Sometimes it's hard to tell Mom how much she means to us. Other times it's hard to tell how she still puts up with us. I like to think it's because of all the care and consideration that goes into the mother's day cakes we give her, though. Or, ok, maybe it's something else. Just … | Continue reading
I remember him now with the wind in his hair, the sun was high, like it is on a mid-August day, and the winds were warm, or warm as ever because of the warmth in my heart. The sky was clear, and I was nothing more than a little boy, wading in the waterand knee-deep […] | Continue reading
📒I stopped time blocking hour by hour with Cal Newport's planner, and I'm doing a more "focus of the day" type of planning with the Rocketbook week spread pages. I'm liking it. It gives me a different perspective. Stil testing how it goes. 🚄I finally booked my tra … | Continue reading
For the first time in recent memory, I booked a day off from work today with absolutely nothing planned. My company leave is usually taken up by family holidays, hospital appointments, and other things that occupy my time, but today I am free to do whatever I please, which of cou … | Continue reading
What’s up Internet? The last few #WeblogPoMo2024 posts have been music focused, so I’ll do one more for day 13 and do something else the next couple of days. I’d like to know what nostalgia music is for you? Songs or albums that weren’t necessarily certified hits or critically ac … | Continue reading
The world was introduced to the concept of shape-changing robots in 1991, with the T-1000 featured in the cult movie Terminator 2: Judgment Day. Since then (if not before), many a scientist has dreamed of creating a robot with the ability to change its shape to perform diverse ta … | Continue reading
I don't know if there's a proper name for this pattern of thinking, so I'll just call it Post Brain. Post Brain is when you go about your day constantly scanning for anything you can turn in to content, or what would make a great "post". I had a bad, bad case of Post Brain for a … | Continue reading
The company is aiming to begin operations in 2028. Major car manufacturer's multibillion-dollar investment marks crucial step toward next-gen affordable EVs: 'This is a very big day' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
One day, early this spring, I found myself in a hotel elevator with three other people. The cohort consisted of two theoretical physicists, one computer scientist, and what appeared to be a normal person. I pressed the elevator’s 4 button, … Continue reading → | Continue reading
Today our youngest wrapped up a soccer tournament with a win. It was kind of the perfect tournament. Nice weather, two shut-out wins, but finished third in their group and so we didn’t have to spend Mother’s Day under the beating sun at a fourth game. (Sorry, even the kid was rea … | Continue reading
Today is day 12 of WeblogPoMo2024, a month long daily blogging challenge. I’m challenging myself to write about a song each day, but there are many other people writing about other things. You should check them out! Today’s song is “Untitled 1 (a.k.a. ‘Vaka’)” by Sigur Rós. "Gram … | Continue reading
Today was a great day for me photo-wise; I got hold of some new flowers and had a joyous time looking at them, pointing the camera at them, and trying different settings and poses. Come and see the show, it’s free. I’ll be talking with you in the morning. I’m signing off for toni … | Continue reading
May has come to Minnesota, and, surprisingly, it has taken me by surprise. The symphonic grandeur of spring in the Pacific Northwest had caused me to completely forget the quiet crescendo of spring here in the Midwest. There, spring was celebratory and explosive — all bright colo … | Continue reading
“Cover my feet! Cover my toes!” her tiny, precious feet lovingly buried in the sand while I stood back a good ten feet or so taking pictures of these two ladies I adore so, so much. It’s a bright, windy day on the Oregon Coast. We | Continue reading
It's Mother's Day, Sweets fans, and even if we can't be with our moms today, we can still celebrate with gorgeous cakes! (Ester Cakes, Online Tutorials & Supplies) Look at these cheery roses - I'd never have thought to pair them with black and gold stripes like this, but it's fan … | Continue reading
Canada continues to burn Canada wildfire: Thousands evacuate in British Columbia, winds push smoke into Alberta | AP News The blaze, which started Friday, almost doubled in size the following day, reaching about 17 square kilometers (4,200 acres). BC Wildfire Service maps showed … | Continue reading
Discussing Apple’s recent iPad marketing on his website Tedium, Ernie Smith discusses what’s wrong with Apple’s marketing to creatives in 2024, particularly the marketing of the iPad to creatives. He and I had had a conversation on Mastodon the day before and he mentions me in th … | Continue reading
On this Mother's Day, I would like to say that I am so very grateful to be a mother. I of course cherish my children and all the joy they bring: the funny things they say, the hugs and kisses and declarations of adoration, the fascinating experience of watching them grow and chan … | Continue reading
What’s happening Internet? For day 12 of #WeblogPoMo2024, I’m going to share one of the greatest Hip-Hop tracks (and video) to come out of Aotearoa. The early 2000s were huge for local Hip-Hop. Between 1999 and 2008, during Helen Clark’s Labour government, during which she served … | Continue reading
Electricity generation from units that primarily consume coal in the U.S. Lower 48 states decreased for all hours of the day by about 23% between 2021 and 2023, according to our Form EIA-930, Hourly and Daily Balancing Authority Operations Report. Most of the decline occurred bet … | Continue reading
If you google the history of Mother’s Day, the internet will tell you that Mother’s Day began in 1908 when Anna Jarvis decided to honor her mother. But “Mothers’ Day”—with the apostrophe not in the singular spot, but in the plural—actually started in the 1870s, when the sheer eno … | Continue reading
The first part of this series, "Indigo and cabbage", written the day before Thanksgiving in 2023, is one of the most satisfying and fulfilling posts I've ever made. This follow-up is even more of a delight, because here I get to introduce a new paper by anthropologist-linguist-te … | Continue reading
