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“You know how tall all the trees are in Mulligan Wood. You can’t see the tops of some of them from the wagon-road on a clear day. And you know how crooked and queer-looking some of them are. It’s funny, but I’ve always thought of them as...
June 1969. The Soviet Union stuns the world when cosmonaut Alexei Leonov becomes the first man to walk on the Moon. The Americans, whose own effort is just a few weeks away, are infuriated. The Soviets plan to surprise them again with a...
I've had this long, long running relationship with bookmarking and read it later services. I'll commit to one, excited about whatever feature set it offers and then, without fail, my list grows and grows and grows and grows. I archive...
Yesterday early in the morning, with the help of Claude, I finally figured out what prevented me from logging into indieweb.org. It was something stupid really, one of those things that most people who register their own domains will...
“I’m going to water the bananas.” My family knows that means I’m going to shower outside using the hose with a watering wand attached and hooked to an old bird feeder stand, placed next to some banana plants. It’s one of my favorite...
‘In Paul Rabinow’s monograph Symbolic Domination (1975) the anthropologist examines the history of a Moroccan village and its dominant lineage descended from a seventeenth century saint Sidi-Lachen. A second book, Reflections on...
I like Angela Collier’s videos about physics and I was delighted to discover this 18-minute one… …because it’s a great continuation to the thread about the complexity of Microsoft Office I shared recently. Collier talks about why...
Chance Miller, reporting for 9to5Mac: Apple has filed a lawsuit against OpenAI today, accusing the company of trade secret theft. Specifically, Apple alleges that its former employees have stolen trade secrets “for the benefit of...
A response to I’m Gay, Not Queer. It Matters. Mr. Vines has written a truly stunning piece published by the ever-affirming New York Times. He reminds us how the queer community dares to remain a broad, undefined, sinful, umbrella...
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TL;DR - There's a new version - based on customer feedback - of the LutzAuto Speedo Correction device that I ran until a couple of them failed, and I'm giving it a try again. Here's to hoping that v2 hardware solves the connector issues...
TL;DR - I had to put a new starting battery when my lights were left on by the facility that stores it in Las Vegas. I also took the opportunity to "capture" the battery a little bit better. A new custom extension bracket on my...
The plants in the garden are really suffering right now. Status: I have found the perfect way to spend less time on my phone. I needed to employ my secondary swimming shorts today and the main ones needed a wash. The elastic on these is...
I am closing in on 30 years in the industry. One thing I did not imagine when I just started out was that the list of “things I have seen” would constantly grow over the decades. How naive I was, believing people know what they are...