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I have been playing many trick-taking games lately. I am not specifically a fan of the genre, but I don't dislike it either. If anyone suggests a trick-taking game, I'm usually happy to play. Torchlit is a trick-taking game which...
Two separate people thought yesterday's post was about it being my birthday (which it wasn't). When I wrote it I didn't even pause to consider that it could come across that way, but now that I think about it, I guess I understand. I...
It is Hater Week over at Aftermath, and Chris Person wrote a banger of a rant about Adobe: It’s one thing to hate software, but that hate takes on new dimensions when you have to use it for your job. To choose software and have it fail...
You don't need 12 different ways to remove gum from clothing - you just need one way that works. This is the only method you'll need to get gum off of your clothes or any other fabric. Please read this before you smear peanut butter all...
I want to leave the internet. This site, reddit, my banking app, the cloud service, Youtube, my music streaming app, my email, Whatsapp, iNaturalist, pornsites, Google Maps, OSMAnd, the local DOT app. I want to forget about VPN and DNS...
Eclectic Architecture Compressed – New York, New York Here is another scene from the High Line that resembles what I shot in the past. The elaborate mural on the side of the four-story former brick tenement attracted my attention as it...
This one came as a surprise: Matthew Juergens emailed me to let me know that Third Avenue Railway System 637, shown below in an undated photo, was scrapped sometime around last September.The car was owned by the Tramway Museum Graz,...
Five papers landed on my desk this week and every one of them is about the same thing. Not the model. The layer you built around it. That layer is the part most of us treat as plumbing. It's the code that decides what the agent looks at,...
Lora Kolodny, CNBC: Elon Musk’s xAI, now owned by SpaceX, sued Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison to challenge a law that would ban so-called nudify apps in the state. In their complaint, filed in a federal court in Minnesota on...
I just did a few edits to the self hosting. Didn't fix every typo but addressed some stuff and fixed some formatting.Thanks thanks.
An occasional series A freshly molting cicada: A night heron: A fox in our backyard: A yellowjacket stuck between our window and the screen: A great egret: A snapping turtle spotted in the section of a creek under a road underpass (the...
Exploring the tools of the trade.
A number of commenters have mentioned a possible malware problem with the site. I’m looking into it. In the meantime, don’t enter any of your data into something produced by a CAPTCHA
As per my last post, I am now in full control of this blog's faculties. A big motivation here was to start working towards incorporating various IndieWeb features, generally at my own pace and with my own considerations for how I want...
When you’re on fire, problems are transparent: they’re solved simply by the act of looking at them. Even complicated layers of multiple problems can simply be glanced through like stacked panes of glass. But nobody can work that way all...