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Been thinking about flooring and spotted this lovely chaos in a Shake Shack bathroom.Currently Listening: Joan Shelley “Easy Now”Reply via email
I feel the aquarium hobby is a retro hobby. Sure, the lights and filters have got much more expensive, and now rimless tanks are popular online, but the standard size tanks like the 40 breeder and the 75 gallon are the same footprint...
I saw the original post generating a bit of talk, and I haven't written many lighter posts lately, so I figured I'd add what I had to say. First off, OP said: I would never tell anyone to their face that their blog is ugly Can't relate....
Fuente: quiroptero.blog
There is at least one first or second spot available each month this fall at present. Email me at bleiter-at-uchicago-dot-edu for more information.
Okay, with this variant you win when the opponent can’t make a move on the board and is out of reserve pieces, just like the original 1960s game, but you only have six moves to win! Take six pieces each of an unused player color (if your...
Just what you wanted! And just in time for National Cherry Popsicle Day! A summary of my 2024 book, The Weirdness of the World, by the author himself. You probably haven't had time to read the whole thing (I don't blame you). So here's a...
If my grandmother were still alive, today would be her 100th birthday (or possibly her 101st; she was 95 when she died, but she insisted that she was 96, so who can say for sure). When I was a boy, I would spend most of my summers with...
In the back of my mind I’ve always wanted to do some sort of goofy Amazon Mechanical Turk project. I guess it’s now or never. But I don’t have any ideas… Reply by email
AI Forever Work Woes Continue Unabated Photo unrelated; met a pretty metal seagull at the first beach we tried in Connecticut upon moving here years ago. Face of a villain. Absolute icon. In the last two weeks or so I've seen an...
In early 1934, a twenty-four-year-old graduate student at Columbia Teachers College took an internship teaching drama and producing student plays at PS 24 in Harlem. Among her young charges at that “dreadful ancient New York...
Back in April I joined my first Homebrew Website Club meeting and since then I’ve made a habit of reading the blogs from everyone there that day. The first post I read this Wednesday is from Thomas Vander Wal at his blog Off the Top. On...
I accumulated enough vacation days to take a week off, so I did. It was a pretty great summer experience (and by great, I mean, I think this is the best it's going to get). My team was really nice, and I managed to not be a wuss and make...
When Robert Birming, following Junited and JulyReply, called for contributions to AuguStory under the heading ‘The Story of your Blog‘, I thought to myself: If there’s one thing I can do, it’s write about my blog … but I found it much...
Ten thousand bridges, a handful of motorsThe bridges between AI and software have multiplied almost sevenfold in five months; the ones that reach a motor have not.In March this piece counted about fourteen hundred company-run servers for...
2026-08-26Hello!I need to go back to Philadelphia one day. There are enough landmarks that I just haven't seen to make another trip worth it.Instead, my trips consist of shopping malls and home stores. While I sort through my latest bout...
Kathleen Creel, recently assistant professor of philosophy and computer science at Northeastern University, has moved to the University of Michigan, where she is now associate professor of philosophy. Professor Creel’s work focuses on...
Watching OpenClaw do its thing must be like watching the first plane take flight. It's a bit rickety and stuck together with a lot of sticky tape, but squint and you can see the potential for agentic AI to change the world as we know it....
I love a good habit tracker. I’ve been using the habit tracking built into TickTick for ages now. But recently HabitKit appeared and it’s very pretty and brilliantly easy to use. But it’s expensive – I appreciate the effort put into...
From 404Media: We discovered that VGT3 was used to destructively scan books for AI training data by placing a tracking device in a shipment of rare books that a bookseller suspected was being acquired by an anonymous AI company. We saw...
So as mentioned on my Now page, I headed to Scotland about a month ago for a wedding and a cross-country road trip that sung to my soul. Taking a trip north of the border just makes me happy, and you can see why so much of the country’s...
Title: Days by Safira Website: daysbysafira.wordpress.com Days by Safira is a blog for personal essays and thoughts on everyday life, sometimes books, motherhood, and slow living. A space for myself. RSS users are my people 🫶 If you...
Desde hace unas semanas, en mi vuelta al trabajo presencial, en mi oficina no podía acceder a mi blog. Era raro: podía ver otros blogs tanto en WordPress como en otras plataformas sin problemas. Comencé a pensar si había escrito algo que...
August 2026. Abbeydale Road. Sheffield. A tiny bit of culture between the pubs, and Sheffield does culture better than most. I’ve seen ballet, theatre, symphonies, comedy and major photographic exhibitions seen we moved North; it’s not...
Ieri am cumpărat varianta originală/clasică a jocului Heroes Of Might And Magic III. Cei de la Ubisoft au lansat jocul pe Steam la prețul de 9.99 euro - un preț foarte bun pentru un astfel de joc clasic. După cumpărare l-am și instalat,...
Bravely Default II is a modern Japanese Role Playing Game that pays tribute to the artstyle of JRPGs of yore (spoilers throughout). As is the case with practically every entry in this genre, you are in control of a bunch of kids, or...
