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Funnel spider, Frick Park, 30 July 2026 (photo by Kate St.John) 13 August 2026 Late July through September is the best time of year to see funnel webs in Pittsburgh. The spiders that build these webs have been present since spring but...
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The IBM PC is 45 years old.
13:25 - I received a package from my sister! I will definitely write about it. It was filled with treasures old and new. How exciting. What a great day. (I'm still in my pjs.)
What does it mean, if anything, to be someone??“To be someone”I re-enter this with quotations, to because no one is ever “nobody” and anyone can be anybody, depending upon the dreams of course. Safe to say that I will never find myself...
There's always something new to discover in London, even if it takes over 45 years to find it...I'm sure that I have mentioned before that I am one of the small team of volunteer guides who leads tours in The Royal Parks, specifically in...
One of my shortest walks ever! But I avoided a horrible road and saw some interesting benches. Continue reading →
Here’s what I’ve been up to / thinking about lately: Thoroughly enjoying my shed office. I love having a dedicated space to work that’s relatively quiet and sort of outside. It’s been pushing my limits in terms of heat over the past few...
I enjoyed reading Kin but don’t have a lot to say about it. The two girls’ diverging stories were interesting, one rising through society while the other stays stuck near the bottom. I felt sad about how both ended. Jones’s use of...
I’m writing about space usage OpenZFS Mastery. ZFS offers tools to transparently increase the amount of data you can fit on a disk. Rather than requiring the system administrator to compress and decompress individual files, ZFS uses...
I'm no stranger to TikTok. Hell, I bought an office chair off it (still no regrets eight months later).Truth be told, I'm not super serious about the app, though. I've worked very hard to cultivate an algorithm that feeds me content...
From 2018, a nasty surprise after the ceiling was removed: More specifically, the gypsum board ceiling that had been put in place below the original plaster was removed, exposing the plaster, and the failure of the plaster, and the...
(click to enlarge)I’ve always heard that bad luck comes in threes. My first recent experience was my Lightroom Classic catalog mysteriously becoming corrupted. After some persistence, I was able to use a backup catalog to restore things...
So it seems I've managed to get something working with my homelab in a way that doesn't disgust me (too much). In fact, some of it is really quite cool. The main downsides however are pretty annoying, but I'll get to them. Also this is...