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Taken whilst waiting for my son to finish work at Eweleaze Camp Site As I write this the temperature is slightly lower than it has been and we’ve even got rain forecast for next week. Maybe an end to this constant heat is finally in...
Published in 1976, this book is subtitled "Doorway to Another Dimension" and it is a fascinating snapshot of metaphysical culture in the Windy City. When I found the book, the author's name rang a bell, but I couldn't quite place him....
This journey starts like most of the things I've been doing this year, as an experiment to run a website 100% unattended with an agent. Ideally this post won't go down as an epitaph in a future where robots hunted down unsuspecting...
The main thing this week has been GopherCon UK - an expensive week, and unfortunately not as good as previous years - but you can see my writeup for more info On Tuesday night when I got in, I went over to Monohon Ramen which was nice A...
They seem to have integrated co-pilot into Word, and this is one place I appreciate having AI. I hate Word. I don’t want to think in Word. I want to just say, “here is my org mode file, you go ahead and turn this into a Word doc.” Hit...
Friend-of-the-blog (well, mainly just friend) Adi Akavia has asked me to publicize that she’s helping to organize an exciting CS conference called Mind-IL at Tel Aviv University on October 26, in memory of the Israeli-American Turing...
If this title does not make any sense to you at all that is fine. At the end of this post it will. Mostly. Maybe. Last week I wrote about rebuilding my blog. Looking back at nearly 27 years of blogging I have pretty strict opinions on...
The One Page RPG Jam 2026 is coming to an end and people around me have been busy! I’m not sure if the game design community around me is growing or if I’m just meeting the right people now, but it definitely feels like there are more...
Two basketball sessions this week, and I gave myself plenty of time to warm up before each one. Not that warming up made any difference to my jump shot. I seemed to go through streaks of makes and misses, where there were more misses...
Still from Dracula (1931) featuring Frances Dade as Lucy Westenra and Count Dracula as himselfFulfilling my own prompt, reviewing another's blogpost, for Glaugust 2026. I actually found it difficult to find the right sort of post to...
Shhh… don’t tell my reading group, but I’ve also been seeing other books. In fact, I just got done with a pair of books by British writer Jem Calder. Reward System (2023) is a set of interlinked stories, and this year’s I Want You to Be...
lips touching so lightly it's almost not even a kiss at all yet it carries something so vast the rising sun the next morning won't be the same but it will witness what comes next the timeline rocked out of its course it won't matter what...
In about 5 hours, I’m going to conduct my first photoshoot. I’m taking photos of my friend’s daughter and boyfriend, two kids I’ve known for years, and I’m both nervous and excited. I told my friend I was nervous, and she said, “I am...
Engineering is the only profession that names its failures after the places where they happened. Doctors have "complications". Economists have "corrections". Engineers have Tacoma Narrows, Chernobyl, Challenger, the Hyatt Regency...
The main event of my trip was Regina and Sam’s wedding at the Virginia Park Lodge in County Cavan. Back on Saturday, upon arrival at the airport back, the Customs Officer asked the purpose of my trip, and I said I was there for a wedding...