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📷 Photographed with a Fujifilm X-T5 + XF150-600mmF5.6-8 R LM OIS WR 🎞️ 467 mm focal length – 1/500″ at f/8 – ISO 1600 📍 Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming, United States – Newe Sogobia (Eastern Shoshone), Cayuse, Umatilla and Walla...
From the annals of eccentric wine naming, the remarkable Vampire® Coffin & Cape Red Wine Trilogy from Vampire Vineyards. The three Vampire wine capes. Description on the site: With black velvet on the outside and red silk on the inside....
Thank you, lords of the latent space, for the gift of convenience—for promising ease while siphoning our clicks, our keystrokes, our midnight sighs,our grocery lists, our panic searches, our private rants to dead relatives in the...
Problem statement: My blog automatically selects a light or dark color theme depending on the user’s browser or system preferences. Assume it currently defaults to light. How to force dark mode temporarily? This is needed for local...
Despite spending the past few months hidden inside my own cocoon of despair, the kind created from personal life happenings, I still wanted to take the time to acknowledge the things I’m thankful for this year. Even when the world feels...
This week’s Nonfiction November 2025 festivities are being hosted over on Deb Nance’s site, ReaderBuzz, with the prompt being: “New To My TBR: It’s been a month full of amazing nonfiction books! Which ones have made it onto your TBR?”...
I have been working with OpenStreetMap for a while now from the developers’ perspective, who can use it to conjure up attractive maps, such as my Photo Map, on the web free of charge. However, I am not part of the community, nor have I...
Gave my About page a long-overdue update. I’ve also added a /now page to the site too.
Estou fazendo esse post bem antes do ano terminar já que não devo terminar nenhum dos livros que eu quero ler até o fim do ano, então vou dar uma desculpa pra eu mesmo caso eu não consiga terminar eles. Mas esse ano eu me botei uma meta...
"Greenwitch", the third part of Susan Cooper's beloved "The Dark is Rising" Sequence – marking the halfway point – sees us back on the Cornish coast with our intrepid city mice; Simon, Jane, and Barney, as they embark on another jolly...
If you’ve followed my blog, youknow that I’m trying to get rid of BigTech services — without sacrificing convenience (too much). Over the year I’ve replaced quite some services, but what I underestimated a bit was OneDrive. At first I...
Thanksgiving is not the last Thursday of November. I mean, it is this year, and it usually is, but that’s not how it’s determined. Since 1942, Thanksgiving—the US one, not the Canadian one—has been set by federal law to be the fourth...
I never did fall back asleep last night. My soul was in too much turmoil. So I decided to watch a movie to distract me. I think there was a little divine intervention at work because the movie I picked was exactly what I needed. Of all...
Rough Cut : Raw Notes [Ongoing] Panel 1 The way through is to.
November 2025. Leeds. My last train back from Leeds to Sheffield would have been a ridiculously early 22:37, with a half hour walk from my gig out in Hyde Park’s student land. Could I possibly make it back ? I asked ChatGPT for my...
I'm writing this on borrowed time. I'm out at the Oregon coast with extended family, tucked away in a corner on my laptop. "What are you doing," my wife is hollering from across the room. But I already missed the one-year anniversary of...
Born on this day (in 1920) was the actor Buster Merryfield, who achieved fame as 'Uncle Albert' in the sitcom Only Fools and Horses, which I rate as the best long-running British sitcom ever (though, like most, it ran a little bit too...
Actualizar Raspberry Pi OS a la última versión nos permitirá utilizar nuestra Raspberry Pi con mayor estabilidad y seguridad. Para actualizar a la última versión de los paquetes podemos ejecutar una serie de comandos directamente desde...
Robert had the foresight to use a platter which really works well when there are so many options.Currently Listening: Marshall Family “I Just Want To Thank You, Lord”Reply via email
Dorothy wept bitterly at the passing of her hope to get home to Kansas again; but when she thought it all over she was glad she had not gone up in a balloon. And she also felt sorry at losing Oz, and so did her companions. The Tin...
Content warning: Brief mentions of disordered eating habits. Whenever I am deeply and actively involved in my passion topic (data protection law), I don’t care about the superficial stuff anymore. Writing, researching, talking to others...
