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Software engineers are often told to “start playing politics”, but most engineers have no idea what that means. Their reference point for “playing politics” comes from fiction like Game of Thrones. Are they supposed to raise an army and...
For several years, I’ve been writing weekly flash fiction: ultra-brief tales of 1,000 words or more, usually in genres including science fiction, horror, and the supernatural. Those stories collectively are called Once Upon A Time. You...
I need a fidget toy that’s a Morse code key I can use to send myself notes during meetings: “ask boss about thing he said” or “read about new subject”.
Here are the cameras I used. From left to right; Canon G2, Canon G9, Canon G11, OM-3,Ricoh GRIIIx and Fujifilm XE-5. (click any image to enlarge)The other day I was retrieving something from one of my bookcases. In the bookcase, along...
A view of the ground floor os a small industrial building in the Bronx: The building has no cellar, so this is its bottom. The interesting thing here is the design of the column bases, but I’ll get to that in a minute. The floors are...
Part TwoQuoteWe have it in our power to begin the world over again ... The birthday of a new world is at hand. Notes🔥 This — the issue of American independence — is not just an issue of the day, says Paine, but it will have effects "to...
Read this post in Portuguese here Hi! This is a little experiment where I’ll publish the same post in Portuguese and English and see how it goes. I’ve seen a lot of Brazilian bloggers here on Bear and wanted to join in. My friend and I...
Leia esse post em inglês aqui Oi! esse é um pequeno experimento onde eu vou publicar o mesmo post em português e inglês e ver no que dá. Tenho visto muitos bloggers brasileiros aqui no Bear e quis me juntar. Eu e minha amiga tivemos um...
The White House is once again in damage control mode after -- get this! -- something the President said turned out to be made up.I was going to say false, but that would be too good a word for what Trump spews out: False would imply that...
A pair of MBI detectives are sent to Money, Mississippi, to investigate a series of brutal murders, where each crime scene also appears to have an unexpected second body. I feel somewhat ambivalent about this novel. It’s well-written,...
Matt Webb mentioned Zork in a recent post:Back in the day, text adventures were games with a natural language interface.Zork (1977) was the first well-known one.This surfaced a long-forgetten memory from when I was a teenager, likely...
Today, while editing this week’s edition of WeeklyOSM, I stumbled upon this map.https://github.com/uplbtools/room-tbaIt’s a campus map. A simple campus map with descriptions for each important POI. But I personally think the...
I started reading this book; ‘The Legacy of Ibo Landing: Gullah roots of African American Culture’ edited by Marquetta L. Goodwine My Ancestry comes out of Gullah and South Carolina territory.One of my very favorite films is ‘Daughters...
A few months ago I finally got around to switching my Google Pixel over to GrapheneOS. The install was refreshingly painless, the bootloader re-locked without complaint, and the web installer made the whole process feel almost...