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Summer is almost over. Once again, it flew by, and once again, I have not made the most out of it. Quite the opposite. I barely enjoyed the little snippets of joy that summer offers us: eating an ice-cream, drinking a cold beer, sunbathing, going to the beach or the pool, enjoying the long nights... This year again, I spent it mostly inside, resting and/or hiding from the extreme heat. I went to the beach either one or two times... I can't even recall it properly. Barely...
Buying a home in the Greater Boston Area means balancing commute times, school quality, and neighborhood lifestyle, often hundreds of miles away. The metro area spans dozens of towns that look close together on a map but differ sharply in transit access, school performance, and everyday character. Whether you are relocating from another state or […] The post Top Boston Metro Map Areas for Homebuyers: Comparing Commutes, Schools, and Lifestyle first appeared on Correr Es Mi...
Kaku 書く#Kaku (write) is my own markup language. It's inspired by Markdown with a diferent syntax for quotes, links, images and lists handling, and more. It was created to fit my needs and exists inside my own CMS.Parser#A parser for Kaku built in Golang can be found here. It doesn't exists as a go module and must be added into your go project. It can also be built as WASM and used in the browser.License#Kaku 書く is a free to use by individuals and organizations that do not...
Vancouver has a reputation for being a very rainy city. I would expect that if you only vaguely know of Vancouver, your main impression would be that it rains a lot. When I was preparing to move here, that was all I heard. Everyone warned me about all the rain. "Prepare yourself, you're going to be sick of all that rain!" I really wasn't bothered. Rain was a novelty for me and I was excited to move to Vancouver. Having a few more opportunities to look out the window and...
Change is good, i have heard that enough times that i don't think i could forget it anymore, for a long time i hated hearing it because it sounded like being told there was something fundamentally wrong with being myself. You can change, you should want to change, you don't have to remain the person you are now. After therapy i spent a long time deciding which things i'd been told were worth keeping, some of it made me angry for years because i couldn't understand why...
From Anna by Jean Little, 1972. Anna Solden is the youngest in a family of five children living in Frankfort, Germany during the 1930s. Anna has a difficult relationship with her family, partly because she is the youngest of all of them and partly because they treat her badly. It’s not that there is no affection for Anna, but her mother and siblings think of her as not being very smart or capable. She is physically clumsy and has learning difficulties at school, and they...
While researching various topics for blog posts and browsing the Internet I often find myself trying to locate hyperlinks or links on a web page to explore additional information. The unfortunate part is that far too frequently I’m finding that it is not always easy to quickly locate the desired link. This is often due to poor web design, and non-contextual link text. Links should be easily identifiable and should utilize text that is descriptive for the topic, and...
Gold Coast Where we’re headed this weekend. Quote of the Day ”Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.” H.L. Mencken Musical alternative to the morning’s radio news The Grateful Dead | Brokedown Palace (Live at Carter-Finley Stadium; Raleigh Link Long Read of the Day Silicon Valley’s long free ride is coming to an end. Tech companies are now increasingly unpopular with both the public and juries — which is why the other day Meta agreed to pay up...
August 2026. Sheffield. The rain returned to Sheffield today. I’d forgotten the joy of a good soaking. It came in quite a rush, heading down the hills to the Don, and tonight the interweb is full of pics of water rushing through Kelham Island. I don’t think the water will quite reach the levels of 2007, never mind 1864. That’s the Fat Cat, once the most famous pub in Sheffield, and at times the UK, a pub that kickstarted the rejuvenation of Kelham Island in the ’80s and...
♠ Problem statement: given my miniflux server with hundreds of RSS feed subscriptions, add emoji country flags to each feed title, representing their country of origin and/or the country they’re associated with1. For example: Before: Not Just Serendipity by Thiago Perrotta After: Not Just Serendipity by Thiago Perrotta 🇧🇷🇨🇦 Some feeds may be identified with multiple flags. The distinction is purposely loose. I started to do this tagging process manually, throughout several...
Expectation, possibility, and the futures we quietly claimRecently, a friend of mine was trying to make sense of a difficult situation in her relationship.She said to herself, “If I expect nothing, I won’t be disappointed.”What struck me first was not the disappointment.It was the contradiction.If I decide that, from now on, I will expect nothing, am I not already expecting something from my future self?I am still expecting.Only now, I am expecting myself not to.The phrase...
Tyger Tyger, burning bright, In the forests of the night; What immortal hand or eye, Could frame thy fearful symmetry? In what distant deeps or skies, Burnt the fire of thine eyes? On what wings dare he aspire? What the hand, dare seize the fire? 1 Once a year, my company rents out the entire zoo for an “employee night”. If you’ve read anything I’ve ever written, you’re probably surprised that I would show up to anything work-related after 5pm, but trust me, this is...
