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I’ve been a life-long black/death metal fan. In many ways I find it to be the most versatile style of music available. Need a little extra motivation to lift some heavy shit at the gym? Mowing the lawn? Something to wake you up on that early morning commute to work? Just need to completely zone out on the couch after a long day? Well, the black/death metal genre has probably got you (or at least me) covered.But as with so many things a person enjoys there are peaks and...
For the last 13+ years, I've been capturing my gameplay in video form. It all started on my 19th birthday when my Dad bought me an Elgato Game Capture HD that was on the shelf inside an Apple Store. I raced home and hooked it up to my PS3 (with a D-Terminal style plug no less) and recorded this hard mode run of the final boss in Guacamelee!. Previous attempts involved aiming a point and shoot camera at a tube TV. This capture card paved the way for my to make better...
I am essentially, deep down, still the same little boy who couldn't get to sleep if I knew my dad was going to take me fishing tomorrow, the same little boy who woke up hours before the alarm was meant to sound and then couldn't get back to sleep because I was too excited about a day out with my old man. This is why I was awake at 02:30 on Sunday morning and sat back with three rods in the water by 4am. This did however give me the opportunity to play with dad's bat...
It’s a couple days late, so I was about to fire off a quick post saying “sorry, no weekly ‘Boston-shows’ update this week, too busy, too unfocused”, then wondered if anyone has even noticed, and then figured, well, what the hell, let’s see if I can do this extra quickly. This is that attempt. My […]
[I have so many Section 230 cases backlogged in my blogging queue, but this one is jumping the queue because of its comparative novelty.] This is a defamation case between a professor and a student in the Emory School of Medicine. It is one of the countless lawsuits related to the Gaza war, Palestinian rights, and Zionism/anti-Zionism. In this case, the student publicly and repreatedly criticized the professor for serving in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), and in response...
With the decline of small field farmers, this hay field is no longer mowed. It has overgrown with . . . Eutrochium purpureum . . . Sweet Joe-Pye weed (Eutrochium purpureum). Up close with Joe: A flower head and florets of Sweet Joe Pye WeedEach flower head has many florets. The scent of sweet vanilla is wonderful. The nectar rich flowers are enjoyed by bees, bumble bees, butterflies, and other pollinators.
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17:15 - I feel like a blob today. I did my laundry and wrote a blog post. Saving up energy to cook for the virtual potluck. Was I meant to be a rotund seal?
My colleague Marissa Mission and I sat down with Ben Kornell to talk AI and ed tech for his Ed Tech Insiders podcast. We ranged across a few things including my belief that human aspects this work, not tools, will ultimately be the differentiator and best competitive moat for vendors. ICYMI – On a BW Linkedin Live Reed Hastings, Mike Goldstein, and I talked AI tutoring and what to expect (or not expect). It’s an interesting conversation because Reed’s deep faith in the...
Got Edie a new house because she sneezed too much in the old ones.Currently Listening: Phoebe Bridgers “Panorama”Reply via email
Mit ein paar Tagen Verspätung wünsche ich dem Journal von Markus alles Gute zum 25. Jubiläum. Es ist immer wieder eine Freude einen neuen Post im Feedreader zu sehen. Auch die kurzen Einträge auf GrumpyOldMan bringen mich regelmässig zum Schmunzeln 😊 Der Weblog auf kniebes.com (damals noch unter cyrus.ruhr.de, deep-resonance.org, kniebes.de und weiteren unterwegs) war eine der initialen Inspirationen welche mich selbst zum Weblog bauen/schreiben gebracht hatten. Daher...
A Mastodon post by computer scientist David Chisnall has a very Unsung opener: I have used vim since around 2000. I have written five books, a PhD thesis, a few dozen papers and over 150 articles with it. At this point, my higher brain functions are not engaged at all when I use a bunch of common vim commands, they just happen. Documents I wrote with anything else have random :w in the middle. Chisnall goes on to talk about one specific vim feature: Persistent undo is one...
Hello, loves! Let’s see if we can sort out the scaling issue with the inventory display. Tout le monde déteste l’IA. The scaling issue is this: to get the inventory pictures to display in the inventory panel, we have to scale them up: class DungeonView: ... with self.cameras.inventory_cam.activate(): cam = self.cameras.inventory_cam w = cam.width h = cam.height x = w / 2 y = h / 2 cam.position = (x,y) rectangle = arcade.rect.XYWH(x,y,w, h)...
