Sat Oct 17
At the dawn of my twenties, lonely, destitute, and disoriented by the demands of making a new life in an alien world, I started keeping notes on my search for meaning while working four jobs to pay my way through college. On October 23, 2006, I began sharing my discoveries — passages from books, links to...
When a mysterious sea creature terrorizes a remote town, a fisherman must fight to protect his family, his community, and his way of life. Whoa. This mini-series is short, but will definitely take you places. Excellent writing and the filming locations in Newfoundland are breath-taking. There’s mystery, a bit of...
Morning time and this morning like usual, I go to see the puppies and I’m attacked. They both will start wanting the attention but soon they get jealous. If I pet one, the other starts attacking me or the other. I enjoy their company I guess more than some humans I know here. I started working on this little thing...
For those who know me, or follow along with my posts, you will know that I generally do not watch much TV. I can go days without looking at anything on the big screen; I've even gone weeks if I am home-alone. During the summer I spent many weeks in Spain and never once had the TV on. My other half is a TVaholic...
Check out As in guillotine... for more. The “open to work” banner came down on LinkedIn, my consulting work is back on ice, and my new role is officially official. I’ve joined Simmons-Boardman Publishing as the new publisher for the Railway Educational Bureau, which has provided books, educational materials, and...
Hey, I've seen this one before! This is a classic! This is going to be once more pretty squarely into "I'm just writing about my lunch" post territory. I prepared and ate this one pretty quickly, and while sometimes I write the posts while I'm still eating, that isn't the case today as I'm writing this...
At the end of the year, Codeberg will shut down its old Codeberg Pages server, in favor of the already deployed, git-pages-based alternative.1. For many deployments, migration will be quite straight-forward, requiring little more than using a webhook, as outlined in the migration guide. And this page has already for...
I have been thinking about writing about my full name for a while, especially after this incident in which an AI hallucinated my full name. Now that I have a post titled with my full name, it should help our future overlords! Yes, my name is 3 first names. Mine, my fathers and mothers. Apparently, when I was being...
Das innere Gerüst reparieren. Den Gefühlshaushalt imprägnieren. Alles wetterfest machen, alles festzurren. Für die kalte Jahreszeit, um Verfall oder Schäden vorzubeugen. Instandsetzungsarbeiten, werterhaltende Pflegemaßnahmen. Für die Seele. Damit könnte es klappen. Per E-Mail antworten
3:0 English weeks in the 3rd Bundesliga. Away at Ingolstadt on Sunday, at home against Aachen on Wednesday, and away again in Regensburg on Saturday. The new manager, Jochen Seitz, seems to have made really good use of the long international break, as the team was already 2 goals ahead in Ingolstadt, then conceded...
A song you’d do at karaoke? No. I do not enjoy karaoke. But, the first time I did it I was “volunteered” on a work night out. The track, I kid you not, You Got The Power by Snap. Even if I HAD chose to sing that night it’s not exactly a first choice candidate, ya know? The second time I sang at karaoke was a very...
Even a cursory view of my website will tell you that I write at length and in depth. The keyboard is an essential tool for my computing experience. It connects my brain to the machine. Words in my head get converted to characters on the screen through key presses that are embedded as muscle memory. The creative...
With apologies to Dijkstra, this is about a smaller kind of harm than unstructured control flow, and a more common one: the noreply@ address or emails that direct responses to an “unmanaged” mailbox. Can anyone explain why this is desirable for an email recipient? Picture the scene: a new customer buys something...
Soon I will put the last of my stuff in the car. Sunrise comes later this much further north (at 7:57), so I'm not going to leave until 6:30 or 7. Gone are the days when I would leave at 4 a.m.; driving that many hours in the dark is just too tiring. Is this a sign of getting older or just a sign of being more...
Si vous utilisez les services de la forge Bitbucket, vous avez sûrement reçu un courriel « Action required: update your Bitbucket SSH config ». On y apprend qu’ils vont modifier leur nom d’hôte SSH de bitbucket.org à ssh.bitbucket.org. Si vous utilisez HTTPS pour gérer vos dépôts Git, bonne nouvelle, vous n’avez...
We had a Hotpoint engineer come out to repair our washing machine yesterday. While replacing the machine, he forgot to connect the waste pipe and we came down to this mess this morning. 😡 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.
In my inbox, over the years, in no particular order: From: YouTube Premium Subject: YouTube Premium Individual plan price update Email summary: The monthly price is increasing from $13.99 to $15.99. From: 1Password Subject: Important: We’re updating the cost of your subscription Email summary: The annual price is...
I'm not sure yet which one I'd get, but for several years I've thought it would be nice to own an EV. There are several reasons. Gasoline prices have always been a factor, especially now. But generally, thought of not being dependent on gas for transportation has long been appealing to me. Other countries are way...
