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This month's book was Against Technoableism by Ashley Shew, which I had suggested. Bookstore Employee didn't initially seem to have the highest opinion of it after having read it, and the most common critique was, "This is very introductory," but I actually thought that was a good thing in case we got any new people into the club. Also, it being so short meant that basically everyone finished the book for once. Luckily, it did seem to introduce some ideas to people --...
“Dual timeline” novels are quite popular these days, but The Lost Book of Elizabeth Barton adds another twist. Jennifer Brown alternates a past-tense narrative set in the 16th century with a present-tense story in which, yes, a historian is searching for a lost book – but also is involved in a classic thriller, with eight people in an old, isolated manor house amid increasing menace. Both parts are well done and make for a compelling read.Read more »
MapQuest made a fun little thing in the wake of the Lake Ontario debacle and you should go play with it. If it looks familiar to you, it's because you probably remember when MapQuest did the same thing during the Gulf of Mexico debacle. I never thought I'd live long enough to see the American empire fall, but now that it's happening, I'm left cold. This shit isn't exciting, interesting, or dramatic. It isn't a series of little skirmishes and battles amidst a larger and...
It’s been several weeks since I promised a blog post on time use. Somehow I overcommitted myself with scholarly projects and travel – in fact, I drafted this post at 8 pm British Summer Time, in an airplane over the Hudson Bay. But that is a story for another time. Inspired by a conversation at the Liberal Arts CS (LACS) Consortium annual meeting last month, I decided to look at my time use during my first 6 months at King’s College, Cambridge. That led naturally to a...
Many thanks to our friend Jeremy Whiteman, who sends along the photos below showing San Francisco Municipal Railway 162, one of the "iron monsters" preserved by Muni on home rails.The good news is that after many years out of service, car 162 has started burn-in testing in preparation for reentering revenue service on the F Line. Car 162 has an unusual history: built by Jewett in 1914 to the "class B" design, it was retired in 1958 and acquired by the Orange Empire Trolley...
Went to Mayo today. Doc told me I’ve been doing great. It’s been since 2009. Every year, still clean. Getting a stick up your peeps is just awful, but having such a great doc helps a lot. BCG is the shit. Fuck Cancer. This post (alll cllearr) was last edited 12 minutes ago.
MAXWELL GRANT – The Eyes of the Shadow. Bantam H4056, paperback original; 1st printing, August 1969. Reprint of the original novel that appeared in The Shadow Detective Magazine, April/June 1931. #2 in series. Harry Vincent and Claude Fellows are back on the scene again, helping Bruce Duncan fulfill the conditions in his uncle’s will, rewarding friends of a Russian nobleman. These friends are being methodically eliminated, however, and the Shadow’s assistance is needed to...
Maia Ramishvili is an artist from Tbilisi, Georgia. Her subjects are primarily women in ornate garb, the pattens and textures of which give the paintings a look of collage. Her restraint on using rendering in faces and hands gives the work a graphic feeling. but they are oil paintings on canvas. She also paints more directly realistic paintings of ordinary scenes. Ramishvili has enlivened her work with vibrant color relationships, often using muted complements. I see...
Bookmarked Extract and Review Web Page Links Using a Bookmarklet by Adam Douglas (Adam Douglas) To help combat these obstacles I set out to figure out a solution to extract and then review all web page links using a bookmarklet. I’ve found the bookmarklet I created “List Page Links” to be quite useful and figured I should share it with you dear reader. Come along to discover what are bookmarklets, the advantages of this simple bookmarklet, how to install and run it. I saw...
BB28's 25th episode was the franchise's 1000th episode, and to celebrate, the producers completely screwed over fans and feedsters, and the game stayed on its predictable path! Woo hoo!
For those of you in Tokyo, I know you’re just so bored and looking for things to do. After all, there’s not a sumo tournament for another few weeks yet. I’d like to point you in the direction of the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum. They are hosting an exhibition of scores of famous art works … Continue reading Art Exhibition: Edo in Focus
Remember Outshire? Here are thirty powerful Foglings for a wizard to conjure, associate with, bribe, and be cursed by. They’ll function perfectly well as fairy princes for any other game, though, I wager. SuppermothLord Suppermoth, Old Stringer, Ríagalta, Mister Bloody Tea, Wicked Wilfred, Straightwarp When interacting with humans, he appears in grey and green garments, five centuries or more out of fashion and very dusty, with a thickly powdered wig. He has black...
