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I’ve mentioned here before that I think we’re living during the golden era of retrocomputing. Designing, producing, and selling PCBs and other components has never been more accessible. The fact people are teaching these old computers new tricks, and in some cases even replacing unobtainium components to keep the joy alive is awesome. Tindie was one of the online outlets that made this possible. I described it as Etsy for electronics enthusiasts, many of whom were...
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Working out some more equations for the convex shapes of hexagons problem.
all your heroes die deaths of over exposure or scattered obscurity, even the ones who made crossroad deals with the devil in the pale moonlight; they die doing what they love, their fans old & sad & grasping too hard at past straws, the groupies now throwing support bras & popping arthritis pills, riding home on mobility scooters soon to be abandoned in empty parking lots & yes, sometimes the singer forgets to move his lips to the lyrics but that's a small price to pay for...
i have seen four cats alive (black, white calico, ginger longhair, tabby with white socks), one cat dead (tabby with white socks, no relation). you can tell a half-feral barn cat from a normal housecat by how close it lets you get. of the living population, none of them let me get closer than three watchful yards. there's definitely a phenotype here. i guess that happens in all remote towns. my dad passed a lot to my brother and nothing to me but a tremendous set of...
I've had the song I'm currently listening to and, if idle, the last song played displayed on my home page for a while now. Initially, it was powered by last.fm. As I've built my own scrobbler, I populated the element from my own data. The static implementation is straightforward: I store each listen as a record, when a listen is inserted, the cache is cleared and warmed and an update is displayed. What I've been kicking around as an idea has been to have a live progress...
Hey all! This week I joined Jeff Cannata and Christian Spicer for an episode of DLC primarily focused on the layoffs at Xbox. It’s a heavy topic, and one I obviously feel very strongly about if you follow me anywhere or have heard me talk into a microphone at all for the last two months. It’s a heavy news section, which we balanced out with some much more chill games I’ve been playing, followed by the guys convincing me to give Black Flag Resynced a shot before the year is...
For Glaugust: Magic Amulets.Alfred KubinIn his writings, Hierophant Linus delineated two orders of Angels: the Celestial and the Terrestrial. Celestial Angels are powers second only to God, being of the First and Last, emanations of that highest power which ordain and are themselves natural laws. Gravity is one, as are Friction, Magnetism, and a vast number of other forces. To contact and command them is to put your hand on the sun and meet its gaze. The Hierophant himself...
Every time I look at Sven's blog I get jealous. I loved his previous design so much I copied it (with his permission). His new design is so fun and it's making me want to make mine more fun (no copying this time though). I'm just not sure I have the time at the moment. 🤔 https://svbck.blog/ Thanks for reading this post via RSS. RSS is ace, and so are you. ❤️ You can reply to this post by email, or leave a comment.
Say you go jump to a header in org-mode somewhere with C-c C-o. Did you know that you can go back with C-c &? And that it has history, so you can keep going back?? Years of isearch-backwards… wasted. Mind blown. 🤯
This comment from Bruno, on Bluesky (pt_BR): Instagram launches new tool that drains your entire bank account and kills your family. Here’s how to turn it off 👇 Instagram doesn’t (yet) do that. His joke references the recent news that photos from public Instagram profiles could be used to generate new images on WhatsApp with Meta AI, Meta’s generative AI, which also owns Instagram. The press picked it up and led with “Here’s how to turn it off” in the headlines. (My tip?...
Previously, flipping a record whilst I'm trying to work was super tedious and irritating. Now it's an opportunity to get out of my chair for a few seconds. Is this optimism?146 words · 1 image
Silent as the Grave, publisher Centipede's latest edition of Cornell Woolrich short fiction, is available now. I wrote a substantial introduction for this volume and was able to get a few particular favorite stories in here, including "Dime a Dance" and "Two Fellows in a Furnished Room." Another one I particularly love, "Mystery in Room 913, "aka "The Room with Something Wrong," was not able to be included on account of space limitation, but it will be in the next volume....
