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...Well? It ain't gonna fill itself! Howdy, Farmhands! Into The Oddish, written by Warren F. Smith of Prismatic Wasteland, is a heist-funded parody hack of Chris McDowell's "Into The Odd", using the chassis of the system to emulate (and...
Wowee, it has been such a hot and very dry summer here. There has been no proper rain for months now and we’ve just had a drought declared, despite having had a very wet winter. The countryside is currently looking completely parched and...
NEW RELEASE – CHRIS HAZELTON Oscillations and vibrations on repeat. [row-start] [half] [/half] [half] Personnel Chris Hazelton (organ), Brett Jackson (tenor saxophone, bariton saxophone), Peter Schlamb (vibraphone), John Kizilarmut...
This is an interesting tool to use on super-wordy or super-mixed-metaphorical LLM conversations: rewrite in ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English I’ve set up a snippet/shortcut at work so when I type ;ste it gets expanded to ASD-STE100...
I wrote ryg_rans in 2014. I still regularly get questions and patch submissions from people who want to use it as a library. That is not what it’s for! ryg_rans is not a library, never was. It’s a toy implementation of an algorithm whose...
A reader recently sent me a message asking: "How are you able to publish blog posts and raw notes so fast? What's your setup like, and are you using some background automation or API?" It's a great question. When people see someone...
Hello Toronto!
I was saddened by the recent news that Joanna Pettet had died. In the Comfort TV era she was a frequent guest star on several quality shows and was always memorable regardless of her role. To me she was television’s equivalent to the...
Total Copenhagen vibes.
Finished reading: Firestarter by Stephen King 📚 I know a lot of Stephen King books are considered scary, but so many of them, including this one, make me sad. Compulsively readable as King always is.
It’s a bit annoying that the most amazing bike path, only 10min away is a little on the dangerous side to bike to in the city, but this is how we roll.
Here’s some nice news to start the week: The Shattering Peace is a finalist for the Dragon Award this year, in the category of Science Fiction Novel. Also in the category: The Faith of Beasts by James S.A. CoreyRadiant Star by Ann...
If you have followed this blog long enough you will know that I am an unabashed fan of the life and work of Nassim Nicholas Taleb, pugilistic social media presence and all. There is no simple way to summarize why — this post from the...
The four-post thread starts here. The article that was linked in the second post isn't quite a gift link because you need to have a Washington Post account to read it, and Jeff Bezos sucks. Thankfully, archive.ph exists, so if you want...
@cheriecreationstruck This is just absolutely stunning.