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Finished reading: Batgirl: Year One (2023 Edition) by Chuck Dixon 📚 I’m doing a deep dive on one of pop culture’s favorite librarians. Did you know that, like me, Batgirl has a PhD in information & library science?
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On the road in Utah for an industry event this week, so I didn’t have the 10-20 hours needed to pull off a Warship Wednesday. In its place, let us talk about one of Uncle Elmo’s pet projects. Back in the 1970s, CNO Elmo Zumwalt’s “Sea...
Previously I wrote about how I needed to enroll in OpenAI’s Trusted Access For Cyber program to unblock my security related work. Without enrolling, OpenAI models would block me when doing security related work.Today I got an email, that...
It's a classic to wonder what hidden abilities the body might have if only we can unlock them. Most are esoteric bunk — ESP, for example. Some skills are legitimate, if exaggerated: Tibetan Buddhist monks practicing Tummo really can...
There is a machine called Productivity, and on this machine there is a knob and a button. The knob increases productivity, and the button is labeled "reset." My job was data entry at a non-profit. It was my first job in the US where I...
I’ve over at Shiny New Books, talking about Michael Cunningham’s new autobiography(?), Unsayable. Here’s the beginning of my review, and you can read the rest at SNB… When Michael Cunningham set out to write Unsayable, I wonder if it...
The app I used to write the blog recently changed. This looked like it went up on Saturday, but it didn’t. Sorry for the delay.It has been a very good summer weather wise. With only a handful of days over 95 or under 75 and enough rain...
Anthropologists, somewhat unconsciously, remained for a long time in the position of conservative culture camp commandants—overseers of a pickled-in-aspic view of ‘the native’ that was not far removed from colonial explorer adventure...
The rain is going to split the day in twoor so I am told.I am told the weatherman saysthe day will be partly cloudy to which this meansthe day will be sunny at times. I am told about the clouds having a silver liningor that despite the...
D. J. Taylor: The editor was a symbol of this growing suspicion that every book a firm published had to be as good as it could possibly be, and that pains were worth taking over a promising work by a raw talent that might need knocking...
With the people we play long-term games with — family, close friends, anyone we’re in it with for the long haul — one thing is easy to forget: some days, our energies simply won’t match. You could call these moods, but moods feel more...
Over the last couple of weeks I've built a trailer for the tractor. I started by drawing up a basic design in FreeCAD: I didn't bother modelling the attachment for the axle because I hadn't worked out how I would do it yet. I then...
CW: eye injuries, blood On 11 August 2019, HK police shot a street medic in the face. Source: Telegram, Aug 2019 It was not the first, nor would it be the last serious eye injury from ‘non lethal’ rounds (that we know of/ was captured on...
People in England during the reign of Henry V were still trying to use Edmund Mortimer as a focal point for a rebellion.Edmund's sister, Anne Mortimer, had married the 3rd Earl of Cambridge, Richard of Conisburgh. Richard was also a...