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  1. The Search for the Ultimate Mai Tai, , more info

    Tipsy Putt On the Green
    The cocktail shows that this isn’t our usual haunt, but we had a great time doing the mid-week suburban drinks and golf thing in downtown Sunnyvale. Tipsy Putt has a nine-hole traditional mini golf setup, plus a nine-hole 1-2 Putt tabletop format. It’s all indoors and there is a large selection of beer and cocktails on tap, plus pretty good bar food too. There are several Tipsy Putt locations in …
    By Kevin Crossman, 140 words
  2. Simon Willison: TIL, , more info

    Downloading every video for a TikTok account
    TikTok may or may not be banned in the USA within the next 24 hours or so. Here's a pattern you can use to download all of the videos from a specific account. Using yt-dlp directly After first publishing this TIL I found out you can point yt-dlp directly at an account page and it will download all videos for you: yt-dlp 'https://www.tiktok.com/@username_goes_here' -o "downloads/%(title)s-%(id)s.%(ext)s" The rest of this TIL …
    By Simon Willison, 991 words
  3. pig-monkey.com, , more info

    Beginning Framework
    Near the end of 2024 I decided it was time to replace the Thinkpad X270. I still think the X2{6,7}0 is Peak Laptop. Unfortunately, as software gets worse, I need more CPU. Everything on the market seemed inferior in one way or another to the X270. I considered: Thinkpad X1 Carbon Gen 9 (used) Thinkpad X1 Carbon Gen 12 (used) Star Labs StarBook (new) Framework 13 (new) After about two …
    By Pig Monkey, 724 words
  4. Sidewalken, , more info

    Sonos Dropouts Solved
    Mid last year I bought a cheap Sonos speaker from Ikea and it was a huge upgrade to my home life. For the last decade or so I’d almost always listened to music only through headphones. Occasionally I’d airplay a bit through my TV but it sounded pretty terrible. One problem I’ve encountered is that fairly often the music would just stop and I’d have to restart apps and the …
    By Simon, 130 words
  5. Dan Leo, , more info

    "The Pill"
    And so they drifted along between dull brown distempered walls, arms in arms, what was left of Addison's reefer still hanging on his lips, while the two ladies continued to pass back and forth what was left of their own reefer.Addison had the distinct impression that he was floating, and that the ladies too were floating. His feet not only felt far away, they felt as if they belonged to …
    By Dan Leo, 1,612 words
  6. Staircase Wit, , more info

    Five Little Pigs by Agatha Christie #ReadChristie2025
    Hercule Poirot excels at cold cases so he is intrigued when Carla Lemarchant turns up for an appointment with a murder from the past. When she was 21, she learned that her mother had murdered her father, Amyas Crale, a well-known painter. Caroline Crale was convicted and died in prison, a year later. She left her daughter a letter proclaiming her innocence and now that Carla is engaged, she wants …
    By CLM, 488 words
  7. Lancashire Past – Lancashire History Website and Blog, , more info

    A History of Daisyfield Viaduct and Greenway, Bury
    Today, Daisyfield Viaduct is part of a greenway, affording spectacular views for walkers and cyclists. On one side lie the outskirts of post-industrial Bury, and on the other the River Irwell, making its way past open fields. The viaduct carried the Bury to Bolton railway line, created by an Act of Parliament in 1845. The […]
    By Lancashirepast.com, 64 words
  8. Walknotes, , more info

    11 – 17 January 2025
    Saturday A fight. Three bodies: one is flat to the ground, another screeches by their side, a third holds the first one down with a heavy foot as they prepare to attack again. Behind them a rowdy crowd goads them on from the trees. I clap my hands loudly and yell at them to stop. Reluctantly they take flight: one for sorrow, two for joy, three for the birth of …
    By DW, 747 words
  9. Salt Water New England, , more info

    On Substack: Which way do you dress - Preppy or Sloane?
    Free on my Substack: https://muffyaldrich.substack.com/preppysloane
    By Salt Water New England, 15 words
  10. Save vs. Total Party Kill, , more info

    Art by Nohr
    G+ died in slow motion. There were redesigns people hated. Tweaks and changes throughout its life, as Google tried to make it work the way they wanted. The site was shuttered in April 2019. The social network was never the hit Google wanted, but it was a weirdly popular RPG space—certainly the epicentre of the best parts of the OSR for a period of time. People never stopped posting, right …
    By Ramanan Sivaranjan, 498 words
  11. Paul Robert Lloyd · Writing, , more info

    2025-01-18 16:59
    Watched the penultimate performance of Elektra in Brighton this afternoon, before it transfers to the West End. Dense dialogue compensates for the short running time and an abrupt ending, yet the play is undermined by needless and nonsensical gimmicks (effect pedals, a random blimp, ink guns). Larson gave a forceful performance though, and was an absolute pro dealing with a mid-performance interruption (a cup fell from an upper circle).
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  12. The Splintered Mind, , more info

    If You Ask "Why?", You're a Philosopher and You're Awesome
    Yesterday, I published two pieces,"Severance, The Substance, and Our Increasingly Splintered Selves" in the New York Times, and "If You Ask "Why?", You're a Philosopher and You're Awesome" / "The Penumbral Plunge" in Aeon. If you receive The Splintered Mind by mail, apologies for hitting you twice in quick succession. The Aeon piece remixes material from The Weirdness of the World and some old blog posts into what one reader …
    By Eric Schwitzgebel, 397 words
  13. Astro Bob | Duluth News Tribune, , more info

    Astro Bob: Think it's cold up north? Check out Arrokoth
    We visit the the coldest body in the solar system to have its temperature measured on location.
    By Bob King, 27 words
  14. PANTHEON, , more info

    Stephen Holden - Joni Mitchell - The Hissing of Summer Lawns - Rolling Stone - January 15 1976
    Continuing the series of critics wrong-footed in real-time, here's Rolling Stoner Stephen Holden on Joni Mitchell's The Hissing of Summer Lawns - which he finds overly detached, blandly jazz-ified, and deficient in melody (!)A classic LA album for a not-so-classic time in LA's life.... the title even has a water supply / keeping vegetation lush and non-combustible association... the hissing of said sprinklers at night is one of the distinctive …
    By SIMON REYNOLDS, 1,419 words
  15. SoftRobotCritics, , more info

    2025-01-18 17:59
    *Clearly this is a “robotics system,” but not of the traditional, and everything has been reframed in NVIDIA’s large-model tech.The term-of-art here may be “world model,” so what does it do when it gets up and walks?
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