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Legendary value investor Bert Shurhathway announced the publication of his new book today, offering everyday retail traders the exact, highly replicable wealth-building strategies that worked flawlessly for him over the last fifty years.In his new guide, “The Path to Alpha: Doing Exactly What I Did,” Shurhathway details his timeless formula for beating the market. The methodology relies on a bedrock principle that he insists is just as applicable today: simply identifying...
I've been working on optimising revenue on my Countdown website the last few days. I have had a Countdown solver tool online since about 2009. It is to this day the most popular website I have ever made, it currently gets about 70,000 pageviews per month. The site has been earning revenue from AdSense for years. Up until last week the site was just 2 static HTML pages: one for the Countdown Solver and one for the Countdown Practice game. That didn't give me much...
In this week’s issue of The Savvy Diabetic: Liver Disease and Diabetes: An Overlooked Complication Islet Cell Transplants for Type 1 Diabetes by Dr. Steve Edelman for TCOYD Stash Diabetes App by Cory Zapatka to Inventory your Diabetes Supplies When the Skin Says No by Diabetetech.com iHealthScreen’s AI diabetic retinopathy screening software Chronic Kidney Disease Increasingly Driven by Diabetes Should Hearing Checks Be Part of Diabetes Care?
From Max Hubacher’s tour of elevated trains and streetcars, “Lexington Avenue El” from October 13, 1950: If you’re reasonably familiar with NYC’s transit, that sounds very strange. The Lexington Avenue subway was constructed to replace the Third Avenue el. The clarification is simple: this is Brooklyn, not Manhattan, and we’re talking about a completely different street called “Lexington Avenue.” Subway maps are just about always distorted, but let’s start with one, a 1924...
In 2015 Warhammer: Age of Sigmar was created. This had made some people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move. Well, not "widely" as it's turned out to be a bit of a success for Games Workshop, more so than Warhammer Fantasy Battle was before it was scrapped, and is now on its fourth edition. I've still never played it, mind. One thing that hasn't survived the years is the meta
Winslow Homer’s most famous watercolor rendered as a child’s drawing. Lately I’ve been asking myself: what might artificial intelligence be good for besides answering questions and writing code? My answer is the latent spaces within AIs themselves will become a new medium for creativity. I will first explain what I mean by latent space, and then at the end of this explanation, I offer possible ways scientists and artists may use the latent spaces inherent in neural nets to...
The Town Square Gazette is pleased to report that the Square has hired a team of meteorologists, together with one scientist who says they can control the weather. The meteorologists have brought charts, thermometers and a commendably serious approach to clouds. The scientist has brought several switches and declined to say where the lightning comes from. Between them, they can now arrange clear skies, rain, snow and storms. Until now, weather in the Square was managed...
Currrent stage of pregnancy: week 8 GA; week 6 FA Some thoughts about my early pregnancy. CW: light description of bodily fluids AnxietyI'm terrified. We didn't get to see the embryo yet, my first echo is in 3 days. I'm scared something went wrong, maybe the heart is not beating, maybe the embryo is deformed. Maybe we were wrong and the lab gave me the results of another person and I'm not pregnant at all (higly irrational thought). AstonishmentWe're reading stuff everyday...
SGDQ 2026 Photo by Wes “Fish” Chan An Intro Stop me if you’ve heard this before… This past week, July 5th-11th, 2026, I was in attendance for, and a part of Summer Games Done Quick, the Summer event for the video game speedrunning charity event org known as Games Done Quick. This was my second time attending and participating, having made my debut as a Host at Awesome Games Done Quick in Pittsburgh back in January of this year. The host acts the person who reads donation...
The ways the author motivates themself read again, is by having a book-review newsletter to write by the end of each book. They are taking notes while they read, about any and every thing. I read this part with a little bit of scorn. I thought to myself, I don’t do this. I pick up books because I want to read them. I enjoy reading them. And I do. But also, I have a bookshelf page on my website, where I post reviews and track the books I read. I have a similar reason for...
Our third venture at the Fremont Sunday Market went well. It rained while we were setting up. That sucked. Fortunately it was only us and the tent that got uncomfortably wet. We managed to keep all the art dry. By the time the Market was open for the public the rain had stopped and the clouds were wandering off. The rest of the day gave us sunshine and warmth. And visitors and customers. We made more sales than last time, more than breaking even. We brought new zines and...
I Expected Relief. Instead, I Felt Fear. When I finally published my book, I thought I knew what I was going to feel. I expected relief after years of writing, editing, second-guessing, and rewriting chapters more times than I care to admit. I imagined there would be excitement, maybe even a quiet sense of pride […] The post Publishing My Book Triggered My CPTSD first appeared on About That Jack.
