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Hey, if you have a Poem/1 then can I ask you to do a manual firmware update? It’ll take just a few minutes and I built a special firmware update tool to make it easy. (That is an actual AI clock on my actual bookshelf in my actual...
Titan Tactics What Works Well? What Works…Less Well? Opportunities What’s Adaptable? Six Years Hence: Manuel, the Magnificent Mechanical Man Coming Attractions This week, our Free Culture Book Club plays Titan Tactics. To give this...
LIKE MOWING THE GRASS The fact is the sweetest dream that labor knows. —Robert Frost, “Mowing” Fed up with my angel-ridden, Latinate dirges, my sophomore poetry professor kept telling me to write about something more ordinary and at...
Until its reappearance as a guest-star vehicle for Rick Dalton in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, it was mostly only oldtimers like us who remembered Lancer, the western which ran on CBS for two seasons from 1969 to 1971. As is the case...
The latest batch, comprising his'n'hers reciprocal birthday presents.
It’s time for #6degrees, inspired by Kate at Books Are My Favourite and Best. We all start at the same place as other readers, add six books, and see where it ends up. July’s starting point is Land by Maggie O’Farrell (2026). Land is...
So yesterday started out ok but then the day took a turn and folded in on itself. In the neighborhood of the Airbnb we’re staying in on this trip, the city is replacing the sidewalks. Inconvenient, but hey, infrastructure. That party...
#OurWorldIsAwesome – Edition 23 | Context on this series – we live in a beautiful world and National Parks are akin to the crown jewels of this planet. These landscapes remind us of the fine balance and complexity woven into the fabric...
This post absolutely benefits from musical backing so I’d recommend sticking this on and then coming back here. One day I’ll write about raising boys and how that’s different today than it was 30 years ago, and why it’s strange to see...
Data and statistical insights are key drivers for international development. They allow decision-makers to: objectively understand the reality and complexity of the world, logically coordinate various development activities between...
Stand by, trainers: prepare to catch, bond with and train your Pokémon with the August 2026 wave of LEGO® Pokémon SMART Play™ sets now available, but only in the US, UK, Australia, Germany, France and Poland.This first article takes a...
“Welcome August” sunrise, 1 August 2026, 6:06am (photo by Kate St. John) 1 August 2026 There was a spectacular sunrise this morning to usher in the month of August. As quickly as it built to fiery red with a sun pillar, it was gone. On...
The good folks at Hikmicro have sent me their D02 Infrared Camera to review. It's part of their "Eco" series of thermal imagers - designed to be easy to use around the home and relatively cheap. Despite the no-fills appearance, it packs...
After a month of testing, I’ve cut over the site engine to my new Go-based generator, which lives almost entirely inside GitHub Actions and uses a rather convoluted process to minimize the number of moving parts and dependencies. I still...
Sometimes It’s O.K. to Let a Language Die - When cultural preservationists cast every extinction as murder, they can ignore speakers’ decisions—and the costs of keeping a fading tongue alive. By Nikhil Krishnan in the New Yorker