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Michael Keaton was probably one of my earliest crushes, mainly thanks to Johnny Dangerously. Recently, he
Well that was a heck of a little break, wasn’t it? Where have I been? Outside and living a slightly more analog life. Experiences: I went to the Ocean City boardwalk. I’ve been to the pool. WM has been accompanying me to the gym this...
DHH, in Endless execution: The age of agents has brought us endless execution. Every idea, every hunch, every experiment is now within immediate reach. For people with endless ideas, this is nirvana. […] This is simply the most fun I've...
Abstract: Linux software distributed as OCI container images can be extracted into a FreeBSD jail with Linux compatibility enabled. With a couple of mounts set up to make the extracted root a valid Linux userland, the "container" can run...
My sticky notes from Black Bag, by Luke Kennard: A boy in a girl's bathroom: Her soap appears to have been carved raw out of the side of a cliff; shampoo and conditioner in two enormous apothecary bottles I cannot imagine transporting...
I am the topic of an article published on the website “Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting and Analysis,” or “CAMERA.” The headline reads: “Washington and Lee Professor Spreads Big Lies in Small Town Paper.” It references my...
View of the Northern Sky as seen from Adelaide at astronomical twilight(90 minutes before Sunrise) on August 11 showing the location of comet 220P McNaught (red cross). Similar views will be seen elsewhere in Australia 90 minutes before...
The Obama Tan Suit. I hate the fact that Obama continued to support the Israelis and wasn’t different in this regard, but man do I miss the guy. Naturally funny and a great orator. This was on point.
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Young Edmund Mortimer, who was the heir-presumptive of Richard II with the strongest claim to the throne of England, was being raised by the usurper Henry Bolingbroke, now King Henry IV. Edmund's uncle, Sir Edmund Mortimer, in 1402...
I thought I'd do a little post dedicated to Ranni, as it's been a while since I've done one that's solely about her. Here she is, sleepy in her favorite spot, the futon in my office: She has grown to have a full and distinct personality....
As I’ve noted in the past, memory is a tricky thing. For example, there’s a panel that’s lived in my head for decades. To the extent I can with my largely aphantasic mind, I’ve pictured it a certain way, even as I couldn’t recall the...
Quiet is the sound of a rainbow trout in a bankside lie slurping mayflies from the film; it’s the bay of a lone beagle on 6 million acres of wild America and the whoosh of a merganser’s rise from the fog; it’s the ache in your body, the...
I’ve been thinking a lot about drought. And fire. And rabid animals. Yeah, I’m fun at parties. There’s been a spate of rabid beavers. This alarms me, as even not-rabid beavers are nothing to trifle with. I saw a video of a guy pulling a...
[Getting rid of both ads and the structures they lived on is a real win.] Here’s a nice contrast against BMW’s recent misconduct. Since the mid-2010s, the French city of Grenoble been working to reduce visual pollution by removing...