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Jack Leahy: It is incredible to me that we humans can live a long, full lifetime on this planet and be unwilling to face the brokenness of our lives and the destruction we have caused ourselves and others. I know shouldn’t get angry...
The temperature has been bouncing up and down for the last couple of months, but now that everything is green again we’re well into yard sale season. It’s been pretty slim pickings around here for the last five years or so. I think that...
Within the UK's Civil Service you occasionally hear the expression "being invited to a meeting without biscuits". It implies a rather frosty discussion without any of the polite niceties of a normal meeting. In general though, even when...
Semi-famous people keep talking about Good AI fixing problems, so let's consider how that might look.
PyPI is the main repository for Python packages. One thing that I've noticed recently is the number of published packages per week. Let's look at published counts of new package versions per week: There are some dips in the data, but...
I had the opportunity to attend our 10-year graduate school reunion recently. One of the themes that kept coming up for me: reminiscing about moments of impact. For example, I met with someone and we swapped memories. I remembered a...
Comics Curmudgeon readers! Do you love this blog and yearn for a novel written by its creator? Well, good news: Josh Fruhlinger's The Enthusiast is that novel! It's even about newspaper comic strips, partly. Check it out! Dick Tracy,...
The first volume of Itaru Kinoshita’s Dinosaur Sanctuary was definitely the light reading I needed on the particular day I finally picked it up. It’s aimed at a younger audience, but […]