We’re down to the final four segments, but we only have three walks left to do. The plan for today is to walk segment number 7 and also attach to it the beginning part of number 8. 23km, 870m of ascent, 1250m of descent. Next time, we’ll finish 8th and attach 9th to it, but that’s a problem for future me. I’ll be...
I've already complained in numerous posts about how expensive food is. Y'all know gas is $5 a gallon. The cheapest new car is 40k. Blah blah blah. But what about stuff nobody needs? Like fun stuff? Well, given the need to retain customers you'd expect the big boys out there to come up with affordable options. Right?...
Working on my writing on weekends is an impossibility. Even on our "chill" at home days, the moment my kids perceive my silent attempts at sitting down with my notebook, they conjure any possible excuse to drag me away into play again. Then we play, it becomes fun, and I am ignored. I decide to write again, and the...
PSA: RSS and Atom XML Feeds FailureHello dear readers. Earlier this week, if you noticed a lot of new (actually duplicate) entries in your feed reader from me—I apologize! To fix it, mark all as read in your feed reader. If your feed reader didn’t fetch during the time I was messing with all of this, it might not...
Reasons why I will be playing this game again. Dispatch is a choose-your-own adventure game where you play as a down-and-out superhero named Robert Robertson who finds himself working as a dispatcher at Superhero Dispatch Network (SDN). Robert is assigned to manage the "Z-Team," which is comprised of ex-convicts....
I’ve said it before; I’m no programmer. One of the stalwarts for open-source has been Linus Torvalds, and he’s seen a lot of code over the decades. It’s just been disappointing hearing him speaking positively about using AI. The recent clarifications show some form of naiveness in his assumptions I find hard to...
Today, the day before my birthday no less, I crossed a milestone I’ve been working toward for probably close to two years: I broke the 200lb threshold. I’m officially 198lbs, down from my heaviest that I know of — I wasn’t always diligent about weighing myself — which was 278lbs. (Before you say anything, yes I’m...
Each year, Nonomiya Shrine hosts a reenactment of the departure of the Saigu, an unmarried imperial princess sent to serve as high priestess at the Grand Shrine of Ise (Ise Jingu). The tradition dates to the Heian era. Here, the Saigu has stepped down from her palanquin and is making her way to the river for...
17 Contraption | INDEX | 19 Confused Self-imposed constraint: Use the letters of the prompt word inside a 2-inch square to illustrate its meaning. Hongdian Black Forest fountain pen, EF, black ink on 120 gsm paper.
I enjoyed this episode of Frodeno Going Mental, in which three-time Ironman World Champion Jan Frodeno interviews six-time Ironman World Champion Mark Allen. Allen’s mindset and mindfulness truly resonates with me; I really needed to hear this after my last race. I could quote the entire thing, so just give it a...
I have a lot of fun with self-hosting lately. It got much easier with the help of AI. After tackling and improving music self-hosting, it was finally time to find an adequate solution for my AI chats. Previously I mainly used Gemini, then Mistral Vibe (Le Chat). But I’m not happy with having just another...
Third time's the charm So, to cut to the chase: I guess I’m a guy who knits, now. I’ve been inspired by knitters such as Cynthia, Anna, and Daniel, (and many more folks!) who not only share their beautiful projects online, but have also helped me a lot with their advice and encouragement. Thank you all! I’ve always...
October 2026. Bermondsey. South-east London. A real tourist walk up next, past the Tower, and the bridge that was sold in error to Americans but proved too expensive to send via Amazon. Don’t those buildings look quaint when you look back from the Thames ? You used to be able to see St Paul’s, you know. New GBG tick...
Save the last independent bookshop in Belfast city centre.Belfast's North Street is not a fancy neighbourhood. Years of neglect and rising costs have caused independant businesses to move out, leaving derelict buildings in their wake. The controversial Tribeca development has played a part. Keats & Chapman, a...
What do you do when you have no big material desires left? When you already have a monetary safety net that will serve you in case of an emergency? Your bank balance will grow, but most of it will only go towards your retirement plan. Retirement and emergencies are both future possibilities. You will save your money...
In case the dead silence hasn’t been enough of a clue, I’ll spell it out: it has been a rough week at Casa Aztec, though things are finally looking up (among other things, it’s finally fucking Friday! YAY!) ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ A bike update: I mentioned at the end of this post that the rear tire exploded–as I was riding...
The other day I was walking in Gloucestershire again, with my brother and walking friends – this time a stroll beside the Severn from Deerhurst to Tewkesbury and back. Deerhurst (a name that sounds more Kent than Gloucestershire) boasts a very remarkable Anglo-Saxon church – a large, complex building which is still...
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 distribución de GNU/Linux openSUSE. Hagamos un repaso a las novedades que han llegado...
