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Read: The Mighty Red by Louise Erdrich ★★★★ 📚 IN SOME PLACES, lambsquarters is considered the Prince of Greens, one of the most nutritious greens ever analyzed; it was one of the earliest agricultural crops of the Americas. It also...
Things stayed way too hot overnight. None of us got much sleep, even though the house is so much cooler. With today supposed to reach 31C/88F today, I headed outside shortly after 6am. My plan to dig more beds for the corn quickly...
North is left. (mirrored). 13.5x8.5 arcmin (0.35 arcsec/pixel) dt {color: var(--em-color)} Total exposure time:410 * 30 seconds = 3.4 hours. (across 2 nights) Exposure used in stack: 329 * 30 seconds = 2.7 hours. Telescope: C9.25 (230mm,...
Power Cat Sunday 2026-06-07 that's one way to not do it!
I’m a sucker for the technical vocabulary of traditional fields, the more obsolescent the better (cf. retting flax), so of course I enjoyed Rukmini Callimachi’s NY Times piece (archived) on the beleaguered master thatchers of olde...
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The transition from phantom childhood to phantom adulthood feels like it could be a transition for us as well.
This almost slipped me by. Yep, I started my webpage in 1996. And for all that time I’ve kept to the 1990s idea of a personal webpage: it all comes out of my brain, and it’s hosted somewhere at my expense. And, to some people’s...
I went racing in the daily driver again.
Introduction logbasset, my open source CLI for querying Scalyr logs, was already built to be friendly to AI coding agents. It ships a context command that prints an agent-facing reference — every command, flag, output format, time...
You probably know the story: Once upon a time, human beings evolved in Africa, looking much like the black people …Continue reading →
It was forecast to be a damp weekend but I’ve got out to the garden and allotment and the rain has mainly held off. Yesterday the garden was full of bees despite the clouds. This little patch of thyme, growing …