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Review season. You start your career thinking the review is the most important milestone of the year, but as an individual, you only see part of the picture. Everyone cares about the compensation (base salary, bonus, and stock). That’s...
It’s July already and we are halfway through 2026. So, I thought it would be a good time to stop and evaluate my current journal/planner/notebook set-up in an official Techo Kaigi (stationery meeting). I started the year with a B6 Aura...
In late June, we headed up to the North East last week for a couple of nights to celebrate the E's birthday. Now, I used to spend a fair bit of time in Newcastle back in my working days, but the Northumberland coast? Completely unknown...
Bench, Saugatuck, MI - Nikon F100 / Kodak ColorPlus 200Spent hours this morning trying new ways to deal with film scans on Linux. It involved Vuescan, Darktable, and a lot of cursing. I'm making progress, though, and I don't hate the...
I've been painting our garden furniture in a futile attempt to extend it's life. However the struggle, on wet days mostly, is real. It seems that despite the huge selection of available paint in modern DIY stores, I'm left with some...
I have Buckdancer rehearsal this week. I have the continuing job of getting these Daphne Falls bass, drums, and synth tracks ready for live. (There’s not really a timeline on that yet.) Two private party DJ sets coming up. I want to get...
He saw a chipmunk on the bird feeder once and now he just assumes they live there.
A roundup of interesting links I have enjoyed recently. Weather without the ads: jmrk84.github.io A daily gerrymandering game: gerrymandle.com Daily puzzles and learning games for kids: zeepza.com A Linux distro chooser test:...
☙ Lavender & Black Roses ❧ ⇦ Aywren's Nook → shishka Cosmos Malick Fabio Manganiello 📌roger mvu.one 📌mikael
Almost ten years ago, I read a blog post about the RAT: the Riskiest Assumption Test. My hazy recollection is that this was the origin of the RAT; certainly the post spread like wildfire, and I'd not come across it as a way of thinking...
Nobody will love you the way you want to be loved. Everybody wants to be loved in a specific way. You want the other to be passionate about you. You want them to be curious about you, to want to know everything about you, but without...
The Dungeon Crawler Carl series author, Matt Dinniman, does a fantastic job of slowly onboarding readers onto the gear, skills, attributes, and the like for the main characters. By the end of the first book, it would probably be easy to...
LEGO® Insiders Days 2026 just began in Australia and New Zealand, and this year's gift with purchase (GwP) is set 40912 Sea Serpent, a reinterpretation of 6057 Sea Serpent, a LEGO® Castle set from 1992. This model is based on the winning...
LEGO® Insiders Days 2026 just began in Australia and New Zealand, and this year's gift with purchase (GwP) is set 40912 Sea Serpent, a reinterpretation of 6057 Sea Serpent, a LEGO® Castle set from 1992. This model is based on the winning...
Another from James of Lakeside, California – thanks again! So this is the third and I’m guessing final variant in the Thai Connext range. This sounds incredibly up my alley. It’ll be the third review on a Friday and the last of this...