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[Oh, the points you could earn!] Though the recent email sent by Massachusetts was suspicious in the extreme, the registration on my car will indeed come due in a couple of months. After I verified that, I figured I ought to get it taken...
Among the towering dinosaurs, enormous marine reptiles and other spectacular fossils at the Natural History Museum Abu Dhabi is a much smaller creature that tells one of evolution’s most extraordinary stories.It is a fossil of...
From The Jump? by Robert Paterson:In the summer of 1993, I was on track to end up at the top of the Canadian banking system. This had been my dream since I left school. But instead of being happy, I was utterly depressed. Something was...
Mr. Meyers carves a wonderful wagon and horse team using only a jackknife and an awl Real Photo Postcard collection Jim Linderman / Dull Tool Dim Bulb
# Is your model smarter than a 5th grader? I saw a post about [LittleLearner](https://littlelearner-ll.github.io/), a scale-up study where Qwen3 dense models are pretrained on a corpus filtered down to U.S. K-5 material...
A great, deliberate approach you can take towards learning new skills.
Alright, so picture this: you look at my online profile somewhere, maybe Mastodon. I appear to be an AI skeptic. Quite vocal about it, too. Post by @drakonic@wetdry.world View on Mastodon You hit follow or whatever. [Read more...]...
2 Mello's lyrics are pure poetry. Blaugust week 3 prompt: Top five (or 10 or 20) musical artists. I'm just gonna do one. I pick: ◀◀ ◼︎ ▶︎▶︎♫ 2 Mello Since trying to move away from streaming platforms, I've been trying to listen to...
A developer experience and quality control measure I take on programs I’m building, even small ones, is always to write at least one test.
I’m pretty excited about the start of the semester. This semester is going to be crazy busy. Not only am I teaching five classes for the first five weeks of the semester, but I have a ton of little (and not so little) projects coming at...
By Ayeza Areej On 28 February 2026, Iran launched Operation True Promise-4, a wave of ballistic missiles and drones into Israeli airspace. The strikes were launched in response to US and Israeli attacks on Iranian territory and saturated...
Chases are all over the place in spy movies, but the second car chase in Ronin is one of the best on film. It’s a BMW and a Peugeot through the streets of Paris. It’s very realistic (except maybe for a weird amount of sparks). There’s no...
To repurpose a familiar line: be not conformed to technology: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind.
As I mentioned yesterday, I wanted to make a custom font for a music video. Here it is! I thought the ideation process would be much harder, but I actually just doodled random shapes and tried to keep the gestures I used consistent,...
Happy National Radio Day! And, as the grandson of a Vietnam-era Fort Gordon Regular Army Signals Corps instructor (MOS 31Z5H, 31W50) with two tours in Vietnam and the two Bronze Stars and 7-starred-VSM on his DD-214 to show for it, big...