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Norman Conquest 2.0 The British Museum in Bloomsbury, seen on a rainy afternoon a while back (when Britain still could make the rains run on time). From today it’s the temporary home of the Bayeux Tapestry which depicts events leading up...
I was out early this morning to water and weed the garden before it got too hot, though at 6am it was 21C/70F and increasing quickly. We all stayed indoors for most of the day. My brother, however, was back out there, working on his...
Minecraft lets you define your own world border, which limits the world to a specific size. This is helpful for sysadmins to limit the growth and file size of a map. For players, it keeps the map more compact, which also potentially lets...
From Jakub Krehel, a new blog post about self constraint in the era when AI makes it easy to ignore constraints altogether. My caveat is that the post doesn’t fully come together for me – jumping from AI to animations and then back to AI...
Eight years ago, I started with a challenge called “100 Days of Algorithms”. My main goal was to reinforce my algorithm learning from my CS career by taking Princeton’s Algorithms I and II classes taught by Robert Sedgewick, by...
»> go to watolls «< I live in Washington State. Whenever I am rushing to get to a meeting or needing to get somewhere fast, I sometimes take toll roads to get there faster. As I took them more, I noticed that I didn’t know what time to...
Postcards from Montréal, 2026 We were in Montréal recently. I made some postcards while we were there. This is the story I want to remember. I had hoped to do more half-time sketches like the ones I made during the 2024 Euro Cup but...
This is one of multiple I have been writing for the next issue of the Grenzland zine. Harlon Szhugivelli, professional nutterCitizenRequired Skills: NoneRequired Equipment: NoneA conspiracy theorist (Harlon Szhugivelli) approaches the...
Working out some more equations for the convex shapes of hexagons problem.
Click here to book tickets (Click on this photograph to enlarge it) Can you spot Sheila Bell in this photograph of the residents of Great Eastern Buildings celebrating Victory in Europe Day at the Grey Eagle in Quaker St on 2nd May 1945?...
THE FRIGHTENED CITY (1961) was my second film to watch from the Kino Lorber Brit Noir Collection I, following CAGE OF GOLD (1950).THE FRIGHTENED CITY stars Herbert Lom and Sean Connery in a tale of the London crime underworld.Lom and...
Plain text tasks, pencil notes, digital caveman-ism, and some OBTF love I’m enjoying a bounty of family life at the moment! It truly is a delight. It’s also a time when most of the spare spaces of my calendar and brain are comfortably...
Last Thursday, I went to check out Evergreen Coffee ShopFrom where we live it is about a 30 minute walkI really wanted to try their lunch but decided to go early since the weather has turned blazing and humid and try their morning set...
Flipping Through the Past I recently dug out my old CaseLogic (tm) CD binder and thought it would be fun to flip through it and comment on some of my past purchases and obsessions. To explain the contents, let's first establish a (very)...
In a highly uncharacteristic move, I recently purchased a brand new device: an Xteink X4 e-reader. The X4 is a minimalist e-reader that is the size of an old smartphone, but much thinner and lighter. Speaking of smartphones, a portable...