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We drove our coach 263 miles / 423 km, about five hours of driving, from MamaYeh RV Park & Campground near Prince George to Mile 0 Park in Dawson Creek, British Columbia, Canada. Here’s a map showing our route, heading north then east:...
One thing that bothered me about Imprint’s product after joining was our lack of passkey support. Passkey support is a rare opportunity to increase resiliency to phishing attacks while simultaneously reducing login friction. If it’s good...
The Game Boy doesn’t have a Rumble Pak. Of course it doesn’t; where would you slot it? But a few games were released for the Game Boy Color (and Game Boy Advance too) that have built-in rumble motors. Because of this, it’s impossible,...
Yes, the second book of the trio. Just like its siblings, I qualified this book as a quick read. I spent roughly 90 minutes reading this one, post-dinner. After two books, I found myself asking this question: Horror where? I… don’t...
After more than six years, I’m retiring The Blockchain Socialist. This isn’t the end but what I believe to be a new beginning that better fits the current moment. I started The Blockchain Socialist in 2019 as a blog, then a podcast, then...
@lordmatt I have recently finished reading Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir. When Brandon Sanderson said you can recommend this book to anyone, he’s not wrong. I loved it. Everything that happens in this story flows from what has already...
I use Ripgrep as my command-line search tool. Something I often want is to return matching filenames only, instead of Ripgrep’s rich colored output, so I can pipe them to xargs. Here’s that flag: rg -l
Singapore celebrated 61 years of independence on 9 August this year — National Day. And after many years of trying, I was lucky enough to get tickets to watch the National Day Parade in person, at the National Stadium. For those who...
(1,910) (2,002) The browser tab’s title on Madeleine’s 7-year-old laptop dutifully ticked up. Checking on my order from July 20th… Just wanted to find out if my order a month ago went through or if I should try again. It showed up on my...
A couple of posts back I wrote a critique of the 1959 film remake of The 39 Steps, in which I zeroed in on its star, Kenneth More, as being crucially miscast in the Richard Hannay role. And I’ve been musing on that post. Not that I’ve...
The New Moon is Thursday August 13 and the First Quarter Moon is Thursday August 20. The Lunar X is visible on the 20th. Saturn is rising just around 10:00 pm local time. Mars is close to the open cluster M35 on the 15th. In the evening,...
Smart home technology is everywhere now. We're well past the days of the old Australian TV series Beyond 2000 declaring, "Don't look for it on the news tonight, don't look for it in the newspaper tomorrow... look for it in the year...
If there's one metric to watch for managing your happiness level, it's Creativity vs Consumption.If you feel completely empty and like nothing matters, ask yourself how much time you have spent watching what other people are doing or...
Hello there, I wanted to make a page that allowed everyone to follow along on some projects I am working on. Located on the Calendar Page, the key provided will showcase which projects I am doing within the month. Italicized Numbers will...
Zachary Gillan Intrusion is a cornerstone of weird fiction. The weird itself intrudes to unsettle a narrative, one genre intrudes into another, irrealism intrudes into the real. We might also think of metaphor and simile as forms of...