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Here is a poem for our time – a time when Jew-hatred, the oldest hatred of all, is resurgent yet again. This simple, touching account of a family celebrating Passover is by Charles Causley. SederThe room is at first sight a winter...
Lately, I’ve been finding myself tired of reading stuff by and about Western people. I’m mainly talking about the U.K. and the U.S.; I don’t think I’ve read much stuff by Canadians or Australians, including blog posts and online...
Beginner's lock: When you get a new lock for your collection and pick it open a couple of times without a whole lot of trouble. Then you put the lock down for a day or so and subsequently have absolutely no luck getting it open again for...
Why is buying music so inconvenient? It’s kind of insane that setting up a piracy stack is somehow easier than regularly purchasing and downloading music in a way that supports the artist. Read this setup guide for example. Toward the...
On the way to school my son asked me what Facebook was for originally. He is a Freshman and they just don't use social media the way we do. His understanding of MySpace was you had a website to add pictures to and customize and...
📌 Like the last time I did something like this, I meant to write about it the day of (yesterday)... but after more than 9 hours of activity, I completely knocked out the moment I finished and got myself together. I do a lot of counting,...
📷 Photographed with a Fujifilm X-T5 + XF150-600mmF5.6-8 R LM OIS WR 🎞️ 600 mm focal length – 1/500″ at f/8 – ISO 1250 📍 National Elk Refuge, Wyoming, United States – Newe Sogobia (Eastern Shoshone), Cayuse, Umatilla and Walla Walla,...
overhead projector (n.) a device for sharing with a larger audience. Did you know that there were attempts (plural) to domesticate zebras? There were a few minor successes, but before we turn this into a whole tangent about striped...
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Back in early 2023, I wrote about combining some of my simple command-line date commands into a single Keyboard Maestro macro. This became my go-to system for quickly getting the number of days between two dates. Around that same time, I...
Going on vacation? Have an iPhone? There’s no need to delete Slack, or your favorite on-call app. Simply offload noisy apps. Why is this better than uninstalling them? Because it’s much easier to restore them once you are back. You do so...
For the month of December, the Kyoto Tech Meetup is trying the Morning Tech & Coffee series as a weekly event. Still the same format: meet at the same cafe, grab seats, and just chat tech before work. The conversation drifted across...
Francis Spufford once said that Bletchley Park was an attempt to build a computer out of human beings so the credit for this metaphor belongs to him. But it can be generalised to any bureaucracy. They are all attempts to impose an...
Tumbleweed es una distribución de GNU/Linux «Rolling Release» o de actualización contínua. Aquí puedes estar al tanto de las últimas novedades. openSUSE Tumbleweed es la versión «rolling release» o de actualización continua de la...
Roshan: {| class="mw-infobox" style="border:1px solid #aad; background:#eef6ff; padding:8px; width:100%;" | [[File:Information icon.svg|20px]] '''Note:''' Less than hour after I wrote this blogpost after the safety circuits tripping on...
For a long stretch there, I really was not feeling the “holiday season” each December. I was grumpy, annoyed by the rampant consumerism, sick of the music, etc. But the last couple of years, I’ve really eased up a lot and am enjoying it...
During November, the gaming section was filled with ongoing games for some reason. There were so many that my friend Wouter pointed it out to me, surely his backlog is less than mine right? Anyway, I decided to share an updated list of...
It’s Blogvent, day 6, where I blog daily in December! One of my favorite questions to ask people is a very “church kid vibe” question, but is always a really fun one to get answer for: If Jesus’s body and blood were bread and wine, what...
Welcome to the last month of the year. 2025 seems to be getting over quickly. Work for me has been hectic. I have been busy. I think it will be until the end of the year. Hopefully, next month will be better. On our way from Kudremukha...
“Our current cognitive concepts are simultaneously indispensable, yet inadequate; indispensable, because we need the richness of cognitive vocabulary to guide trust and decision-making; inadequate, because they encode anthropomorphic...
UPDATE: Today (12/15/25), Merriam-Webster Dictionary declared “slop” as the word of the year. This seems equal parts fair and depressing. I hope humans do better in 2026. It is always interesting to see what the dictionary folks declare...
December 2025, Tankerton. Kent. A short break from pubs as Mrs RM and I head to North Kent. Don’t worry, it’s the posh bit, we’re not savages. Six (6) posts coming up from Whitstable, with a night in Tankerton, where the MoHos were...
It has been awhile since I did a “now” post. Ever since moving my website and getting that all sorted out, I have been meaning to get my /Now section put back together. Of course life, work, and school have kept me busy so it has taken a...
Sitting at my desk in my apartment, a few days after I last sat here. I just got back from a research conference, my second one in my entire life. This is the first time I've ever had to present my own research, though. It's...
When social media first entered my life, it came with a promise of connection. Facebook connected college-aged adults in a way that was previously impossible, helping to shape our digital generation. Social media was our super-power and...
"Christmas Time (Don't Let The Bells End)" by The Darkness Dismissed as a joke, The Darkness are actually a bunch of extremely talented folks with an ear for a banging tune. This is no exception. Thanks for reading this post via RSS! Let...
I've known Aaron as a printmaker and an artist. Today I saw both on display.Currently Listening: TENTS “Reconstruction Music in C Major”Reply via email
Broken Sword is one of the most successful point and click games of all time. I vividly remember how much praises were thrown its way after the release; the reviewers were ectatic. I played it much later, maybe around 2005. It was great!...
