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tag(s): #fútbol #español Estuvimos de visitas familiares por el sur argentino[1], y tuve dos encuentros tan improbables que quise documentarlos en un post. El gallito en Neuquén Fui con mi sobrino a hacer unas compras cerca de su casa y...
Lunch break conversation at Pete Galbert’s school/shop can be as educational as the class itself; George is even taking notes. Maybe it’s Pete’s chairs that ease conversation. We did get up from time to time to make shrink pots and …...
In Stonington for an iced tea (and WiFi) Wind filling in and heading west.
Poor little Mistral
Poor little Mistral
The arbitration award surfaced in the last week of January 2026, and if you listened close enough over the Los Angeles freeway hum, you could almost hear a Stratocaster set down for the last time. Mick Mars, the crooked-spined riff...
On her blog, Lea Verou makes a case that each user-facing website dark-mode toggle should only ever show two options, but in a smart way. The challenge is that any dark mode toggle needs to actually accommodate three options: dark,...
As I began understanding myself better, I realised that my understanding of the world is inverted. I understand almost everything through its absence rather than its presence. If you ask me what kind of furniture you should buy for your...
Week #807 Our WebRTC project has somewhat stalled. We meet normally on Fridays, and the consensus is that it’s moving too slowly between bug reports and fixes. We proposed to meet on Wednesdays for a short time, then Fridays to organize...
A rather uneventful visit to EKSN. It was windy, with a single airplane parked on the airside.
Last month, I drove all the way to Taynish National Nature Reserve on the west coast of Scotland to look for the marsh fritillary butterfly. I didn’t see one sadly, so about two weeks later, I returned with my mate Nick for another...
Torness Power Station is coming towards the end of its lifespan. In the next few years it will be decommissioned. I’ve caught a good variety of species from both the area where water is drawn in to cool the reactors and where it returns...
And there you are, at the moment you knew it was about to come. You feel you cannot stand another day as a physician. You want to leave. You’ve decided you’re going to leave. You could leave now. But now you’re in the middle of your...
Years before Github (or git, for that matter) existed, I was publishing my open source software on my own websites. However, larger projects (and eventually some of mine) used a website called SourceForge, which was a reliable source —...
Reading Maps plots fictional journeys on the map. Creator Aires Loutsaris explains: Reading Maps came out of a nagging thought that every story has happened somewhere. Odysseus crossed a real sea. The Pequod sailed real… More