82MHz
It keeps happening. I can't control it. Sometimes, I feel nostalgic for some old piece of tech, and before I know what's happening, I'm already browsing eBay looking for one. That's how I ended up with an old Thinkpad from 2004 recently. And now it happened again, and so I'm now the proud owner of...
Chris Weigant
Tomorrow, America will celebrate 250 years of independence. That sounds like a long time, to Americans at least. It is a laughably short period to those who live in places with much longer histories, however. Travel around Europe or other foreign lands and you will see ruins and remains that...
John McIntyre
Let us acknowledge things about our national anthem. "The Star-Spangled Banner" is mediocre verse set to the tune of an old drinking song that is difficult to sing. Its author, Francis Scott Key, does not have a clean record on the slavery issue (though should we apply our virtues retroactively,...
Aneesh Sathe
Wound up at the beach today. A proper San Diego beach. Unlike Carlsbad beaches, San Diego beaches tend to be a bit cropped but they are always livelier. This one was no exception. It was a pleasant, cloudy day, warm but not blazing, my favorite kind of day. The beach was full of families, teeny...
alysterwho
Patience is a skill, not a virtue. I wanted to teach myself to be more patient. I feel like with things being so easily and readily available, patience has been lost or at least has had less of a value to most. Efficiency and convenience have taken over everything so that no one has the patience...
Doug
The turret house at 3880 NE Wistaria, built in 1928, has been through hard times the last 30 years. A Portland brother and sister duo who restore old homes purchased the house in February 2026 and are underway with restoration. New owners of the turret house at 3880 NE Wistaria have begun...
M1A1
1 Therapist - “I think you should morn the children you’re not going to have… as if that loss was measurable and as tragic as it feels.” Drew - “I am trying to but it’s hard since we still talk.” Therapist - “I fall on your discernment of whether us seeing each other is too hard on you or...
alecm
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inga-h
Die Philosophie hat ihre Exklusivität über fundamentale Fragen verloren. Doch das eigentliche Problem liegt nicht in diesem Verlust, sondern darin, dass ihre Selbstbeschreibung diesem Wandel bis heute nicht gefolgt ist.
benjaminbobek
“Just collapsed right in front of me,” the first witness said. “Right there. I saw it with my own eyes.”
Simon Dalvai
The heatwave arrived to Italy, but for now the worst is over. Working with more than 30 degrees in my apartment was nearly impossible. Therefore I was not very productive during this period. Now I also learned that the next heatwave, I will go on vacation or search a room with AC :-) Luckily I...
ecoquant
“Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.” — Thomas Jefferson
Scott VanderPloeg
It’s been too long since we have a great deal happening. You can get Le Schtroumpfissime Dupuis Artiste Édition for €102.22 via Amazon Germany, shipped worldwide. Less than half price for this wonderful Peyo volume. Check my review and make an informed purchase. And…the deal is over. But it comes...
anarchaeopteryx
Personal life update and links. Today I found out that Belghast from Tales of the Aggronaut passed away due to complications with his treatment for cancer. We weren't particularly close, but he was the one who started Blaugust, which was part of the impetus for this blog. He was the kind of guy...
Audrey Watters
Many years ago, in an earlier era of silliness about a looming ed-tech revolution, a startup founder sent me an email, asking that I please hold off from writing anything about the company. They'd experienced a huge surge in demand for their app – it was fall, students were headed back-to-school....
Lisa Creech Bledsoe
This painting spent time sitting quietly in the studio while I figured out what it wanted to become. The forms remind me of algae, or some kind of floating ecosystem—green shapes suspended above deep indigo water. Eventually, I added gold leaf details… Over time, it became a meditation on the...
April Tapia
Solo Female Travel to Kauai, Hawaii – My Personal Adventure It goes without saying that when you are exploring the world on your own, you make safe decisions. Be mindful of your surroundings and look both ways before crossing the street. If you’re a woman in the world and you’re considering...
John Connors
Words: Chris ArnsbyGary Davies: “Hello. Very good evening to you. Welcome to Top of the Pops. We are in stereo on Radio 1 97 to 99 FM and we have a terrific show for you tonight. In the studio we have Cola Boy and Kim Appleby, but we start off with this week’s highest climber. It’s called Always...
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Antonia Malchik
Holland Creek running out of Holland Lake, Montana All wild waters have a different flavor. The North Fork of the Flathead River, the river near the off-grid cabin I stay at most often, is wide, and fast enough I wouldn’t risk trying to swim across it. Its headwaters are in Canada, and it has...
uzwi
Blackwell’s on Bridge St Edinburgh, Thursday night. Nina Allan chairs; I say the words “explanatory collapse” a lot; a great night is thus ensured for all. Later we go to the Italian restaurant that used to be one of RLS’s favourite drinking holes, where I lose my favourite signing pen, Nina finds...
Mark Rogers
Re: Your Metablogging is Lame as Hell #julyreply Are you an enthusiastic newcomer to blogging? Write about it! Do you have tips and tricks that other bloggers might like? Tell us about them! Did you learn something about blogging that you feel needs to be told? Share it! Are you blogging about...
Great Hierophant
Over in China there is an expatriate who goes by the handle of Taki Udon. This American began his public video gaming presence modding Game Boy, Game Boy Color and Game Boy Advance systems. Over time he partnered with a local company, Retro Remake, to produce modding products and affordable...
Paul Kinlan
Lighthouse is one of the most successful developer tools we’ve ever shipped, and I say that as someone who is genuinely proud of the work the team has done on it. But something has gnawed at me for a while. Our ability to help the developer ecosystem with it is ultimately capped by the number of...
