Sat Oct 24
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Since I am done with The Left Hand of Darkness and with The House on the Borderland—both with a pending review coming soon—I decided I would give Frank Herbert’s Dune Messiah a shot at last. Even though I have a digital copy, I owned this one in paperback format, and decided to go with the analog experience! My...
I love watching mountain movies as a part of armchair travel fantasies because I don't have enough strength, time, or money to even try climbing above eight thousand meter peaks. This movie fits in both categories—mountains and traveling. It's a story of the famous expedition of Mt. Everest where Edmund Hillary and...
I mentioned that I want to avoid the “Claude aesthetic” in this blog’s design. It’s not that I have anything against it, really, or against AI-built websites as a concept. My hope, though, is that this AI frenzy provokes a renewed appreciation for handcrafted things, and I want this site to be a vote for that in...
I started iPhone Duo launch day running on too little sleep, too much excitement, and coffee. I ended it with no Duo, an order with no pickup date, and an email telling me Best Buy might cancel the whole thing on November 6.Somewhere in between, “your phone is here waiting for you” became “we don’t know when your...
It is a beautiful dream, that there is something out there to instruct you how to live — a secret handed down by your parents or your teachers, a system like liberal arts education or cognitive behavioral therapy, a slogan held up by your heroes declaring the answer to the bottomless question of why you are here....
After hiking up to the end of the ridge, it was now time to scout the initial part. The starting point is some 25km east of where I parked the car last time around, at the parking spot of the Italian ossuary in the lovely town of Kobarid. The plan is to walk my way up till the beginning of the ridge, reaching...
I’ve been taking a break from Mastodon as my social home on the web for about six weeks. It has been more difficult than I’d usually admit. I have an amazing local community in my town that I love and am deeply involved in. But nobody here is a programmer, or even a computer nerd, so it doesn’t serve my need for a...
If you find yourself in a game of StarCraft, and ahead of your opponent, the worst thing to do is to try to wipe them out. This is counterintuitive. You have a better economy and a stronger army. Why not attack? The first reason is in game theory. StarCraft is very similar to rock-paper-scissors: you can defend...
(It’s Halloween Week on Unsung, where we’re sharing scary, spooky, and creepy stories. This is my memory of the first bug that freaked me out, and perhaps the first bug I ever remember witnessing.) N.Y.C. The Big Apple walked so that Grand Theft Auto could drive. Well, not really. But the 1984’s awkwardly-titled...
Do you set personal goals for yourself? Seriously, WordPress? This is the sort of question that makes me suspicious of the person asking it. What are you hoping to accomplish here? Are you trying to improve me? Because I have news for you. At my age, personal improvement is a bit like renovating a house with a...
24 Bake | INDEX | 26 Zip 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.
Es ist nicht selten so, dass wenn mich etwas begeistert, es mich auch gleich richtig derbe begeistert. Wismar begeistert mich auf eben diese Art! Wismar ist Teil zwei unseres kleinen Ostsee-Urlaubs—nach drei Tagen in Nienhagen bei meinen Eltern mit Besuchen in Warnemünde und Bad Doberan. Drei Nächte sind wir hier...
Running can get expensive. Here’s how I cut costs on fuel, shoes, watches, and race fees without hurting my marathon training.
We finally made it to Ebogo this morning! Been on our list for a while now but for some reason it never materialized. About 55 kms from home with the last 7 kms through unpaved road - Getting there was super straight forward. Alexis our guide greeted us cheerfully and quickly got us into the Padauk pirogues....
M-am uitat pe Distrowatch la câteva distribuții de care nu am auzit niciodată și practic nu aduc nimic nou. Thank you for following ThinkRoot's Journal via RSS. You can also use Atom or JSON Feed.
October 2026. Littlehampton. West Sussex. I see Simon is off ticking Cheshire via rail replacement buses due to Storm Boelo this morning. He really is a trooper, six pubs a day, whatever the weather. I walked to the Rye Harbour bus stop just now, asked ChatGPT the odds on a smooth trip to Hayward’s Heath, and went...
