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In Go, it’s common to wait on a condition via a channel while also respecting context cancellation. A common idiom looks like: select { case <-condition: return nil case <-ctx.Done(): return ctx.Err() } An issue with this is that if...
If it’s not broken….don’t tinker!Narrator: He tinkered. Camera: Fujifilm XT5. Location: ///packet.green.only Here is a picture I took yesterday after having lunch with Kelly down by the lake. You know there are two types of cyclists in...
You've already seen The Odyssey. You've probably seen it many times. I'm not talking about filmed versions, one in 1954 and another in 1997. I'm talking about movies that -- knowingly or not -- have retold the Odyssey story, if not...
The day started with some trepidation: should I really pull the trigger and do a day at Tokyo DisneySea or listen to the voice in my head telling me it would be weird to go to a Disney park alone and that I should do something more...
Love and Desire in the Promised Land: The Private Lives of Israelis and Palestiniansby Salomé Parent-Rachdi, DeloupyGenres: Graphic Novels, Non-fiction Pages: 160 Rating: Synopsis: The Israeli-Palestinian conflict viewed through the lens...
Well, Darling Ones, I did it. I popped my post-stroke wheelchair user (PSWU) concert cherry last night. It was John Cougar Mellencamp, and I’m glad I saved myself for him and the Mystic Lake Amphitheater. Last night was many PSWU firsts....
Released in 2013, this two-disc set is a welcome addition to ECM’s obscure constellation of compilations, not least because it draws generously from the label’s New Series imprint. Such recordings are often omitted when anthologies favor...
fansplaining:How Fans Make Fictional Languages RealOur latest is live! ✨ Maria Temming reports on the worlds of fictional constructed language (aka conglang) speakers. For fans gathering around Na'vi, Elvish, Klingon, Dothraki, or High...
fansplaining:How Fans Make Fictional Languages RealOur latest is live! ✨ Maria Temming reports on the worlds of fictional constructed language (aka conglang) speakers. For fans gathering around Na'vi, Elvish, Klingon, Dothraki, or High...
Desert plants on a small dune at New Mexico’s White Sands National Park. The post Clump appeared first on 75CentralPhotography.
so, pretty much what i expected to happen if i increased the time between blog posts has happened. it's made it really hard to write again after so much time passes (⌒_⌒;) i was reading b's post about blogging guilt and feel much the...
I couldn’t have predicted any aspect of today, and for that I’m weirdly grateful. Would have been nice to have seen England in a World Cup final, though.
Feels like such a short amount of time since my last week in review. (That's because I wrote the last one on Sunday.) The one thing I missed out on when visiting Disneyland last week was having a drink at Trader Sam's Enchanted Tiki Bar,...
I wrote a document today. I used my brain and no LLM was consulted. It took me 10 minutes to write and it’s 3/4 of a page long, yet it has all the basic info we need to get started. I’ll be able to reason about it, reference it, and talk...
Sam Neill, known for playing Dr. Alan Grant in the Jurassic Park movies and appearing in movies from The Hunt for Red October (1990) to Event Horizon (1997), died on July 13, 2026, at the age of 78. Sam Neill was born Nigel John Dermot...