Alex
Thus ends my first month of rest and recuperation. It’s been hot, very hot, but I’ve been lucky enough to be able to cat sit for a couple of friends who have a nice fresh house outside of the city and a swimming pool, which makes all the difference. Since coming back to my apartment, I’ve been...
Andrew Doering
I’ve administered Okta for ten years now, and it’s been an enormously wild ride. I’ve done it in a highly regulated environment, at a scale-up, at a growth-stage company, and in a federal environment. Every one of those had a different answer to a question that sounds simple and isn’t: where does...
4gravitons
This week was Amplitudes, my old subfield’s big yearly conference. This year, it’s at Queen Mary University of London. I’m too busy to attend these days, now that nobody is paying me a salary to do that sort of thing. But it’s still a good chance to keep up with the field, which helps me...
Aurel Manea
A few days ago I published an article about a workflow capable of generating an effectively infinite number of consistent scene images using nothing more than a text description. The […] The post From Infinite Scene Images to Infinite Comic Books (ComfyUI first comic book generator from a simple...
Jonathan Green
The 5th anniversary hardback edition of Dracula: Curse of the Vampire - the 6th ACE Gamebook, in which you can play as one of three Vampire-Hunters or the eponymous Count himself - is now for sale as an exclusive collector's bundle.If you would like to buy an individually signed and numbered copy,...
jesusrrodriguez
Una reflexión sobre cómo la vida interior comenzó a incorporarse a los mecanismos de valoración, circulación e interpretación propios de la sociedad contemporánea, transformando la relación entre experiencia, lenguaje y reconocimiento.
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Mark Rzepczynski
From the newsletter, Owenomics, we see that stock dispersion is at levels not achieved since 2008 and 2000. Now, this may not be an indicator of a market top, but it does tell us something about market behavior. Dispersion is not the same as volatility. Volatility measures deviations from the mean...
Teacher Tom
var addthis_config = {"data_track_clickback":true}; For the past several years, I've been limiting my news consumption to about 5 hours of local news a week, usually "watched" while I'm preparing dinner. Yesterday, there was a story about a nearby town's preparations for the nation's...
Gwyn Fisher
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Adam Rowe
Is it possible to pick just one artwork to represent French comic book artist Philippe Caza? They're all so good.
Kai Gittens
I started a front end engineer job at Principal Financial Group...and I really like it!!!
Timothy S. Brannan
At the start of the week, I posted about Horror Movie rules and the Final Girl. The topic of the Steven Jackson Games Magazine's Slasher Flick came up. I had never played that, but I did know about the RPG Slasher Flick: Director's Cut from Spectrum Games. I went back to Slasher Flick to see what...
Tony
Thought it was about time we did another one of these. Looking through my archives, I found a bunch of arcade production line photographs that to my knowledge, haven’t been shared before. I originally posted some arcade factory pictures exactly a decade ago here – which is also worth checking...
Sean Kleefeld
Tomorrow's comics are likely going to be heavily weighted towards themes of American patriotism and celebrating. Tomorrow is official 250th anniversary of the United States' independence as a nation. In theory, it should be a grand celebration that lasts most of the summer if not the entire...
4s
When I talk to my cats, I do this in a cute voice (don't judge me; I know many people do this!) but even after all these years, my "I'm talking to a cat" voice does not elicit any special response from them. It's as if they are unable to hear the difference between my regular voice and my cat...
Douglas A. Anderson
I've just posted a new piece at Tolkien Oddments substack. Here is the beginning. You can read the entire piece freely at this link.More on MadlenerLast summer, I published a piece in The Journal of Tolkien Research on “Josef Madlener’s ‘Der Berggiest’: Not the Origin of Gandalf.” It is freely...
prasangika-matters
Rory
Ford has admitted to rehiring hundreds of human workers after its aggressive AI adoption strategy backfired. “We didn’t pay as much attention as we should have to the experience of our most knowledgeable engineers that have been with us through many product cycles. Mistakenly, we thought that by...
AY
I am writing this post after last night's kerfuffle, just another day of trying to help Windows home users. I happen to be writing this while installing ProSeries on a new computer for one of my clients, which somehow has an installation process that is even worse than Adobe. Thanks Intuit, good...
Unknown
I could pull pretty much any random passage from a Boyle video and strike gold, but this one in particular caught my attention.The first story was told by the Leave campaign, who drove a large red bus around the UK with the words, "We send the UK £350 million a week. Let's fund our NHS...
Undine
Welcome to this week's Link Dump, where we wish our fellow Americans a happy 250th birthday!The unveiling of the Victoria Cross.A handy reminder that Robin Hood was no hero.One really freaking long tennis match.The motivations of Richard, Duke of York."Somebody's father" at the battle of...
george tannenbaum
This being erev July Fourth, aka Independence Day:I hold these truths to be self-evident, that I am not "owned" by giant corporations. Neither my data, nor my permission to be marketed to on every device, on every flat surface, at every opportunity, no matter where I am or what I'm doing.I hold...
admin_007
1. Kindness is only proven when the conversation becomes difficult A few weeks ago I wrote that kindness is the most important quality in a leader because, without it, everything else eventually breaks down. Competence matters. Intelligence matters. Decisiveness matters. But none of those...
alanb99
It’s well-documented that Gen Z / Gen Alpha are not exactly fans of AI1. And that older professionals can’t live without it. My own 9 year-old kid has told me that games made with AI are terrible and that “we can’t ask AI, it lies” (in the case we were talking about, it did lie). Marc...
joeychung