I decided to ink or re-ink all...
What is Dave wearing today? Dave is wearing a slate-blue T-shirt, olive-green shorts, and white socks. How does Dave feel today? Dave feels poorly. What are the factors affecting Dave's mood? Dave's stomach hurts, and he assumes it has...
There’s been a bit of discussion this week on Bluesky about academic book chapters; the fact that they are often disparaged (especially in relation to the REF, especially by disciplines where the only ‘serious’ venue for research is the...
I've shared a few posts recently talking about how I'm using Cursor to learn and employ agentic development. Primarily that work has all been done via our Agent view, but this is just one of the surfaces you can use with the platform. I...
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...