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The Brooklyn Bridge most New Yorkers know is a slender wonder of steel wires, stone towers, and sweeping views. But there’s a less visible part of the bridge at ground level. These are the anchorages—the masonry structures on both the...
I’m disappointed that I’m missing the 2026 UK heatwave; don’t get many of those, do you ? Meanwhile in Yerevan; Oh. On our tours this week all that visitors from the Netherlands, Sweden and Kaliningrad wanted to talk about was the World...
A Memphis law school graduate battles an insurance giant. What’s the difference between a hooker and a lawyer? The hooker will stop screwing you after you’re dead. To see all 15 photos, visit the article page. This article was originally...
I really like to start the writing either later at night or first thing with coffee. It’s a battle of blog and journal and both win. The journal always is a morning thing for me. In the dark and still quiet times in our neighborhood, it...
A different take on Obama, that makes some fair critical points. He was no progressive, alas. The way he has enriched himself non-stop post-Presidency has been particularly gross.
Harmony and I Remember when I said I don't relate to my main character Sparky and my self-insert Qibli? Well, there emerged an unlikely connection — I relate to Harmony. Harmony's journey in Spy School can be seen as two parts. First,...
Read time: 4 minutes. 927 Words I'm old enough to have seen the Internet become a thing. From the early days (for me) of simple emails and web pages, and squealing dial-up modems connecting to the web, to what we have now. Over that time...
Whenever there is a will, there are two things: a way and an obstacle in the way — that place midway between desire and destination where one’s will collides with the will of the world, with the parameters of permission for imagination...
I am currently in the process of migrating to a new mailserver setup that is integrated into my normal hosting setup on a new VPS at netcup. This time, the setup is based on the Docker images and configuration from a project called...
Celeste es una serie que puede verse en Movistar Plus+ y esta protagonizada por la actriz Carmen Machi. Seguramente, vuelva a estar en boca de todos estos días porque hace unas semanas se publicó que la cantante Shakira había ganado su...
Life Notes Jack had his Nursery Graduation on Friday, cape, tasseled mortarboard and all. I still feel a bit emotional about it, a milestone and all that. He is still very much not into participation and performing though, which is a-ok...
June 21, 2026 I saved a guide called npm: A Free Guide for Beginners to GoodLinks the other day. This morning, I wanted to read it and keep it for future reference, but I realized GoodLinks isn't where I want to store this kind of...
Ooooh and Aaah at the new KDE release, KDE 6.7! With PlasmaLogin instead of SDDM...
Representatives from the United States and Iran are already meeting in Switzerland to agree on a permanent end to the war. Many important details remain unknown, though the way things are set is already giving us an indication of what to...
Here's one for Father's Day, tangentially. A loose, joyful almost-sonnet, written by Gavin Ewart, sixty years ago this month...June 1966Lying flat in the bracken of Richmond Parkwhile the legs and voices of my children passseeking,...
It's handy when your riding buddy is a photographer. You end up with some nice photos. Thanks for reading this post via RSS. RSS is ace, and so are you. ❤️ You can reply to this post by email, or leave a comment.
Nominations for the 2026 Tiny Awards, are being accpted until the end of the month, June. Entry is open to websites of a non-commercial and/or personal nature, launched between July 2025 and July 2026. Submissions from brands and...
«We came out from the deep» Mi adolescencia tardía fue un auténtico hervidero de música electrónica y descubrimiento personal. En mi reproductor nunca faltaba Enigma, uno de los mayores referentes en la música new age y el worldbeat de...
(about the holiday, and masculinity, and enough man-on-man sex to make this posting out of bounds for kids and the sexually modest) First take: the long pan. From my 6/16/19 posting “On this day in 2019”: (US) Fathers Day. For some of...
Am citit articolul scris de Dan Abramov în care încearcă să explice de ce întrebarea „unde sunt instanțele Bluesky?” este pusă greșit. Nu e un articol rău, dimpotrivă, are câteva idei tehnice interesante, dar mi-a rămas ceva în cap care...
If you don’t speak French, you might never have heard of the AZERTY keyboard — the weird cousin of QWERTY with its shifted number row and a scattering of accented letters across the board. Even if you do speak French, you might not use...
