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A few months back, I played in SFPursuit, a San Francisco challenge hunt. Uhm, where "challenge hunt" is a phrase I made up just now for "Something like a puzzlehunt, but most of the activities aren't puzzle-y, but they are still challenging." One of the activities involved looking over a physical book that had been created for the hunt. A few bookstores across San Francisco had one copy each of …

‘While it was dark, I climbed up and put remote control cameras in the tree. I’d never have got the shot if I’d been up there. An orangutan always knows you’re there’I was following orangutans in Borneo with my wife, Cheryl Knott, a primatologist who has spent 30 years working in Gunung Palung national park, in the Indonesian part of Borneo. I am a biologist by background, and did my …

Hello you fine Internet folks!We are here at SC24 in Atlanta and there is a new TOP500 list that has just been announced and to celebrate the occasion, we have a video and an article for y’all and I hope that y’all enjoy!For a bit of background, every year there are 2 TOP500 lists, the first one of the year is usually announced at International Supercomputing which is usually in …

The communities of Alexandria, Hilltop and the Kingdom have joined forces to oppose the Saviors, but they have been betrayed by one group of potential allies whilst another, Oceanside, tries to stay out of the fighting. An early victory isolates the Sanctuary and allows Rick's forces to go on the offensive against the isolated Savior secondary bases, but Negan remains a dangerous and resourceful foe. As the tides of war …

Even though I love, and use, RSS daily to read things from the human focused web, also known as the indie web, I’ve been taking some time to dive into alt media. By alt media, I mean the 1990’s definition of alt media, where people actually stood against injustice instead of bowing down to their billionaire investors. I consume more podcasts than the average human, and I listen to a …

I love how Bear blog deploys its lean analytics (cleverly via CSS) for users of the platform — Herman Martinus details it in a post, albeit from a year ago. (I’ve been digging into a lightweight homepage solution, and reacquainted myself with Bear — curious if there’s anything else that’s similar).

• 4-star hike • 3 mile out-and-back • Easy | Gain 400 feet • Agawam, MA | Pioneer Valley . MA Fire Towers Views from the derelict 1959 fire tower. Provin Mountain is peak of marginal prominence on the Metacomet Ridge - a long rocky range that spans the states of Massachusetts and Connecticut west of the Connecticut River. This hike boasts some of the best features of this range, …

We learned yesterday that we lost game designer Kory Heath. Sad news—my dear friend and collaborator, Kory Heath, after enduring years of chronic pain and depression, ended his life. He was a genius, also funny, kind, patient. I'm so grateful we could spend so many years, laughs, and tears together, and that he knew he was deeply loved by all of his friends. [email protected], Nov 19 Photo by Andrew Petrarca, …

Reading a book that comments on what people were doing with their increased leisure time in the late 19th century. With this new information, it now feels as though my beloved Berkhamsted Cycling Club just isn’t trying hard enough in the name stakes.

There’s a lot of noise about Bluesky recently, it seems like they passed 20 million users, with more than 1 million new users daily recently. While I tried Bluesky for a short period of time at the beginning of this year, I quickly deleted my account as I noticed I somehow outgrew big social networks. Even my tiny Fediverse bubble felt like too much before I unfollowed some accounts some …

Boo! Prepare to be terrified as I take you on a journey (probably in a hearse) around the new GBG pubs I visit at that thrilling time of year when the veil of life & death is thinner than that wafer thin ham you get in Sainsbury's. Oooooooh. We start on Hallowe'en itself, a #BloodThirstyThursday where I want a curtailed one-pub-stop BRAPA trip out. I'm desperate to celebrate later that …

Out bright and early one morning and while wandering along a headland above a dyke a hen Sparrow Hawk lifted up out of the dyke and flashed by. Lucie and I on the early morning walk had disturbed her finishing her breakfast. There were feathers scattered all round the dry mat of reeds at bottom right where she'd consumed a pigeon that she'd taken out in mid-air and that's all …

How I miss Robert Hughes. In print or on the television screen he was one of those rare people whose appearances you didn’t want to miss. On television especially, a medium where he excelled when discussing art or architecture. As I said when his death was announced in 2012, the first two words I wrote here (on 13th February, 2006) were “Robert Hughes”, introducing an extract from a Hughes piece …

A rebuilding of the back catalogue of an art gallery, Garage Rotterdam, from Django, to WordPress.

I love doing embroidery by hand! So I made a pink & white hand-embroidered eyelet lace belt to wear with my Edwardian pink & white striped cotton skirt and my Edwardian hand-embroidered mixed lace blouse. Edwardian Embroidered Belts For Morning Wear In the Edwardian era, cotton dresses – aka wash dresses or tub frocks – worn in the morning often had a separate fabric belt. This fabric belt was made …