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It’s a world where nobody sleeps, except for your character, Mela, and Beri, the owner of the Hips N Noses cafe. Beri promised you a solution to get rid of sleep, but due to something called hollow disease, she forgot what it was. So, naturally, what you decide to do in this situation is to work in Beri’s cafe brewing coffee (or maybe concocting is a better word in this case) that helps customers affected by this weird amnesia to recover their short-term memories while you...
This FromSoftware UMD is an unusual thing. More of a facilitator than a game, Adventure Player‘s designed to be an open platform for genre fans and dedicated creators to revel in their shared love of adventure games. Three pre-made experiences are stored on the UMD, Kaikiken, Echo Night #1, and Hako no Naka, created to give new users a brief taste of the software’s potential. All three showcase their own take on a desaturated, spooky theme, with the first offering a small...
So at long last, here we are…at the end of the single vote-getters in the Final ’90s Countdown poll! To repeat myself yet again, a single vote is nothing to be ashamed of, given the relative number of votes I received and the number of high quality titles folks had to pick from! And today’s subject is…. TUG & Bbster (Art & Soul, 1995-1998) Now, despite owning most of these comics (I think I’m still missing an issue), I remember very little about this comic other than...
Here's an oddball pair from Spring of 1973. A fine time to visit the park! My family had moved to Pennsylvania by then, so I was looking at my copies of "Disney News" and counting the days before Summer, when we'd probably return to California to visit my grandparents (as it turns out, I did not get back to the park for three whole years!). There used to be a flowerbed smack-dab in the middle of The Plaza, and as you can see, it was full of colorful blossoms. I suppose...
It was inevitable that after finishing “Trafalgar”, with its echoes of Borges (amongst others), that I would be drawn towards a book by or about him; and I realised I had the perfect title on the TBR which chimed in with my current reading mood completely. That book is “The Lesson of the Master: On Borges and his Work” by Norman Thomas di Giovanni, and it’s a relatively recent arrival at the Ramblings. I came across mention of it when I was digging about online to try to...
Editor’s Note: Matthew Chicoine interviewed Dr. Peter Howard, founder and president of the Fulton Sheen Institute and the Fulton Sheen Movement, via phone on July 28th, 2026. I rearranged, edited, and paraphrased some of the questions and answers to improve the reader experience while preserving the integrity of the original responses. Additional context: the Archbishop … Continue reading An 1147 Word Interview with Dr. Peter Howard The post An 1147 Word Interview with Dr....
In the last few minutes before pick-up, I knock together a cereal box eclipse viewer. Hasty but effective. When I get to R’s nursery, her first words are ‘Daddy! I made an eclipse box!’ It is clear even before I even hold it that hers is better than mine. Proud/crestfallen. In the car home we see a bunch of people starting to gather on the West Hill behind our house. I ask if she wants to join it. She’s a bit nervous about the whole thing. She asks me (for something like...
There was no sickness in the dew. There never was. A fable for anyone who has watched the whole world stoop and drink while a neighbour dies.Who can keep silent? Who, having seen what I have seen, could fold his legs beneath him in the warm dark and call the silence wisdom? I have lived long enough to watch a nest that harmed no one torn open to the sky; to watch the very jaws that tore it open praised; to watch the whole watching world stoop and drink at the common water...
“And now for something completely different” - I love my job. Sometimes projects come along that are completely unique. I was asked recently if I could convert a Fleischmann M62 in N scale to the North Korean K62…Almost without knowing the scope of work I hoped it would come to pass for it just sounded interesting. In fact the conversion was basically just a repaint if the Fleischmann model - so from a modelling perspecfive quite straight forward. That said, the colour...
As we get older our [not your] adult children are getting increasingly cross about The Clutter. There are three in that F.1 [1st Filial generation] and the most direct said "Hey, get your shit together, why should I have to process it at the same time as my grief?". errrm, quite so.All those books I bought in a pre-digital age were snatched from yard-sale oblivion because they were worth 50c to Future Me or Future Children: Historical atlases, Teach Yourself Swahili,...
I've never seriously played an MMORPG. I played maybe an hour of World of Warcraft during its heyday at a friend's urging, but found it immediately boring. Nor am I much for shooters, especially in a competitive context; I played a bit of Halo and Halo 2 multiplayer when they were the biggest thing in video games, and enjoyed myself, but I never got good and I certainly didn't feel the drive to hone my skills on the grindstone of Xbox Live. But I've been playing Marathon....
