I had a great time marching in the La Mesa Flag Day Parade yesterday with the La Mesa Lodge 407 Free & Accepted Masons, and enjoying a delicious lunch and fellowship afterward. I missed getting a good photo of Deadpool, Superman and a women in a red-white-and-blue gown with like tentacles for hair, marching together. What do those things have to do with Flag Day? Deadpool isn’t even American…
Last overnight in CUN, thank goodness. It’s so hot and humid here; I just can’t do it. I’m done until next winter. A couple of decent shots and a number of unpublishable ones today. Some shots you think will be good just don’t turn out. Nice weather, full airplanes, and on time, no drama, and no mechanical issues—all make for a good day. Stray Pixels
Oodi, Helsinki's magnificent modern library near its Central Station, features an art installation in Finnish language called ‘Omistuskirjoitus’ (Dedication).
Country music can be hit or miss for me. There's some country music that I have really enjoyed listening to, such as (shock) Taylor Swift, but also a couple of other smaller artists I would mention if I hadn't deleted my previous blog. Oh well! I did not really enjoy Kacey's last album all that much, I did not get the hype, so let's see how I feel this time.
Kacey Musgraves - Middle of…
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Une voiture moderne est désormais un ordinateur avec des roues. En officialisant leur adhésion à l’Open Invention Network (OIN) 2.0, Hyundai et Kia deviennent les premières entreprises coréennes à rejoindre le plus grand pacte mondial de non-agression technologique. L'enjeu ? Protéger Linux, l'IA et les logiciels embarqués contre les attaques juridiques. Dans l'esprit du grand...
I don't know what these people expected, but he's in the hospital (because of course he is)
i was born and raised in new england. for most of my life, i had no idea how different it was from the rest of the united states. even today, i still am reminded of things that are strictly new england based that don't exist elsewhere. what do you mean you don't offer coffee milk as one of the milk options to elementary school students? so like... why is it like that? every region in the US…
What if I don’t plan to use any AI tools? What if I don’t plan to multitask like crazy and focus, instead, for once? What if I don’t need the mightiness of my MacBook Air, yet a trustworthy ally? What if I don’t want to lose my Apple Pencil for a third time during this upcoming vacation? What if I want a small yet powerful Mac while on the plane? After reading Matt Birchler’s blog post about the…
(There's no punchline at any point so bail if you get bored)
I was a firefighter in a past life, mostly as a volunteer after discovering my earning potential exceeded the amount the town was willing to pay public servants.
Aside: I recommend looking into become a volunteer firefighter in your community if you live in a smaller less populated area - they really need the help and it's super…
Every mature system is carrying around lessons that were never written down.
They’re encoded as validations, retries, timeouts, workflows, and exceptions.
The implementation remembers. The organization forgets
Relatively busy day today, though I tried to manage it to prevent a crash. I think I did OK? Will find out tomorrow I guess.
Adversarial advantage beyond AI
ce que les biais cognitifs révèlent d'une opération d'ingérence
I watched Obsession the other day. I won't go into spoilers here (this is more of a baseline thing, I think), because I truly think that if you're down for horror with an incredibly dark sense of humor that you should see it. However, in my somewhat empty late night showing, I couldn't help but repeat the words this/that poor girl. The idea of one's consent and bodily autonomy in fiction being…
Siam, Ayutthaya Thailand, houses.
Everything JS knows, now CSS knows.
Em um vídeo recente (YouTube - Patreon) a respeito da lista de notas não concluídas que mantenho na minha Home Page do Obsidian, mencionei que os itens estão listados por ordem das mais recentes no topo. O que, na prática, significa que a base da lista acumula automaticamente as notas que costumo classificar como abandonadas. Sempre que abro o Obsidian, vejo a lista, que pode estar curta, longa,…
Ich habe hier schon länger nicht mehr dokumentiert, wie sich meine Aquarien entwickelt haben. Das große Wohnzimmeraquarium ist super stabil und, abgesehen von den wöchentlichen Wasserwechseln, auch sehr pflegeleicht. Ich wollte schon länger mal aufschreiben, wie das Becken genau betrieben wird, aber heute soll es um mein zweites Aquarium gehen. Das zweite Aquarium steht in meinem Home-Office und…
A comprehensive history of web browsers on video game consoles. From the CD-i to modern systems, exploring the evolution of the web on consoles in detail. Covering bespoke iterations, releases by PlanetWeb and NetFront, contemporary engines across Sega, PlayStation, Nintendo, and Xbox platforms, and other details.
The call-and-response song was one of many that Black men sang as they toiled on Southern prison farms.
Nahe der kleinen Stadt Slavkov bei Brünn standen einander am 2. Dezember 1805 mehr als 150.000 Mann in Waffen gegenüber. Mehr als 20.000 davon wurden bis zum Sonnenuntergang des kalten und regnerischen Tages getötet oder verwundet, Tausende weitere gingen in Gefangenschaft. Benannt ist diese Schlacht wie üblich nach keinem von ihnen, sondern wahlweise nach dem...
Two types of Atmosphere toolkit are needed if ATScience is to help scientists do science and better communicate it to other audiences: one serving the researchers and their teams, the other focused on aggregation and synthesis.
On an average day under Trump, ICE has 25 children aged 3 or younger in custody. In total, at least 500 babies and toddlers have been detained.
We go home tomorrow, which is going to be somewhat bittersweet, as I'm sure you can imagine. There has been absolutely no sign of Oliver over the course of the last week, no contact from anyone who has seen him, no sightings reported on social media and -- perhaps thankfully? -- no reports that he...
The Old Mate makes it to the playoffs once again. It has missed the playoffs only once (not including the aborted 2020 season) - in 2021 when New England Free Jacks took it from Rugby ATL in the final regular season match and the Free Jacks failed to make the post season. It has changed hands in the first round of the playoffs in 2018 (Seattle taking it from San Diego), 2019 (Seattle taking it…
Irgendwie was das eine schmerzhafte Woche. Und ich meine das wortwörtlich. Beginnend mit Kopf, Hals und Ohren. Und ab Mitte der Woche kam dann noch der ganze Rest, also Gliederschmerzen noch dazu. Der vorläufige Abschluss dieser Schmerzen waren wohl gestern die Kopfschmerzen. Vielleicht habe ich es nun damit erst einmal überstanden. Was in der Küche...
Lab Notes 028: a new suite of features to make Leaflet great for collaborative writing and collaborative publishing!
5 weeks since my bike crash. I would have thought I'd be putting this time to
better use but no such luck. Time off the bike means more time to work on
development projects. Problem is my brain's. been in a bit of a fog and my
vision has made computer work less fun. So I've been avoiding the computer.
But now a heat spell is upon us and I can't handle the outside work that has
been…