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James Bond gets an exploding pen and a car with an ejector seat. Real Cold War spies got something considerably less glamorous, and often considerably more uncomfortable. The CIA and KGB genuinely spent decades and millions of dollars...
Styrofoam Winos :: The Aquarium Drunkard InterviewEarlier this summer, I chatted with Joe Kenkel, Trevor Nikrant and Lou Turner — AKA Styrofoam Winos! And now, you can read the (condensed) results of our talk over on Aquarium Drunkard....
I 3D printed an anemometer with a wind vane. Now I need to figure out how to mount it properly.
Saja wants to know what’s up! Well, my young cat, let me tell you: OpenAI says its “AI” hacked another “AI” company, apparently just for funsies: No, really, that’s the gist of it. OpenAI put the “AI” into a sandbox in order to test its...
i'm not much of a gamer but here's where i'll track my gaming explorations :) newest at the top! shovel night rebound game after coffee talk. since i already just bought a game, i had to seek recourse in our switch library. this was in...
What have you recently finished reading? I got an ARC of Sally Smith’s newest Gabriel Ward novel, A Case of Fear and Favour, and fairly leapt upon it. I didn’t get to dig in much until yesterday because I was finishing other books, but...
In the last two hours, the following three news items have appeared on the BBC website: Ex Southern Water boss among four charged over alleged plan to manipulate water quality tests US to announce deal allowing Saudi Arabia a nuclear...
The Kia and I safely returned to Austin Tuesday morning after a long 11-day journey that took the family to South Dakota and Minnesota. One of the main points of the trip was to get John to the farm in advance of his big 12-year-old trip...
As a play-based preschool teacher, I make sure, every day, to have at least two opportunities for making art available to the kids, one indoors and one outdoors. Typically, the outdoor provocation offers the opportunity to get good and...
I did two more podcast episodes about odd meter, about septuple and nonuple respectively, enjoy. Seven mysteries by Dr. Ethan Hein Read on Substack Nine he gave to mortal men, proud and great, and so ensnared them by Dr. Ethan Hein Read...
There is something to be said about adulthood and feeling the age that you actually are. It was my 30th birthday last week. It’s something I have been keeping an eye on for a while, watching it slowly creep up on me like some sort of...
I heard an interview with the Swedish artist, Familjen (The Family). His breakthrough came quite late in life. When asked if he ever doubted making it, he answered that there had never been any such doubts. Then he added: "I also never...
This post is a sequel to post 26.4 so I suggest you read that first. In post 26.4, I expressed the Maxwell-Ampère law in terms of two definite integrals. In this post I am going to express it in a differential form. This is similar to...
DevRelCon NYC 2026 happens today and tomorrow! DevRelCon was created by the developer relations agency Hoopy and began in London in 2015. It’s since grown into an international series of conferences with editions in London, Prague, San...
So with this posting, I have caught up with the excellent Sherlock Holmes, Consulting Detective series from Airship 27. This time I go over volumes 19 and 20, which are the most recent volumes. As I don’t know when the next volume will...