Having spent the last 6 months working on an Electron app full-time, my Stockholm Syndrome has kicked in and I’ve come around to it. It’s easy to disparagingly refer to an Electron app as bloated, or a crappy wrapper around a web app....
The Holy Bible is a collection of books. So I have split them up. I will read it in 1 year, every day ~15 minutes of reading. Why read it? The Second Letter to the Corinthians is Paul’s most personal letter, written around 56 AD. He...
Every visionary, every person of greatness and originality, is a resounding yes to life — to the truth of their own experience, to the demanding restlessness of the creative spirit, to the beauty and brutality and sheer bewilderment of...
A short video that came by me this morning, with some guy’s idea (off the top of his head) of the top five things that men actually want for Christmas; you really don’t want to see the original source. The larger point is that such a...
Between September 2020 and December 3, 2025, I had been unable to get a consistent HDMI ARC connecting working between my TCL Roku TV (model 55S25S) and my Yamaha ATS-1070 soundbar. I have touched on this failure in several articles...
Never mind the yearly recaps from any music streaming app (like Spotify Wrapped, Apple Music Replay, and YouTube Recap). Although these are useful for checking one's annual listening habits, these are just a small sample of their song,...
It's Hack Week at SUSE, and it's my last one. This time around, I decide to spend part of the week on fixing and cleaning a Technics Hi-Fi stack I bought for a pittance, without electrocuting myself. The SA-EX100 AV control stereo...
Just booked our slot for the annual Scouts Christmas tree recycling collection. Feels weird as we don’t even have a tree yet.
I saw Goodbye, Things by Fumio Sasaki making the rounds a while ago. It reads a lot like Steven Pressfield’s The War of Art—that is to say, it reads like it was written in short, forced sessions and there is a lot of repetitive...
日常#9 霜打菜、跑步、关于博客、Advent of Code 2025 霜打菜 发现小象超市里有一些标记为「霜打菜」的蔬菜，买过菜心和菠菜，吃起来都带有一种明显的甜感，像是米饭嚼了很多次之后的那种甜，还蛮好吃的。 「霜打菜」是秋冬季经过霜冻作用的蔬菜品种 ，低温环境下，蔬菜细胞为抵御冻害启动保护机制，通过淀粉酶将淀粉分解为葡萄糖、果糖等可溶性糖分，降低细胞内溶液冰点。由于包含更多的糖分，吃起来会有比较明显的甜感。...
And let it be known I'll beat a motherf*cker to death You'll get a knife stuck in your head so you don't f*cking forget Pat Stay, battle rapper Today I was listening to some of my favorite songs and I started remembering some of the bars...
[Everything between November 22 and the day of publishing this] Ha Noi, Vietnam DataNoodle bowls intake: 11 Coffees consumed: 18 Matcha consumed: 3 Books read: 1 I moved in HanoiTwenty three days spent in Hanoi already, I write this with...
——————————————————————– EL YO, de Phillip Lopate. Editorial Gris Tormenta. Maestro absoluto de los estudios sobre el género ensayístico, Phillip Lopate (Brooklyn, 1943) selecciona fragmentos (cinco) que mejor representan para él “la...
Después del incidente de haber perdido parte de el codigo en el que estaba trabajando, me di cuenta que me haría bien tener un repo con el historial de cambios bien establecido para poder revisar lo que he hecho antes en caso de tomar un...
Viendo que varias personas han estado compartiendo su stack de apps predeterminadas, quiero unirme al movimiento y compartir una lista actualizada de las apps que uso en mi día a día (muchas de las cuales también enlisto en mi /uses): 📨...
Quoted Grizzlies' Ja Morant mum on feelings after return from ban (espn.com) They all might have negative value. How can a talented NBA player have “negative” trade value? Because the NBA has a salary cap and various rules making it...
While the forklift breaks through the wall in the fifth day of Advent of Code, I feel like I need a break after a week's worth of 6 AM morning wake-up calls. Thank God it's Friday and almost weekend, but not before solving today's...
I use FreshRSS to manage all of my RSS feeds. It is wonderful. Maybe the best thing I use on a daily basis. I adore being able to use the internet in this way, for many reasons. I’ve talked about my eternal love of RSS before, so I don’t...
Our very brains, our human nature, our desire for comfort, our habits, our social structures, all of it, pushes us into being fish bowl swimmers. Tiny people moving in tiny circles. Staying in the circumscribed ruts of our comfort....
Hey two quick things if you're new here! First - hi, I'm MSD: I front a chiptune/orchestral indie music band collective thing called Curious Quail and I'm bad at promoting our music so I'm gonna be doing that right here before the blog...
A veces estoy tentado de hacer notas más “personales”, contando alguna cosa de mi vida, nada especialmente trascendente. Alguna vez he llegado a publicar algo, pero es cierto que cuando intento escribir algo así siento algo de vergüenza...
Bright maple leaves over a passageway in the shade, at Kennin-ji Temple. 建仁寺の渡り廊下を彩る、輝く楓の紅葉。
I have been thinking about redesigning my website for a while. I wrote a bit about one of the design directions I explored recently. I loved doing the design part of the project, but knew there would be several hours of work to integrate...
Personal web finds for November 2025 December already! I was intermittently ill for most of November (and still am, somewhat), but luckily I did manage to read a lot; so I have some great posts to share with you! I’m also really happy...