Sean Kleefeld
Today's Andy Capp... A more or less standard type of gag for the strip. Very much into character with Andy being lazy on the couch, and Flo offerring snide commentary. What occurs to me, though, is that Andy always sleeps on the couch that way. Kind of curled up a bit, with his head facing into...
Teacher Tom
var addthis_config = {"data_track_clickback":true}; "Wait a minute! I know how to play this game."The children were standing around a table upon which were the tokens, dice and other parts and pieces from the board games Monopoly and The Game of Life. The night before, I had discovered,...
uzwi
We’ve had a very satisfying three weeks since launch, with through-the-tills sales figures that made us gasp and which propelled the book into the top ten of the Times Bestseller list–an event previously missing from the fifty year timeline of my so-called career. Much of this has been due to work...
prasangika-matters
Tim Carmichael
Larry Gibson devoted decades of his life to protecting the mountains of West Virginia. His name became closely connected with the fight against mountaintop removal coal mining, a practice that transformed forests, streams, wildlife habitat, and entire communities. Through determination, courage,...
4q
What is Dave wearing today? Dave is currently wearing a white Nike T-shirt, green running shorts, white socks, and Stan Smiths. How does Dave feel today? Dave feels foolish and full. What are the factors affecting Dave’s mood? Dave woke up early to run, but quickly realized he wasn’t wearing...
Unknown
Following up on this week's sci-fi, folklore, magic theme.From Internet of Bugs Carl Brown:But predicting what humanity would do in the future is only the beginning of the powers of a Super-AI. I’ll quote here from “The AI Does Not Hate You” by Tom Chivers about a future AI called...
Undine
Via Newspapers.com This account of an extremely weird cloud (?) appeared in the “Caledonian Mercury,” January 18, 1821:COSENZA. On the 29th Nov. last, about half-past six in the evening, there suddenly appeared, on the west of the horizon, a luminous body, more brilliant than the moon at its full....
george tannenbaum
About twenty years ago, I read Walter Isaacson's book on Albert Einstein. Einstein was one of those people I had heard about my whole life, yet I knew nothing about him. I'm not talking about "knowing" his physics, but something about his development and emergence as a thinker and a scientist...
Ralph Boumenot
much rejoicing in MudvilleThe Declaration frame has cooked and it is laying flat on the tablesaw. No rocking from any corner tapping.new homeThis is where the hardware dresser will live for the time being. The empty hole to the right of is for the sanding block box.sighThe lid for the sanding...
TomCat
Back in 2022, I concluded my run of reviews of the lamentably short-lived, surprisingly classically-styled Inspector Floris Jansen series written by the Dutch editor, translator and chess player Peter Verstegen – who published his detective novels under the name "Ton Vervoort." A run of reviews...
Kristin Berkey-Abbott
I have spent time during Music Week sitting with my dad as the Adult Choir rehearses. I may start bringing my laptop and getting some writing or grading done, the way I did the first year we came to Music Week as adults, back in 2022.But maybe not. Yesterday when I had read the book I brought...
andrew
If you have a failing hard disk, and it has something really valuable on it (a bitcoin private key, irreplaceable photos, or the only copy of an unpublished book manuscript, for example), you should pay a professional to recover what’s on there. In my case, a relative had asked me if I might try...
Cassim
Today we're talking about Claude again, but probably differently than usual. From using it every day and watching how other hunters use it, I figured out how to get the best out of it, and it was pretty far from how I use it myself.I also realized how important it is to talk to people and build...
Challenger Tom
Hazel Dell Road is an approximately 4-mile rural highway located on the San Andreas Rift Zone in the Santa Cruz Mountains. Hazel Dell Road begins at the terminus of Browns Valley Road and extends southeast through a Coastal Redwood Grove to Mount Madonna Road. The corridor of Hazel Dell Road...
abitofajumble
Australian Echidna Original Watercolour Painting with Original Surprise Poem - £25 Original echidna animal watercolour painting with a surprise original poem on the back. The echidna is an Australian animal famous for its prickles and long snout. My painting is on watercolour paper, size 12.5cm x...