The other day, I found myself wondering how big 52! (52 factorial) is, and that led me to ponder how these could be estimated without a calculator or a computer. It turns out there’s some fairly interesting math behind being able to estimate the size (number of digits) of a factorial reasonably accurately. This post will start by stating how to do the estimate, and if you’re curious you can read on for the math background. Without further ado, the approximation is: As an...
So, I’ve been no fan of Gumroad for quite some time, and now they’ve gone even further all-in on using AI for everything and being especially gross about it.Here’s some alternatives that are worth considering. Ko-FiIt’s what I use for my main shop these days. Their pricing is quite nice: 5% cut for transactions on the free tier, 0% if you pay $12/month. They support both digital and physical goods, although their variant support and shipping calculation is a bit weak.The...
[[https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckgwdn1g58yo][BBC: Trump signs order to rename Lake Ontario as Lake America]]
Kenneth Skovhus: The client went from injecting hundreds of CSS rules during a navigation to zero. Arguably the more valuable change, though, is that styling now has much clearer boundaries at Linear. Components have explicit styling contracts, precedence is deterministic, and many patterns that used to depend on convention or the cascade are now enforced by tooling. I wrote about StyleX last year and maintained a very similar atomic CSS system at Yahoo. Linear just...
I've been an alcoholic for over 15 years, since I was a teenager. My mind has always been my own worst enemy, and from a young age I found that booze was really the only way to shut that guy up. I won't lie, drinking that much for that long, I knew there was gonna to be some problems, but what else could I do? Problems now, or problems later...I'll take the deferred problems, please. Only, it finally caught up with me. Ever seen your skin turn yellow? That's some freaky...
Me perdonarán lo «facho« les chiques insulsos de Internet pero por esto fue que voté. Apenas van 20 días del nuevo gobierno y siento que está naciendo algo que ya […]Fuente: Jinversor
In 1973, Tom Lehrer famously sang that “selling out is easy to do”. That may have been true in the seventies, but it’s not true today: selling out requires both technical skill and a careful sense of how large organizations work in practice. One of the goals of this blog is to teach people how to do it. If you want to live with uncompromised integrity, you don’t need anyone to tell you how: simply always do exactly and only what you want to do. You will be repeatedly...
While physically the old retired guy body has been back for a day now, the sleep and dreams and wishing seems stuck. What I do enjoy about being back in Siem Reap is the daily walking. I’d never call it a routine. It is more like this playground where I can find the right slides and swings and there’s only me on any of it. Like today I will leave at the usual time and hope that the Khmer lady that cooks the fresh pastries has them ready so I can partake of the freshly made...
It doesn’t look like SuperDuper 4 likes the sparse disk image I was using with SuperDuper 3. I’ve created a new disk image and will see if tonight’s backup successfully completes.
$900.72 to be exact. Ouch. I had a much interrupted night last night, so I was quite thankful that my younger daughter is still insisting on doing the morning routine so I can sleep in. When I got up, I was feeling quite good, overall. Which made me very suspicious. As we were getting ready … Continue reading Costco stock up shop: this is what $900
The Odyssey from the Trojans’ POV. Guy with an eye injury arrives in town and does everything he can to get the king’s ear and warn everyone about Genghis Khan (the actor also played a Khan in Andrei Rublev), but is tortured and mocked for his troubles. The ruler destroys a caravan and finds a merchant with Genghis’s secret symbol, then kills Khan envoys, bringing total destruction upon his town, if it hadn’t been coming already, while the eye guy watches it all happen....
40 cents or a very long time? Today is the marker the day my Dad passed away 25 years ago, nabbed by Cancer. Then ten years later to the day, the morning where I called Mom from my road trip across Canada. We laughed and talked about the sadness of missing Dad, then 10 years gone. And what we do in a month when I visited her in Florida. How would I know less then 12 hours later while having dinner in Belleville that I’d get the call from my sister that Mom was gone. Heart...
Today I realized I listen to two different podcasts with the acronym TKP: Total Party Kill by The Incomparable The Knowledge Project by Shane Parrish