: Week nine, 2024 We’ve started on to season two of Wayward Pines. Because we know the deal with the town of …
: Week eight, 2024 The plan to hold Wayward Pines until we finished our current series fell by the wayside. I asked my …
: Week seven, 2024 Missed a couple of week notes. One week due to feeling poorly (infection in a damaged tooth), and …
: Week four, 2024 This week’s best recipes: Sweet Potato Stew With Chickpeas, and Sweet Potato Tacos. I needed …
: Week three, 2024 Exciting week: surgery for the dog, doctor for me, and dealing with tax agencies in two different …
: A quick aside: via JustWatch, I found out that the film of The Girl with All the Gifts is available …
: Week Two, 2024 Pretty quiet week this week. I turned forty-old. I got in trouble in a pick-up fireteam in Destiny …
: Week One, 2024 I’m going to start writing these again in 2024. Its a pretty low-stress way to get blogging …
: 2021 week 14 wrap up We spent the Easter break enjoying that things have opened up a bit. We had drinks on a …
: 2021 week 12 wrap up I’ve mentioned in the past that my MacBook is pretty crapped-up with all kinds of project …
: 2021 week 11 wrap up We finally wrapped up the MCU with Endgame this weekend. It’s been such a long time since …
: 2021 week ten wrap up Had another crazy week last week, in which I wasn’t able to post an update. The kids are back …
: 2021 week eight wrap up Sorry, no update last week. A surprise flurry of activity in all aspects of my life took me a bit by …
: 2021 week six wrap up We continued our excursion through the MCU this week with Ant Man and the Wasp. It was pretty good, …
: 2021 week five wrap up Motivated by a promotion in Red Dead Online, I finally installed it and did the tutorial missions. …
: 2021 week four wrap up I’ve been spending more time with Tap Forms. It’s a nice, simple database app that …
: 2021 Week 3 wrap up Got on a bit of a movie kick this week. Watched Suicide Squad, Black Panther, and the Maze Runner. I …
: 2021 Week 2 wrap up Finished Take Control of Managing your Files. My initial impression was correct: there weren’t …
: 2021 Week 1 wrap up I turned 45. The theme for this year is: a little bit better. A bit less junk food and booze. A bit …
: Currently reading: Take Control of Managing your Files by Jeff Carlson 📚
: January 1st is not magic I want to make some changes in my life. I’ve hinted at them in past posts, and I’ve made …
: The thing that really pisses me off about Google ending free storage for photos is that there used …
: …I can’t shake the feeling today that I’m living in a society in collapse. Edited …
: I had a conversation today in which we figured out that on a daily basis I use Apple hardware built …
: I redid my Raspberry Pi 4 (1GB) with a full desktop today to see what the experience was like. It …
: Humble Bundle have released a bundle of games in which you can pet the dog.
: Bullet-list musings on our cyberpunk dystopia We’re all masked up We are in the midst of a pandemic, and an accelerating climate …
: In my continuing and totally unnecessary quest to find some new notetaking system to which to move, …
: The quantified self, but not really I’m not a big quantified self type. Some of the things I’ve seen people track have …
: It’s surprising to me how little friction is required to get me to change behaviour. In order to …
: Alright! Back in the land of reliable wifi, post-vacation insanity is over. I’m going to get …
: Having a very hard time meeting my post-a-day goals. Unfortunately I have very limited connectivity …
: I’ve been tempted by Hey.com, but getting a @hey.com email address isn’t appealing to me. One of the …
: Thoroughly enjoying my old-skool Mac apps and desktop patterns.
: I have always liked visiting the Barbican, but I’d never been to the conservatory before. Got a …
: It is remarkable how much more usable train wifi is these days.
