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Starting our day at the Minnesota State Fair! Peachey’s Donut line is over four blocks long.
Out to Greenside this morning, warm, close and sometimes sunny. Butterflies: Green-veined Whites, several spotted woods, peacocks, small tortoiseshells & painted ladies on thistles. I rather like this odd view of a painted lady. few more...
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Coming to you directly from the Pacific Northwest of the US, Blackwater Craftworks has been hand making leather notebook covers since 2024. This Basalt A6 Journal cover features a beautiful stamp across the entire exterior, and plenty of...
I must admit that I have yet to play Big Walk, the long-awaited game House House made after their phenomenal hit Untitled Goose Game. UGG hit right as COVID was getting underway, when many people were stuck at home during lockdown, and...
Just mixed my first collaborative track with guitarist Robert Gray. We were friends as undergrads in Bloomington, IN; bandmates in graduate school in Charlottesville; and later briefly played together in the DC post-punk band Pop Maru....
One of the jobs that has been on my list for a while is to migrate my UniFi controller installation from the self-hosted network manager tool to the new UniFi OS Server tool. The only reason that it was a job at all is because UniFi has...
There are several reasons why I always choose to work during the summer. One is that I have a flexible job. Another is that I’d rather take time off in the winter and travel somewhere warmer. The third reason is just as important: to...
Queries on Death, the Infinite and Irrational Numbers, by John Stammers, 2025. Picador Poetry,ISBN 978 103508268 1 This is John Stammers’ fourth book. Each one part of a sequence, I suspect. So, let’s get the narrative out of the way...
14:33 - Late lunch featuring the egg & tomato sauce I made last night but paired with udon.
ShareThe originating agent was one of many running inside an OpenAI reinforcement-learning environment. On May 12, 2026, while searching for a file, it left a note for another agent to find. Their computations were separate, but they...
The sons of Clovis saw Burgundy as a target. Sigismund of Burgundy (c.475 - 524) became king in 516. His father, Gundobad, had slain Chilperic II of Burgundy in 493. Chilperic's daughter was Clotilde, who married Clovis I, King of the...
This is an odd one; basically, it's clearance of clearance, of clearance! I mentioned the other day (well, sometime in the last few months?), when we saw a figure lose, in one of the donation/plunder/mixed lots, that there was a post on...
Palworld has turned out to be one of my most-played games of 2026. I don’t regret that in any capacity. I know some folks joked about it being “Pokemon with guns” but it’s been a very satisfying survival monster catching game.
Border crossings can be a bit scary with Immigration etc. Another thing that some folks worry about is the data on the phone as in most countries the immigration and border security folks have the authority to check your phone/other...