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I recently discovered that there's an old software edition of the Oxford English Dictionary (the second edition) on archive.org for download. Not sure how legal this is, mind, but I thought it would be useful …

In Greek mythology, dreams were often personified as Óneiroi, black-winged demons that enter our sleeping minds like bats to deliver messages from the gods. Last night I dreamt I drank perfume and had a minor …

This is the full text of a letter written on behalf of one of the defendants charged with narcotics violations in conjunction with the death of my friend and collaborator Michael K. Williams. It was …

I created a boat-and-lifesaver analogy for the autistic life experience, autistic burnout, masking and microaggressions. Growing up autistic without supports is like having to swim from one shore to another while everyone else is on …

The Dutch controlled the Brazilian northeast for around 25 years in the 17th century. On the heels of shaking off Spanish colonial control in the Netherlands, they managed to haul several Spanish and Portuguese flotillas, …

Do you ever think about how Musky Elmo basically killed the chances of “to tweet” ever genuinely entering the English language as a real life verb

Years ago, I migrated from Google Voice over to a Voice/SMS service called Jmp.Chat. I host my address book using Radicale, an open source CardDav/CalDav server. In order to synchronize contacts between the two, I …

Molly White on the good old days of the web. Life outside the walled gardens is nice and relaxing. Terence Eden on what a blog post is. Yep. Makes me wonder what other forms of …

This is an adaptation of an internal doc I wrote for Wave. I used to think that behavioral interviews were basically useless, because it was too easy for candidates to bullshit them and too hard …

Take pictures of the crew returning, not putting out to sea. A U-Boat takes to the seas in search of British vessels to sink. Things take a turn for the worse when the hunter becomes …

This year I want to continue my introduction to bodybuilding and round out my fitness regimen with regular cardio. For January and February, I'll finish the "Start From Scratch" series of workouts. I will also …

A lovely blog post by Jon Hicks on his process for creating the ShareOpenly icon. Characteristically, lots of care and attention went into this. I'm really glad you get to see the open hand icons, …

In the early to mid-90s, I ran a BBS out of my bedroom. It wasn’t very popular, but I did have a lot of time on my hands and I spent a lot of that …

photo caption: a row of antique pinball machines at the Seattle Pinball Museum. these are all from the early 20th century. while many are still in playable condition, they’re all quite old. i had to …

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My wife bought a 12” MacBook in 2016. It was her first Mac. She loved how thin it was and that it looked great, but it ran terribly and only got slower with time.In early …

Tues 02.20.24 – I am still working through my 2023 photos in Lightroom, adding meta data, processing, etc. Here is a photo of the Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains as I drove north on the US-395 …

Saw my first RFK Jr signs on Mt Hope Road south of Munith yesterday, that's one more decked-put candidate house I've seen than either Biden or Trump signs on my drives to disc golf on …

TL;DR: In my previous post, I used local models with PyTorch and Sentence Transformers to roughly cluster ideas by named topic. In this post, I'll try that again, but this time with Llamafile.

The bulbs are looking OK this year. Not too many not-the-colour-on-the-packet, which makes a change. We seem to have...