Zip had a quiet day for once. He was looting all night and slept for hours on the back porch. We met around 4 p.m., and he lay quietly in my lap for nearly a half-hour when his nemesis, the stone wall chipmunk, popped her head up, and off he went. This is like a […] | Continue reading
Today is day 11 of WeblogPoMo2024, a month long daily blogging challenge. I’m challenging myself to write about a song each day, but there are many other people writing about other things. You should check them out! Today’s song is “Us” by Regina Spektor. My musical awakening beg … | Continue reading
One of the most frequent complaints about the current intersection of the web and society is that we share too much. Every day more and more content is shared in more and more online places. We share videos, we share pictures, we share audio and written words. And yet, if you tak … | Continue reading
Haven’t been, and I think of any excuse I can. Get up before the day lifts off, before […] | Continue reading
My morning run started slow, but I got into a good rhythm on Park Road and thought I would stretch out my run a little bit, maybe draw it close to two and a half miles, so I crossed Stratton Way and ran east to Stert, ran down to St Nic’s, turned down East St… | Continue reading
To the Young Protestants holding Portraits of Martin Luther on the steps of the Catholic Cemetery in Bielsko on All Souls Day When Luther couldn’t convert his Jewish neighbors, he wrote: Set fire to their synagogues and schools in honor of our Lord and of Christendom, that God mi … | Continue reading
Since some of my first prototypes with Playdate I’ve wanted there to be a way to interact with the device using a mouse. Well, today is that day! No doubt you have some questions? How are you doing this? What’s the weather like? etc. How? A custom Hammerspoon script monitors mous … | Continue reading
Today's links Algorithmic feeds are a twiddler's playground: "They 'trust me.' Dumb fucks." Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2004, 2009, 2014, 2019, 2023 Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. Recent appearances: Where I've been. Latest books: You ke … | Continue reading
What’s going on Internet? As it’s NZ Music Month, I figured a great post for day 11 of #WeblogPoMo2024 would be to share a favourite local album from last year. Let me introduce you to Better by Sure Boy (sorry, they don’t have a band website yet). Sure Boy, self-proclaimed as “W … | Continue reading
It’s a sunny and warm day, so let’s have some laughs to celebrate. | Continue reading
With it being Mother's Day this weekend, I wanted to bake something to honor my mother. Mom was brought up during the Great Depression. She and her parents lived on her grandparents farm up on the South Mountain. They were poor, but always had lots to eat. One of mom's favorite m … | Continue reading
Today we drove 150 minutes from home to help pack up our daughter as she was moving home from college for the summer. It was a very nice day. We were thankful for the cooperating weather. Packing went (relatively) quickly and we even got out for an early dinner and a quick stop f … | Continue reading
“The Simpsons” celebrate Mother’s Day in a new stand-alone short episode called “May the 12th Be with You” that is now available on Disney+. The Details In the upcoming short, it’s Mother’s Day and Marge Simpson joins the moms of Disney+ on a special holiday outing that turns int … | Continue reading
Today is day 10 of WeblogPoMo2024, a month long daily blogging challenge. I’m challenging myself to write about a song each day, but there are many other people writing about other things. You should check them out! Today’s song is “Soon We’ll Be Found” by Sia. What's wrong? I do … | Continue reading
Buttermilk Pancakes are super soft and fluffy pancakes that are our family favorite! They’re so easy to make for a perfect weekend breakfast. Enjoy a stack of these incredible pancakes anytime – they’re the most delicious way to start your day! For more variations, try my Banana … | Continue reading
The timing seemed just a little too precious. A day after Warner Bros. announced it would be making a new Lord of the Rings film called “The Hunt for Gollum,” a fan film with the same name that had been online for 15 years was removed from YouTube. “This video contains content fr … | Continue reading
Exploit code for critical "use-after-free" bug is circulating in the wild. | Continue reading
For Mother's Day (or any other day), here are some extremely safe, very straightforward recipes you can make with the help (or with the chaotic distractions) of a baby. | Continue reading
Archer’s battery pack manufacturing team has installed an “automotive style” line that is designed for high-volume production from day one with the capability of producing up to 15,000 battery packs per year This facility will produce the proprietary battery packs needed to suppo … | Continue reading
I only have 137 days until my wedding, but I’m starting to worry I won’t finish all of the planning. You see, my mom just cashed in decades worth of goddamned Mother’s Day coupons. All at once. Let me back up—I was a small, cute child with no money and a dream: a dream to give, h … | Continue reading
Why do people join mobs? Because it feels incredible. But other things, like love, feel better. | Continue reading
A spokesperson has said that production at the Grünheide Tesla plant southeast of Berlin will cease on May 10. Production line employees have been told to work from home. Berlin... | Continue reading
Conductor we have a problem, Conductor we have a problem Con… Yeah, Okay, okay Okay, okay Doot, doot, doot, doot, doot, doot Argh! Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrt Ayyo, what’s up Internet? I last wrote about Conway four years ago. The intention was to post more about him and his records b … | Continue reading
After the publication of Nedra Tyre’s first book, a collection of dramatic monologues based upon her career as a social services caseworker entitled Red Wine First, the native Georgian author joined a writing group in Atlanta, one of whose members, Atlanta Constitution columnist … | Continue reading
Our mothers and our children will always be part of our lives, in life and death. Surprisingly, grief does not dominate our existence, it informs it. | Continue reading
We are having a wet, misty, rainy day today and the temperature is a bit on the cool side. It is the perfect day to enjoy a hot bowl of soup. Loaded with plenty of beef, potatoes, vegetables and cheese, this cheeseburger soup recipe is a winner of a dinner recipe! It is hearty an … | Continue reading