: More farting about with browsers. Got Links working with SSL and graphics on my Mac. To do so, …
: In reading a newsletter, I came across a recommendation for using GitLab for a wiki. I poked around, …
: My Kindle is an ancient device I picked up for £7 from Cash Converters. For the first time ever I …
: Two neat aticles today I’d like to share with you lot: The Google trends for many of these …
: I have finally got my NAS up and running after a couple of months down time. The ethernet cable to …
: My daughter has a couple of friends who like to play Mariokart when they come over. Only issue has …
: Had some chili I wanted to use up as nachos, but the shop near me doesn’t have plain tortilla chips. …
: Getting into a habit of taking an after-dinner swim in the river on Fridays. It’s really lovely. And …
: It’s suddenly got so hot again that I feel like it’d be foolish to turn on the oven. So …
: Sanebox update: going pretty well. My inbox is usually pretty empty, and very few things show up in …
: A “currently reading” update: Reading the Weather, Mr Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore, and …
: We’ve taken advantage of Eat Out to Help Out twice today, and managed to save over £40. We’re not …
: Started reading a book on reading the weather today. Just a ways in, and it’s fascinating. Think …
: Two days ago I had never heard of randonauting. In the intervening time, I have seen it come up in …
: Went for a swim in the river Cam today for the first time tonight! We biked over after dinner for a …
: Last minute change of plans for the weekend. The region to which we were going is listed as …
: Looking for a way to manage digital comics So I am drowning in comics in CBZ format (legit; purchased mostly from Humble Bundles). I would …
: My laptop right now is sitting on the kitchen table, positively dripping with external hard drives. …
: Mapping, cycling, and the inevitable march of featuritis when you scratch your own itch I’ve set myself another challenge. Not a big one, so I don’t feel like I’m …
: I have temporarily shelved my imapfilter set up in favour of SaneBox. We’ll see how it goes. …
: Productive meditation I missed something in yesterday’s post about training for deep work: productive meditation. This is …
: Training for deep work I was listening to Cal Newport again today while doing housework, and he had tips for developing the …
: A quick update to yesterday’s browser experiments: after running NoScript for a couple of …
: My daughter was complaining the other day that she reads interesting facts, and then forgets them. I …
: Some small web browsing experiments I tried a few browser experiments today: compiling and using Dillo, running Waterfox, and running …
: Today would have been my daughter’s last day of year one. What a crazy year. I hope she doesn’t feel …
: I have, surprisingly, finished Halo 3. It’s a shorter game than the others, definitely, but …
: After living in our rental for a year, the property manager finally sent someone around to look at …
: Weeknotes and Fraidycat I mentioned weeknotes in a previous posting, but I thought it was worth expanding on. There’s …
: I am about to start Halo 3. I have, so far, managed to start each Halo game within days of its …
: I finally broke down and bought a good daypack today. My wife and I have been cycling through …
: Gopher blog (“phlog”, yuck) is up and running: …
: If you’re into flight sims at all, there seem to be a number of lower end joysticks and HOTAS …
: An app recommendation: Seek by iNaturalist. My daughter and I have been using it for about a month, …
: Spent some time on trying to get a gemini server running today, but couldn’t figure out the …
: I spun up a VPS today on my terrible cut-rate host. I’m running the previously mentioned …
: Quick post today. Just a few bullet points. The Cambridge Botanic Garden is amazing, and I am so …
: Back to imapfilter again All this discussion of hey.com got me thinking about email filtering again. So I have reinstalled …
: A kitchen gadget recommendation Kitchen gadget recommendation: Lavazza Milk Easy. We got one when the frothing wand on our ancient, …
: Cal Newport on finding purpose I’ve been listening to Deep Questions with Cal Newport. While I think I prefer his written …
: Went into town for the first time since things really started to reopen. While the sense of normalcy …
: Down the `gemini` rabbit hole Project Gemini has been around–and I’ve been aware of it–for most of a year. It’s really …
: 100 days of microblogging I haven’t been writing enough. We’re coming out the other end of a historic event (the …
: So how’s everyone doing? You all okay? We’re doing alright over here.
: Why _should_ cyberpunk move on? I’ve been reading all kinds of “why can’t cyberpunk move on” articles …
: Depth year cont’d Finances The problem Moving to England, and keeping our house in Toronto, we knew things were going …
: A depth (school) year I have recently become frustrated with a lot of things: the internet, how I spend my downtime, …
: Camera obscura on my bedroom wall this morning!
: They should make this into a t-shirt.
: Beautiful light/kinetic sculpture inside the bike lock up (of all places) near Cambridge station.
: I can’t shake this feeling I’m being followed.
: Stop what you’re doing, they’re coming home.
: Fueling up before swim lessons.
: Belated birthday tea for Michelle.
: While we were away, the spiders had a party. That’s pretty serious prey!
: This place definitely has the family market figured out.
: Ada did some baking at school.
: TIL: walking directions in Cambridge May take one through pitch-black cemeteries.
: Finding creatures with a UV light at All Saints
: The frost this morning made for some lovely views.
: Excuse the composition, but to get this shot I had to put the phone right against the window. This …
: Didn’t post this at the time. What a lovely spot! Bought a family membership right away.
: Beautiful detail on the exterior wall of the zoology museum.
: See you later, Canada! Off to our new adventure in England.
: Making a factory that makes watches out of wood and jewelry out of shiny buttons.
: Managed to make it for Sunday roast!