Here’s the setlist for my Inhailer.com show yesterday. Channel Tres – Black Techno Guy Genesis Owusu – LIFE KEEPS GOING The Cure – A Forrest Dinosaur Jr. – Several Got Away Kim Gordon – DIRTY TECH Bush Tetras – Can’t...
“June gloom,” i.e. fog and clouds on Pacific Northwest coasts in late spring and early summer, is a well known pattern. But some Junes, we Inland Northwest denizens get a little taste as well. A friend and I got a very welcome taste of stormy-but-not-too-stormy spring weather last month while hiking around the uplands of northeastern Washington. This moisture and its memory will likely have to see us through our warm, dry summer months (how I miss Southwest monsoons!).
It’s crazy to think that I used to post on here every single day. Maybe I ran out of things to say? No matter. I am back to give this another go. I’m still watching Fear The Walking Dead (I’ve been watching an episode every evening since I bought the box set). I’ll have watched the last episode on Friday. I’ve managed to turn things around at work by facing the issues head on. I recommend giving this a go if you can to make your life a lot easier. Controversial: I used...
And the Canadian reading continues! I read The Book of Eve (1973) by Constance Beresford-Howe on the plane home from Canada having picked it up in Fair’s Fair in Calgary. It was one of the bookshops that very considerately had bookcases dedicated to Canadian authors, and I spent a good while going through an awful lot of promising-looking books. I’d never heard of this author or title, but it had the magical words ‘boarding house’ in the blurb – and that was enough to...
Twenty-five years ago today, on July 13th 2001, was the first event at DNA Lounge under current management. I am very old and I have been leaning on this bar for a very long time. Typically we treat Nov 22 as our "real" anniversary (the club will be turning 41 this year) but 25 is kind of a shocking number, so I thought that was worth noting. Check out what used to pass for photo galleries two and a half decades ago. Traditionally this is where I do the usual "if you'd...
The views or opinions represented in this post are personal and belong solely to myself and do not represent those of people, institutions or organizations that I may or may not be associated with in professional or personal capacity. Any views or opinions are not intended to malign any organization, company, or individual. A few weeks ago I started writing something. What happened was someone sent me a screenshot of a LinkedIn post. It is the type of post that could show...
For the last 6 or so months I’ve been saying all over the internet (this blog, enworld, Blue Sky) that the Cosmere TTRPG’s use of the 3 action economy had piqued my curiosity in Paizo’s 2e *finder systems. This last Friday, I FINALLY got to run the Starfinder adventure that I’ve been dying to run for my Cosmere group for the past few months - Murder in Metal City. (Buy it directly from Paizo if you are part of Paizo Plus and want the points OR want to bundle it with the...
I was bored at work and made the mistake of asking a bunch of tankies why their flavor of socialism never worked. Such discourse is rarely productive, but it did get me thinking. My level of political awareness changes with the seasons. When passions run hot, I’ll be deep in study and engaged with the front lines. At other times, I’m apathy incarnate. Today I found myself at an ideological crossroads, an outsider trying to understand the nature of the divergence. To my...
When I was younger, a teenager maybe, that time of life when angst and sullenness are most likely to define our personalities, I remember asking my cousin what she thought happened when we died. Heaven, Hell, Limbo, Nirvana, reincarnation, the void? Her answer was none of the above. You just lie there, she said, hearing out of those same ears, seeing out of those same eyes, your mind still working, your awareness slowly dying as your body rots around you but lasting well...
Humanity has mapped the earth, so you can’t discover any new continents, mountains, oceans, or rivers. We’ve mapped the stars, and though we haven’t named every single asteroid, the major planets and comets are already taken. We’ve filled in the periodic table, so you can’t discover any new elements. No chance to name Nobelium or Curium after one of your heroes, no chance to get your name on the Wikipedia page for Ytterbium. But you can still discover the drives. Or you...
Released in 2000 by Universal Music France in collaboration with ECM Records, Horizons was conceived as a promotional introduction to a catalogue that had long resisted easy classification. Rather than assembling familiar peaks, it traces a quieter borderland where jazz, folk traditions, chamber music, and improvisation exchange passports without surrendering their origins. The collection leans toward ECM’s acoustic and global currents, yet its real subject is passage...