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It's 1998 and Doogie0, the guy across the hall in our student accommodation, will not stop playing The Boy With The Arab Strap. Eventually I crack and ask him who the band are. He infodumps on me with all the authority of an 18 year our...
I get a small sense of dread at a group dinner when the waiter takes everyone’s order and rushes off without repeating a word of it back. It’s remarkable how often that ends in a wrong plate arriving at the table. There’s research on...
In the living room the voice-clock sang, Tick-tock, seven o’clock, time to get up, time to get up, sever o'clock! as if it were afraid that nobody would. The morning house lay empty. The clock ticked on, repeating and repeating its...
Amazing 2024 paper TLDR- Perhaps unsurprising to some but it seems to bear repeating: building (even fancy) new housing supply broadly reduces rents in the area and is not shown to displace current residents and more good things...
Seventy-six years ago, Ray Bradbury wrote a short story titled There Will Come Soft Rains in Collier’s Weekly. It’s a quick read and is worth your time. What makes the story particularly special today is that it takes place on the actual...
From Phyllis Bottome by william@williamdenton.org (William Denton):This all got me to checking Phyllis Bottome in Wikipedia, and I was amazed. She and her husband (apparently a spy) studied under and took analysis from Alfred Adler...
This is a really low tech / low effort solution to solve a specific problem, you can apply this for whatever 1 off use cases you have.
The New York Times seems to have discovered the value of community. They have been in the forefront of the new prohibition, repeatedly reporting without pushback or context, the misleading claims from public health institutions that any...
I’ve been pulling things down from the loft storage to see whether to keep, sell, give away or throw away, and I’ve been making a lot of progress on that project. But it means finding things like the above (a fanless little computer from...
I like playing same-screen co-operative video games, and today I learned there's a phrase for that: "couch cooperative".
Today is August 4th, 2026. Today is the original setting of Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” from The Martian Chronicles.1 Bradbury himself once described this story as best representing the essence of his work,2...
The retro handheld scene has never just been about the hardware. Every new device arrives with a community behind it: developers refining who refine (or more accurately perhaps: re-imagine) the software, creators showing people what it's...
On Monday, we took an 8 am bus to Cork, the second-largest city in the Republic of Ireland (my cousin Sabrina had given us good advice about a bus stop closer to our B&B but I didn’t relax until the bus actually stopped and let us buy...
In my head – and I suspect in most people’s heads – there is a sharp distinction between subways and similar mass transit and other heavy rail. Light rail, particularly street cars running on a shared right-of-way seem like a third...
This was one of the images I made in between the time of my last catalog backup and when myLightroom catalog became corrupted. After restoring it with an older, backup catalog, I hadto find all the images I had made, synchronize the...