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I was given this device to take home and use regularly as part of my recovery. Despite appearances, you don’t blow into the mouthpiece, you suck air out of it. This causes the yellow ball to rise. My objective is to get the ball to the...
I reviewed Craig Fehrman’s This Vast Enterprise: A New History of Lewis & Clark for the 1 June 2026 issue of the New Yorker.
I am confused by signs and duplicate names, but end up in the right place - passing under the wonderful Kessock Bridge. Continue reading →
So I spent most of the day trying to get a live communication channel working in Crossmate using WebRTC before I eventually gave up and replaced it with a WebSockets implementation that took about an hour.
It’s been over a month since I had a proper comics reading daze. Time flies when you’re busy with other things… And for music today… er… it’s been too long since I did Talking Heads (The Good Bits) + Related. Talking Heads: 77 (Sire)...
Marcel Petiot posed as a Resistance doctor offering escape from Nazi-occupied Paris. Instead he lured Jewish refugees to his murder house on Rue Le Sueur and killed them for their money.
I mentioned OSM for emacs briefly before, but I haven’t played with it much. That’s because the maps never showed up correctly in the buffer: the map tiles were not aligned correctly and some appeared blank. As it turns out, someone else...
[I’ve been sitting on this ruling for almost a month because blog posts like this are time-consuming and emotionally draining to write. It may not look it, but this post took about 6 hours to write.] This case involves a... The post...
Fits on a floppy, great idea: Software has lost its way. Apps that once shipped on a single floppy disk now demand gigabytes of your storage, minutes of your time, and far too much of your patience. We accepted this gradual bloat, but...
Library Street Taken almost straight into the light with some sunbeams spreading from the sky. The figure casts a long shadow from the centre of the image. The wind blows her hair and makes her coat billow, enhancing the sense of...
Once more it’s Monday, and time for Fantasy with Friends! The prompts are hosted at Pages Unbound, and this time we’re talking about movie adaptations: Are there any fantasy books […]
A dynamic and changeable spring 2026 weather pattern in California amid ongoing marine heatwave As we approach the end of May, it’s worth looking back at the past couple of months of highly changeable weather conditions across California...