Dear Ciara, A productive afternoon in the garden. While The Organist mowed the back lawn, I pottered about in the cool, late-afternoon sun. As I worked, weeding and pruning, I remembered that I had been avoiding an important job: pruning back our rubber tree. We have many trees in our garden, but perhaps the most...
For an explanation what this is all about, read this blog post. But click play on the below “video” first so that you can listen to it while you’re reading: So, after two tapes of tracks from various compilations, and then one with limited edition singles and stuff, what’s on this one? Heh, “master”. Yes! This one...
Otra visita productiva a la biblioteca, esta vez en formato cómic clásico, con un clásico como es Punisher, conocido por aquí como El Castigador. El Castigador Soviético es una miniserie breve (6 tomos) de Garth Ennis y Jacen Burrows que recupera a Frank Castle en su versión más adulta, violenta y alejada del...
During the 39. plurinational meeting for women and diversities in Córdoba, a march against trans-femicides was held with thousands of people taking to the street on October 10. Gendered violence in general, and against trans women in particular, remains an unfortunately necessary and urgent topic in Argentina. In...
I finally got around to watching some of Emergency with Tim Heidecker, and boy do I love it. Some backstory: Alex Jones, known conspiracy theorist and shitbag, lost multiple lawsuits stemming from his assertion that the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting was a hoax. The hefty judgments forced him to file for...
Ibu saya adalah orang yang paling aktif dan ceria yang pernah saya ketahui di dunia. Lalu semua itu berubah sejak ia sakit. Awalnya dari sakit. Demam, demam, demam. Berhari-hari. Operasi. Operasi kesatu, kedua, ketiga. Menunggu di ICU, delapan selang di tubuh, lalu saya pikir Ibu saya akan sembuh. Hal-hal yang tidak...
[Equations in this post may not look right (or appear at all) in your RSS reader. Go to the original article to see them rendered properly.] I don’t make a habit of reading obituaries, but I’m glad I clicked the link to this one in yesterday’s New York Times (that should be a gift link). Steve Selvin was a...
Read The Writing Process now!So tell me... What's your relationship with writing like?Hah, a fair first question for a piece like this! I've always loved stories, but it was Mr. Gouvea, my 5th grade teacher, who nurtured that into a love for writing, which I'm very grateful for, because it gave me a much-needed...
Harrion’s novel is the first science-fiction title to win the literary award, presented annually to English language works, published in Ireland and the United Kingdom. The End of Everything is the thirteenth novel (lucky for some?) by the British author, and is described as being a “slyly satirical and unsettling...
Of the 'war poets' of the Great War, Edward Thomas is the least overt. His subject is not 'War, and the pity of War', but it was the war that made him a poet, by freeing him from relentless hack work and giving him the time to develop his poetic talent – and it was the war that took his life, all too soon. In his...
Album#50 Is it gonna happen again? 图1 Is it gonna happen again? by jody 积融 专辑信息 专辑名称： Is it gonna happen again? 歌手： jody 积融 年份： 2026-02-10 时长： 約 32 分鐘 在 HOPICO 的 我把 2026 最爱的三位女歌手请来同台演出！陈静琳x汪川xjody 了解到的一張電子樂専輯 (推薦一看)。喜歡 jodi 的聲音，也喜歡專輯的編曲，編曲聴起來很丰富，有很多變化和細節，還蠻耐聴的。 问：专辑主题围绕“循环”展开，对您来说，音乐如何成为探索这种“循环”的一种工具？...
The pleasure is mine, Nadja! And congrats on setting up RSVPs on your site—it was something I wanted for the longest time too! Great job on building such an amazing site with Quartz SSG. Don’t think I’ve seen one veer so far away from the OG, great job. 👍 Visit BurgeonLab.com for the latest content (XML feeds are...
These days I find myself finally implementing all the writing advice I have learned in the past year through videos, podcasts, and books; I finally stopped procrastinating the “writing” part. Here is my top two advice: Finish do not edit until you do. Write for yourself. I was stuck setting up perfect routines,...
Like so many other people (for example Thomas here, but I vaguely remember a whole bunch of blog posts in the last few weeks) I am currently in the midst of trying to write my own FourSquare/Swarm replacement. I still use it a lot – mostly for my own amusement and record keeping. And while the “social” bits were a...
macOS’s System Settings app might be a contender for the worst piece of software Apple released this century. Its 2022 redesign was based on wrong assumptions, the execution of that already bad redesign idea has also been subpar, and the situation not only hasn’t gotten any better in recent memory – I can point you...
Replied to Ten Predictions For the 2026 Kyushu Basho by Nicholas A. Ferrell (The Emu Café Social) I will make ten general predictions below and we can check back and see how I did in just over two weeks. I made ten pre-tournament predictions for the now-ongoing Kyushu Basho on November 6. Now, through day four, I...
