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A Labrador in Milton Keynes is already pressing a button to turn on his owner's lamp. Meanwhile, the rest of us are downloading apps and factory-resetting our dignity. The dog button is trying to tell us something about design — and it's...
Another quote from Dante Sisofo
I see to be in a bit of a monochrome mood lately, and I worked on three images I haven’t presented before: one from a year ago a few miles from home, one from five Mays ago in Saqánma (a.k.a. Hells Canyon), and a third from a...
I just read Robert A. Heinlein’s Double Star. I had read it in Junior High or High school, sometime in the mid-1970s, and I don’t think I’ve read it since.
Today’s only recording is Mythbusters – Peeing on the Third Rail. This is actually an episode revisiting lots of previous myths. The first one is whether covering your body with gold paint would kill you by overheating. This time it’s...
Be skeptical of sweeping stories about China, regardless of how good or bad they portray things. The technological advancements mentioned in the news may be even more profound in reality, but not as widespread as shown. The GDP growth...
I had one real goal today. That was to visit my mother in the afternoon. While doing the morning routine over the past week, my younger daughter and I had been making sure to open the gate, just in case. It was late morning when we heard...
Nicholas… I’ve known and loved him for twenty-seven years. I adore that my friends know how to cheer me up. I am sure he could sense how down I’ve been of late, and twenty minutes ago, he sent me the above video. The way my heart perked...
The sun finally came out around 4:00 this afternoon. While that was good for the comfort of the fans, the engines prefer things to be a little cooler. I mentioned this earlier and hate being a Negative Nellie, but this was a very subdued...
Daniel Lemire speeds up binary search using parallel data-comparison instructions (\(\mathbb{M}\), see also).
She’s laying down a base of, “We come to this place… for magic.We come to Christie’s to laugh, to cry, to care.” And dusting it with some,“But square cut or pear-shaped, these rocks don’t lose their shape!” This Brancusi should sell for...
A little zine I made for fun that contains three dark fairytales I originally wrote in 2025 for the NSR Sword& zine issue #1.