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North is right. 0.52"/pixel (18'x9' field) FWHM=4.5" The pair of galaxies near the center is NGC 6285 (top) and NGC 6286 (bottom). The lower one has a distinct tidal trail below it, and a faint bridge to the upper galaxy is visible. Both sit around z=0.018. The edge on galaxy is UGC 10641, and sits at a similar redshift to the pair at z=0.018, indicating that this is probobly a group of three gravitationally bound galaxies. My field also included a galaxy cluster around...
Recently I've had to delve into a lot of legacy products to understand how we can migrate them to a newer, more modern stack. This is something I've done a number of times throughout my career under the broad banner of digital transformation. Systems are always getting older and harder to maintain. The technologies underpinning them fall out of favour or simply become unsupportable. Inspired by "The Checklist Manifesto" — a book I read years ago — I wanted to standardise...
The Tokyo Game Market has long been a hotbed of innovation, especially where trick-takers are concerned. Sometimes the games don’t work entirely as intended, but, hey, that’s what it takes to transform the world one small iteration at a time. The bricks of the forum weren’t laid in a day. Case in point: Fractal Tricks, the hybrid trick-taker by Jason Lee, doesn’t always function to specifications. Oh, sometimes it does, and in those moments it’s one of the tightest...
It’s so cold in Sydney this morning, I can see my breath. Parked cars have frost on them, and leaves are heavy with dew. I have to walk with my hands in my jacket pockets, because the wind is too cold. One scarf doesn’t feel like enough. This long black coffee isn’t hot enough. We had to have the central heating on this morning for the first time this year. I’m pretty sure the birds flying past were wearing mittens. Wait, how would a bird wear mittens? Why are you asking...
Marbled White takes flight.
I didn't play Street Fighter (or any fighting games for that matter... too many button combos), but every time I see a Lexus of this era I can't not see Ryu next to it.Currently Listening: Yoko Shimomura “Street Fighter II Ryu Stage”Reply via email
Prism is our preferred Minecraft launcher, because it’s significantly faster than the stock Microsoft one, and includes cats. It’s also written in Qt, so it integrates well into our Fedora KDE Linux desktops. That reminds me, I’m overdue for a donation. But launching last night resulted in the following fun: GFLW error 65545: GLX: Failed to find a suitable GLXFBConfig. Please make sure you have up-to-date drivers The line about drivers was confusing, because I’d just...
The makers of the excellent Bear note-taking app for macOS have released a new app called Lettera. Check out that domain name! It’s a fork of Panda, which was their text engine for Bear, and which they released some time ago as a beta. Lettera is Bear minus the database for note storage; its a markdown editor that uses standalone markdown files. This is hot if you like individual, portable documents, and even more so if you’re fiddling with your system by having an AI...
I just finished The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening for the third or fourth time. Every few years I'll go back and see how much of it I can figure out without a walkthrough. It's one of the few Zelda games I can mostly get through without resorting to zeldadungeon.net for a little help. And even then it's usually something stupid like not realizing there was a bombable section of wall, or something I need to use the hookshot on. I played it for the first time on Gameboy...
Today my mom lied in my legs and closed her eyes, said she need a little break. I asked if she was OK and she answered she was missing her mom. She is the youngster (by many years) of more than 10 siblings and she just turned 59. Not long ago, one of her brothers died of cancer. I didn’t know him, but my mom spent a lot of time with him while he was in the hospital. She lost 3 or 4 siblings in the last 5 years. I guess she is getting the feeling she old and will stat to...
June 2015 This was my first full day of a 5 day trip to the Isle of Anglesey. I’m staying at the Blackthorn Farm Campsite near Holyhead. Whilst I don’t usually sleep well the first night of a camping trip this one was particularly bad owing to a large noisy group nearby. I guess I had been pre-warned of sorts when I arrived. When I had arrived, the friendly owner directed me to my pitch by driving a quad bike and telling me follow him in my car. Near my pitch was a large...
Small update here, but I put out a video game. You can find it on itch. Will likely write some more about it here in future. Thanks for reading. I love you.
