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We’ve never been well-off enough to go for an annual holiday abroad, but a couple of years ago we decided to spend a night away in a seaside resort town in the next county. The boys absolutely loved it, so we went back last year for 2...
07:18 In this crazy world hurtling in all directions, I want to slow down and walk leisurely. 07:25 When I am already struggling to focus, the distractions of undone tasks are burdensome. Reply to this post
It is so weird to wake up and have nowhere to be. And then have moments in the afternoon where I could genuinely nap for the rest of the day and there would be no one checking up on me. I don’t think I like it. In the last seven days,...
Oh right, I can pretend I am writing something. Some notes on books I read in the distant past. NOT SHAKESPEARE The Dutch Courtesan (1604), John Marston – Discussed long ago. Poems (1594-1612), George Chapman – A superb, innovative poet,...
The Great Plague of 1665 was the last major outbreak of bubonic plague in Britain. London suffered the worst of it in terms of sheer numbers, where an estimated 100,000 people, around 15–20% of the city’s population, lost their lives....
21:43 - Tried to watch season 2 of the live-action Avatar the Last Airbender out of curiosity. Couldn't even get through episode 2. I didn't like the first season but watched through it. The storytelling simply sucks and the changes make...
Athena Parthenon at Nashville, Tennessee. A few trivial criticisms. Still loved the movie. Ancient god statues were not blank, like in museums. They were colorfully painted. (The temple of Athena in Troy looked like it was made out of...
Here in New England, we got some serious smoke from the Canadian wildfires. How does it compare to other places? Interplanetary Smoke On 2026-Jul-15, smoke from some extensive Canadian wildfires blew down into the US, creating some...
Yikes. I looked at the calendar today and something clicked – TCM’s Summer Under the Stars celebration starts NEXT WEEK, and I still haven’t worked my way through covering last year’s new-to-me movies! Time for a marathon review session,...
There are many sedimentary layers to this story of me and this beautiful Hawaiian family of five that will take a long time to unearth and inspect — and I suppose that's what IM is going to be for; containing as it will the many stories...
QT8 is a very strange name for a metro station. You don't get many stations that are abbreviations. You instinctively want to run it together to form words: cutie-eight. And now I'm thinking of when John Gardner introduced an assistant...
PlanetScale - It would be great if this remembered my previous settings or had some sort of templates. I love this feature, but I would rather not have to click through and make the same selections over and over.
There are people on X talking about canceling all of their SaaS subscriptions andbuilding their own personal versions of those services. I find this silly. Building iseasy. Maintaining is hard. Maintaining things you don’t really care...
TFW you knock your AirPod out of your ear while walking on the treadmill and you watch it hit the belt and shoot across the room like it was loaded into a railgun
This latest incident is a rather dramatic escalation in agentic AI cybersecurity breaches. It was severe enough to have been initially reported to authorities, before either HuggingFace or OpenAI understood what was happening. Sam Altman...