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Because a couple of you asked, Odd & David, I’ll try and recreate the recipe for last night’s pork stew. So, here goes nothing …
A small string element appears on one investigation board in Metro Exodus (4A Games/Deep Silver, 2019).
child labourers, Pennsylvania, 1910, photo by Lewis Hine in the National Archives A couple of people have asked me, after I’d written several times about what I call the “Patriciate” and what many call the “Epstein Class” or simply the … Continue reading →
With the 4th of July on the horizon, not everyone is feeling particularly patriotic. Author Meg Elison has been brushing up on her American history and all the unpleasantness that comes with it. Take off your ball caps, place them over your heart, and follow along in today’s Big Idea for Foundling Fathers. MEG ELISON: […]
Another painting tangent today, one that chronologically followed my Marvel Zombicide models in terms of when I painted and finished these two, and in a big way the painting connection is pretty obvious – while painting a bunch of bystanders in civilian clothing it’s not a huge leap to paint some Cthulhu investigators also in … Continue reading →
As someone who sometimes struggles to put multiple colors together in a cohesive way, I’m fascinated by fabric collections. As I delve into quilting, I find fabric collections of 18-20 different prints somehow designed to all go together. They also give me inspiration for fun ink palettes. This fabric is called the Coastal Collection and was designed by Craig Conover of Sewing Down South and Southern Charm fame. He designed a collection that fits right into southern beach...
In the last week I've found myself in two situations where I had to explain that despite all the crap I've been through, I wouldn't change a thing. That I love who I am, and I'm the product of everything I've lived, hence, I shall love all that past shit as much as I love past sunshine and rainbows. Amor fati is a Latin phrase that means "love of fate", or "love of one's fate". The concept is rooted in the Stoic philosophy, with people often linking it to Epictetus and/or...
I am back with Season 2, Part 3 of the Home Network and Devices track in my CybersecKyle Security How-To Series. This time we are making file storage safer: encryption where it matters, snapshots where deletion hurts, and a restore test before confidence gets expensive.File storage sounds boring until it becomes the whole incident.The laptop dies. A folder gets deleted. A shared drive link goes to the wrong person. Ransomware lands. A cloud sync client helpfully spreads...
Okay, housekeeping, because telling people about my own stuff is the single thing I am worst at as a person who makes stuff. The Cryptid Cataloger has two halves. Half is the serial — that one’s for patrons, because a guy’s gotta eat. The OTHER half is a free, public, no-login, no-paywall field-guide entry that drops every other Tuesday: a full illustrated page on whatever cryptid Sutton is currently obsessing over from the back of her 1972 VW bus. A new one went up today....
In 2011, three physicists won the Nobel Prize for showing that the expansion of the universe speeds up, which is usually attributed to aa mysterious type of energy called “dark energy”. But last year, though, a different group published research showing that universal expansion isn’t actually getting faster. Since then, the two groups have engaged in a whole bunch of back-and-forth refuting each
The Agile Manifesto was written in 2001 in response to heavyweight, process-centric software development. It argued that communication and adaptability mattered more than rigid plans and documentation. However, Agile largely failed at the enterprise level because organizations adopted the ceremonies while preserving the underlying bureaucracy. It's time for a new manifesto.This post AI Manifesto first appeared on Dan Stroot's Blog
"Garden" never means the same thing to any two people. I don't usually list "gardening" as one of my hobbies. I don't usually tell people "I'm a gardener." Because everyone has varying ideas of what that means, and because even other "gardeners" and I will have radically different notions of what "gardening" entails. As I was weeding my weeds (digging the grass and oversized milkweed out of the lambs'-quarters and wild sorrel) this morning, I started thinking about all the...
The current mess and tragedy is that the tools we need most are often the first things that stressed, messy, #elitist systems defund, discredit, and dismantle. Why? Because these tools threaten the psychological certainty that people cling to when the world feels unstable. The ability to sit with uncertainty, to question assumptions, to admit complexity. … Continue reading The tools we need to compost the #deathcult →
Someone on Tildes pointed out a contradiction at the end of my “I almost got hit by a car” story, where I say that, since the incident, I started using the Loop Engage, which reduces 16 dB — far less than the noise cancellation on AirPods Pro 2, estimated at 27 dB. “An 11 dB difference is far greater than it sounds on paper,” I wrote. In that case, the 16 dB reduced by the Loop Engage would also count as a significant reduction. He’s right. If the point of changing my...
Printing Impressions has a piece pushing POD as an addition to a printer’s armory. They keep focussing on customization, which may become an important feature of book making I guess. Not sure however that I’d like to receive a book with a line printed in the front saying “specially printed for Richard”. However the technology […]
Tim Cook told the Wall Street Journal that Apple will have to raise its prices due to the skyrocketing demand for RAM and storage. “Unfortunately, price increases are unavoidable,” he said. “We’re doing our best to mitigate the huge increases that are being passed to us, and we’ve been trying to shield our customers from […]
Last week I printed a small booklet, folded it, stapled it, and mailed copies to friends and family. I used my sweet Dungeons & Dragons stamps! Eight pages, in color. It’s the second volume of our Cruft Manor zine, and this time the subject is personal security. Last Christmas, Michele and I made a zine … Continue reading "Making a Security Zine for friends and family"
"When I was writing The Endling, music was such a significant part of the process. I used it to get a sense of the culture I was depicting, to describe the state of particular characters, and more than anything else, to locate the atmosphere and emotion in a scene. It might come as no surprise that this playlist includes very few men."