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Today was pretty nice! My partner and I started off in a kinda stinky mood. We didn't really know why, we just knew we felt off. So I threw on some old drive-in movie advertisements and got us ready to watch a movie! Made some hotdogs...
First, this photo I took midway down the path to Lower Hume Park, showing trees and the park further below beyond them. I like the spot of sun on the centre tree. My camera is a Samsung Galaxy S26, which I keep meaning to write a...
Morrison County, Minnesota, c. 1918: From the Oscar Anderson archives.
What has disappeared? Ambrose Bierce, Weldon Kees, Jimmy Hoffa. Aristotle’s second book of Politics, three-decker novels, rhupunts. Typewriters, payphones, civility. In his story “Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius” (1940; trans. James E. Irby,...
Midway through a 20-mile walk a few weeks back. Radio on.
Rowan Abigail McGowan has Poise.Not the finishing school kind. Far from it. Not the "walk with a book balanced on your head" kind. Rowan has more skill balancing a saddle and a sack full of feed while avoiding the usual hazards of a...
Hey friend! Thanks for the feedback on the Lay Off Field Guide - I hope you don't need it, but I'm glad it's useful. Stuff I've WrittenHow to Win at Work Every Day. I explain why you need an internal scorecard, and share a ten minute...
As I said yesterday, I am way ahead on practicing for this month, which is great because at 12:30 last night we had a family emergency. Everybody’s fine, but it’s the next day at 3:45 in the afternoon, and I’m just done. There’s no way...
Yes, you read that title correctly. English Civil War Lego.The good people at the Cromwell Museum have teamed up with United Bricks to create a small range of Civil War figures.As it was the Cromwell Museum who initiated the project, it...
ARC-1 1.0 is here. When I published the first ARC-1 post, I explained why I built an MCP server for ABAP development and why security has to be part of it from the beginning. This post is not another deep dive into every tool. The...
I usually like constraints. They challenge me to do more with less. But that doesn’t mean we always get along.
The folks at the observability platform Victoria Metrics have put together a Go 1.27 interactive tour that shows what’s in the new version! This isn’t directly related to OpenZiti (which is created by NetFoundry, where I work), but it is...
If I'm honest, Smallspace was a lot about resisting temptation this year.Even I have worked out I really don't need any more plastic kit right now. Not Space: 1999 Eagle & Hawk War Games Edition 1:72 Scale Model. Not V.I.N.cent from the...
When Image Comics launched back in 1992 (over 30 years ago, damn I'm old), I wonder how many people thought some of those earliest series would, somehow, continue to this day. Certain titles from that first decade occasionally had series...
Every AI product in a business is a few of six simple machines bolted together. An assembly inherits every failure of every machine inside it.