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This 2014 Musica Jazz sampler approaches the art of compilation as a meta-statement rather than an inventory, offering four paired selections from albums by the Gary Burton Quartet, Ralph Towner and John Abercrombie, Sam Rivers, and the...
We headed out early, with all our luggage in tow, to get to the airport in time for our flight from Sapporo to Osaka. Day 10 was a travel day. I wanted to get to The Pokémon Store at the airport for some Japanese Pokémon cards, but it...
centering a page in the browser window instead of the webview.
rooting a CMF Phone 1 to run my personal infrastructure at home.
The city next to the town I grew up in had a shopping center that was built atop a sanitary landfill. For those unfamiliar, creating a sanitary landfill involves taking landfill waste, spreading it into thin layers, compacting it, then...
A characteristic of emergent phenomena is how novel and complex properties can emerge from apparently simple laws. Quantum ChromoDynamics (QCD) describes the interaction of quarks and gluons. The classical Lagrangian is remarkably...
On July 20, 2026, I saw the Union Pacific "Big Boy" 4014 steam through Valley Park on its way from St. Louis to Jefferson City. Camera issues with my large Sony prevented me from taking pictures--my batteries just had to die at that...
The WebPKI has two structures that are not the same shape. One is a cryptographic graph of signed bindings. Public keys, names, entitlements, and the keys that authorized them. The other is a governance hierarchy of accountability. It...
A comic crossover can be relatively small-scale, such as when two characters in the same Universe have a special comic/mini-series. The Fantastic Four and the X-Men, for example. We also have different Universes within the same...
Hello readers! I have three annoucments I wanted to share this month.The Misaligned Markets podcast is live!Offically launched last week, the first two episodes of the Misaligned Markets podcast are live! You should be able to listen...
This is my 4-year investment update following buying the dip on ‘pandemic stocks’ that declined (70%+) in 2022, then reallocating into AI stocks in 2023. I started sharing public updates once a year. Data in this update is as of June...
To recap, I’m building up a boutique energy retailer (Strathcona Power), to be your local, human option for power and natural gas. This is a follow-up to July’s status update. Pricing Update This section is general notes on electricity...
TLDR: I migrated my blog. Please email me if you notice anything's amiss! What should you do when you’re busy and have been spending too much time on your blog lately? Why, dive head first into a completely unnecessary SSG migration, of...
Or, how to treat other humans as such, in an age of generated text. Fact check Treat every statement in the LLM response as something which needs verifying. The LLM is implemented to produce a “reasonable” response to your query, not to...
Scott Hylands, who starred on the show Night Heat and appeared in the movie Daddy's Gone A-Hunting (1969), died on July 29, 2026, at the age of 83. In October 2021, he had been diagnosed with acute myeloid leukaemia. Scott Hyalnds was...