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“Home is where the heart is. On Linux, home is where everything personal to you is: your documents, downloads, screenshots, and configuration. In fact, your home is so special, you really ought to be showing it a bit more love. When you...
On the corner of Broadwick Street and Carnaby Street you will find a brilliant burst of colour in the form of the Spirit of Soho Mural. Completed in 1991, the mural was originally designed and executed by Diane England and a team of...
I’ve made some updates since the last blog post about NEO. You can download the current release here. Added the ability to drag and drop bookshelves (I’ve got four shelves going right now, so this is a feature I needed). I also made it...
I accidentally logged into baty.blog's admin and said, "SQUIRREL!", and spent time taking another look at the site. Who knows, I might start using it again. Baty.blog runs on Pure Blog, by Kev Quirk. When Kev first announced Pure Blog, I...
Last night I did not sleep long enough because I stayed up to watch the Phillies. These past several games have been fun to watch them again. They remembered how to hit without solely relying on home runs. When I woke up this morning, I...
"In one particular the civilized man still is brother to the savage: His thoughts seldom rise above the dust of which he is made." —Robert Quillen, "When Guests Saw Only the Parlor, There Was Trash in the Closets", The State, October 22,...
First day of school. My one and only agenda item for today. 😂 in: notes tagged: work
Remember when Threads promised to join the fediverse and totally botched it and made it only one way?
I hacked some brambles and because not much else in my garden is thriving I thought why not commemorate these absolute troopers. This bramble is trying to avoid being hacked by pretending it is a rose. This bramble gives no shits and is...
Hey y’all, I’m here today with a PSA that I find myself repeating multiple times a day, every single day. And I’m going to do it again. AI is wrong a lot. And I mean a lot. Both about inconsequential things and extremely consequential...
Here’s a commercial for the Honda Del Sol from 1995.It’s very Bondian, from the music to the casting to the theme. So much so, that MGM sued Honda and made them pull it off the air.The lawsuit accuses Honda of copyright infringement and...
Back in the mid-90s, there was a very short-lived primetime show called Fortune Hunter. I can’t find a full episode (only five of them actually aired), but here’s a short promo video.Carlton Dial was a literal fortune hunter — he did...
An author is never more vulnerable than when they have a book coming out, so I’ll often reach out to their publicists and snag them for an interview. In this case, the publicist reached out to me, and I’m very glad she did, because I’ve...
The slate wagon body is simple, and ingenious. First, the sides are dropped into holes in the floor. These needed to be drilled out, although I just waggled a tapered reamer in to make them larger. Lashings of MEK softened the plastic so...
See my letter, “Inside the man is a teenager.”