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Another set of Stormtroopers today, and as the title says and your eyes clearly show, “but in red this time”. “Why would you do that?” you’re probably not asking. Well, I’mma gonna tellya why anyway. It’s pretty simple really. I have two...
I was looking for an old photo to show my wife when a peculiar image appeared. Little light, plenty of artefacts from the primitive smartphone camera of sixteen years ago, something extremely blurred within an indistinct dark grey...
Duncan Rawlinson photographed this rural Ontario scene from above during the fall of 2018. A weathered wooden barn sits alone in a field dusted with the season’s first snow, surrounded by trees still holding their autumn yellows and...
Recently I’ve been going down a stationery rabbit hole. I’m a bit of a former stationery addict (I had a Field Notes subscription for a year or two back in my uni days) and considering Japan has some great stationery brands I was curious...
Many years ago, I had met with a group of Stanford University graduate students then working on their joint Masters in Business Administration (MBA) and education. Some had taught for a few years through Teach for America and were eager...
R4-6D0 3 3/4-Inch Debut Star Wars Droid Depot Item No.: ??? Manufacturer: Disney Number: n/a Includes: Collector card, TC-332 right leg Action Feature: Pulls apart Retail: $19.99 Availability: April 2026 Appearances: n/a Bio: All...
Banyan Ether Having appeared on BlackPlastic with their 2023 song, More to Say, Banyan are back with a new slice of blissed-out electronic music in the form of new single Ether. Whilst both Ether and More to Say channel the same rounded,...
The concept of infinity lies at the heart of calculus, the infinitely large and the infinitely small, also known as the infinitesimal. In fact, in the early days of calculus, at the beginning of the eighteenth century, it was known as...
I am lucky to still be able to go 150 hunting for the time being - my favourite type of Sprinter still roams the rails in Wales - and beyond. Of course in miniature I have a number of examples, the most recent, and personal of which is...
Back in 2023, together with Ignacio Barros, I made Mgnbar.info, a website about the geometry of $\overline{\mathrm{M}}_{g,n}$, the moduli space of stable $n$-pointed genus $g$ curves. For a long time it showed a single invariant, the...
(Mitchell Hashimoto) is building Ghostty, Vouch and has cool thoughts about testing. He was behind a lot of cloud tooling like Vagrant, Packer, Consul, Terraform, Vault, Nomad, Waypoint. In this interview, we talk about terminals, Zig...
Here’s a chunk of OpenZFS Mastery. I’ve caught up to where I stopped, and new words will be coming soon. Pool features that are enabled are available for use, but not yet used on any bits on the disk. Your OpenZFS supports a new...
Each Thursday in the Disquiet Junto music community, a new compositional challenge is set before the group’s members, who then have five days to record and upload a track in response to the project instructions. Membership in the Junto...
Some things will always lie beyond human comprehension. Photos: © Stan B.The one thing I found myself most wanting to do when I was in Washington, DC this 7/04 was to walk about, megaphone in hand, proclaiming, "Climate Change is a hoax"...
Here's a pair of "OK" images from Fantasyland, circa 1973 - starting with a familiar view of It's a Small World's busy façade. There are more strollers than we typically see in old photos! Of course, IASW is a very "toddler-friendly"...