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July 27, 2026 The email was not unexpected, but she still wasn’t thrilled to read it – everybody should be IN THE OFFICE three days a week, starting at the beginning of September… She hasn’t been in the office on a regular basis in...
Zwölf Kilometer Marlinger Waalweg und nur noch etwa eine Stunde Zeit: Das passte natürlich nicht wirklich zusammen. Trotzdem wollte ich Südtirol nicht verlassen, ohne wenigstens einen Teil des Marlinger Waalwegs gelaufen zu sein....
In 1954, a landmark paper in computer science famously solved the Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP) by proving the exact, shortest route to visit all 48 contiguous state capitals plus Washington D.C. The underlying puzzle is deceptively...
This bin caught fire a while back and I was wondering if there was anything there.47 words · 1 image
I never had any intention of having a theme or 'niche' when it came to blogging, it was a personal blog and I liked that fact. Over the last couple of days though, I'm realising that perhaps I'm slightly more vain than I'd like to admit...
7/25/2026 Photo: © Stan B.It's a sad and sorry situation- but true. There's this growing trend of mistrust and fear even among peaceful protestors where some participants are now worried of being photographed, identified and made to face...
Three new beers from the generally reliable Our Brewery of Randalstown showed up locally recently. This producer has a pleasing tendency towards style variations, so I was a little disappointed to find that all three were pale ales....
Here are two fairly standard scans from August 1962; not particularly exciting, but nice enough that they could have appeared in a publication of some kind. They didn't, but they could have!A lonely Streetcar driver wonders why nobody...
Back in 2017 I discovered the German-Czech author, Johannes Urzidil, when a collection of his short Bohemian fables was published by Pushkin Press. I thoroughly enjoyed these stories, so when the Prague-based indie publisher, Twisted...
Just like last time, Get Bass 2 begins every bass-getting session with a sincere “Enjoy your fishing!”. Yet very much unlike last time, the expected post-voice clip pleasure doesn’t come so quickly or easily. Where did the enthusiastic...
In the previous article we followed a read() all the way down through the VFS: from the syscall, to the struct file, to ext4, and into the page cache. And there was exactly one moment where we skipped over the details. When the page...
I have a copy of SICP, or as it is also known, The Wizard Book. This book is widely praised, but I can’t take the time to work my way through all of it. Instead, I’m going to occasionally jump into the parts of it that look interesting....
One day, while working with your favorite agent harness XYZ on some powerpoint presentation, suddenly a popup will appear. It will say something like „XYZ blocked from installing background task. Grant permissions YES/NO“. You will not...
...in 70mm IMAX! I kind of regret it. I saw it at the Chinese Theater in Hollywood - like, real downtown Hollywood, the part of Hollywood with the stars on the sidewalk and the smelly guys in Spiderman outfits. The picture in the theater...
Last year I wrote a little roleplaying game. It’s about being a troubadour, singing a song about noble nights. Only, the knights are frogs. Everything is pond-scale. The playtests have been very silly, very fun, and more moving than they...