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Today (2 May) is the two-year anniversary of the death of my father, Don Francisco Guerra. Although he did not live to see a free Cuba, my wife Sydjia and I will continue to honor his legacy by devoting our … Continue reading →
Grandparent duty
Livermore’s Rosetta Roasting coffee roastery is going full tiki for their evening cocktail persona and adopting Tikeasy as the branding for their summer program. We’ve been big fans of the Nightcaps at Rosetta evening cocktail offering,...
HELLO. I have come up with a new project for my Temporary Unemployment, and it is “watching the first episode of every TV show I said I wanted to watch and then couldn’t remember what it was or why I wanted to watch it.” So far I have...
How much do cows suffer in the production of milk? I can’t answer that; understanding animal experience is hard. But I can at least provide some facts about the conditions dairy cows live in, which might be useful to you in making your...
My friend Matt did an analysis of his longtime blog. Looks amazing. I asked Claude to help me build something similar. Cruftbox: My Box of Cruft Archive analysis — 2000–2026 Cruftbox: My Box of Cruft has been publishing since 2000. Over...
There is a certain kind of discomfort that comes from flipping through old magazines from the 1960s and 1970s. Not because they feel foreign, but because they don’t, entirely. The clothes changed. The hairstyles changed. The alcohol ads,...
It wasn't too serious, it didn't really break containment that much...I was noticing that the qBittorrent app in my TrueNAS is constantly sitting at elevated CPU usage even though it was idle, but restarting it was usually enough for it...
How is it possible that a feature I use every day, in an app I rely on daily, entirely offline, just disappeared from my phone? I use a fitness app. My metrics, such as steps, workout routines, heart rate, are collected from a wearable...
Following a brief hiatus, this week I take a look at books read and reviewed, discover some of the best writing about literature on the blogosphere, keep up with a variety of literary anniversaries (including International Harry Potter...