Why I don't use generative AI as a graphic designer or web designer, with twelve different reasons why. I don't use generative AI for any writing, design, code, or for information or research. I also share an artwork of Astro Boy I made punching genAI company logos and destroying a data center.
People were thinking about “AI” long before 1992, but I doubt they completely envisioned what the technological landscape would look like in 2026. Although, I think a few people had a good idea of what was coming. I wanted to share a couple startling paragraphs from Neil Postman's Book “Technopoly” from 1992. This...
I spent a few days in Breda visiting the city. I mostly walked through Valkenberg, the largest city park there, to see what I could do with light and dark. In a park like that, you have a lot of trees that create shaded spots when the sun is shining. A fun thing to photograph is the play of light and dark, of...
A queue pickup that ignored its limit, a plan cached while the table slept, and a consumer that deadlocked on its own success. The System, Briefly A staged pipeline processes events; each stage has a consumer composed of a fetcher goroutine and N = 10 workers per replica, two replicas per stage. Tasks live in a...
I've spent a bit of time refreshing the Feedgrab marketing site as well as the login/signup pages. I liked many of the existing traits, as well as the strapline, so it's mainly an evolution where I've added more fun and playful touches. Feedgrab does pretty much everything I want, so it tends to be at the back of...
At the start of the month, my husband had to go to Amsterdam for work. I hitched a ride 🙂 Pictures taken with the regular campsnap camera cranes and a bridge Canal with bikes and flowers Hotel de l’europe Snack time! Coffee and a croissant View from the terrace A church. A canal with a churchtower at the end. View...
Later today, we'll get in the car and head the other direction on I 26, up to Bristol. You might say, "Wait, it's not Sunday." No, it's not, but because today is Faith Lutheran's Chili Fest, we're going up today and spending the night in a hotel. It's been a month of a lot of travel for me, and today is the last...
NotesLa France, ce pays où la dérive policière est largement établie depuis plus de 20 ans et qui fait mine de découvrir, vu
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Guys. Make me playlists. Bea made me a playlist and I love that. Now I want to make a playlist for everyone I know. Please donnez moi juste une playlist de vos sons préférés du moment that's all I want !!!! If you want to check out the playlist I made for Bea, it's here. Anyways, pas beaucoup de découvertes...
It is long into October dear readers. What that means in some kind of real time is that rainy season which always seems longer than dry season here, will end. Lately we have had these really beautiful days with cooler evenings and then days warming into the low 30’s. Lovely! Soon things shift to tourist high season...
Beginning with my October 31, 2020 review of a visual novel called Bad End, I have made a small tradition of reviewing visual novels that are plausibly in the spirit of Halloween. I continue the tradition in 2026, starting today with my review of Oniguisama, a very short freeware Japanese visual novel written in...
Nicht ganz 1000 schnelle Wörter zum Golem, irgendwie. Hatte fast schon wieder vergessen dass es ja eine Methode gibt, in der man sich nicht anstrengen muss um seine Gedanken in Worte zu formen sondern einfach die Kontrolle über den Gedanken abgeben kann an die Hand, das Schreiben sozusagen zu einem manuellem Prozess...
Allowing comments on a WordPress blog is only viable if you have a spam checker. Fortunately Automattic (the people behind WordPress) also provide (free) access to Akismet antispam. Because if you run a WordPress blog, you will be getting hundreds of spam comments per day: Nobody can wade through all of that, but...
In this 1-hour video I read from the opening chapter of Nicomachean Ethics, by Aristotle, and comment at length on themes of ranking goals in projects, of having a notion of success versus failure, of determining what we are actually working towards, of what exactly it means for some realities to be instituted as...
I just saw todays #Fotovorschlag rather late. The topic is ‘Von unten nach oben’ / ‘From the Bottom Up’ – and besides some mountain photos, …
What is a song by an artist you don’t usually like? Never been a fan, even if her hips don’t lie, and I struggle with her voice I think. Sure a lot of her music is catchy but, I dunno, how do you quantify something like this? However, my 5 year old has recently “discovered” this song (it features at the end of...