Now, a new study, published in the journal Frontiers in Psychology, argues this isn’t just poetic musing; it’s a fundamental neurocognitive phenomenon. According to researchers, our brains have quietly “scaffolded” consciousness on gravity for eons, and removing this constant anchor forces a surprising and profound recalibration of the mind. Space travel may strip away the mind’s oldest anchor, opening a state of consciousness humans rarely experience The physical...
There is certainly quite a bit more to optimise in local inference–Simon got around 72% more throughput from MTP speculative decoding–even if most readily available (and not hugely overpriced) consumer hardware still can’t quite get to the point where memory bandwidth makes dense models usable interactively. I can’t wait for an A3B or adaptive quantisation version to come out to see how it fares on even lower-end hardware.
I usually do my bike tours after work or on the weekend during the day. Yesterday, I did it in the evening. It was very nice, and some views (sadly, the camera on my bike phone isn’t that great) felt quite epic. I also managed to drink enough carbohydrates to not feel weak, but unfortunately it made me sleep badly afterward. Interactions & Comments
Part of me hesitates to write and share these thoughts because they sound silly. Naïve, even. A mix of too much and too little confidence. And in the end, everything in my head was all abstract, so what's the point in overanalyzing things? Who cares, I'm writing about this anyway. For years ideas and fantasies marinated in my brain: I would move to Germany not long after finishing graduate school, starting anew. And until Merz took over, I dreamt of the fast-track route to...
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WebSub is one of those underrated technologies that quietly work in the background of the web and that I appreciate quite a bit. It’s not super hard to implement and at least in my experience it is super fast as well. (I think) WordPress has it by default, many of the feed-reading services use it as well and I often notice it when feeds don’t have it. Reply by email
...and I don't think it was particularly good, and it just made me want to watch The Emperor's New Groove again!!! Look - I'm glad I finally took the time to watch The Sweatbox. It's been recommended to me many times in the past, but it doesn't at all resemble the movie friends and acquaintances have described to me over the last decade or so. The way I heard it, this was a documentary with unique insights into a uniquely crushing and terrible production. The conditions of...
I really enjoyed this discussion between @astrokatie.com and @hankgreen.bsky.social in an episode of Hank’s podcast, Humans. It’s a wonderful perspective of science and discovery:
An update of my ratings, first checked in 2025. WCAG 2.2 https://www.accessibilitychecker.org/ Still to do. Speed Index https://pagespeed.web.dev/ Rating: 96 - 100 - 100 - 100 Blacklight https://themarkup.org/blacklight Rating: Perfect HTTP Observatory https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/observatory Rating: A+ Security Headers https://securityheaders.com/ Reports: This action was blocked, the address failed validation. Will try again later. SSL Report...
So, now you’re looking at a desktop inside your desktop. Unless, if you’re using your phone, you are looking at a desktop on your phone. Sorry. Hey, I heard you like desktops It started with an idea. I was busy being unhappyish about the design of my site, especially the light grey boxes with rounded corners that contained my posts and other content. They were meant to be modern and inviting and easy on the eyes. But especially the rounded corners I hated. So a thought...
Daily writing promptWhat’s a moment when you realized you were officially an adult?View all responses Yesterday’s Daily Prompt from WP.com community was an interesting topic. So I decided to participate and give my little opinion on this. Adulting for me happened when I had to be the responsible person for a person other than myself. In my entire life I have faced lots of issues alone, phisically and emotionally. Then at a certain point came into my life my girlfriend,...
What would the world look like if countries were resized according to the number of people living in them? You can explore that question in Gapmover, an map that shows how the relative size of countries has changed from 1800 and is projected to change through to 2100.Unlike a conventional map, this animated population cartogram continually distorts the shapes and sizes of countries so that their area reflects their share of the world's population. As you drag through the...
Perfume PosseApologies, but … It’s cool, grey and still early in the morning. So far that doesn’t last into the day, though, with temps rising and the sun coming out later. Still, it’s so so pleasant and much easier to manage. We all take… Continue Reading → Perfume PosseApologies, but …