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My sister and her crew went on holiday and left me with their chrysalises. Every year they get some caterpillars, the caterpillars hunker down, the butterflies magically arrive. The first year, when he was little, my nephew was convinced...
Block community-flagged spam on Android, send formal POPIA opt-outs, and monitor breaches — one SA account, no ads. iOS users can use the website, but there is no iOS app yet (probably also because iOS does not allow apps to take control...
My brother sent me this link illustrating and defining the Scots word sook (SND), given as “sycophant, crawler, toady, to fawn and flatter” with the sample sentence “Ah’ve heard o sookin in wi the boss Smithers but this is takin it ower...
There is a concept in set theory called cardinality which refers to the number of individual objects in the set. The wrinkle is that sets with an infinite number of members still have cardinality and the size of these infinite sets can...
PUSHED TO FRIDAY: SpaceX now targeting Friday, July 24 for Starship’s thirteenth flight test, due to weather: Tweet loading...
Eighteen is something like 180 in internet years. I never imagined when I started this blog in 2008 (an experiment writing about "a year of apples" ) that I'd learn so much, or that I'd still be learning and blogging in 2016. ¶ Possibly...
If you knew you only had weeks to live, how would that change your attitude towards life and death? What if you had been dead before, and this was your second, but brief, go-around? Author C. J. Beshara examines life and death through...
Read the full post at - The Wonder of Modern Drywall by Yassine Meskhout We take the modern world completely for granted -> https://www.worksinprogress.news/p/the-wonder-of-modern-drywall?gift=j9r7avb6p-KY8zdjhsiSZ_F90_8PNfpEYF00xv8NJPA
Kaweco COLLECTION Fountain Marble Ocean, via Kaweco. The “10 Pens” content and feedback keeps on coming, and I am here for all of it. I discuss the one change I made to my list, and the next lists I want to tackle. We also take a look at...
We’re not in Kansas anymore. (c) Gert van Dijk (2025), used with permission. A long time ago, bored with painting exploding spacecraft for others, I started painting alien creatures for my own pleasure. — Gert van Dijk, from the Appendix...
06:58 I am mightily impressed with this small skill for coding agents. I use Claude Code, and my experience has gone up manyfold. It feels quicker and to the point. 07:44 Dia Browser does not excite me for some reason. I want my browsing...
Really nice new preprint up by Zhao Yu Ma. Earlier this year Mark Shusterman and I posted a paper which I somehow haven’t gotten around to blogging about yet. But the point (it got long, there are actually a few points, I should say a...
A change of plan today with Glorious Grasslands. Tom called me yesterday to tell me his harvester had broken, so not everyone was needed to collect today since we were down to one. So instead I went to the barn to help get the...
Lower Curtis Glacier terminus in 2025 with overall results of our work 1984-2025. 2026 Field Season: For the 43rd consecutive summer we are heading into the field to measure and communicate the impact of climate change on North Cascade...