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A total of four basketball sessions this week. After mentioning in my notes last week that the rims were not perpendicular to the backboard, they replaced the rims at both ends of the court in time for the back-to-back session at the...
This photo reminds me of the dining room in the SciFi series ‘Silo’1. If you know, you know. It was taken in the cafe of the main pavilion at the National Arboretum in Canberra. –ooOoo- In other news, my email digest saga continues. I...
I experimented with doing week notes over at weblog.lol for a while, and after reflecting on them, I've decided to make a few changes: I'm going to integrate them back into my main blog here, so I'll be posting these weekly notes moving...
I can't do this again sit here shattered met with nothing but cold the same pain but not shared not carried together even if I try and try and try and cry, finally how dare I make this about me
My sister is doing some research on our family at The Library of Congress and came across some of my Great Grandfather’s papers. Mixed within was this art masterpiece by the famed 3 year old poet and print artist Patrick Rhone.
Some mighty nice sidewalk chalk art at Presidio Wall Park today, celebrating Phillip's birthday. I dunno know who did it; it's unsigned. Maybe, like, Phillip's grandma or something?
Robert Birming, per usual: Don't feel like blogging today? Do it anyway. ... Keep on blogging, even if it sometimes ends up blank. Oh, that explains it. "It" referring to your substance: Unessential Repetitive Redundant Excessive...
It has been round about six months since I started working on [LazerBunny][lb]. Which means I am getting close to the point where I want to evaluate my progress and do a little mini retrospective to see if any of the effort and time that...
When you visit parts of the website of the Driver & Vehicle Licensing Agency in the U.K. outside of standard office hours, you will see this: It seems ridiculous, almost like the famous 500-mile email bug, but Dafydd Vaughan explains how...
In the summer of 1947, a group of Swiss surgeons watched a man walk calmly across a hospital corridor with a rapier sticking clean through his torso, entry wound in his back, tip poking out through his chest, no blood, no wincing, no...
Space Between Entertainment is a smaller independent publisher I am familiar with, as I've followed the work of creator Pat Shand for years and he does a lot with them--which makes sense as he founded and owns the company! SBE recently...
It’s hardly revolutionary to say that in the vast majority of role-playing games, your character is your single strongest vector of contribution, so making a good character is critical. But what’s a “good” character? Easy: Someone you...
This is either very good, or very bad, depending on where you're sitting or standing, on the LLM-generated art divide. ::chuckle:: [ day in progress... ]
`lzma` compresses the most and `zlib` is about as fast as `zstd` in `django_redis` as compressor.
Previously: Ordinal numbers and basic set theory Ordinals as nim-heaps Yesterday I talked about the game of Nim, which involves two players taking beans from several piles, and an extension that includes green tokens that behave a bit...