Personal blogs

A common complaint amongst the old guard bloggers is that the old web as we knew it is dying. This is false.The old web has actually been dead for many...

Better service will resume in a few weeks once the 15-mile race and its anxieties has passed. On Saturday, I ran/hiked from the quarry car park on Old Military Road over Clachnaben to Mount Battock …

OK, I built a new PC last year, and it’s been generally awesome. Except for one little thing. I put a NZXT Kraken Z53 in it. The Z53 is a nifty dual-fan all-in-one water cooler, …

One element of human interaction which I have always found perplexing and frustrating is when people lie with the expectation that you will understand that they are lying and also what they are really trying …

(h/t to Ryan McCormick, M.D. at his blog Examined on Substack)Someone was asking about the prospects for vaccination for HPAI, and I now I have as much answer as it is possible to get, compliments …

Spent a birthday celebration night in a fancy hotel. Not a fan of the overly mirrored bathroom. I really don’t appreciate seeing myself from behind — or from any angle — while washing my hands. …

1944–2024. My Mam was the strongest woman I ever knew. She put me first for fifty years and worked tirelessly to support our family through thick and thin. She encouraged my creativity and always trusted …

writing code on TRS-80 like it's 1983

the seed: everything fades with time lose your soul you’ll lose your mind It’s early March. A sister and daughter head out to be with her. Things were touch and go and the prognosis was …

Hello, It is Friday. The day I send out a list of things that I hope will bring surplus jouissance to others. |1| READING (Article) – The article The Diminishing Returns of Having Good Taste, …

Why write a blog post somewhere nobody has published in five years, in a new WordPress interface where you recognize… yeah, nothing? Where somehow you can’t even upload a JPG or PNG file you downloaded …

I had been considering whether to start up a personal newsletter. I subscribe to friends’ letters, in which they describe the various goings on in their life—family, house projects, travel, etc. As an email, it …

All caps, bold: MOVIE All caps, bold, asterisk: SHORT* All caps: TV SERIES Italics: Book Quotation marks: “Play” Italics, quotation marks: “Short Story” 01/01 BELOW DECK, PRINCE ANDREW THE MUSICAL, THE BEST OF COMEDY 2022 …

Heaven. Such a simple video, to such dramatic effect. When do we stop finding new music? Not yet. (See immediately above.) Working class bands can’t afford to tour. How social networks prey on our longing …

Stanley Silent Compressor Repair I own a small, oil-less compressor sold by Stanley. It really is a product developed by Italian company FNA and licensed to different companies. I believe the compressor is sold under …

A few weeks ago I announced a little hobby project that I’ve been working on: Curious Reading Club. I’d love it if you became a member. The idea is pretty simple: I pick a terrific …

Paul Simon got there first.. I’m giving up ‘intelligence’ for 2024. That is, I’m not going to use the term ‘intelligence’ except to critique it as an inherently flawed construction firmly grounded in race science …

It’s said that thinkers are either foxes and hedgehogs. The fox knows many things, and the hedgehog knows one big thing. Ever since I heard about this I’ve known that I am a hedgehog. My …