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Never does time pass so quickly than it does each spring when I visit Los Angeles for the TCM Film Festival. This year was no different. The 2024 festival, which took place April 18-21, gave …

At 75, she didn’t think she’d spend her time fighting freeways.“I did not think this is where I’d end up,” Susan Graham, a lifelong Houston resident, told me with a chuckle. “I don’t have any …

Initial analysis from MTC’s Connected Network Plan reveals the service gaps that transit users experience on the southern transbay bridges between San Mateo and Alameda Counties. For the first time in history, the Bay Area …

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Today, on what would have been his 43rd birthday, I’m thinking about my cousin Scott. Scott was a remarkable human being who spent much of his adult life battling cancer and its fallout, and it …

Kiedyś, niemal na samym początku istnienia tej strony, podzieliłem się linkiem do projektu Pico8, “wyobrażonej konsoli do gier”, charakteryzującej się pikselowatą grafiką połączoną z nowoczesnymi... Read more

Dennis Rice, former headmaster of my eccentric, much-loved little high school, wrote some thoughts about the Morning Assemblies we used to hold. I’m reproducing it here because I haven’t written anything in a long while …

Suppose every day I punched you in the head for fun. Portrait of a man who getting a punch from someone Then you offered to pay me to not punch you in the head. For …

I was cleaning out my Downloads directory — which, even after my initial forays, still accounts for 11 Gb that I really need to reclaim from my perptually almost-full SSD. And I found this beautiful …

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 …

Link: https://tenacity.readthedocs.io/en/latest/When writing code or tests in Python, one issue I had was when the code would fail due to random things like network issues or external peripherals not responding in time. Just rerunning the …

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Intermission: Vaporbot A guest post by Mio! · April 28th, 2024 Picture an online door-to-door salesman showing up unannounced with some crazy thing he claims will change your life. While you protest that you haven't …

My pal Zach has this ritual when we play D&D - before we start, he rolls the D20. Over and over and over again.