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November 2026. Rye Harbour. If you’re noticing a lack of spark in these recent posts you’re not alone. And it’s not just the strain of planning funerals and care packages; frankly the repetition of travel between Sheffield, Cambridge, Tunbridge Wells and Rye dulls the brain. I’d give anything at the moment to be in...
Part of my cookie series. This is for October. Read about the introduction and idea of this project in the inaugural post. Tonight, I'm baking my FOTM cookies for November, which made me remember that I haven't posted about October's cookie yet! October flavor of the month: PUMPKIN (&) SPICE I know people either...
An RSS appreciationMy blogroll has grown in leaps and bounds over the last year. And I'm glad. Every day, over my lunch break, I catch up on the latest posts from people around the world that I follow. I don't get to all of them, of course, but between haikus from Scotland, coffee shop reviews from Japan, cycling...
“Enshittification,” the process by which software and services degrade for the provider’s benefit, tends to be gradual, the digital equivalent of the proverbial frog that, heated slowly, doesn’t notice it’s being boiled. At some point in the recent past, Roku, after years of cooking us in lukewarm water, tossed me...
Pestaña de débil cuerpo cae al ojo indefenso ¿que no se supone que debe protegerlo? Sin embargo flota por aquí y por allá que bien se le da apuñalar al lagrimal mientras las venitas rojas se ponen y los ojos comienzan a llorar. Más la ves, más se aferra la muy floja arrinconada hasta tapada con el parpado inferior....
I have this thing on my blog called 20 random thoughts where I share 20 thoughts floating through my head. This post is like that, but filled with story ideas that have roamed in my brain for far too long. Some are real life inspiration, some wild imagination. I think they do deserve to get written, because I want...
As we exited the theater dazed, sharing initial reactions to Digger, I could only utter, “That was a thinker!” And it still lingers long after the credits rolled… Which is more than I can say for a lot of movies that drift into a haze of forgetfulness. I’m not sure whether that’s a fault of film in general, my...
Back in my younger days, my high school would hold yearly book reading events. The choice one day was Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley. Quite a bit of students would line up, waiting for their turn to read a few paragraphs of the novel. To be honest, while I found the event very interesting, in practice it was a bit...
Today is Veterans Day, a day to celebrate everyone who has served in the military, unlike Memorial Day, when we remember those who lost their lives during military service. Here is a picture of my favorite veteran, my dad:He's my favorite veteran for obvious reasons, but there are many other veterans who would also...
了解自己前段时间参加一次读书会，聊得是《禅与摩托车维修艺术》。已忘记是因何聊起，有位朋友分享，她最近在认真了解自己的喜好。比如喜欢吃什么、穿什么，会把这些琐碎的事情记下来。 另一个朋友不太理解，觉得生活中很多小事并不重要，喜欢就是喜欢，没必要非得弄清楚原因。 我其实很能理解前一个朋友，因为我也经历过类似的阶段。 过去有一段时间，我的感受很少得到重视，也没有太多机会自己做决定。渐渐地，我习惯了顺从身边人的选择，在别人眼中显得随和，甚至一度以为这是自己的优点。后来，我开始有意识地关注自己的情绪和喜好，试着弄清楚自己喜欢什么，又为什么喜欢。 这在对我来说像是一种自我疗愈。...
When it comes to permissible uses of AI in professional writing, one philosopher argues that “anything that is acceptable to ask a human to do is, other things equal, acceptable for an LLM to do. (Equivalently, anything it would be wrong to ask a human to do is wrong to ask an LLM to do.)” This “simple principle”...
We have gone over a week or maybe more with no rain. It seems dry season has come back. What happens this time of the year is the evenings cool off and between now and January, it sometimes gets down to 14 or so. It is cold to Khmer people. I think it is a delightful turn to the usual hot and humid here. The walk...
Automated testing in the age of AI coding assistants is problematic: when AI agents write both production and test code, developers risk losing the assurance that automated tests protect against functional errors. Matteo Vaccari makes three claims: (1) when AI writes the code, developers become its customers; (2)...
When the FSF came up with copyleft in the eighties it was meant as a hack or monkey patch for a broken legal landscape, not as a vindication or celebration of that landscape. The real goal was for copyright reform so that all software would be fixable and sharable by those who had it. Copyleft was a temp fix, a...
Regular readers will know I was diagnosed out of the blue with metastatic kidney cancer last month. My wife and I (thanks, Pauline!) have spent the past few weeks running all over southern California, seeking opinions and options from Kaiser, City of Hope, UCLA, and UCSD. I've now started a targeted cancer drug and...
Post one of your favorite songs that has the name of a color in the title. I bought the tickets for my girlfriend (she’s now my wife). I knew little of them but she had shown interest, and I love live music so it was bound to be an ok night at the very least. Glasgow Barrowland — the best venue in the entire world,...