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“It’s only F1 Arcade” says Mike as I tell him that I’ve had enough of the flatbread whilst removing another nugget of sinew from my mouth. And to a certain extent he is right; the arcades mantra of ‘Race Drink Eat Repeat’ puts the eating...
This post is my response to the Blaugust2026 group project for August 10th. I may be a day late but with the application of my chosen super power I don’t think that matters much. Just over a week ago I finished reading the Gone series of...
Last client today was a photographer. Since I myself love taking photos, even if I wouldn't consider myself a photographer, we started talking about the joy of taking pictures. How the world around us is filled with opportunities waiting...
Which is good news, in a way.Assumed audience: Other (little-‘o’) orthodox Christians or people with at least a vague knowledge of Christianity and openness to hearing Christian points of view on things. I’ve been slowly reading through...
Up late after being woken by a storm in the night. At mid-morning, the sun breaking through thin clouds, everything drips and glistens. A low thrum of crickets. The catbird scolds from the depths of a spicebush.
AI is fantastic at prototyping. A quick draft of an essay, a mockup of a website, a demo of a video game, concept art or trailer for a movie, or the core argument of a proof – each now takes one prompt instead of a week. 1000x speedup....
ID's recent sports-crime series had an outside shot at doing something different, and didn't take it.
481 posts in 4 years. Last year
“The value of a thing sometimes lies not in what one attains with it, but in what one pays for it - what it costs us." - Friedrich Nietzsche LLMs are incredible tools for generating code, and the frontier models can often build complete...
Today sees my 26th review for Elizabeth Ferrars, yet this is still only about a third of her output, so I won’t be running out of her books anytime soon. One thing I have noticed in certain corners of 1970s and 80s crime fiction is a...
My initial thought was that FlipToons was an inoffensive filler that I had an unfortunately bad experience with. Having played a second time, I am revising my opinion. It offends. Rating — Avoid. FlipToons 2 sucked the joy out of my life...
Sometimes what starts out as a cute idea for a cake can go very, VERY wrong.That's where I come in.Ready?I *think* this is a groom's cake. Let that visual sink in for a moment.(Get it? "Sink in?") Because it only gets worse from THIS...
Sent to us as part of Kimberly’s Laban Pens - A Quick Comparison, the Laban Taroko is an excellent offering from this Taiwanese maker. I have one Taroko in their Pinnacle material, with a Fine Steel nib, to give away this week, so read...
More experienced (aka older) readers might recall the Knowledge Management movement of the 1990s and 2000s. In short, better tagging and organizing of data would make finding and applying knowledge easier and be a competitive advantage....
My Australian Census is complete. A lot easier doing it online compared to when we used to fill in paper forms like animals.