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Brilliant blue heron statue in Shadyside (photo by Kate St. John). Left=original photo , Right = [AI Enhance] turned it gray 12 August 2026 “Is it real or is it artificial intelligence (AI)?” A decade ago only dedicated photographers and...
If your teachers suggest that your poems are sentimental, that is only the half of it. Your poems probably need to be even more sentimental. Dont be less of a flower, but could you be more of a stone at the same time? Mary Ruefle
Random Patrick Boyle quote:"If I left a million dollars on the table over a non-disparagement clause, I'd bang out a million dollars worth of disparagement that same afternoon" His Wedding Guests Were Arriving—Just as His $45 Billion...
Changing the Oracle Free image tag keeps your data but leaves the data dictionary behind. Learn how to check, and how to patch it.
Via Newspapers.comThis odd case of a man and his apparent doppelganger appeared in the “Vancouver World,” July 21, 1894:"There is a mystery now of five years standing in the lumber regions of Northern Pennsylvania," said George W. Culp...
For years now one of the most reliable complaints I hear when I try to drag a team off their vendor specific SDK and onto OpenTelemetry is some variation of: "why does it seem like this isn't done yet?"Vendor SDKs for observability are,...
I noticed 2 defoliated sumac trees (Rhus sp.) in my yard, and I thought this would make an interesting topic for my blog. I was going to entitle it “What Defoliated 2 Sumac Trees in my Yard?” I researched all the possible culprits and...
People are worried that our soon-to-be AI overlords will take over our lives and run human civilization into the ground with their superior intelligence. Those people probably haven’t had the frustratingly frequent experience of seeing...
@luciano wrote: writers use emdashes ai learns how to write from writers people who don’t write think emdashes signify ai writing how are we supposed to help these people? So, here are the stats of my blog. 60% of my posts had at least...
By Inkblot GibberlingSelf PublishedOSE/5E"Low Levels" The Bragazzi crime family runs the Backstage, an illegal casino and mushroom-juicing drug laboratory hidden behind an opera-costume shop. Steal their stuff. This fourteen page...
I have decided to use Apple Notes to log stuff in my life, with the promise from Apple that, firstly Apple Notes sync across my iPhone and my Mac, and secondly, I can manipulate notes using Shortcuts. I've created a new Shortcut on my...
The last few weeks I've pushed a series of updates to the site. First, I enabled Gift Subscriptions. Now you can buy anyone a month or a year of Premium Subscription at any tier!Screenshot of the front page of the site for Premium...
I let this series languish for a while… The stoop of an 1825 rowhouse, with a simple wrought-iron handrail: The newel post is, of course, cast iron, but the rest of the rail is wrought iron. If you look carefully at the stone steps, you...
Up until 2019, I regularly donated blood. According to the Red Cross Life Blood app, my first donation was in 2012. However, it has been almost six years since my last donation. That changed today 🥳In 2019, an unpleasant experience,...