Andy Leonard
What a month of naming posts was really all about [originally posted at Engineer of Data Substack] I have spent a chunk of a career in the part of data that has no name. Not the dashboards. Not the models everyone lines up to demo. The layer underneath – the part that moves the data, in the right...
Hels
20th explorers on their way to Antarctica, including Ernest Shackleton, often visited NZ. They used local ports and quarantine islands, and gratefully accepted other offers of assistance. They also took on New Zealander crew with them, to take part in the Antarctic trips. Capt Robert...
Andrew Spittle
There’s a fish shop in Skibbereen with, seemingly, its own heron that perches on pavement instead of water. When I first saw it, I thought it was lucky timing. Surely such a majestic bird cannot regularly take up residence in a parking lot! This one does, and I’ve now seen it three times....
Mr. Karswell
Tom Sutton was another in the long line of awesome, later era artists to really blow my gradeschooler mind in the 70's. That organically loose, mutated style of his lended just as much to the creepy, high level concepts and monster designs, as to his doomed human characters fighting to stay alive...
Anna Worden
If you’ve been following me for a while, Thank you! If you’ve found your way here recently, Welcome! Some of you may have discovered my work through social media or because of the upcoming Little House on the Prairie series, for which I had the privilege of creating hand-sewn straw hats and...
Jan Kocbach
Kasper Fosser (NOR) and Simone Aebersold (SUI) won one the Individual Sprint in the World Orienteering Championships in Genova, Italiya. While the battle for the medals in the men’s class was close all the way to the end, Aebersold dominated the women’s race and won with more than a minute. In the...
Alvin Bunk
Introduction This is a review of the Organic Colombia compostable coffee capsule for Nespresso Original Line machines made by Artizan coffee out of Florida. The beans used are a fully washed arabica from Colombia, and each capsule contains 72mg of caffeine when brewed. Each capsule contains 5.5...
4s
A while ago, a video showing the ("deadly stunning," as the video calls them) partners of Formula 1 drivers showed up in my YouTube Shorts feed. As I often do, I watched the video and checked out the comment section sorted by "Newest". I don't mean to brag 😉, but before I started reading, I...
The Passing Tramp
What Will We Do with a Drunken SailorWhat Will We Do with a Drunken SailorWhat Will We Do with a Drunken SailorEarly in the MorningShave His Belly with a Rusty RazorShave His Belly with a Rusty RazorShave His Belly with a Rusty RazorEarly in the Morning --"Drunken Sailor," Trad. Sea ShantyCornell...
Barbecue17
Today I'm really excited to check out one of the Mattel Masters of the Universe Origins: The Powers of Grayskull figures: Gray! Yes, Gray, the son of King Grayskull and Queen Veena and the secret identity of He-Ro. That's a newer background for the character, though. Gray existed as a character...
Abhijit Bhaduri
Roger Federer did not just play tennis better than everyone else. He made everyone else feel they were playing a different sport. The Day Pete Sampras Knew In 2001, Pete Sampras was the greatest tennis player alive. Seven Wimbledon titles. Fourteen Grand Slams. He had seen every opponent...
Bethany Crystal
Finding the Edges of the SystemSometimes you don’t know the true edges of a system until you come up against outlier scenarios. When I accidentally discovered a new way for airlines to help customers who get stranded, it reminded me to why it’s important to spend time pushing the boundaries of any...
Andrey Lukyanenko
Cayley graph search with Claude Code: what puzzle competitions look like in 2026 Over the last couple of months, I worked on two Kaggle competitions in the CayleyPy series: IHES Picture Cube and Megaminx. Both are combinatorial puzzle solvers, and they can be reformulated as a search in an...
82MHz
Now that the IR receiver is working and I can receive key presses from the remote on the Arduino, it's time to think about sending them to the PC somehow. The remote I'm planning to use is the small Apple remote that came with old Macbooks. It has five buttons for Play/Pause, Vol +, Vol -, Next...
