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A timelapse of driving our RV, a Tiffin Allegro Bus motorhome, 150 miles / 241 km, about three hours of driving, from Rosco’s RV Park in Fort St John to Azouzetta Lake Lodge & Campground in Mackenzie, British Columbia, Canada.
One of the important ideas in the sociology of science is also one of the easiest to misunderstand: knowledge is socially produced. This does not mean that scientists simply make things up, it means something much more practical. Science...
By Ben Miller It's always nice to be pleasantly surprised. Julia Hart's Don't Say Good Luck might have all the makings of a nothingburger direct-to-streaming film, but instead delivers a character-focused film filled with emotion and...
In the inevitable day I'll skip a Blaugust post, I was working on this list. Over the course of the month I've made note of any sites I've stumbled upon.RetroTracksRetroTracks is the home of 8bit, 16bit, 32bit and beyond retro video game...
AsumSaus is probably best known for their Smash Bros. Melee videos, and it was they who made the terrific video (54 minutes) about aMSa, the Yoshi player who won major tournaments. And hey, we linked to that back in 2023. They’ve been...
One of the old masters of the Dungeons & Dragons experience, and indeed of many role-playing games, is H. P. Lovecraft. Since tomorrow would have been his 136th birthday, it seems fitting to examine his contribution to the Witches of...
I've been entertaining the idea of doing a beauty blog over at my more private weblog, but I decided to go ahead and post my skincare routine here on the main blog. It's taken me a while to find a good regimen that works for me, but the...
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In the past, new PhD students would ask how they could succeed when they had to compete with the likes of say, Richard Karp or Avi Wigderson. I would say Karp and Wigderson have limited bandwidth and you can work on problems they don't...
I've been tinkering with data sources for doing Sumo analysis, from two main sources (well, one really): SumoDB - Specifically the Yusho page for a quick overview of winning performances. A database created by Ryan McCorvie from SumoDB...
I found the advice from an Enlightened Unix Master about arranging input text for the the venerable troff typesetting system that seems to be ancestral to Semantic Line Breaks.
The story of Fray: In the earliest days of the web, Derek Powazek set out to create a website meant for sharing. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again; this was the website that made me want to make websites. adactio.com/links/22723
I’m not sure if this is just my devices but a couple native Android apps on my Tab S9 tablet feel less reliable and perform worse than PWA versions of those apps.
Unattributed Navigation Overhead exposes the part of Time to First Byte that Navigation Timing cannot explain, including hidden cross-origin redirects.
Hitchcock (2012) is a surprisingly fun little peek behind the curtain at how Alfred Hitchcock