This is the sort of book I usually hate. By law books about writing are so desperate to explain the world to me that I struggle to keep my eyes open. I don’t have much patience when I feel someone’s talking down to me, with them having...
Not-so-fat Bike Winter was a total bust. We barely had any snow down in town. So little that I questioned whether I should bother with a fat bike any more, if winters were going to be like this. But we also have plenty of sand here. I...
Introduction An occasional collection of things I've recently found on the Internet and added to my bookmarks. Gemini hypertext format specification The specification for the hypertext format used by the Gemini protocol, also known as...
The Outsiders in 1966. Public domain image courtesy KLRA Beat and Wikimedia Commons. Last night, I watched the first episode of Art21, which featured a bit on Louise Bourgeois—and then this morning, found David Byrne tossing out an aside...
15th June - 21st June They're spreading manure this week — the whole village stinks. Why is it always the week we need to leave the windows open‽ Freshly mown fields are like catnip for buzzards. Big, hovering predators –like US drones...
I mostly spend this week up in Cologne. A bunch of in-person meetings, a bit of hanging out with friends and coworkers, good (and some not so good) food and the days went by very quickly. For the first time in quite some while I took the...
Antecedently: Paging Dr. Crowbar; an absolutely delicious list of supplies and equipment; a surprise visit from the Titan submersible We now rejoin these AK-47smans advancing upon us, already in progress Dani would like to No Ticket this...
If I get famous, that means they're trying to kill me. Not that I'd ever get famous, right? Right? I'm kidding, but honestly, I'm still reeling a bit from that post I made yesterday. More than anything, it's hard to see why "they" would...
I’ve heard this claim now really often: at conferences, in keynotes, even in casual conversations: “With AI, we’ll soon only need to work two or three days a week.” The narrative is seductive, I admit: technology will finally liberate us...
So, awhile back, I decided to start self hosting my music collection. I’m sure I’ve at least mentioned it somewhere here on the blog. I re-downloaded my entire collection and more beyond that. Nearly 5TB of new music was stored on my...
Luckily it was too warm to sleep last night, as I'm not sure I would have made the effort to go see these storms otherwise. These are distant thunderstorms near Lille in France. That's at least 150 miles to my South East, so I'm quite...
El primer domingo en el que dedico un rato a sentarme delante del ordenador y poner algunas cosas digitales en orden. El primer domingo desde hace mucho tiempo en el que escribo esta retrospectiva semanal en la semana que toca, y no con...
This is the third China Miéville novel I’ve read, behind The City and the City and Railsea. One thing I really like about Miéville’s work is that he manages to make every novel so different from the others, and all so very good....
Why read the book? Nick Needham wrote 2000 Years of Christ's Power Volume 1: The Age of the Early Church Fathers. It is the first book in a five-volume series on church history. This volume covers the period from the time of the apostles...
El puré especial de la tía era lo único especial que tenía, eso y que era la más alta de la familia, aún se preguntan de dónde abra tomado los genes del crecimiento; pero la altura era algo con lo que había nacido, en cambio el puré era...
So anyone who has spent considerable time with me has probably learned how much I love a drive in movie theater. Crysta and I started going to them when we lived in Indiana, mostly visiting the Lakeshore Drive In in Monticello (though...
Every where I look, there’s something bad going on. There’s people taking more and more from the world, there’s people struggling but there’s no one helping them. There's people distrusting each other because they aren’t the same as...
After yet another push from senior leadership, I’m finally getting around to trying to do something more interesting with our internal AI resources than just chatting with Gemini. Specifically, I’m using Antigravity and writing agent...
When your friend is playing backup in a free concert in the heart of your city on a Friday night, it is required to leave the house.Currently Listening: DYAN “Looking For Knives”Reply via email
I lived a relatively standard life for a long time. Then I went independent, had a taste of success, then failed and moved home into my dad's. My mental health had been bad for sometime, had been declining for some time. But then I opted...
Wake-on-LAN is used to power up devices via LAN. ip -br link to find the name of the network interface in use. sudo apt install ethtool to install the tool required to inspect the Ethernet configuration. sudo ethtool enp2s0 to check...
In honor of Father’s Day, I wanted to add to the two quotes from my Dad’s obituary, “Seven days without chicken made one weak.” and “If you fail at raising your children, nothing else mattered.” with another saying he had. Ain’t no hill...