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This drawing is part of The Diary of a Tree Standing on it’s Head series I’ve been working on. I also decided to make some prints of this one. They…

A streamer I like is running a D&D stream and spoke of a Twitch overlay concept. A good excuse to make one.

The frequency illusion (also known as the Baader–Meinhof phenomenon) is a cognitive bias in which a person notices a specific concept, word, or product more frequently after recently becoming aware of it. Wikipedia…

I have a question for all the IT experts out there. When I accept all cookies, how long does it take to get them? I’m hungry.   .

By treating ChatGPT and similar LLMs as being in any way concerned with truth, or by speaking metaphorically as if they make mistakes or suffer ‘hallucinations’ in pursuit of true…

Sorting out the sorting issue...

#Creative Idea of the Day Write a short story exactly as many words long as how old you are in years. In his late teens, he would sometimes travel from…

My social media has taken a hard turn for the nerdier since Twitter shut down and everyone with a modicum of moral fibre stopped posting there. So even though I’m…

Getting started is the hard part. When I sit down to work, I'm uncomfortable. Itchy, antsy, easily distracted. I know why, too. For some reason, I'm convinced I need to…

In Steve Jobs’s 2005 Stanford Commencement Speech he famously concluded by quoting the back cover of the Whole Earth Catalogue’s final issue. It was their farewell message as they signed…

Note: This… story is at least two months old now, but I think it deserves to be on the internet for someone looking for reviews of this thing in India.…

Adding Google Web search to FirefoxRecently I read this blog post which highlights some bad practices by Google and also provides a way to make the new web search results…

In my last post I floated the idea that the Cryptopunks IP might be better stewarded by a non-profit foundation...

Welcome to the seventh post from my Friedrich Bauer Project. Below is my translation of his entry for Berthold as it appears on pages 24–31 of his Chronik der Schrift­gießereien…

Frog by Mehreen Ahmed   Mehreen Ahmed is a multiple contest winner for short fiction. Her works have appeared in Litro Magazine, HOOT Review, EllipsisZine, MadSwirl, Alien Buddha and others. Her…

The High Sierra is probably our favorite backpacking destination in the lower 48. The range is huge and intricate; the towering mountains are majestic; the off-trail travel is both blissful…

“Give me any random idea and I can write a story from it.” This is how I used to think of myself back when I [...]

I wanted to add an internal USB port to my ThinkPad X1 Nano which should have been a fairly easy thing to do, but it wasn't. Of course, if I…

Here’s another book reading update, since nothing else is happening in my life other than, you know, living life. I finished In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust and…

Look who will soon be joining us here at the homestead. This is Molly, a well seasoned Tennessee Walking horse, not participating in shows but has seen many many happy…