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📺 Only Murders in the Building, Season 5 declined in quality by quite a bit near the middle, enough to have me stop watching. Good thing we are a family of completionistis, because the show picked up steam and pulled off one of the best...
Dear Constant Reader, Here it is, Friday again. And we’ve got a heat advisory again. I hope you all are staying cool. Which leads me to your tip. Bring a fan to shows. Not that kind of fan that cheers for you. And not the big feather...
I’ve been tinkering on a solver-oriented interactive proof assistant as a library called Knuckledragger https://github.com/philzook58/knuckledragger .
This is an interesting, quirky keyboard from an interesting, quirky company that is well-executed except for the configuration software. It’s got a retro vibe to it. Part of that is the case material, which is polyetherimide (PEI). PEI...
Went to see the musculoskeletal specialist this afternoon about my bad back, which was doing much better today until he gently poked at my lower spine to see where it hurt, and then it hurt again. It’s nothing major, thankfully, and it...
Stephanie talked me into signing up for the Bellahouston Park 10K, on the 22nd of August, right as I finish Couch to 5K. Her reasoning: I won't run it well, but that's exactly why it's useful. A number now, however rough, is something to...
A perfect late summer salad: Small cubes of watermelon. Small cubes of cucumber. Crumbled feta. Chopped mint. Toss together in a bowl. Enjoy.
The Magic-Lantern Murdersby Carter Dickson, John Dickson CarrGenres: Crime, Mystery Pages: 269 Series: British Library Crime Classics Rating: Synopsis: On the eve of his wedding to Evelyn Cheyne, who he met and fell in love with during...
Radio calisthenics (ラジオ体操, rajio taisō; literally, "radio exercises") are warm-up calisthenics performed to music and guidance from radio broadcasts. Originating from the United States, they are popular in Japan and parts of China, North...
There's this thing that starts to happen when you get older. Young people look at you like you're mad. Young people who are wearing exactly what we wore when we were young. Kids, we've just learnt that baggy jeans aren't worth it. You...
One of a series of 26 small canvasses from Group 1. Primordial Chaos by Hilma af Klimt (1906-7, Oil on Canvas, 52.5×37 cm). A major exhibition of works by Swedish artist Hilma af Klmit (1862-1944) will start in October (2026) and run...
From Family of Spies: A World War II Story of Nazi Espionage, Betrayal, and the Secret History Behind Pearl Harbor, by Christine Kuehn (Celadon Books, 2025), Kindle pp. 160-161: There was intense pressure to intern the entire Japanese...
I completed another of my 40 before forty list last week and fulfilled a childhood dream in the process: I went up in a hot air balloon. Shane bought the balloon vouchers for me for Christmas last year, and after redeeming the vouchers...