It can be hard to remember how much good there is in the world, especially when each morning’s news brings us some fresh horror. But today is Thanksgiving and I’ve got a lot to be thankful for. First and foremost, I’m thankful for our...
The earliest book I remember reading is a picture book that I think my father bought (or was it a gift, a giveaway?) from his office in New Delhi. I remember only the brown paper packaging–a thin envelope, the kind in which you often get...
Some links don’t call for a full blog post, but sometimes I still want to share some of the good stuff I encounter on the web. Music of Wellness (From Severance: Season 1) By Theodore Shapiro・Right next to the music from GoldenEye for...
I watched the first Star Wars film (aka “Episode 4”) on the big screen of a crappy cinema of Buenos Aires somewhere in 1978 or 1979 (I was 5 or 6 years old). After seeing my eyes watching the movie, my mum bought me my first Star Wars...
Software engineers are not politicians
[El Cultural, Viernes 28/ 11/ 2025] ¿Novelas sobre Barcelona? ¿Cómo decirlo? Tal vez me alcance con este verso de Mallarmé: “Nada habrá tenido lugar salvo el lugar”. De esa ciudad, en 1932, se ocupó a fondo, como nunca antes se había...
Want to send me into a loop? I have Firefox installed on my Android phone. Every once in a while it “misbehaves” by not loading any web page. Nothing at all, as if it has lost connection to the Internet. There is nothing wrong with my...
In a previous Thanksgiving post that first appeared in 2016, I noted that a 1975 article in Ethics by Fred Berger (then a philosopher at UC Davis), “Gratitude“, begins with the following: Gratitude is not a subject much discussed in the...
"Abito" from the Lessico Veneto (1851) by Fabio Mutinelli, translated by René Seindal.
Back in 2015 when I reviewed devices like the GPD XD and similar Android handhelds, the whole ecosystem felt half-baked. Emulation wasn’t particularly good yet, the devices came from obscure Chinese manufacturers, the ROMs were loaded...
When Gary Whippet turned up dead, Pinnacle Ergonomics had to cancel its Tuesday lunch-and-learn. Apparently, the forfeited catering was the greater of the two losses. More than one co-worker walked by muttering, “goddamn Gary.” The man...
I first started trying to be vegan 6 or 7 years ago because animal agriculture is extremely resource intense when compared to plant agriculture, and I want to minimize my contribution to climate change. Animal welfare was always a...
Streets of Port au Prince, Haiti In December I plan on systematically going through my possessions and minimizing as much as possible. Not only do I want to reduce what I own, but I want to be more cognizant about what I spend. Therein...
I got my lab results back regarding my hormone levels.Normal estradiol levels are 100-200 pg/mL.Mine were 31.So anyway, I’m doubling up on my patches for now, and hopefully my doctor can get me a prescription for higher-strength patches...
Title: Yancey Strickler Website: ystrickler.com RSS Feed: ystrickler.com/rss My name is Yancey Strickler. I'm a writer and entrepreneur whose work supports artists and creative people. RSS users are my people 🫶 If you appreciate what I'm...
I recently bought a house with an Ideal boiler and a wireless thermostat called a “Halo”. The boiler has a “Halo Smart Interface” fitted into it, which should tell the boiler when to fire. The Halo itself contains the thermostat and...
There are few greater joys in life than the creation of a strongly worded email. I have an innate love for the medium. It is an art form that sits at the intersection of literature, warfare, and therapy. Strongly worded emails are,...
Red maple leaves hang over the path at Hokyo-in temple. 紅葉が宝筐院の参道にかかっている。
In which I challenge myself to draw a pokemon every day until I stop Thurs 11/27/2025 - Morpeko It's Thanksgiving day here in the US; a holiday predicated on lies about 'peaceful relations' with the indigenous peoples of North America...
A story of how I bought a digital photo frame, and how I created a tool to generate miniatures of my photo collection to fit them all on the device.
The Xbox 360 turned 20 last week. That's kind of crazy to think about. Is it retro now? Somehow it doesn't feel like it, but if a thing that came out 20 years ago isn't retro, then what is? For context, the Amiga came out 40 years ago...
If you will allow me, I want to show you something simple and strange: that only one thing can ever be proven to exist. You might laugh at this. Look around, you say. The world is overflowing. Branches trembling in the wind, rivers...