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End of the World, is a track from the first album (Asylum) by Inpatient, and the video is a blast (well, it is the end of the world…). It’s lyrically dense – and very funny (love the line about the Vatican, allegedly, but there are too...
One of the most astonishing aspects of the collaboration between writer Arnold van Bruggen and photographer Rob Hornstra is that the more complex a topic, the sharper the duo manage to bring it into focus, ultimately making their most...
In the summer 2006 I started an open-source C++ library for handling UTF-8 strings. I wanted it to be portable and to work well with STL but did not go crazy with optimizations at the time. Recently, as I started writing about UTF-8...
In early 2023, Dan Olson at Folding Ideas made a scathing, smart, almost two-hour-long video essay about Decentraland, the metaverse that was one of the poster children of the web3 era: Most of what Decentraland does, and what it fails...
On a Sunday morningin ordinary time,for just a little while or even just now,why not let your heartbeat be the nameof the Friend?
I started to write a post about the redesign of this site, and all the cool stuff it can do, but then thought better of it - I assume people can figure it out. Besides, clicking around and looking at stuff is supposed to be fun. The...
Thanks to Charlie Horse 47 and Killdumpster for their sponsorship of this post, via the magic of Patreon. ***For well over a century, people have been arguing about which is best? AC or DC?Well, DC, of course.After all, it gave us the...
Writing this on the balcony in in balmy 28ºC evening – this week started with really hot high 30’s and cooled down each day with a finally of a massive storm on friday. A 22ºC tonic! I even put a sweater on to sit outside on thursday eve...
12 + 17-07-26. A couple of trips to Warriston, devoid of interest. 😁commaGVWI was surprised Mary was in the photos on both days. She has been struggling with her sore knees which are still swollen and defy easy analysis and fixing. I...
The main entrance to the Kahilu Theatre in Waimea. This week’s Sunday Stills challenge theme is ‘Reflections.’ See more responses here. Captions of the photos. Mural and reflections at Kailua Kona Airport. A Ruddy Turnstone prowls the...
In this article, we analyze the relationship between the measure of disorder \(\mathit{Amp}\), which I introduced a while ago, and another measure of disorder: \(\mathit{Mono}\), the number of monotonic runs into which a sequence can be...
Mayo, All-Ireland Champions!!! 🎉🎉🎉
Portrait of a Barrel Role Post Nutrition Label Content Type: Text Read Time: 5 min Topics: Accessibility Tone: 🧠 Thoughtful I've worked at my current job for 22 years. Read my thoughts on that as a weird midpoint for my whole life here....
It's been a while since I last published one of these bulletin posts. Not that I haven't been creating stuff, on the contrary. I've just forgotten about it :) Anyway, a lot has happened. New add-ons, plugins, blog challenges, and my...
# WayDisplay I tried to get Linux running natively on a Blackview Tab 80 ([that didn't go well](/blog/bvtab80lin/)). What survived the attempt was the idea of using the tablet as a screen. WayDisplay turns it into a permanent sixth...