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The New Moon is Thursday August 13 and the First Quarter Moon is Thursday August 20. The Lunar X is visible on the 20th. Saturn is rising just around 10:00 pm local time. Mars is close to the open cluster M35 on the 15th. In the evening,...
Smart home technology is everywhere now. We're well past the days of the old Australian TV series Beyond 2000 declaring, "Don't look for it on the news tonight, don't look for it in the newspaper tomorrow... look for it in the year...
If there's one metric to watch for managing your happiness level, it's Creativity vs Consumption.If you feel completely empty and like nothing matters, ask yourself how much time you have spent watching what other people are doing or...
Hello there, I wanted to make a page that allowed everyone to follow along on some projects I am working on. Located on the Calendar Page, the key provided will showcase which projects I am doing within the month. Italicized Numbers will...
Zachary Gillan Intrusion is a cornerstone of weird fiction. The weird itself intrudes to unsettle a narrative, one genre intrudes into another, irrealism intrudes into the real. We might also think of metaphor and simile as forms of...
An AI parody with a good portion of Dystopia because it trends Yesterday Sam Altman posted a request: “please consider using our models to help defend your systems” I had been looking at this sentence for several minutes when a small...
I wasn’t even THINKING about watching the new Outlander prequel, Blood of My Blood (2025-), until a friend sent
At 2 am in his parents’ basement, Tyler Denk drafted a message to Morning Brew cofounder Austin Rief saying he could not complete the work he had accepted. But he never sent it. A few weeks earlier, Rief had offered him $3,000 to build...
“It’s only F1 Arcade” says Mike as I tell him that I’ve had enough of the flatbread whilst removing another nugget of sinew from my mouth. And to a certain extent he is right; the arcades mantra of ‘Race Drink Eat Repeat’ puts the eating...
This post is my response to the Blaugust2026 group project for August 10th. I may be a day late but with the application of my chosen super power I don’t think that matters much. Just over a week ago I finished reading the Gone series of...
Last client today was a photographer. Since I myself love taking photos, even if I wouldn't consider myself a photographer, we started talking about the joy of taking pictures. How the world around us is filled with opportunities waiting...
Which is good news, in a way.Assumed audience: Other (little-‘o’) orthodox Christians or people with at least a vague knowledge of Christianity and openness to hearing Christian points of view on things. I’ve been slowly reading through...
Up late after being woken by a storm in the night. At mid-morning, the sun breaking through thin clouds, everything drips and glistens. A low thrum of crickets. The catbird scolds from the depths of a spicebush.
AI is fantastic at prototyping. A quick draft of an essay, a mockup of a website, a demo of a video game, concept art or trailer for a movie, or the core argument of a proof – each now takes one prompt instead of a week. 1000x speedup....
ID's recent sports-crime series had an outside shot at doing something different, and didn't take it.