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Got a call about my car. Over $500 to replace a fan and do an oil change. I fucking hate cars. I get to go from not having any, to not having any money again. I need to find a bearable full time job, this isn't sustainable. Every time I...
You can download the troff source of Brian Kernighan’s UNIX for Beginners - Second Edition from the Plan 9 archive of the 7th Edition Unix documentation. The Plan 9 people re-packaged the various files as bun archives probably sometime...
Here it is, world. I am here.Send me, I say to which I know. I say this out loud and to an empty room but to hell with it all!At least I say this for myself. At least I say this here and now because if not now, then when?Right? I am told...
We've seen these dinosaur pencil tops from Depesche already, but not together, so here they are again, and it should be a last time for them, as they're not deserving of one post, let alone the three or four outings they've had, but...
Like an arrow drawn from its quiver, so were the carach sent forth from their towers of dread iron. And like arrows in flight, so are the carach in their pursuit – singular in their purpose, relentless in their aim, and methodical in...
Eighty million years ago, long before Texas acquired highways, cattle ranches or the unshakeable belief that everything should be larger there, much of the region lay beneath a warm inland sea.And cruising through those waters was an...
Like many other German stationery brands, Faber-Castell excels across many price points. The fancier, more expensive, products tend to get most of the press, but if you are a general stationery lover, their lower-priced office and school...
At least once a year I still get the urge to switch up my tech again. In the past I’ve gone as small as switching tools and as large as switching my entire tech ecosystem. I guess you could say I’m always searching for something with my...
And that was that vacation. I had two goals, build a fence, and complete (or atleast make good progress on) my thesis. Managed both quite well, but writing on my thesis really hampered my vacation. Every morning I actually had some...
I keep thinking about this piece by Hugh Howey I linked to. I feel revulsion toward AI-created content. When any piece of art, no matter the format, has the slightest smell of AI, I'm out. It doesn't even matter if any AI was actually...
To quote absolutely no one, piping mistakes happen. A slip of the wrist, a miscommunication, a minor earthquake - for whatever reason, sometimes things go wrong with your order, and that's when many bakers get to practice their most...
This is a YA novel only available in Dutch. The title means something like 'out of the blue' or 'out of nowhere'. My Aline Sax completionism has failed me this time. I think this is her only non-historical title, and I really disliked...
A mixed set of links from my trying to catch up after more travels - for still more, check out the chonky set from last week found here or the weekly r/OSR blogroll or check the RPG Blog Carnival. Bloggie-nominated. Originally inspired...
It turns out that the real secret to longevity is to live in an area with poor record keeping. Something is very wrong with modern longevity is a nice New Yorker piece questioning the whole “Blue Zone” idea. Our tendency to fetishize...
Don’t you want to play something nice? Do you wanna forget that summer is almost over, meaning that the heatwaves will end finally but also it will be time to go back to work? Do you wanna be a cute ghost running around in a ghost town,...