Bubbles
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Oh boy, here I go being a whiny little bitch again! Don't read this. I don't know why I'm writing it or posting it. Ugh. Some days I fucking hate myself. Some days, such as today, I wake up and I just feel frustrated and annoyed at...
I feel like relaxing on the couch all day with my laptop, Linux, and some music in the background. Maybe I'll take a break from this keyboard and go write on one of the typewriters for a while. That's been fun, too. Typing directly onto...
Tiny white ball floating over the trail at Frick Park, 9 August 2026 (photo by Kate St. John) 10 August 2026 In August in southwestern PA you may notice a tiny white ball floating above the trail, maybe at eye level. If you walk into it...
i passed junkyard-dog-man again this morning… he stared at me… he stopped walking, turned, and continued to stare at me as i passed… it was very aggressive… i am wearing a pretty black and white floral sundress… spaghetti straps… just...
There has long been conjecture over the whereabouts of the mooted Shakespeare work Love’s Labour’s Won, with some parties believing it’s just another missing early modern play and others wondering if it was in fact reworked into Much Ado...
The Baochip is a new RISC-V microcontroller by Andrew “bunnie” Huang, comparable to the Raspberry Pi RP2350. It's a SoC (System-on-Chip) with 2 MiB SRAM, 4 MiB RRAM and with the evaluation board priced at $9.50. What makes it special is...
At 43, the retirement picture is quickly coming into focus and becoming less about accumulating an enormous pension and more about solving one specific problem: Build enough accessible capital to stop work sooner, before 58, then use...
Tokidoki, the boy/girl duo formed by Nora O’Conner and Peter Schaefer, first release came in 1996. I didn’t know that. I was always only aware of their 2000 self-titled album on Sunday Records. I guess I should do my homework and do a...
Sci-fi is great again. I enjoyed a lot the book Children Of Time.Rapid and out of control evolution is a rich field to explore. I hope the sequels are just as good.
As a gamer, specifically a console gamer, things are getting tough out there. Sure, it’s tough for PC players, too, in terms of the cost of maintaining and upgrading hardware, but we’re seeing in real-time the effects of the AI...
Jackie Coogan made Hollywood's first child star fortune and never got to spend a dime of it himself. Between 1923 and 1936 alone he earned just over three million dollars, with a few million more in property and contracts on top of that,...
A conversation with Jamir Jumoke on change, community, grace, and the work of becoming.Jamir Jumoke is a speaker, recovery coach, and community leader whose work spans reentry, harm reduction, workforce development, education, and youth...
The Valuable News weekly series is dedicated to provide summary about news, articles and other interesting stuff mostly but not always related to the UNIX/BSD/Linux systems. Whenever I stumble upon something worth mentioning on the...
As always, finishing all the notes during a trip is almost impossible, I don’t like completing the pending notes at home but even when I set it as a priority, it never happens.It was a great trip. I’d highlight Hong Kong, where I spent a...
There was a Fotomat in the parking lot of the Acme Supermarket in my hometown. It was still open when I was a kid but barely. That same supermarket started processing film as well and that took away a lot of it business. Still, it didn’t...