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As I read Trump say he’s in no hurry to end the war with Iran, I was reminded again of this post from Adam Kotsko: My overarching question throughout the second Trump administration has been: why hasn’t the other shoe dropped? … I...
Back in 2014, when I pulled out some old Bratt miniatures and painted them anew, I didn't imagine that it was the start of a Confrontation obsession that has lasted twelve years. In that time, I have reacquired some old Confrontation...
Last week, Kevin Powell posted on Bluesky about the most common typo you make when writing CSS. Kevin Powell @kevinpowell.co One of the questions I’m asking is the most common typo that you make when writing CSS, and several people have...
Hey people! Earlier this year, I shared the fourth movement – “Fugue” – from Benjamin Britten’s Suite for Harp, played by Lavinia Meijer. I thought today I could share another movement from this same suite, but played by a different...
I have been using Claude to help me build maps for a few months now and I have been very happy with the results which I think have been improving. I keep hearing about Claude Code and wondered what is the difference? The answer: a heck...
A technology professor in France provides an option for students to use chat bots in his exam and researches what happens. Here are the rules he set. # Use of Chatbots Tell the professor if you usually use chatbots (ChatGPT/LLM/whatever)...
FAIR WINDS AND FOLLOWING SEAS: Actress Hayden Panettiere, known for roles in ‘Nashville,’ ‘Heroes,’ dies at 36. While she’d had issues with alcoholism over the years, releasing a memoir back in May about her struggles, no cause of death...
In today's episode, I read one of my favorite poems from Emily Dickinson: Hope is the thing with feathers (254). Source
A timelapse of driving our RV, a Tiffin Allegro Bus motorhome, just 46 miles / 74 km, about one hour of driving, from Mile 0 Park in Dawson Creek to Fort St John, British Columbia, Canada… where our truck’s front frame failed, causing...
I recently received the 14th issue of Men’s Adventure Quarterly, the excellent magazine series focused on men’s adventure magazines, now into its fourth year of publication. This is one of the issues I’ve been looking forward to, as they...
A few weeks ago I attended VCF West at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View. One of my favorite talks was Making Games in the 1980s by David Crane and Garry Kitchen about the unique constraints of programming for the Atari 2600....
1. Computers don’t have to be electronic (Archimedes’ Antikythera Mechanism, a way to chart the position of the planets dating back to the ancient Greeks; here’s a video telling what it is and showing a working model [7 minutes]) 2....
Do you love PBR? Oh sorry, not the beer - I’m talking about precariously balanced rocks.Earth is a big place with lots of rocks, and so many of them are precariously balanced that there’s an entire Wikipedia page about them.Among the...
FAIR WINDS AND FOLLOWING SEAS: Tommy John, whose surgery blazed a trail for countless players, died over the weekend at 83. The pitcher was the first to receive the procedure later named for him, replacing a torn elbow ligament and...