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WIP: Remains a work-in-progress for the year 2024. K My daughters are fascinated by strange things. Of course, the younger one is influenced by what her sister does. Five years ago, the elder one asked …

Via Scott Thomas (@ScottGL1 on twitter) comes a very interesting note on a US weather service forecast from yesterday: I live on a small island located in a steep-walled inlet that opens onto an inland …

Hey folks, this week is a bit of a gap week as I am heading out to the annual meeting of the Society for Military History (and, indeed, by the time you read this, I …

In 1975, my grandma baked a loaf of poppy seed bread. While this may not seem worthy of mention, it was an unusual act in that she never repeated this... Source

In August I bought a Kinesis Freestyle Edge keyboard off of eBay. I’ve been using it for about four months now, and I’m typing this review on it. I’d been wanting to try out a …

March 30 – May 4, 2024

I don’t remember how I came across it, but this is one of the most exciting papers I’ve read recently. The authors train a neural network that tries to identify the next in a sequence …

Driving their damaged vehicle down from the plateau, Contra-Disward towards the banks of the Styx, the Levellers soon spotted what they’d been looking for. At the bottom of a steep incline, run aground on a …

You’re a Blogger, Not an Essayist - I am BARRY HESS - “You don’t need to labor over your posts. You don’t need to have perfect grammar or spelling. You don’t need to leave a …

This is a post about multiple wordles and the point at which they hit diminishing returnles. If you don’t know what Wordle is, this post is not for you and also, how is life back …

This checkin to GCADM5E Rembrandt park #2 reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. On my way out for pizza with my work colleagues, a quick and easy find in the …

I’ve recently switched back from vscode to Sublime Text, which means that after all the time I spent training my fingers to type “code somefile.txt” instead of “subl somefile.txt” I now need to undo all …

First ferry trip of the year on the only operating Arran ferry (for now). Choppiest crossing I’ve ever experienced but it was full of rainbows. Quite, er, lively on the top deck. My face was …

My mate Paul collected collections. He wrote a book, ‘Recollections of a Collection Collector.’ It was never published. Lance Stater – Detectorists, Series #1 Episode 6 Back in 2019 I attended Boring IX, a conference …

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