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2027: my coworker asks me why i won’t wear the headset. i briefly consider giving some sort of excuse, but i just sigh and say i’m afraid of the training…
Last week I had a friend for dinner, and she convinced me to do one of her favorite activities afterward: lie on the grass in the park and look at the sky. I was hesitant because I don’t like to lie down until nighttime, when the only...
Hello, loves! As I dozed off, I had an Idea. We’ll think about that and then find something to do. LLM note. Important(?) closing. Tout le monde déteste l’IA. When I go to bed, I often think about whatever I’m programming, as such...
TL;DR: I’m announcing my candidacy for the inaugural Python Packaging Council. I hope you’ll honor me with your vote, if you’re a voting member of the PSF, but regardless I have high hopes (and expectations) for the council. My...
OBI-WAN KENOBI — JEDI TRAINING GEAR STAR WARS: POWER OF THE JEDI (HASBRO) “Obi-Wan Kenobi, a Jedi Knight training under Jedi Master Qui-Gin Jinn, has proved his loyalty to the Council and Jedi code time and time again. In missions...
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From The Making of the Modern Philippines: Pieces of a Jigsaw State, by Philip Bowring (Bloomsbury Academic, 2022), Kindle pp. 60-62: Magsaysay was dynamic, reorganizing and enlarging the army, improving discipline and reducing...
This is the tomb of Strongbow, aka Earl Richard de Clare, in Christ Church Cathedral in Dublin. Richard was an English nobleman who, through a complicated series of treaties, wars, and arranged marriages, was instrumental in making the...
D.R. Shackleton Bailey (1917-2005), Propertiana (Cambridge: At the University Press, 1956), p. 16 (on Propertius 1.4.13 ingenuus color; footnote omitted): Propertius only wants to say that Cynthia had the fair complexion associated with...
A couple of weeks ago, I was talking to Vincent, one of the juggling and unicycle coaches at circus. One almost never sees Vincent still. He’s almost always practicing juggling. For the first time in the 18+ years I’ve known him, it...
I’ve spent the past couple of weeks watering someone else’s garden. (This isn’t some ~deep~ metaphor, I’ve literally been watering someone else’s garden.) My daughter agreed to water her boyfriend’s parent’s garden while they’ve been...
My colleague Warren of ICastLight was kind enough to send me a copy of the MERP module The Haunted Ruins of the Dunlendings. MERP modules can be a little hit or miss, but I thought two of the three adventures were pretty good! Of course,...
For all of my side projects, I recently moved away from classic semantic versioning (MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH) to a more liberating CalVer one (YYYY.MM.RELEASE (PATCH)). Wait, why did I say liberating? I know it sounds stupid, especially for...
It's been awhile since my last essay on religion, and while I've shared my personal testimony and death rituals from around the world, I haven't written about the fascinating origins of religion. I know what you're thinking, how it's...
This is my 8th blog post for the Blaugust 2026 community blogging project. Join me all this month for more blogging. Today I am celebrating the one-year anniversary of the next chapter of my life: retirement. I am having a great...