Bubbles
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Don’t let the absence of a flying car in your garage distract you: we are definitely now living in a version of the future out of J.G. Ballard or William Gibson. Every day I notice a news story that startles or alarms me, that feels like...
It’s been a while again since i posted anything here, but there really isn’t any particular reason to worry this time. Summer has just been incredibly busy and i’ve barely been online compared to before. Between appointments, physical...
I got feedback from folks in previous YouTube videos listing their top activities they use to unwind in FFXIV. I then gathered these activities in a video, which you can see here.
'Captain Simmonds' (John Hurt), on leave from the battlefields of France, arrives on the island home of 'Mrs Santander' (Jenny Runacre), with whom he's been conducting an affair, where he encounters the butler (Graham Crowden) and,...
I've been sort of half-assing my Linux backups for a while now. I finally decided to fix them. My backups were a combination of rsync to a Hetzner Storage Box and Pika backups to an external drive. Each setup did different things, and...
A reluctant defence of the garden's most necessary arseholes European Paper Wasp pollinating a marigold - My photo Wasps. The striped bloody nuisances of the garden world, the uninvited guests at every summer picnic, the tiny, winged...
In atproto backed services, like Bluesky, your identity and all of your data lives in your repo on your PDS (Personal Data Server). If you signed up through Bluesky it's one of their servers, but there are lots of other services that...
There’s a player in our Sunday soccer game who’s generally at a level above everyone else. The kind you’d watch for five minutes and call a natural. The ball sticks to his feet. His movement is slick and easy. And he always seems to have...
I've been going out and streaming mixes from various outdoor locales. This morning I was by the lake in Regents Park. I think it makes for a nice combo of gentle ambient music and gentle ambient nature. It also featured a large fish...
This was my first ever time at The Fringe™. Here are some scattered thoughts looking at the good, the bad, and the annoying aspects of this madly extravagant exhibition of talent. We saw 23 shows together, and one separate show each....
I don’t know about you, but sometimes when I dig up parts of the garden, I come across the remnants of toys long ago abandoned. They’re the tiny ones – toy soldiers, pieces of Lego – you get the idea. This charming animation – A Tiny...
A bit dated lol, written in 414 bc. I saw this book announced on the standard ebooks new releases feed and it piqued my interest. I think it’s the first play I’ve read since shakespeare in school, and certainly my first classical greek...
It’s one of those distracted-feeling Sundays, so I thought I’d distractedly have a go at poking at this thing… So: Last year I made a kitchen clock, but then it started doing this: So of course I did all the voodoo things that people do...
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