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The American indie-pop band half•alive ( h•a to their friends) are not a band that you just simply listen to. You really must watch them as well. The video for their new EP (people still make them? Yay!) is a point in case. The songs are...
From Empire of the Winds: The Global Role of Asia’s Great Archipelago, by Philip Bowring (I.B. Tauris, 2018), Kindle pp. 126-127: For centuries Nusantaria’s seafaring skills and island geography protected it from outsiders. But in 1025,...
I started teaching Saturday morning tai chi at a local gym a couple of months back. I’m loving it. 💖☯️ Selfie a day for a year, day 11: Aug 29, 2026 edition.
Sonic Anonymous Be Good Tonight Sonic Anonymous is positioned as ‘weird, existential, late-night synth pop for the burnt-out generation’. Here on Be Good Tonight, we have an introspective piece dealing with grief and fatigue. Opening...
I have been tracking my gaming for a long time now, and now I have consolidated everyting. Over the last few days I have backfilled the lifetime totals from my Steam account (which I have had since 2009), extracted my 15 year old...
15 years ago, I was part of a school musical production. As a member of the supporting cast, I was given one line to deliver. Sounds easy enough, right? Everything was fine during rehearsals. But on the day of the show, I flubbed that...
In the previous video in our virtual memory series, we discussed demand paging. But that was mostly theoretical, explaining how demand paging works inside the Linux kernel and the mechanisms through which it handles page faults. In this...
This summary sounds a bit different than my usual summaries. The intro to last session explains why. I believe only 2 more will be written this way before we get back to my usual writeups. (although the audio is not returning) The Story...
Last week I wrote about the home theatre upgrades in the context of how it improved my videogame experience. This time I want to expand upon that to explore how it makes an even bigger difference to video (film/TV) content. When I was...
Look, I think we all get it: the light in LACMA sucks for paintings. It’s modernist curtain walls and curtains all the way down: @arthistory.bsky.social on LACMA But if there’s one work in the whole blasted out place where a reflection...
It’s been two months since my wife and I adopted our dog. She has been settling in, and getting more comfortable with walking further and further from her new home. A few days ago, we took her to the biggest park she’s been to so far....
Last month something failed in production that had never failed in CI. It compiles, unit tests are green, it builds. The contract between services matched the OpenAPI file everyone had signed off on. The symbolic world of the codebase...
If you have an ever so slightly twisted younger sibling, then you will understand the relationship between the World Games and the Olympics. They are a little different and certainly less conventional – and include sports such as...
Techno #feudalism is a description of the power that large #dotcons technology platforms now have over the economy and society. The comparison is with medieval feudalism. Under feudalism, land was the critical means of production and...
I was back on the Dice In Mind podcast with Bradley and Jason, talking about the new Microscope, the magic of This Means War, and just about everything else that crossed our minds: Dice In Mind (episode 176): Ben Robbins and His Socks...