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It has been a dooooooozy of a month. My last “real post” — as in, one that isn’t attached to the Patreon, more on that later — was on July 4th. And then I just kind of stopped writing blogs. I kept writing. I kept building things. I did...
Spotted some art on tree stumps around #SanFrancisco walking between SFPursuit sites this weekend. The little blue house on the tall tree stump near the 19th Ave entrance to Golden Gate Park has a "For Sale" sign out plus American Gothic...
Having done a ton of grocery shopping, it was time to leave industrial Tahiti behind. We knew our anchor was stuck on an old mooring, and so we chose a calm morning to detach. Luckily the mooring rope was long enough to reach the...
StarringDylan O'Brien, Jessica Henwick, Michael Rooker, Dan Ewing, and Ariana GreenblattDirectorMichael MatthewsOverviewAn apocalyptic love story.Seven years since the Monsterpocalypse began, Joel Dawson has been living underground in...
Been feeling flat for the last few days and realized the reason this morning: I’ve been an inside cat too long. Heat and busyness have kept me inside for weeks, so I and my walking stick headed to Murray Woods this afternoon. Just what I...
I needed a function that could tell whether a string was a valid Common Lisp program. In theory, you could just call read on the string and see if it throws an error, but I don't want to throw random text at read. It could contain a...
🍕 I’m JA Westenberg. I write essays about technology, philosophy, productivity, and what it means to be human. If you like ideas that take their time, you’re in the right place.While you’re here, a few things I’ve built: Kerouac, a...
Portrait of a Crown Drawer Post Nutrition Label Content Type: Art & Text Read Time: 7 min Topics: Art critique There's a scene where Jeffrey Wright as Basquiat is just making, hands moving faster than the thought behind them, and...
The first recording today starts with the end of Atomic Betty. Then it’s a repeat of Pokemon Battle Dimension – Losing Its Lustrous. Media Centre Description: Ash continues his quest to become the greatest Pokemon trainer ever. He...
Apparently, Aussies are so obsessed with coffee that it's referred to as the coffee capital of the world down here (some bits, at least). "But what about Italy?" people ask. Having spent a lot of time in a lot of Italy, no, it's just not...
Super selections and wonderful words by our favourite four-to-the-floor expert, The Insider. PETE HERBERT / FAR FLUNG / MUSIC FOR SWIMMING POOLS Pete Herbert distils 3 decades of globetrotting disco, Balearic and house wizardry into Far...
At long last, I am picking up the modulation-recognition (MR) topic again. My plan is to describe the core MR algorithm I’ve developed using cyclic cumulants in this post, and then in a third and final post present some performance...
Harvested 58 pounds of honey. After a spring when I couldn’t do a lot of hive management, I feel lucky. Honey Harvesting – July 2026Harvesting two honey super boxes from the hives in my backyard.