Today marks one year since I was laid off from a role I had for over six years. I still remember exactly what I was doing when I received the dreaded email from someone I thought I could trust. No, just kidding. I knew he wasn't someone I could trust, but he certainly acted like he was. I was doing a Peloton class when the email came through, and I spent the rest of that class dreading the meeting I knew was coming. I had to wait 3-4 hours from the moment I received the...
David B. Resnik and Mohammad Hosseini on the negative impact of AI-generated content in scientific publishing: Generative AI is flooding scientific research with quick and easy text, figures, and citations that are either partially inaccurate or wholly false—and very difficult to detect. Science’s overtaxed academic publishing system and its publish-or-perish work culture have long provided fertile ground for content mills and predatory presses. AI systematizes...
# During the period of peak leaks about the Pixel 11 series, I was all set on upgrading to the Pixel 11 Pro XL from my current 10 Pro XL. The promise of camera enhancements and the Tensor G6 chip being built on a 2nm process looked like it would a be decent upgrade. It transpired that the 2nm rumours were wrong and the camera upgrades weren't as good as anticipated. Combined with the price increases and drop in base RAM, I decided to stick with what I've got. While there...
I’ve been doing tai chi off and on for over 40 years. I’m at the point where I feel qualified to teach it. Yet I’ve never written about it until now. It’s hard to write about, not just for me but for anyone. I have read books and articles about tai chi and they are interesting to a certain extent, but always somehow seem lacking. The only way you can really get an understanding of tai chi is by experiencing it. The only way you can learn is from an instructor, who in turn...
There are very few celebrities as beloved as Dolly Parton. To wit, even people who aren't fans of country music, such as myself, loved Dolly. But then Dolly was much more than a country singer. She was a movie star, who appeared in such movies as 9 to 5 (1980) and Steel Magnolias (1989). She was a comedian, with a razor sharp wit that was often self-effacing. But most of all, she was a humanitarian. Dolly would easily have been a billionaire, but she insisted on using her...
Seventeen years ago this week, I began to publish a daily post in these pages. In this year’s annual report I have both good news and bad news, as you will read below. One concerns the fate of the Truman Brewery while the other is the announcement of Sarah Ainslie’s WOMEN AT WORK. TRUMAN BREWERY I regret to report that the Secretary of State has approved redevelopment of the Truman Brewery into a corporate plaza and data centre as the outcome of the Public Inquiry last...
We’ve been threatening to do a podcast for years. That time has finally come. Let us know what you think: email us at hello@indiegamereadingclub.com. Meet your hosts, Mike Van Dusen and Paul Beakley. Introduction to Paul and Mike, what our goals for the podcast are, running games for money, and what even is “indie” these days?
Tried a new (to us) place, Tajima Coffee FactoryThis shop is only open on Sundays! The interior is kind of dark because they also share the space with a barSatoshi had their Brazil, he thought it could have been served a little hotterAnd he had this with a dorayakiKat had their espresso lemonade soda with a brown butter financierSo refreshing!2250 yen (tax included) They will be moving
Hand carved vintage folk art Puppet Head of a woman, circa mid-19th c. Collection Jim Linderman / Dull Tool Dim Bulb
It was annouced awhile ago that on August 27th, Netflix would host a special 26-minute-ish release of, "Grand Theft Auto VI," footage. It would feature actual gameplay and the like running on a PS5. Then, someone started leaking a bunch of videos under the name, "Cyberleek," whilst hyping up a new cryptocurrency. That only vaguely hurt the momentum for the reveal today, with Cyberleek just dumping a bunch of the memecoin--another cryptocurrency grift, what a shock--with...
Eleanor Among the Saintsby Rachel MannGenres: Poetry Pages: 80 Rating: Synopsis: In her second collection, Mann wrestles with the questions and possibilities raised when trans identity, faith and the limits of myth and language intersect and are tested. Eleanor Among the Saints is a study in the queer joy found in counter-factuals and fantasy, shaped through the prism of the disputed story of Eleanor Rykener, a medieval trans woman, seamstress and sex worker. I got very...
Hello from out here in sandland, where, in shocking news you won't believe, it's hot. Yesterday was 117° and today, well, I'm not even going to look. I saw someone running this afternoon. Quite what you have to prove, when you should be melting, remains a mystery. As did this chap's choice of running style which I can only describe as Steven Seagal but somehow funnier. I'm looking forward to a couple things when summer for us is eventually over. Having cold water actually...
I’ve basically been busy because of con prep (so haven’t blogged), but I am back from ANYC!! I have San Japan during labor day weekend so most of my free time will be a mix of prep work and relaxing rotting lol. I can’t remember if I mentioned this, but my brother came with me to be my table helper. I did hit my sales goal (not stretch goals - if you needed more context my day job is sales for a small business so I have pretty realistic expectations/goals for sales.) -...