Travis Frisinger
We have stretched the word "agentic" so far that it now includes almost anything with an LLM, a tool call, and a diagram.Add a model to an application. Call a retrieval endpoint. Let the model choose between two tools. Wrap the flow in LangChain or LangGraph. Draw a few boxes. Label one of them...
tlindner
Reading CoCo Joystick Buttons in Color BASIC The joystick buttons on the TRS-80 Color Computer 1 (CoCo 1) are connected to the PIA (Peripheral Interface Adapter). They can be read from memory location $FF00, which is decimal 65280. In Color BASIC, the value can be read using PEEK:...
MPorcius
As chronicled in my most recent overly long blogpost, I downloaded a scan of the 600th issue of Amazing Stories, published in the year 2000. Today let's read the Harlan Ellison story included in the issue, and two other stories from the Y2K period by SF's bad boy. As I write this, the below...
prasangika-matters
Chris Weigant
Once again, the state of Maine is now on the center stage in the American political spotlight. Yesterday, a bombshell report was published with an accusation that Graham Platner -- the Democratic nominee for the Senate race who was going to face Republican Senator Susan Collins in November -- had...
turbodb
There's no camp site more special than the one I visit with Dad every year in the Sierra. I've been going for a lot less time than he has - though he assures me that I'm gaining on him, as a percentage of my age to his - but we've both come to enjoy the time we spend there each summer. It was a...
alienlebarge
A real sailor’s town… Loved it.
alanb99
Syracuse Company News has been working really well on company news (better than the alternatives), but on industry news it hasn’t been so strong. It has been improving so I asked Claude Opus 4.8 to review Syracuse’s performance on industry news since March based on the stats in the benchmark that...
alecm
“Strange?” There is a strange asymmetry in how Europe treats machines that watch drivers against machines that drive. Advanced self-driving features that their makers say cut crashes face tight restrictions on European roads, while a camera trained on your eyes becomes compulsory....
Mark Rogers
figure { width: 50%; float: right; margin-left: 20px; margin-top: 0 !important; } @media (max-width: 480px) { figure { width: 100%; margin: 0; } figcaption { margin-bottom: 20px; } } Sign at a playground A design trap is when you start off with what seems like a...
ghg
Brian McBrearty
I said this case would go away, and it will, eventually. “Mark my words,” I wrote, back when Bad Bunny’s motion to dismiss should’ve been the end of it. Consider them marked, I guess. On July 2, Judge André Birotte Jr. denied summary judgment to both ::eyeroll:: sides in the Steely & Clevie...
cparker
In the past I’ve done several articles on pochade boxes and other painting systems. I’ve tried over time to follow up with update articles as the market changes, but I finally realized the usual post format wasn’t ideal for this. So I’ve created a separate permanent page, rather than a...
Unknown
I believe it is important in life to recognise when one is in the wrong, and apologise.To that end, I have two apologies to make.I owe the first to the creator of Tale of the Manticore. In my post yesterday, I posted the following review: This self-describes as a 'hybrid between a dark fantasy...
abmurrow
Module Review: Partytown abmurrow Wed, 8 Jul 2026 - 06:29
David Eppstein
I have another new preprint, the result of a research project with UC Irvine undergraduate Cindy Zhang: “Sudoku grids that require many clues” (arXiv:2607.05728, to appear at JCDCG3 2026). The main result is, I think, surprising: When generalized to \(n^2\times n^2\) grids, almost all sudoku...
david
The dangers of publishing my email address — I have occasionally mentioned my support at dejal dot com email address on Reddit and App Store reviews, suggesting that people email me for support. But now a spammer is using that address as the From: address for their spam (email servers don’t care...
badmeritcollective
Une Explication en Français Facile
anthonysdesk
I'm building an app in public. It's scary. Really scary. Why? It's not as if I haven't built hundreds of apps over the years. Undoubtedly the nakedness. Behind closed doors I can architect a schema badly, build an unusable feature, ship a layout I'll hate by Friday. Dev testing exposes it. Code...
jimmy
– – Let’s celebrate. Do you need a reason? Today is Pub Day for Fairy House Halloween from the “Choose Your Own Adventure Jr.” line of interactive books, ages 5-8, lavishly illustrated by the wonderful Norm Grock. I enjoy the dizzying challenge of writing these insane little books, where...