It has been interesting going back to work and getting up to speed with my new team’s systems, some of which are third-party and others are Very Much Invented Here. I find myself thinking about this quotation a lot: It seems that perfection is attained not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing more to remove. –Antoine de Saint-Exupéry The author of Le Petit Prince was an aviator and was referring to the engineering of the modern aeroplane but he...
The title comes from an interview someone sent to me from the Easy Bhakti podcast by Chandrashekar Acharya dasa.[1] He was interviewing Yasodeva dasa, a successful preacher at Penn State University in State College, Pennsylvania. In the interview Yasodeva coined the term that I have used for the title of this post. Yasodeva’s presentation was thoughtful. I liked some of his ideas, but the interview was brief. Perhaps he didn’t have time to fully refine his conceptions. For...
“In Disney movies, if you wish really, really hard for what you want, it happens. In British courts, not so much. Prince Redmondia really, really wanted to stop the evil barons from reselling on-prem Office and Windows licenses, and made a fairy tale argument in court to make it so. Our hero did not get its wish, not then, and not now with the UK Court of Appeals.” I just had to post this, as my very favourite saying was the conclusion of the linked article: be careful...
The south tower of the Golden Gate Bridge rises into the blue sky over San Francisco Bay. The post Tallboy appeared first on 75CentralPhotography.
Here is a game about the most relatable part of any job, school work or anything in life: making stuffs up and hoping no one will notice. ‘Translate’ message sent by aliens in a way that will please your boss, but avoid making him angry. Make stuffs up, but if you mix symbols up, you will get caugh in a lie. You can play the game here.
We may have gone to the Moon before but we have been to its south pole. There’s a big difference. The south polar environment is far harsher than the near-equatorial or mid-latitude sites where Apollo astronauts and most robotic missions have landed. At the lunar poles, the slopes are far steeper, Sun and Earth visibility for power and communications respectively more limited, temperatures inside water-hosting permanently shadowed regions crossing into cryogenic realms,...
hmm.......This is the little side project. I am going to make a new holder for the new Vix bits I just bought and for the drivers too. doneStill haven't found the pics for the big frame on the right. I'm on the fence about the small certificate frame. The router wobbled while routing the profile and it left a few dips, hollows, and one divot on the top rabbeted edge. They aren't noticeable looking at the frame from a foot away but they are visible up close and personal. I...
Yesterday was a good day--we all headed to Bristol for church in our separate cars and lunch afterward. The classy brunch place was closed because of some kitchen malfunction, so we went to a different downtown hotel for a different lunch experience.Happily, they had both a breakfast and a lunch menu; it could have been worse.Today I head down I 26 in a different direction towards Columbia. A grad school friend had a catastrophic stroke 2 years ago, and she's in a skilled...
I first published the costs of running Pagecord back in March. Things have changed recently, with a few new costs (CleanTalk, ICO data protection), a move to more resilient infrastructure, and a big price hike from Hetzner in June. Pagecord is a UK Limited Company which comes with a number of overheads, and I take no salary or dividends whatsoever. Any profits stay in the business so I can call on them when needed. I think people will find this interesting, and also...
Almost four months ago I announced my intention to leave Twitter once I got 8200 followers on Bluesky; I estimated that would take until late June or early July, and that turned out to be more or less correct. At the time I wrote this last Tuesday, my Bluesky follower count was 8170, so by the time you read it I’ll have either gained the remaining 30 followers needed for my benchmark, or will be very close. As I wrote in March, My [Bluesky] posts…routinely get more reach...
Ní haingil atá romham ná soilse an tslua,ná cór na naomh ag canadh os cionn na cré,ach seomra feithimh fuar is cléireach crom,is leabhar mór ar oscailt ar an mbord roimh ré.Ní fhéachann sé aníos, is ní ghlaonn sé m’ainm,ach scríobhann go mall gach ní atá le rá;níl fearg ná trua sa pheann atá ina láimh,níl ann ach an t-ord, is an oíche ag titim ámh.Tá scuaine fhada romham de na mairbh bhalbha,‘na suí go ciúin faoi lampa nach múchtar go deo;ní aithním aon duine, is ní...
Last week, Rose Horowitch published a splashy Atlantic article titled “The End of Reading is Here.” (Ironically, given the subject matter, it weighed in at over 8,500 words.) Horowitch’s argument, which elaborates on similar concerns recently raised by commentators such as James Marriott, is that distracting digital technology has led to a sudden and radical reduction in reading. Here are just some of the data she cites to back up this claim: Less than half of all...
We have described the 15 movies below in one sentence. Your task is simple: Name the movie! As always, please answer no more than three questions per day so more people can play and have fun. Try not to research your answers as it'd be pretty easy to google the plot and get a film's title. Note that all these movies are connected...and it's a pretty obvious connection.1. A troubled con artist with deep childhood trauma is forced into marriage.2. A timid young woman marries...