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Fri May 09
Here is what Ina wrote about her Auntie Edie who she stayed with in summers in Newburgh in her childhood. There is a bit of overlap with what she wrote elsewhere about Uncle George and Newburgh, but also new things. Edith Mark‘s father...
As I teased in the previous item, this update links to what basically amounts to a "mini-site" of four web pages and one software repo. This is exactly what it says in the title as well as my personal review of Snobol4 and related...
What do you value most about your phone? Is it the great pictures the camera lets you take? Is it the beautiful screen with which you see media on? Is it the endurance and reliability of its battery and processor, making you feel at ease...
How many times did you see someone solving the wrong problem? How many times did you catch yourself doing the same? I often catch myself focusing on the wrong problem or a non-urgent one because it's easy to focus on what we like or what...
Scandi-metal supergroups, mediocre Nightwish clones, and brand new music that sounds twenty years old
Llevo unos días en los que he cambiado el café de cápsulas que consumo habitualmente por café de filtro. Me hice con un filtro de estos de porcelana pequeños, para una sola taza, y saqué del armario una bolsa de café que compré en mi...
Hoy, en uno de mis paseos habituales por charity shops, encontré un librito del artista húngaro-francés Victor Vasarely. Ni idea de quién era, pero cuando vi las imágenes de sus obras me encantó el estilo. Me gustan mucho sus trabajos...
Twitter was once so damn cool. And I’m not going to say anything about Elon. If we’re being honest, Twitter was broken long before Space Karen took over. What Elon’s takeover of Twitter/X did do, however, was make many people look at how...
I was visiting my grandmother and her caretaker around the holidays in 2024, back in my birth country. There, we eat a popular pepper called 'Locoto' which is a small pepper that can range in color from green to red and ranges in...
I've deployed Note Mark for all my note-taking needs. It's a decent tool, but its documentation is rather lacking. So here's what I did.