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In the summer of 1975, a callow 19-year-old from New Jersey traveled to Provincetown, Mass., a certified mecca of free-style living. Tony (later to become celebrity chef and TV star Anthony Bourdain) spent the summer working in...
in the past few months, i didn't have much to talk about, so instead i tried compiling my thoughts into one draft at times that i'd get something to ramble about for a bit. here is the backlog of these things. if you read these, thank...
PreludeThe Date: August 5, 2026The Time: 10:46 AMThe Player: Restless. Considering doing chores to kill time. Otherwise, basically that meme of Pablo Escobar from Narcos until the game drops in her time zone at 12:00 PMThis is the day...
It's a new month and it's a new set of off-the-cuff word salad about what's been happening in my musical adventures across the month. New Music Immediate ImpressionsA fair bit of new music this month! Acloudyskye - In a While This Will...
Here are some Legendary Spells for NBateman's Super Spell System for Super NatheQuest. These are likely hidden spells, the pride and joy of cults or the dastardly techniques of arcane scoundrels. Ramuh Index and middle fingers point a...
Here is a query that shows up in every analytics workload: SELECT count(DISTINCT user_id) FROM events; It looks like the cheapest possible thing: count the distinct users. On a machine with cores to spare you would expect Postgres to...
the music changes from simon & garfunkel to the beach as i lay in bubble bath. it’s further from the truth but i feel like i’m in a scene from the phonetian scheme as i recall everything that i can think of. they say that absence makes...
What I listened to at the record store. It's been three weeks since I started this Wednesday morning ritual.* Last week I got lazy and wasn't sure if I wanted to make it a weekly topic, but since I'm doing Blaugust, this will 100% be a...
SpaceX and Tesla will merge. At that point, nothing will stop Tesla from building self-driving cars that will take you to Mars where you can say hello to your uncle who traded his condo in LA for the chance of being part of the first...
This post presents a thought experiment that is based on this claim: “AI is to art what calculators are to math”. In which art refers to visual art, writing, and music. Imagine math world. Math world is like our world in every...
Sunday's New York Times Book Review included a review by Clancy Martin of Emily Eakin's The Frenchmen: Or, My Life in Theory, a book on the French postmodernists. I was interested to read Martin's personal take. He had dropped out of a...
Today was a very nice and sunny day – also very hot, though. Maybe a little too hot. Around 36 degrees Celsius. But I decided to go for a walk anyway. Since I’ve been reading news articles of people finding things like WW2 shipwrecks and...
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View from Cariboo Dam, pre-run: Haze in the distance. Canada has a colour-coded weather alert system and when weather is fine, it is colour-free. When it is bad, it can be Yellow, Orange, or Red. Today it is Yellow. Environment Canada...