Mon Sep 14
Curious cattle sizing me up - near Clayton, New Mexico As a kid I was terrified of cows. Or, so I'm told. I don't recall this (I was too young). But, at least once a year the story is retold by my parents, or my aunt, or my uncle. Typically at a large family gathering when the topic of embarrassing moments arises....
I bought this 3D printed Sad Keanu like a decade ago? But the other day he fell off the shelf and broke into a number of pieces. So I was going to throw it away, but then I saw that I still actually had all the various bits, and the breaks look clean — i.e., no actual splintering into dust anywhere. So I applied...
We can extract much more enjoyment from our existing hobbies than we might think. Every time an activity gets stale or I yearn for new experiences, I first try to approach an existing hobby from a new angle. We can inform ourselves about new trends regarding our interests. Maybe there exist new ways to enjoy them....
So the Steam Frame pricing is finally announced. 256GB for $1059, 1TB for $1299. I have Thoughts. Currently I use a Bigscreen Beyond and a bunch of basestations. The basestation tracking quality is awful and has been getting worse over time, and I definitely want to switch to inside-out tracking. Also I’ve been less...
'Natural rights is simple nonsense,' declared Jeremy Bentham: 'natural and imprescriptible rights, rhetorical nonsense – nonsense upon stilts.' He was right: rights are not 'natural', they are prescribed, i.e. created, by human societies (those human societies that like the idea). The notion of 'natural rights' is...
A handful of people I follow and know about have announced their recent departure. Not from a job (although plenty of that going around), but from social media, AI usage, or in more extreme cases the Internet entirely. In Goodbye, Forever, Probably, Salma announced her retirement from the internet. She makes a sound...
When I recently whined about modal editing feeling clunky, I think I was being impatient, as I’ve been hitting Vim and Neovim pretty hard lately and have not been feeling that way. That’s also because I’m learning some more stuff and getting more efficient. Scenario: I’m dashing out a sentence, I typo something or...
I'm currently reading "The Starless Sea" by Erin Morgenstern. I think it could be fun to write down my thoughts as I read the book, since there seems to be a riddle element to the story. I've just finished Book II (Fortunes and Fables). First, some general reading impressions: I was pretty sceptical of the novel at...
For the present article, I have picked a seemingly bizarre song from the vast corpus of Vasilis Papakonstantinou: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wv28XE7tGJo. Palm trees is written and composed by Apostolos Boulasikis. All of the songs I have heard from Apostolos are surreal in the images they evoke and profound in...
September 2026. Dewsbury. A Top 100 pub, but also a Top 5 “hour spent in the pub”, except it was probably only 37 minutes. Yes, it’s Dewbury, the land that time forgot, tucked away in that triangle formed by the M62 and the M1, outshone by the honeypots of Liversedge, Ossett and a mysterous place called The Fall...
Right now there are countless machines spewing out countless perfect texts. All the language has correct spelling and is perfectly comprehensible. It’s so boring. I prefer things people make, write, doodle, craft. I rather look at your stream of consciousness, your blotchy doodle, your crappy handlettering, your...
Some thoughts from the week I've seen some pretty impressive phishing emails this last couple of weeks. One of the UK's more popular charity focused CRMs had a breach a little while ago, and it's hard to ignore the timelines. Half a dozen colleagues have sent emails in the last 2 weeks that have been apparent email...
引过去一直是 Apple Watch 的忠实用户，听说过 Whoop，但我总觉得它只是无屏幕版的 Apple Watch，很酷，也很贵，没必要再买一款功能相近的产品。小米手环比它划算多了，设计的跟老款无屏小米手环差不多呀。 但用了一个多月，Fitbit Air 真的远超我的预期，跟 Apple Watch 和小米手环不是一个类型的产品。 使用感受Fitbit Air 和 WHOOP 这类产品最强的地方，是软硬件都围绕一个目标设计：尽量减少用户操作。 去掉屏幕、换来更长续航，只是最直观的一步。更关键的是一个很容易被忽略的参数：后台心率数据的记录频率。它直接影响设备能不能在运动结束后，回溯出完整的运动记录。 Apple Watch...
Like I said previously, I'm doing two cons in September, and I just got done with one of them. Eau Claire Comic Con went really well as always, and I had a great time. I was surprised that a couple of the people I usually see there didn't stop by this year, but overall it was really fun. I want to thank the folks...
Little kid is armed with freshly printed and cut business cards to share with his friends today.
This is the first post in a series about my invisible tools: the hardware and software I use so much that I don't have to think about using them. I'm starting with one of the simplest: keyboard shortcuts. Keyboard and shortcuts I use a Durgod Fusion keyboard, but I've found that the keyboard itself doesn't matter...
What was the first album you ever bought? Pick your favorite song off that album. John Menzies was in the high street of my hometown. An L-shaped store on the corner of the street and the pedestrian part of the Artizan Centre. Make your way to the back of the store, turn a corner and head upstairs. Four racks of...
