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Well, the stump grinding didn’t happen today. It started raining around the time they were expected to arrive. So… next week some time. This morning, while feeding the yard cats, I got a head count of about 17. The highest in quite some...
This is all courtesy of Peter Evans, with the carded set coming last year around Christmastime, and the figure being in the latest donation, which I picked-up the other day! Apropos the construction sets we saw in the shelfies from Brian...
Yes, the mushroom dolsot for lunch was excellent, and at some point the sound of the sizzling dipped below hearing level.
Tangerine sorbet. Summertime in a cup.
MIA MIA is a small coffee shop in Kuramae. Its specialty seems to be in being a place where you are guaranteed to have a friendly chat, whether with one of the baristas or one of the other customers around you. So it’s a great place to...
If you've ever been in a heated argument, odds are you've come up with a clever response only after several hours had passed. And maybe, in your mind's eye, maybe in the shower, you've imagined how things would have gone if you had...
Goldwater Brewery in Chandler - no food tonight The Hudson - yes food Bottleshop - Dough Riders Pizza Yum! Pier 54 - its nice out so why not Tipsy Cactus has a the All Beef Food Truck My way Tacos on Carriage Lane??? This post...
Decided to give ChatGPT a try after a fairly long hiatus. It's very good! Better than Claude most of the time, with faster delivery. Still think Sonnet 4.6 with a good harness is pretty ace, but think I will be defaulting to OpenAI in...
I think I finished the proof with respect to the minimal perimeter of convex shapes of hexagons.
I've written a bit about 750 Words before, the last time in 2019. It's a service I started using for private journalling in 2010 on and off and since 2020 I've been writing there on a daily basis. The site has this feature called badges...
Homemade burgers on the balcony and a private Catalan serenade.
Years ago, I pledged to read at least one story from each issue of the seminal speculative fiction magazine Weird Tales bearing a 1930s cover date. That quest accomplished, I expanded the scope of my eldritch ambitions to encompass the...
Two nights ago, we were sitting out on the porch having dinner, after a brief but much needed break from the humid summer days that we've been experiencing all too often lately. I had left my phone upstairs, intentionally, so I wouldn't...
Photo by Adrian Swancar on Unsplash🍕 I’m JA Westenberg. I write essays about technology, philosophy, productivity, and what it means to be human. If you like ideas that take their time, you’re in the right place.While you’re here, a few...
Click to book for The Gentle Author’s Tours This selection of hop picking photographs is from the archive of Tower Hamlets Community Housing. Traditionally, this was the time when East Enders headed down to the Hop Farms of Kent &...