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My, how time flies! It’s been a year since writing about breaking me ankle. Tip of the ole hat across the pond to Simone for nudging me into an update. Surgery went well with Doc carving in a titanium plate and nine screws. May have been...
Topology is the field of mathematics describing the properties of geometric objects that do not change when they are smoothly deformed. These properties only change in steps by cutting or gluing. Concepts in topology can be illustrated...
If you’re a professional web app, your key shortcut situation is not to be envied. Once the operating system grabs the ⌘ shortcuts it requires (⌘M to minimize, ⌘H to hide, ⌘Q to quit, etc.), the browser has its turn, claiming everything...
As expected, today broke 30C/86F. I don’t know what the humidex was. I was outside by 7am, watering the garden and it was starting to get too hot before I finished. It’s past 7:30pm now, and it’s just barely starting to dip below 30C/86F...
By Marjane Satrapi. Consider a two-dimensional chart: one axis is my knowledge of a book's subject and the other is how much has been written about it. I doubt any book is deeper in the my ignorance - lots written quadrant. And that's...
I’m currently trying out jrnl for my journalling needs. I assure you no one is more surprised than I am that after nearly four years of journalling in Obsidian (with detours to Day One, Diarly and other dedicated journalling apps, but...
If you happen to be in Wellington, New Zealand on Tue, 18 Aug, 5:15-7:15pm, then come along to the next public fireside.rs workshop. REGISTER NOW (LIMITED TO 40 SPACES ONLY) If you convene humans to collaborate or facilitate learning in...
What I'm...Working on Mostly my job and cleaning up courses for next semester. That's been the majority of my waking hours. Contemplating Time management strategies Why do conservative weirdos try to ruin gaming? What I'm going to do for...
Nathan has given his perspective here on the session, so I'm going to recap it myself and give my thoughts at the end. First Half - Session 0We kicked the session off discussing the characters, what we wanted out of the game, what we...
Mostly just dull and meandering. Whole thing feels like a badly-planned-out project; visually daring to no apparent end, and essentially little more than a shaggy dog story dragged on by two long scenes of people recounting events more...
You might already know that atoms are mostly empty space. Physical size behaves a bit weirdly at the atomic scale, but essentially the radius of an atom’s nucleus is tens of thousands of times smaller than the radius of an electron’s...
It has been a dooooooozy of a month. My last “real post” — as in, one that isn’t attached to the Patreon, more on that later — was on July 4th. And then I just kind of stopped writing blogs. I kept writing. I kept building things. I did...
Spotted some art on tree stumps around #SanFrancisco walking between SFPursuit sites this weekend. The little blue house on the tall tree stump near the 19th Ave entrance to Golden Gate Park has a "For Sale" sign out plus American Gothic...
Having done a ton of grocery shopping, it was time to leave industrial Tahiti behind. We knew our anchor was stuck on an old mooring, and so we chose a calm morning to detach. Luckily the mooring rope was long enough to reach the...