Hey, it’s that time Apple made an ad directly targeted at me. I just used Precision Finding last week while traveling around the D.C. area; it was a handy way for my wife and to find each other in the Smithsonian museums when one of us would go off with the kid for a bit.… | Continue reading
This is an interesting furniture form, designed for the masses, and always poorly executed. (I have a hard time admitting those two qualities are now permanently linked.) Aimed at the outdoor grilling crowd, it's a height-adjustable outdoor side table with a cooler in the bottom … | Continue reading
In a comment on yesterday's post about my course The Technology of Speaking With Children So They Can Think, a reader asked for more specific examples of how we can step back from the language of command. I would assert that in most preschool classrooms, the time we tend to boss … | Continue reading
Edie Yvonne is already proven herself time and time again, both as a songwriter and as a performer, and while she's working on her proper full-length debut she's also gearing up for the release of an all-covers EP | Continue reading
For the first time ever, a wild male orangutan in Sumatra has been spotted tending to a wound on his face in an ingenious way. The technique worked, adding even more cred to the intelligence of this striking and endangered species of great ape. Continue Reading Category: Biology, … | Continue reading
Apple announced an event for May 7, 2024, which is widely expected to showcase new iPads ahead of the companies Worldwide Developers Conference in June. At the event, or perhaps in the next version of iPadOS, the company is expected to unveil a calculator app for the device for t … | Continue reading
Mercury is about to reach its "greatest elongation west" of the sun, meaning stargazers will have their best view of the "swift planet" all year. Here's how to see it. | Continue reading
No zoning, no pollution, no advisers—just squares, circles, people, and time. | Continue reading
Hugo Gernsback was a pioneer in the world of science fiction during the first half of the 20th century—so much so that the Hugo Awards are named after him. But Gernback also edited serious tech magazines and came up with ideas that were often way ahead of their time. Or, in the c … | Continue reading
Ah the process of you,Overthinking,and the wonders you work.I have heard it said that the mindis a terrible thing to waste,to which I say, yes,I agree.It’s true. I also agree that time is a terrible thing to wasteand so is our misused energyor the passion we loseor the moments we … | Continue reading
In yesterday's note I added a bunch of YouTube embeds. I remembered that I've been meaning to use a better alternative for a while now. I didn't have time for that yesterday so I swapped them out today. In terms of performance, YouTube embeds are pretty woefull, downloading way t … | Continue reading
Climate models can be a million lines of code long and can take months to run on supercomputers. A new algorithm has dramatically shortened that time. | Continue reading
From the time gold was discovered here in 1871, Alaska has been a magnet for a certain type of risk-taker. Daredevil fortune seekers came, seduced by the area’s seemingly infinite riches – miners, traders, trappers, and crab fishermen all answering Alaska’s siren song. Throughout … | Continue reading
Not coincidentally, I quit my great love, horror movies, right around the time I became a mom. Perhaps it’s because new terrors haunted me: SIDS and school shootings, poison in Halloween candy, toxins in the water, plastic in our bloodstream, creepy lingerers in Golden Gate Park, … | Continue reading
"We want people to feel the inspiration and excitement that we feel." Local nonprofit considers revival of beloved annual festival after unexpected cancellation: 'It feels like the right time' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
Immediate Family (2022) • View trailer Four stars (out of five). Not rated, and suitable for all ages Available via: Hulu By Derrick Bang Everybody reading these words has heard these four guys perform. You simply didn’t know it at the time. Members of The Immediate Family — from … | Continue reading
For a long time, the principal driver of traffic to this otherwise utterly obscure site has been [the wonderful] Jenee Woodard’s The Text This Week resource. As I settle back into parish ministry, it makes sense for me to resume my once-upon-a-time practice of posting my sermons … | Continue reading
One year ago, New York state passed one of the country’s most ambitious clean energy and climate justice laws. The Build Public Renewables Act authorized the New York Power Authority, a state-owned public power utility, to build and own clean energy projects for the first time. I … | Continue reading
Canary Media’s Charging Up column chronicles gender diversity and notable career moves in the climatetech sector. Got a person or event you’d like to see us cover or a hot job tip? Let us know! Zoe Berkery: On staking a claim Zoe Berkery is chief operating officer at CleanCapital … | Continue reading
Some key new initiatives look set to help Latvia’s start-up scene move out of the shadow of its northern neighbour Estonia. That Estonia’s start-up scene owes so much to Skype is no secret. Just ask anyone in the technology and innovation sector in neighbouring Latvia, which has … | Continue reading
Inspired by Chris' post, herein lies my favourite games across the genres I play. Also like Chris, a ★ indicates what I think is a greatest of all time game. I have a fairly large collection of physical games which you can see on my games collection page. 3D Platformers ★ Jak and … | Continue reading
I had seen a video on Stella Drivas' Instagram the other day for what looked to be incredibly delicious chicken! I am always looking for new ways to cook chicken. I like to try new things and get bored of doing things the same way all the time. I like my food to be new and exciti … | Continue reading
In our younger years, we have school and more important things to do, but then we get older and there are bills to pay. Tags: time use, work | Continue reading
Some time ago, I wrote a little shell script called next, which used the date command to output the date some number of weekdays after the current date. So if I ran it today (Thursday, May 2, 2024) with this invocation, | Continue reading
