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Picking up from Joseph's post.Not being from Maine, I didn't spend a lot of time reading or writing about the Senate primary. Here are, I believe, the entirety of my social media posts on the subject. If you look closely, you might spot...
Guten Tag allerseits, Look I know it’s incredibly wrong to like the Waffen SS but if we look at it objectively they were the quintessential bad guys. Along with all the other Nazis of course. I’ve always liked the bad guys but obviously...
After a downpour at dawn, the sky brightens, then darkens again. The aspen and tulip tree saplings in my yard take turns trembling in the breeze. The tanager sings.
It feels like the beginning of an inflection point that plans for a gigantic data center are being abandoned after years of litigation trying to block it. The story, as told by Etiido Uko at Tom’s Hardware, is that the last of several...
I've been ECS-curious ever since I learned about it in the Bevy game engine documentation.The ECS architecture predictably improves performance in languages that give you low-level control over memory (C, C++, Rust, Zig, and friends)....
Hey there. Quick update: 4 people have already preordered Street-Smart Coding Manifesto. A small win I’m celebrating. If you want to grow beyond syntax, this book is for you. As usual, here are 4 links I thought were worth sharing this...
Or: Wait, shouldn’t those two English words be spelled with SH? Despite its reputation and the infamous evidence to the contrary, I’m committed to demonstrating how regular English spelling actually is. Yet words like sugar and sure, I...
Robert Welbourn Under Review:Under Review: St. Ulphia’s Dead. Scott Lambridis. Regal House Publishing, 2026. I saw a post recently on Bluesky that read (excuse the perhaps poor paraphrasing): there are two types of horror story: the door...
From a 1915 book titled Engineering Office Systems and Methods, some thoughts on how to design a steel-frame building: My thoughts on the thoughts: No one today would attempt to write a single book that covered every possible topic for a...
The “Old” Wandering Lensman himself. …or some sort of caricature of him. I’m doing pretty well for 74 years of age! In fact, I’m feeling great! I feel more like 54. I’ve been blessed in so many ways and am still passionate about...
I recently purchased an envelope from an online auction site that featured a couple of Newfoundland stamps and a cancellation from the Bonavista railway post office.
Looking for a fun way to kill some time before you wrap it up ahead of the weekend? This might help.This YouTube video dives into the history of Hotmail, from how Sabeer Bhatia and Jack Smith came up with the idea for free webmail, to...
Black-and-white group posing with a Tamla-Motown UK Tour banner listing The Supremes, Smokey Robinson, Martha and the Vandellas.
I wanted to make a purely subjective, partial list of the English bookshops I frequent and enjoy. But, after some consideration, I decided that the full list will be too long, too messy, and too difficult to structure.So, for this time,...
Jaroslav Pelikan, as quoted in Tools for Engagement: Tradition is the living faith of the dead, traditionalism is the dead faith of the living. And, I suppose I should add, it is traditionalism that gives tradition such a bad name.