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I wouldn’t have made the connection myself, but I was reminded that today is National Coming Out Day, which this year marks 20 years that I’ve been out.1 It feels like much longer. And I wish it were longer, since I highly recommend coming out in your teens or twenties if at all possible. Earlier this week, I was trying to find digital photos of an old project I’d worked …

My pal Saul sent me the weirdest and funnest treat I have *ever* received: A “Not Fried Chicken” Ice Cream Bucket by Life Raft Treats. It looks just like a fried chicken drumstick, but it’s actually an intricate ice cream creation, complete with waffle ice cream, a chocolate-covered cookie “bone” and a coating of white chocolate and crushed corn flakes! This made me LAUGH!

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Slowly going back through the post Wilder years. Ultra is pretty great.

I turned 44 today. It's been a great year all round. It's been a year of focus on trifold - family, work, and self. I am pretty happy about turning 44; it is just another number this time. Here is my graph for the current year. It's a bit different than last year. You can read this blog using RSS Feed. But if you are the person who loves getting …

Tomi Lahren should be fired for her outright fascism. But cohost Emily Compagno nodded in agreement as Lahren argued that democracy and the Jan. 6 coup attempt only matter to the privileged.

I was happy to see John Hopfield was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on neural networks. The award is based on this paper from 1982Neural networks and physical systems with emergent collective computational abilitiesOne thing I find beautiful about the paper is how Hopfield drew on ideas about spin glasses (many competing interactions lead to many ground states and a complex energy landscape).A central insight is …

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Tim Boucher’s “Organic Data Weaving” seamlessly merges the organic vitality of nature with the abstract logic of digital hyperreality. Woven willow sculptures, embodying the natural profusion of growth, stand alongside AI-generated projections that evolve across the gallery walls. The dynamic interplay between the physicality of willow forms and the insubstantiality of digital projections invites viewers to contemplate the convergence of artificial and organic intelligence. The woven willow structures reflect the …

As 2024 starts to get colder again, I am sort of stunned that it is about to be 2025. 2025 seems so far in the future. I remember being a kid thinking that we would have personal jet packs and robot assistants. The Jetsons is set in 2062. That’s not that far away and we have long way to go. This year’s weather was resplendent. There have been multiple weekends …

Hello you fine Internet folks, for today we have a video and an article for y’all.Unlike our prior Granite Rapids coverage where we just had a video, we have had hands-on with Turin, specifically the AMD EPYC 9575F, thanks to Jordan from StorageReview. This article is going to be a little different from our usual. It’s going to be shorter than usual because we have already covered the Zen 5 …

In "Rosa by Starlight," Hilary McKay weaves a captivating tale that is at once whimsical and poignant, inviting readers into a world where magic exists just beneath the surface of everyday life. This enchanting story follows Rosa, a young girl whose search for wonder leads her to an unexpected friendship with Balthazar, a large black cat who embodies the spirit of adventure and companionship.&

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Saw the aurora last night, for the first time ever. I don’t know what I expected. I waited until the sun was good and set and then I poked my head out the back door just shy of the motion sensor on my neighbour’s flood light. There was a pale haze in the sky, like a long thin cloud. Off to the west, the sky was noticeably pinkish. To the …

I don't want to rattle on at length about this, so I'll cut to the review and then drop in my rhetorical questions, accompanied by a personal anecdote. Mercedes-Benz is a car manufacturer. Want a luxury car of German origin? Mercedes is an option. It wouldn't be my choice, but I can see why people like them. Most are stylish, fast, comfortable, and undeniably a status symbol, at least in …