I am late to post today because I had a dentist appointment today (big sadness, but at least I should have a clean bill of dental health again), so I’ll make this quick! I recently posted my 20 Books of Summer list, but there are some others I’d love to get to… The first five are non-fiction, and the second lot fiction! It’s a bit of a random selection, but there’s a bunch of library books and recent purchases here, so I really ought to make time!
The last thread had fewer entries than earlier ones, but several months have past, perhaps readers can supply some new links. The instructions, as before: In light of the growing number of these volumes, I am going to run a thread periodically in which I invite authors or readers to share links to philosophical works that are currently or permanently “open access.” Please use your full name and a valid email address (the latter will not appear) and include the URL for the...
Scenes from America’s State Fair. Here we see a beautiful example of a Trump-l’œil. Many such artefacts. Sadly, too transient to be saved for posterity.
O Mountain Goats, uma banda que eu conhecia apenas tangencialmente, lançou um novo single chamado "Charlie Sheen Reaches Out to the Feds", e por acaso isso me foi sugerido no Apple Music. Escutando a letra fiquei com a pulga atrás da orelha: que diabos essa letra quer dizer? Tipo, ela é extremamente específica e, sabendo que é Charlie Sheen, pode parecer uma piração da vida real. Tiro e queda. A letra fala de quando Sheen assistiu, em 1991, ao filme japonês de terror...
The Field “Another Day” “Another Day” is an anomaly in The Field’s catalog: A track with a fully intelligible vocal part; the closest thing to a proper pop song in Axel Willner’s body of work. But it’s not Willner’s voice, and it’s not quite a guest either. The vocal is sourced from Tracklib, a subscription service that provides legally cleared samples. It’s more or less anonymous, and it’s just sort of lucky that he found this vocal part that suited his composition so...
Low Sun over Tetons – Grand Teton NP, WY – Fujifilm X-E4 – Ferrania Solaris FG 400 Among Fujifilm’s 20 Film Simulations, Eterna Bleach Bypass might be the second least popular, only ahead of Sepia. In my opinion, it is the most underrated and under-appreciated option. Introduced on the Fujifilm X-T4 in 2020, Eterna Bleach Bypass remains exclusive to newer-generation cameras, so those with older models don’t have it available to them. Of the recent Film Simulations—Reala...
Recent versions of Delphi (starting with Delphi 10.3 Rio) have a “Tabs” entry in the main menu that lists the files currently open in the editor and lets you jump to any of them. It replaced the older “Window” menu that earlier versions had. If you work in one of those earlier versions, you don’t get that convenience, and the editor tab bar’s drop down has no keyboard shortcut either. This new GExperts expert refits that newer-IDE feature to the older ones: it adds a...
I am starting to learn about Linux firewalls because directly exposing Bocia to the Internet, without a VPN, makes it crucial to secure the machine as much as possible. The first concepts I got familiar with are the ones explored in the following podcast episode. https://youtube.com/live/YJZV79C-rNU Blocklist automation #TODO I have stumbled upon nftables-blacklist, a nifty tool to block malicious IP addresses via nftables. Once I’ll have understood enough of how...
you set the scene so expertly there is no way I can win give in and let you have your way only lose what I've been fighting for to keep the threads that hold me together stand my ground and accept the part you cast me in the selfish, the ungrateful the greedy, the inconsiderate and you the victim
Today I scanned some photos taken by my grandfather, possibly during the late 1920s/early 1930s in California (at a period in his young life where he ran away from home and travelled across the country on the rails as a self-described hobo) or slightly later in Pennsylvania (when he was dating my grandmother). My grandmother said he raced in Pennsylvania, where he would drop her off at a dance and he would go to race. She didn’t know for the longest while that that’s where...
Brendon posted today about how to design levels which players can easily "read" - basically, how to avoid unintended visual ambiguities which confuse and thwart players. In Skin Deep, it was super important for us to avoid unintended challenges. We were already stuffing these levels with enemies, goals, readables, and hidden loot. If the player is distracted trying to figure out where they can and can't physically fit in a level, they're not gonna be focused on the stuff...
Enabled IPv6 access to my sites today. Back to the future!
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