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Found by my former boss amongst his belongings, this colorful wooden toy paddle once had a rubber band and a ball stapled to it for hitting-and-bouncing play. Alas, the ball is long gone, the rubber band was still attached but dried to...
Here are two nice Randos for you on this warm Friday. We'll start with this great view from April, 1973, as guests exit the park. There's still plenty of daylight left, so I can only assume that they all remembered that they left the...
Back in 2013 I read my first Vasily Grossman book, “An Armenian Sketchbook”, translated by Robert and Elizabeth Chandler, and was bowled over by his writing. I commented at the time that I had one of his best-known works “Life and Fate”...
From the moment Mortal Kombat II’s lightning-flecked title screen appears, it’s clear that this is more than a mere fighting game sequel. This is an event. This is What Happened Next. The arcade attract sequence quickly sets the scene...
I find it incredibly fascinating how memory works. This morning, I saw a post from my friend Forrest where he linked to http://lostmyspace.com/ . Apparently somebody way back when archived about 500,000 songs from the site, before...
I was criticised earlier this week for always watching films with a writer’s eye. The implication was that only non-writers can see movies correctly, and the inference I took away was that there are people who will sit through any old...
Just dropped my youngest off for the first day of his summer job. Working at a burger pop up at a local camp site 😊 Time for the gym, then buckets of coffee and some photo editing, blogging and housework!
This article from Nicole Carpenter about the business of "cloning" games is pretty fascinating. The article's headline is about how AI makes cloning games easier... but the bulk of the article is just about the business of cloning. There...
About 40 years ago, I was invited to upskill myself in the white-coat, real-science lab across the corridor from my office. I had been hired to teach population genetics because that _had_ been an important and edge-cutting area of...
Quantisation of magnetic flux in a superconductorMagnets and electrical currents produce magnetic fields, regions of space where other magnets and electrical wires experience a mechanical force. For a circle of wire in the presence of a...
The path leads me down new areas, I hear the brown albatross screeching in the far distance. "This way, this way!" It's always the darkest, most twisted, and scariest of the paths, at least on the surface. But also the one, if I close my...
Faster bootloaders for GD32 & CH32 (you can keep using the old ones if you have them already):- Fix(?) flashing issue on RP2040- Faster CH32V2/3 flashing- Better FreeRTOS support for ARM, Riscv & WCH- Experimental support for...
A page categorizing all of the many, many reasons to buy, use, and store physical media. The big one for me was: Google Play Music shut down in December 2020 and was replaced by YouTube Music. Not all user libraries survived the...
It’s inevitable. Whenever I meet someone for the first time, it will come up that I love Disneyland and visit the parks at least once a month. And their question is always about when it all began for me. So I show them this photo. That’s...
The thing about having more than one on-line spaces to express oneself, sometimes, is that comes a moment where you start writing something on a space, and then develops and expands in something you may should have published on another...