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In this week's very special Project Runway episode: A Project Runway 22 episode 2 recap and review, with a special guest star! Should we flee like Nina Garcia did?
lingthusiasm:118: Using tech to chat with bonobos, dogs, and whalesCan we teach dogs to express their needs better by pressing buttons? What about the studies trying to teach bonobos and other primates to communicate through buttons or...
SCRUBBED: SpaceX scrubs Starship launch after some of its engines didn’t start. tweet tweet Also, clever characterization by SpaceX senior manager Kate Tice:
Instead of the forecasted 20kn of wind, much of the night was hovering around 10kn. While this did hurt our day distance, it did make for smoother motion. As consequence, we both got pretty good sleep. In the morning the wind picked up...
Tennis ball rocker feet on my KICKR CORE 2. Last winter, after getting a Wahoo KICKR CORE 2 trainer and designing some variable height feet to level the bike I kept thinking about tennis ball feet. These provide a bit of give, allowing...
The greatest joy in my quest to document and archive all things Twin Peaks is finding something I’ve never seen. Take this publicity photo I acquired at auction from my favorite David Lynch film, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me. The black...
weather: ☀️ have mercy critters: cats this is the last part of a series (part 1, part 2) of words the british think i don't know. it's brief because i have now run out of words spliff. intelligible, but i've never heard anyone under 50...
I believe that the creation of visualization apps to illustrate mathematical or scientific concepts is a particularly favorable use case for modern coding agents, as many of the downside risks attached to other LLM use cases are limited:...
Dear Constant Reader, This book is only tangentially related to burlesque — in a couple of ways you might expect and one you probably don’t. Michelle L’amour told me about this book, probably not long after it came out, and I’m grateful....
(As I’m sitting down to write this, I’m noticing the report and quote I’m reacting to — spotted on Facebook a week or so back — is actually from back in March, during Spring Training, and not at all recent. That said, I’m pressing on and...
fast enough for harmony the oven timer has found a new voice it's mixed in with the old fast enough for a new frequency the oven timer has an undertone now it's dropping in and out it's fast enough for tension the oven timer has found a...
From The Russo-Ukraine War: The Return of History, by Serhii Plokhy (W. W. Norton, 2023), Kindle pp. 152-154: Putin’s address was aired on Russian television in the early hours of February 24, on the eighth anniversary of Putin’s...
Six iterations, from initial to final, of slip-fit stove knob lockouts. Even for a few-hour project, I find it interesting to look back at the various iterations of developing something. In this case it’s six different versions of a...
MAGA believes every single, recycled lie President Trump reiterated this evening concerning the 2020 election. Thank you for your attention to this matter-we now humbly await his state of emergency declaration to steal the midterms!