About a year ago I started looking at digital cameras. I describe myself as a perpetual hobbyist because I love trying out new things. I wanted to take a photography class, and the good classes near my house required a fancy camera. The hobby would've had a practical purpose. Most of the photos on be the future are ones I've taken over many years. I'm starting to feel like I've run out. It's taken me a year because I'm allergic to impulsive purchases (except for tinned...
I love making a fresh start for each month and doing a themed set-up at the start of each month gives me a chance to start over. Each month is a new beginning and a chance to recommit to goals, trackers, etc. This month’s theme was sort of “the whole world in your hands” inspired by globes, back-to-school and a sense of optimism and hope, at least for me. I am trying to do better, be better and be happier. I hope this inspires you to recommit to your goals and passions....
I'm traveling to Chicago for VCF Midwest next month. I'll be demoing NTP time history on vintage Macs, with my own GPS-derived NTP service hosted on an Xserve G5, synced via NTP or a strange AppleTalk timing extension from the 1990s. So I built a little 'portable homelab' (pictured above) that supports 1-10 Gbps networking, can run off a small battery for at least an hour, switches between multiple WANs (so I can get my own 5G Internet connection, in case I need it), and...
One of many gullies that run down the side of Kohala Mountain. When it rains at the top, which it does often, water funnels down the gullies to the ocean. Heavy rain, such as during the recent hurricane, can cause flash floods and dump a lot of sediment into the ocean. If the rain is heavy enough, it can also cause considerable property damage.
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) offers a blunt title for its most recent review of US fiscal policy: “The Nation’s Fiscal Health — Urgent and Sustained Action Needed to Improve the Fiscal Outlook (June 2026). This figure shows the current-law projection of where US federal debt is headed, a projection built on the cheerful assumption that no new catastrophes like the Great Recession of 2008-09 or the COVID pandemic happen in the next 30 years or so. The reasons...
I’m fine. Woke up with a sore leg, directed to the ER for some just-in-case tests, and ended up staying four hours as the least critical person there. I was in one of those medi-cubicles in the middle of the main hallway, separated by a half-closed sliding curtain, with nothing but time to observe and listen: The orderly who wheeled me to x-ray down a maze of basement hallways, dodging maintenance carts, workers on ladders fixing things above the drop ceiling, people...
For most of this year I have at times been finding it difficult to summon the patience to start my day with pour-over coffee. Some days I am just too tired or too impatient to slow down and enjoy the process — so I found myself reaching for instant coffee, which is an aberration.I thought I could get a machine with a timer — quality machines like that certainly exist. We have one, without a timer, and the power switch is a weird toggle that won't work with a smart plug. I...
I'd like to bring back the photologs on this blog. One of my goals at the moment is to use my digicam more, and I miss snapping photos with the idea of sharing them here. I hope to get outside more in the future, but it's been so hot lately, so almost all of these photos were taken indoors. A photo of Ranni that was actually taken back in February, the only one of this bunch that wasn't taken this week. She looks so pretty here (but she's always pretty!). You can see she...
An ongoing series Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie. A delightfully lo-fi sci-fi goof centered around Back to the Future? You know I’d be into it. If there were any justice in the world Matt Johnson would get an Oscar nod for his wonderful, wacky performance. The Odyssey. Truly what cinema is for. Zeus’s law requires that I commend movies like this for taking religion and myth seriously in all their weight and weirdness (complimentary). My first time in literal decades...
As you may be aware if you're a regular reader of my blog, I love learning, studying, and academia. And I've been thinking recently of how to take the opportunity to better intersect this with my knowledge of web development and technology in general. You see, for many years there have been free, open-source resources for people to use if they wanted to learn programming, such as the Odin Project which maintains a Discord community of 708,000 learners, and freeCodeCamp,...
My 2015 London trip, part 5. Read part 4 here. ARCHIVE(D): JANUARY 21, 2015 MorningBreakfast and my walk to the office. LunchI believe this was lunch at The Sydney Arms. I look like a different person. (I was a different person.) I love meat pies (or pot pies, as we call them in the US). I was remember being disappointed because this was just a puff pastry on top with the filling in ramekin. I like it when the filling is baked into the pie. Then I had bread pudding for...