Yesterday was a fairly good day. At church, as I was moving through the communion liturgy, I could feel my throat about to crack, and sure enough, I went into a coughing fit. Because I was at the words of institution, I felt weird about having someone else speak the words--Lutherans believe that only ordained or...
# Ttile Category Genre Comments 1 Tianguis Desk - Mezzcalites Live session Latin jazz? I love the concept of the video and I'll be waiting for their next one! Also the music was great, the sound so soulful and fun. 2 Concert in studio sEODo Band Live session idk, indie, funk, pop I found this band because its...
Eu deveria falar sobre o álbum Green delas que já cobre todas essas faixas que tem nesse EP, mas esse foi o meu primeiro CD e contato com o grupo, então eu tenho um carinho extra pelo Yellow. E eu jamais imaginaria que descobrir esse grupo faria eu ouvir elas constantemente por quase dois anos. コハルヒ O que mais me...
On where to seek refuge from the forethought of grief. UPDATE 2022: For more soulful animated poems, see my collaboration with On Being on an animated season of The Universe in Verse. Two hundred years ago, in a prophetic book envisioning a twenty-first-century world savaged by a deadly pandemic, Mary Shelley...
I cleaned out the dead links on my site today. The internet is a great place, in no small part because of its ephemerality. I heard about the dead link checker somewhere online and thought, what the hell, let’s see what it says. There were, broadly, 6 classes of dead links: Links that had never existed, like my...
The forecast mentioned rain. But the brokers, clerks, messengers, and stenographers who left their Wall Street headquarters for lunch just before noon on September 16, 1920, were greeted by sunny skies. While the bells of Trinity Church a block away rang to mark the hour and workers headed to lunch trucks and...
Confieso que siempre quise llevar un diario personal, pero eso de escribir diariamente no se me da muy bien. Supongo porque hay días en donde no pasa algo demasiado extraordinario que valga la pena registrar. Sin embargo, me encontré con este interesante proyecto que puede ser una alternativa que realmente valga la...
Weekly cleaning and home improvement series, with some thoughts in between. I slept 9 hours and 47 minutes. I then ate cereal while playing Tomodachi Life, and then I went back to bed and slept again for, I don't know, 30 minutes? I read somewhere that sleeping too much is also bad for your health. I haven't read...
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One thing I’ve seen a lot is how we love to debate whether Tool A is better than Tool B — especially when we already have Tool B in place. Or we ask if Tool A, which might be 5% better, is worth the switch. Yet, the problem we often like to ignore? We forget […]
A couple of weeks ago, I was quite certain that my next phone would be the iPhone 18. Lucky me I didn’t wait for that: Apple didn’t announce a baseline iPhone at all this September and the iPhone 17 even got more expensive. Instead, I decided it was time to jump ship again and, after 6 years with an iPhone, move...
Hi, this is an Italian content. You can read it translated into English by clicking here.Un problema del pubblicare in inglese per il blog, tra i vari problemi del pubblicare per il blog, un problema è che io, così, i post me li dimentico. Quando rileggo un post in italiano, pure vecchio di quattro o cinque anni, di...
This morning I was walking the dog when a guy on a bicycle called out to me, “Training for anything?” and started pulling over to chat. I paused, because considering the context, this was an odd question. Did Miles and I look like we were practicing for a dog show? But then I thought, “I bet I’ve talked to this guy...
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The past few weeks I've been scanning my parents’ Kodachrome slides, and have unearthed many wonderful photos of me and my family. This one is of me - age 12 - in front of the Unisphere at the 1964-65 New York World’s Fair. It was a different world 60 years ago. The 1964 World's Fair was bristling with optimism...
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explorator.dev: Then… I finally realised. I’m not addicted to the internet, neither to my smartphone. I’m addicted to information. Good information, in particular. The web, smartphones, and social media keep that information tap flowing. A teacher of mine often to used say: “there is no such thing as too much...
A leading figure in law and economics, Professor Ulen was a longtime faculty member at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he was emeritus. My colleague Lisa Bernstein kindly shared this memorial notice from Nuno Garoupa, the President of the European Association of Law and Economics: It is with...
It feels like to-do lists peaked about a decade and a half ago. (Perhaps like so many things, but I digress.) It was the heyday of Getting Things Done and Inbox Zero and all the apps you can imagine to manage your items to do, like OmniFocus and—my personal favourite—Things. I appreciated Things for its design. It...
Four-part drama depicting the life of Hollywood’s greatest leading man, Archibald Alexander Leach - A.K.A. Cary Grant. One of the twentieth century’s most iconic figures, Cary Grant touched the world with his charm, wit, and grace. But few knew Archie Leach, the man behind the name, and the enormous challenges he...
Last edited 2 minutes ago. Have been using Linux for the past, I wanna say, 10 months now? Yeah, something like that. A little under a year for sure. And it's been pretty sweet. I must preface this by saying that I'm just a regular girlie. I'm not a dev or an artist or anything like that, I just use my computer to...