Developer Long Jaunt and publisher Hooded Horse announced that they are pushing back the Early Access release date for Norland, the Rimworld-esque medieval colony sim/ story generator. The game will now be releasing in July rather than in May, and this extra two months of develop … | Continue reading
TL;DR Here’s a snippet for use in Home Assistant for turning an arbitrary target selector into a list of entity ids Also here’s a low-battery warning Blueprint that uses it. I’ve been using tykeal’s Low Batteryblueprint(github) in my Home Assistant setup forsome time, to give me … | Continue reading
Unfortunately, this isn’t the first time a neighbor has gotten involved in a little tree surgery. Owner upset after discovering neighbor chopping down trees: 'It's trespass and vandalism' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
Ridgeline subscribers! I’m going back, baby. BACK TO PACHINKO ROAD. From May 14 to May 30, 2024, I’ll walk approximately 600 kilometers from Kyoto To Tokyo, inshallah, along the old Tōkaidō Road, which isn’t really “old” at all anymore, and in many places is, indeed, loaded down … | Continue reading
Time to celebrate the moms in your life—who we should really be celebrating every day—with the latest fashion and accessory releases from major geeky retailers in stores and online. BoxLunch, the Disney Store, the Gap, Hot Topic, and more have incredible fandom picks across genre … | Continue reading
Today is day 2 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 “Float On” by Modest Mouse. I failed Driver's Ed. … | Continue reading
All you have to do is press puff pastry over the asparagus spears, lemon zest, goat cheese, and fresh thyme, bake, and flip for a beautiful spring tart that takes less than an hour to prep, including bake time. | Continue reading
On Thursday Apple announced its quarterly financial results, and that can mean only one thing: it’s time for Apple CEO Tim Cook and CFO Luca Maestri to spend some quality time with their favorite financial analysts on a scheduled phone call.… | Continue reading
Well, this is something: According to Statcounter, in April 2024, Windows 11 lost 0.97 points, going down from 26.68% to 25.65%. All those users seemingly went for Windows 10 since the OS, which will soon turn nine, crossed the 70% mark for the first time since September 2023, ga … | Continue reading
We report in the easy morning light, the air blooms around the clouds. We do not remember whether we heard any rain last night, but the grass is especially wet, and the mud is fresh on the path. It smells bright. The sun comes out all the time. The sky keeps sprawling out. | Continue reading
Yesterday I was walking around the neighborhood when I spotted the two brothers I play soccer with in the cul-de-sac. They came running as they always do, screaming and waving their arms around wildly, and as usual I couldn't help but grin. I don't know where else I can get a rec … | Continue reading
Follow-up to a previous case study on how I automated my static website publishing workflow. This time, a lean Shortcut script is allowing me to write webmentions in seconds. For a while now I’ve been using notes to send Indieweb webmentions in the form of replies and likes. As t … | Continue reading
In about 45 minutes (12:30 pm Pacific Daylight Time, hybrid format), I'll be commenting on Mark Coeckelbergh's presentation here at UCR on AI and Democracy (info and registration here). I'm not sure what he'll say, but I've read his recent book Why AI Undermines Democracy and Wha … | Continue reading
Shoved a week’s worth of tasks inside three-and-a-half days this week. Felt like I was failing the whole time, not getting important things done, and I lamented on this to others. But, after marking things as ‘Progressed’ or ‘Achieved’ in my task tracker, I’m glad to see I’ve got … | Continue reading
Monday is your new Saturday morning, the start of the weekend. Once your kids are at school, you have a lazy morning of self-care (clearing your inbox) followed by brunch with friends (an all-hands meeting in the conference room with stale bagels). You round out the afternoon by … | Continue reading
Media Progress is a new GNOME Shell extension that adds a real-time progress bar to the MPRIS notification/sound control doohickey that shows in the notification area. This extension doesn’t do else bar (heh) that, but as simple enhancements go it’s a nifty one. More than a mere … | Continue reading
It's time for another episode centered on the complications of the Prime Directive... The post Star Trek: Discovery’s “Whistlespeak” appeared first on Reactor. | Continue reading
April 2024 It is springtime in Paris. I am in Paris. I know now that this, what I am experiencing, is the perfect combination of a time and a place, a season and a city. It rains a lot, but only a little. The sun is chilly but the wind is warm. At lunchtime, I […] | Continue reading
It’s been over a decade since the final Twilight movie, so the timing feels just right for Kristen Stewart to enter her second vampire era with Flesh of the Gods. Things are going to be quite a bit different this time around though, with Oscar Isaac as her co-star and Mandy direc … | Continue reading
There are tons of theories surrounding J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings and, more broadly, the fictional world of Middle-Earth in which the books take place. One of these theories is that Middle-Earth is actually not a fictional world at all, but our own Earth in prehistori … | Continue reading
Visualizing data often means visualizing data over time. Line charts are perfect for this, and... | Continue reading
Two years ago, Star Wars stepped into a new animated format with Tales of the Jedi, examining the stories of two characters ostracized by the titular order in Dooku and Ahsoka Tano. Now, in celebration of Star Wars Day this weekend, it’s trying again—this time with a touch of the … | Continue reading
Every time I read about how is being applied in the world, this graph immediately pops up in my head: As the potential to do harm increases, there must be a corresponding increase in the level of caution, skepticism, and […] | Continue reading
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 bleak. Times come when one reaches the stage of having lost what a life even feels like. Somet … | Continue reading