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Fri Dec 26
Well, my festive 'cold' reached something of a peak (or trough) yesterday, and I had to absent myself from the festivities for a chunk of the afternoon and lie down in a darkened room. It was just like the old days, i.e. the days of my...
New links… “Some objects and properties that make up a body are too specific or small—too deep—to properly count as parts of the body in a morally significant sense” — Christopher Register on the ontological “depth” of bodies, and why it...
A brief note to tell you I’m still alive, but in great misery, and doing the minimum just to get through the days. I’m sleeping about 16 hours a day, in 1-hour naps, mostly sitting up in a chair. Much of the time when I’m awake, my hands...
It's almost the end of the first quarter of XXI century. I may not know what the "age of AI" is, but I am apparently living in it. At the same time, people all around me are attacking it on all fronts, some even call for a complete ban....
I’ve been a little quiet on here (and honestly across most of my socials), because I’ve been attempting to focus more on myself offline. It’s no secret that I’ve been having a hard time the past few months. Even with all my posts about...
All the tokens fit to embed.December 26, 2025 THE LEDE: VISUAL DATA OVERLOAD The Context: Times photographers captured a turbulent year, from a president returning to power and wildfires ravaging Los Angeles to conflicts in Sudan and...
Empecemos diciendo las cosas claras: yo no soy una mujer así que qué sabré yo de muchos temas de aquí hoy. Nací, he sido socializado, y me identifico como hombre. Tengo sesgos latentes, como cualquiera criado en sociedad, pero hay que...
Earlier today I noticed the syntax highlighting on this website was broken. But not fully: on reload I’d see a flash of highlighted text, that then turned monochrome. The raw HTML from curl showed rouge tags, but the web inspector showed...
After years using the default prompt from grml-zsh-config (with minor modifications), I adopted starship: The minimal, blazing-fast, and infinitely customizable prompt for any shell! My ~/.config/starship.toml is meant to resemble the...
I start so many things and then talk about them and then don’t finish them. I thought it might be fun to compile them all here so that they’re not lost to the sands of time. Incomplete projects that I posted about that are more or less...
Most of the time, Santa Claus is a warm-hearted person, friendly to everyone around him, handing out gifts left and right. He's the man you can count on, the one who's always punctual, always there to bring you a joyous Christmas. Except...
Hace tiempo que esta circulando la famosa teoría del internet muerto. Luego de un pequeño descuido en mi server me puse a meditar en que tal vez sea real. Introducción A saber cuando publicare esta entrada, pero a fecha del 18 de...
It costs one Starbucks sausage, cheddar and egg breakfast sandwich (my favourite!) a month to keep my blog running, so its not money I'm concerned about. Do I want people to see my art and ramblings? Yes, but that's not all. I don't...
Back in late September last year, I talked briefly about this film at the end of this post; I mentioned wanting it to do well in the U.S. so that it would be picked up for streaming somewhere (footnote 1). As amazon picked it up, I have...
“Our origins are of the earth. And so there is in us a deeply seated response to the natural universe, which is part of our humanity,” wrote Rachel Carson. “Our world, and the worlds around and within it,” wrote Sy Montgomery a...
2025 was the first year that I maintained a physical journal for the entire year. I had never been able to continue the habit, and admired people who could. My goal was pretty simple – at the end of the year, have a journal that I wrote...
Looking southwest from the Carrot Tower in the Sangenjaya district, the setting sun illuminates Tsurumaki Dori street. 三軒茶屋のキャロットタワーから南西を見ると、夕日が鶴巻通りを照らしている。
I wanted to review a Christmas-themed visual novel on NLJ (having previously reviewed io [Christmas Eve] and Plain Song Christmas Special in 2022 and Christmas Rose in 2024 (with hindsight being 20/20, I should have reviewed A Winter’s...
December 2025. Sheffield. Will had curated an itinerary for our mini-Sheffield Black Eye Friday crawl. As a southerner, he’d never actually ever heard of Black Eye Friday, but then unlike me he’s not slave to biblically-inspired...
There’s a cool new thing you can do in HTML that is supported by all the major web browsers, including Safari. But I can’t use it because, well, Safari. You see, if you want the latest version of Safari, which has this cool new thing,...
It's been about a year since the latest instance of one of my “I Get Around”-style posts (in which I reflect on how I've adjusted my daily personal social media habits), so it's time for a refresh as we head into 2026!
What I'm currently up to. A snapshot of my current state of mind and activity.
I read demons recently, and it reminded me of my favourite godard movie, la chinoise.
[Equations in this post may not look right (or appear at all) in your RSS reader. Go to the original article to see them rendered properly.] Yesterday morning, before Christmas got going, I read about the big Powerball win Wednesday...
Siempre me ha gustado escuchar anécdotas de personas mayores, me gusta por un momento imaginarme como sería vivir en aquella época y en las circunstancias en las que se cuenta la historia. No sé, es lindo escuchar las historia de vida de...
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...
It’s been a good but hectic week. Lots of work coming together, so it’s a lot of coordination, talking, and generally being busy. My painting project #30DaysOfWatercoloring is two weeks old now. It’s been going well. I am learning a lot....
Did you hear? Apparently, Chinese entertainment is dying. If you listen to CDrama pundits or spend enough time on Chinese social media, the narrative for 2025 is pretty bleak: the Chinese entertainment industry is “devolving”, production...
I just added .epub and .pdf versions of my free book Emacs Lisp Elements. All files are available in the Git repository: https://github.com/protesilaos/emacs-lisp-elements. I produced both of those from the source Org file. Here are the...
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 Book of Revelation is the last book of the Bible, written by the apostle John around 95 AD...
Recording. Presentation slides available via Google Slides. Fahrplan entry on CCC website. Blurb Despite how it's often portrayed in blogs, scientific articles, or corporate test planning, fuzz testing isn't a magic bug printer; just...
📷 Photographed with a Fujifilm X-T5 + XF150-600mmF5.6-8 R LM OIS WR 🎞️ 150 mm focal length – 1/220″ at f/8 – ISO 8000 📍 Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming, United States – Newe Sogobia (Eastern Shoshone), Cayuse, Umatilla and Walla...