For quite some time now I’ve been frustrated by the experience of writing here at the ol’ Homebound Symphony. The problems are three in number. First, my preferred app for blogging, MarsEdit, has always been treated as a suspicious interloper by my hosting service, Reclaim Hosting, and that suspicion has only...
It sure seems that a bunch of companies are trying to ship a git product of some kind as of late. Wonder why that is. Either way, I’m building a Git server backed by object storage as an open-source project. It sounded simple enough to start: Git looks like a filesystem, so let’s use a filesystem as a translation...
When Mobile Money (MM) goes down: Somalis need more than apologies. And even those have not yet arrived!The recent blackout of a major MM service in Somalia should not be dismissed as another technical outage. It exposed something much more serious. Somalia has allowed privately operated mobile money systems to...
Today I go to get my retirement visa extended another year. There's a little process to it. First my daughter takes the passport and two passport photos and the money. It costs $300 for a year. I always give her more because she is very good at doing these things for me. Then the passport is sent by courier to Phnom...
Después del largo verano, hora de volver a la rutina. No será hoy, será mañana, cuando mi hijo empiece otra nueva etapa en su vida, Secundaria. Y por aquí, lamentablemente, no me puedo poner en huelga, así que Mareos de un geek seguirá siendo la vía de escape, el recopilatorio de mis aficiones y el punto de...
De korte versie: De Nederlandse overheid “is niet (echt) van de IT”, en legt vrijwel altijd haar oor direct of indirect te luisteren bij een door big-tech gedomineerd ecosysteem om te bepalen wat te doen. En daardoor valt de keuze vrijwel altijd weer op Amerikaanse platformen, gerund door derden, onder Amerikaans...
by now, i've already said my piece about generative AI. but my opinions towards modern tech are the same all around. i cannot relate to it anymore, for a multitude of reasons. before i talk about it, though: say, does anyone remember frutiger aero? that bubbly, glassy, nature-meets-technology design language that...
New companion for writingI have discovered yet another writing app. This one lets me connect my Astro project's content collections, pulls the defined schema from my content.config.ts file, and lets me write Markdown in a distraction free environment. It's not a note-taking app that I can use on the go for...
The vibeProud, relieved, and already thinking about what comes next.After the move, the internet mess, and the general chaos of the past couple of weeks, this week gave me a pretty big personal milestone: I released my first app.That still feels a little strange to write. I have built plenty of tools and side...
Most newsletters have turned into daily newspapers, publishing 3-4 pieces a week. If you're like me and subscribed to many newsletters, you find yourself in a constant "catch-up game," never able to read and, more importantly, understand the content. For the ones you are able to read, you skim and delete them,...
Quien lleve tiempo leyéndome conoce que paso más tiempo en Internet que socializando con cualquier persona físicamente, y no, no es nada de orgullo; de hecho, hay carencias sociales, pero Seguir leyendo Que la alternativa no sea peor que lo que reemplaza El cargo Que la alternativa no sea peor queFuente: El cuarto...
I really wasn’t paying too much attention to the Lindsay Clancy case, but now that they’ve decided to basically dox a Black juror and drag his name through the mud because he wouldn’t let this White woman off, well…now I gotta point out some things. There was this emerging trend after the #MeToo movement,...
With a hat tip again to Erin, whose review of this one you can find here. Beware: depression; cheating leading to STI; not particularly descriptive, consensual sex on page between two adult men. “It Started With a Text” by Jax Calder This is the second story in the Queer Ways to Fall in Love duology, the premise of...
I haven't done a housekeeping post since last year, which means it's been a while since the last time something changed on this blog. I switched my font from good old Libre Baskerville to Inter because my eyes are getting worse (lol) and Inter is a bit easier for me to read. I should probably update the site colors,...
Last year, one of my favorite bands went on tour with two other old-time bands from my childhood that I never got to see live, Modern English and Soft Cell. Unfortunately, we didn't get a chance to see Soft Cell because we got a little sidetracked, but we did get to see Modern English and, capping off the night, the...
This random indieblog.page link was picked on Tuesday, September 15th 2026. It was originally published on Tuesday, June 9th 2026 at Finding Cooper's Voice | Welcome to the Secret World of Autism. If you'd like to report any problems with this post or the blog, please include the following ID with your report:...
I need to update the trees, I found an asset on itch that is good enough to get me started because NOto procbiogen (rn), and increase the render distance of the water detail, and do a better job color-matching XPMs w the surface. Anyway new clouds: enjoy ALL the cumulonimbus #rasdFastwalkerLeague View on Bluesky
Everyone’s favorite Apple archivist, Stephen Hackett, wrote a short post last week in which he linked to Apple’s page with dimensional drawings of its products. He included this drawing of the iPhone 17 Pro: You can click on it to see a 300 dpi version. The Apple page linked above will give you infinite-resolution...