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The universe is full of many weird and wonderful things, such as Bubsy the Bobcat coming back for a second time. After the largely piddling pair of The Woolies Strike Back and Paws on Fire! in the late 2010s, Atari SA acquired the rights...
In June 1908, a young Austrian woman named Sadie Schoen was hauled into a New York City police station and photographed twice, once facing the camera, once in profile. The charge on her card read simply: swindling. Her case is one of the...
Yesterday was a very busy day. I went to the park with my friend, and it was super fun. I will write a post and put all the photos I took. But this post is about my family's game night. Some nights, before bed, we watch movies, but more...
. “In the end we thought maybe our manifesto could be a manifesto of questions.” “There are so many injustices in the world, you could speak out against them twenty-four hours a day for the rest of your life and still not have nearly...
"Independence + Purpose = Happiness" Morgan Housel Morgan Housel has a tidy little formula for a good life. Independence means controlling your own time. Purpose means having a reason to get out of bed that someone else did not assign to...
Due to sports hall availability there was only one day of basketball this week, so I decided to do back-to-back sessions on Monday. Three hours of basketball in total. I've been complaining a lot in previous week notes that I have been...
During a recent visit to Vienna I stayed in Superbude Wien Prater, a very hip, modern hotel directly next to the famous amusement park. With its roots in Hamburg it’s no surprise that this hotel targets a younger customer group with a...
Finished my 2025 Christmas presents for real, this time, back in February (though apparently I never actually published this post), with a pair of linen sleeve protectors. While the documentation I gathered back in the day suggested that...
07:51 For a while there were more falls and faults than football there. #WorldCup 08:02 It had to happen - Switzerland were playing a lot more aggressive football than Argentina. Scores tied! #WorldCup Reply to this post
😫 🤷 😡 😭 🫠 It has been 202 days since I broke my hip in a freak bike accident. 6 months, 2 weeks, 5 days. My last update on this series of unfortunate events was at 80 days on March 13th. That is because not much has changed. I gave up on...
I just shared good news about my heart journey, and now I can finally share another medical milestone for 2026: my cataract surgeries are done and my vision is back. For the last couple of years, my sight kept slipping, no matter how...
A few days ago I wrote a post entitled Does additional data always reduce posterior variance?. In a nutshell, the answer is no, not always. That led the previous post which looked at posterior means for three Bayesian models, showing how...
Elephant Hawk MothAs Summer is now in full swing, and Benno has been doing some excellent writing about his fishing adventures, I thought that it was only fair that I upheld my end of the bargain too and did some writing, so I'm going to...
Yesterday we had a fabulous day out at the city aquarium here in Quebec City. The OH surprised me at breakfast saying they’d booked tickets online for us, and had ordered a taxi for 9:30 am to get there — this mostly because the city,...
(Full Canada holiday writeup to come) Got ~1 hour sleep on the plane, and ~1 hour in the cab home, so didn't get going to pick up Cookie right away from Anna's parents - but after some caffeine I was ready to drive us to pick up Cookie...