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Watched: Dark Matter S1E1, Are You Happy in Your Life? 🍿
Tom Ferguson came across this news article, Who Really Has the 2026 Midterms Cash Edge?, and was disappointed to see this completely wrong graph: The problem here is not the inclusion of no-longer-candidate Platner, as that’s noted in a...
The Boston Globe ran a piece recently about a controversy in the Cambridge Public Schools. The issue is not unique to Cambridge, and its resolution, I think, illustrates the hopeless situation that the convergence of racial and economic...
Have you head of the Swiss Cheese model? You see it sometimes in descriptions of how complex systems fail. The visual usually goes like this: The whole idea is: even if you have multiple layers of safety – like many slices of cheese –...
Humanity’s superpower is cultural evolution, which we had working long before language. Back then we “vibed” by watching and copying others’ behaviors, and synching those to ours. In this way, we learned how to, and coordinated our:...
This update covers Sunday 07-05-26 through Saturday 07-18-26 (icon Glossary, if needed). LIFE 🈁 Hello again. I’ve been busy of late. 📕 My mother’s ashes are buried, and a chapter in my life has concluded. 📜 It’s nice to see things...
Finished reading: The Perfect Divorce by Jeneva Rose 📚 I don’t like most of the characters in the book. I’m reading in order to see if and when they get what’s coming to them. Sometimes, I yell at them to think. For some reason, they...
by John Boston John W. Campbell, editor of Analog, died a few days ago, while watching professional wrestling on TV—a quintessentially American death, except that it was Mexican wrestling. I never met the man, but he strongly affected my...
Seems like I see a rainbow or two half the time I go swimming. Hawaii is not called the rainbow state for nothing!
Just finished reading Fiona Marchbank’s Ladies of the Knight, it was so good.
Hello, loves! OK, let’s do the thing we love: find something to improve, and improve it. Shall we start where we left off? Result: Not as joyful as some days. We pared down the RoomView by removing its references to layout, dungeon, and...
I recently (26th-28th June 2026) went on a three day climbing trip to Hampi and this is my day to day log of a small set of things that happened. Find day 1 here and day 2 here. Onto day 3: Longest session Well well, promise was broken...
Another rainy day, perhaps the last before the summer high pressure system establishes itself in the Gulf of Alaska. Despite the call for showers for the rest of the day, a thin line of cloud edge appears this morning out over the Strait...
Sherlock Roach and the Case of the Crunchy Crumb is billed as a chapter book, but it’s a comic. And an adorable one! It’s written by Joe McGee and illustrated by Jannie Ho. Sherlock Roach and his partner Dr. Wormston live at 221B Bedbug...
What are these "uncs" I keep hearing about? Is that a new brand of fuzzy boots for men?