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Check me out! I am full qualified to dock a Soyuz spacecraft to the ISS!OK, a few caveats. I docked it on a simulator provided by the British Interplanetary Society. I bounced off the first time, and the controls, and the level I was...
Miscellaneous bits of news and fun stuff from around the Internet......More good news from Kino Lorber Studio Classics: The Dark Side of Cinema XXVIII Blu-ray collection will be out in November! It will include the Dick Powell gem CRY...
This post is written in response to Chris Shaw's August 2026 IndieWeb Carnival prompt, Purpose.[1] What is purpose? Purpose is an interesting construct. It can be assigned externally, as a concrete statement of utility ("the purpose of a...
The Bram binary now embeds SQLite with its FTS5 fulltext indexer and search engine. When you run Bram in a local GitHub (or GitLab) repo, here is what it indexes: – the JSONL session files written by Claude Code and/or Codex – the...
ThoughtsI ran an open table Dungeon Crawl Classics campaign for a year to the day at my friendly local game store. We met nearly every Tuesday for 43 sessions in total. The campaign was a conscious effort on my part to blast through a...
It’s Sunday, and it’s time for another “picdump!” Here are the memes, pictures, and cartoons floating around the internet that I found interesting or relevant this week. Share and enjoy! Screenshot Screenshot Screenshot Screenshot...
My watercolor painting.1One of my most valuable possessions is the pawn my father carved eleven years ago to replace the one we’d lost from our chess set. We'd fallen into the habit of playing at the hospital while we waited for his new...
Back when I added a factorial operator to my assembler, the code only applied it to numeric literals because the code that implemented it appeared in the same function as parsing a numeric literal. I only found the bug when I tried to...
Links Posted to Thoughts The Week of 07-26-2026 There were 7 links posted this week. 08/01/2026 @19:56 "Everyone hates AI" in ParisUnlike the US, France and the EU are currently capable of regulating the tech industry. This of course is...
London Terrace – New York, New York I don’t remember what attracted me to this scene. Was it the warm afternoon light or this massive apartment complex? I shot a few compositions, some in portrait orientation. Still, I settled on a...
I have come across my fair share of spreadsheets; they are almost always Excels, because that is what everyone uses. I don't dislike using Excel. It's a fine tool, even though Microsoft till this day still insists on keeping its...
MARY DURHAM, Mystery Writer: A Bio-Bibliographical Essay by Jamie Sturgeon. If you look in Hubin, the indispensable Crime Fiction Bibliography, amongst the authors, you will see the name Mary Durham, for eleven murder mysteries she had...
Without being aware of it, I have been trapped by rules that kept me stuck in the process of publishing content for a long time. The blockage isn’t about creating and publishing articles on my blog. It is about sending the information to...
MARY DURHAM, Mystery Writer: A Bio-Bibliographical Essay by Jamie Sturgeon. If you look in Hubin, the indispensable Crime Fiction Bibliography, amongst the authors, you will see the name Mary Durham, for eleven murder mysteries she had...
On Thursday, a large influx of migrants (reportedly 60,000) crossed from Morocco into Ceuta, a Spanish exclave on the mainland African coast. This has led to a lot of far-right chirping and no small number of conspiracy theories. And...