Neubrutalism is a digital aesthetic movement that rejects modern polished neutrality in favor of what they call “graphic bluntness”: high-contrast palettes, bold typography, strongly defined shapes, and conspicuous structure — especially...
youtube • video ID: hNI_Qx3cspEclick image to load player It takes a generational talent to take a song like “House of the Rising Sun” and make it in your own way. RIP This article was originally published at:...
Fixed ’em. Fixed ’em all. Well, almost all — down to 10 bugs on the NetNewsWire bug tracker. (See the Mac 7.1.3 release notes and iOS for the big list of just-fixed bugs.) This means I’ve gotten the app to the place I’ve wanted to get to...
The purpose of tear-water tea From Owl at Home by Arnold LobelAlt. textAn owl in striped pyjamas stands in his kitchen, holding a tea pot to his chest. He is crying and his tears fall in the pot, which is almost full. The colours of the...
Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren, wir erreichen in Kürze den Niedriglohnsektor. Die gegenwärtige Außentemperatur beträgt 3000 Grad. Der gesellschaftliche Luftdruck ist enorm. Wir wünschen Ihnen einen angenehmen Aufenthalt und viel Glück bei...
Once again, I am writing a new blog post, and once again, I am posting about a new game I made: WITH TEETH, my entry for Pervert Jam 2026. It’s been a really productive year for me on the gamedev front, eh? The idea for WITH TEETH has...
One large mug, two Yorkshire tea bags, steeped in freshly boiled water for 2 minutes, squeeze and remove the bags, generous splash of milk. The weather has finally felt like it’s changing from the sweltering summer we’ve had, and the...
“Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell” Edward Abbey The modern world is built on a system in which we must “progress” in order to survive. The issue is that we never ask the question “towards what are we...
Five days after I first noticed it, the ability to upload a social preview for a repository has been fixed. So now I can finally update the preview for Rogallo again. From what I can see it took a couple or so threads in the community...
I’m really satisfied to have fixed a couple IndieWeb libraries and website config issues. Too bad my ideas are far ahead of my ability to get things accomplished…
Share a song that captures the feeling of being proud. I have a hard time being proud of myself. I tend to let achievements pass without acknowledging them. But sometimes just getting through is reason to be proud, just making it to the...
I apply stroke-based sorting to the Roman alphabet.
OpenGraph and Twitter Cards are the two most popular ways to suply metadata for rich link previews. Web sites usually provide metadata to both by using separate elements: I used to do this too, but these days my markup is simpler. Since...
I made a thing: the Foldable Tractatus, a free and open-source web app designed to make reading Wittgenstein's famous first book only hard (as opposed to really hard without it). I'm quite proud of this! First, you can check it out now....
Possibly, just possibly, related to the previous post. Recent research by Neal Caren, a professor at the University of North Carolina, has found people in the United States are not going out as much as they once did on a Friday night....
In the hours following the release of CVE-2026-41992 for the project GNU gzip, site reliability workers and systems administrators scrambled to desperately rebuild and patch all their systems to fix decompressing two files in the same...
a tour of creating a family reading culture In the Netherlands, many families are in possession of magnificent ceiling-tall bookshelves — a practice I always envied. A shelf seems like an integral part of any well-doted intellectual...
On what language models made cheap, what they left exactly as expensive as it was, and why the difference is the whole argument A scheduling manager writes the rule that shifts get posted on Thursday for the following Monday. From where...
My Arthur Allan, signed 3 West Nile St, a shop I remember but was mostly fishing tackle and air guns in the 70’s and 80’s. Resleeved but a super job and handles superbly. Delightful gun and still used regularly. Not a name I know but a...
The events around the demise of the Exarchate of Ravenna only involved the Venetians marginally. It is nevertheless important to the history of Venice.
—Ellie Black
What started as a simple revisit to a summit we liked turned into an adventure we won’t forget. A wrong turn led us onto an overgrown path, once a vehicle track, now a struggle through thistles, fallen trees, and slippery slopes. We...
Entre los episodios más recientes del Sueño del Artista se encuentra el caso del robo del Museo Isabella Stewart Gardner, ocurrido la madrugada del 18 de marzo de 1990, no solo es considerado el mayor robo de arte de la historia, sino...
Jugulans is now developed on Chicken Scheme 6 After upgrading from Chicken Scheme 5 to Chicken Scheme 6 I am now developing jugulans on Chicken Scheme 6. This required only a minor change. jugulans is a text mode mind map application....
I’m writing this in my favourite cafe, while enjoying a cup of really good cappuccino. The weather is great, the forecast is that it’s going to get worse in the coming days, preparing the country for autumn, I guess. I’m so happy to be...
I have a rough three-day work-stretch ahead of me, but the weekday Pook-Emu Bee links streak must continue (I will however compromise on feature images today). 1. Brainless TikTok trend causes $2,000 in damage to SoCal home (Daniel Farr...
♠ Problem statement: a coding agent stops when it thinks it is done, not when the thing is actually done. /goal sets a condition that outlives the turn. The docs call it a wrapper around a session-scoped, prompt-based Stop hook: every...
Today, I’m 38.Thirty-seven was a year that was. It was a year of loss. I found out I was being laid off the day after my birthday. Nearly a year later, I lost my soul dog. Between those two losses (and a million other things), I feel...