: Quick cappuccino to warm up in this wintery morning. (Or yesterday morning. Apparently this didn’t …
: Ada went trick-or-treating with her friend this year.
: So this has appeared in my house. Can I just assume you all know what season it is now?
: First time using “portrait mode” on my phone.
: Pretty sure someone is throwing out a baby rattle face hugger.
: It never really hit me before how much like a Fallout location Nickelodeon’s overgrown courtyard …
: Parking like a jerk: not just for drivers anymore!
: Last night I had to put a dinosaur to bed.
: Ontario beer assortment #2 - a bit out of the ordinary.
: Ontario beer assortment #1 - ain’t they pretty?
: Chilling at the park at lunch. Paxton forgot his book, but he says I can read mine; he’ll just arf …
: We didn’t have it in us to walk back to work.
: Paxton is helping me with some back-to-school shopping.
: Paxton is helping me with some back-to-school shopping.
: So happy I could provide a garbage can for you.
: Heading to daycare to pick up Ada!
: If you play Defender he can be your hyperspace.
: If you play Defender he can be your hyperspace.
: Paxton asked if we could pop round Bulk Barn to get more bird seed. He was worried if we ran out, …
: We took our coffees outside, and enjoyed the King West Pilot green space.
: I talked him out of the carbone crust; I just didn’t think he’d get it out of his fur.
: I talked him out of the carbone crust; I just didn’t think he’d get it out of his fur.
: Letting Paxton pick the music for a bit
: Paxton is tracking down an error in my internationalization dictionary.
: Ada is learning to go to school without a stuffed animal, so Paxton is coming to work with me. We …
: After our tour of the kitchen at the commissary, Ada’s playing @drakecommissary kitchen. Thanks …
: Gorgeous evening, but a bit of smoke from the forest fires up north.
: Well, we’re getting what we voted for. Not a month in, and already hurting education and …
: The comments on this thread are disgusting. Blaming immigrants and “diversity”. These …
: …are we really trying to make shopping at No Frills cool? bit.ly/2L89shj
: 1/ Got mixed in with someone else’s laundry 2/ Left them behind on vacation 3/ Fell out of …
: Twitter has over a decade of my 140-character inanities, but still thinks I’d be interested in …
: Twitter has over a decade of my 140-character inanities, but still thinks I’d be interested in …
: Chunky the Midnight Doodle is the name of my Toad the Wet Sprocket cover band. We use polka …
: Not everything is terrible. bit.ly/2KLdRtF
: Oh, and it gets worse. That’s literally a Simpsons quote, “Jess Magic”. …
: These may be the two most punchable paragraphs in the history of writing. The people written about …
: Terrana coffee-loving friends, I can’t make this, but you should. (Via the excellent …
: Terrana coffee-loving friends, I can’t make this, but you should. (Via the excellent …
: Think you’re handy with Excel just ‘cos you can pivot table, or whatever? bit.ly/2zfn095 …
: This is the best anything ever. bit.ly/2tTu4mM
: Look, Facebook, buddy…you’re coming off a bit needy. bit.ly/2z4t9ow
: This is the kind of civil behaviour you progressives need to learn from the MAGA crowd. …
: Oh, my heavens, WHEN WILL PROGRESSIVES LEARN TO BE CIVIL? bit.ly/2Ivvvfq
: My goodness, you progressives really need to learn to be civil. bit.ly/2tytjiX
: It just occurred to me that when it was a huge PITA putting a gradient in a web page, they were …
: I like to have a light coloured terminal window. Apparently I’m the only one. Everyone is …
: I like to have a light coloured terminal window. Apparently I’m the only one. Everyone is …
: This is a selfless act of public service. bit.ly/2lBbqeU
: You say “influencer”. I say “person who has two years before they’re a broke …
: It’s very important to my daughter that she 100% her Toca Boca robot factory game. Time for …
: Hey, @bikesnotbombs, is this a thing that could happen?
: These bike share bikes are bomb proof. Is there not some way we can get these things to the …
: Current status: bit.ly/2IeWZWN
: In what universe is the sad trombone sound “womp womp”? I played trombone for years. You …
: Hey, @AfterShokz loving my new headphones. I heard about them on @atpfm, but I’m in Canada, so …
: A little tiny spark of light in this crapsack week. bit.ly/2JUIv43
: This one’s for you, @internetofshit bit.ly/2tcUq2Q
: WTF, @YouTube?!? bit.ly/2JKA8YC
: 2018 just keeps getting 2018ier. bit.ly/2JGkzRS
: I keep reading about stuff that’s going to happen in 2020, and I think “Why would you announce …
: I would love a mapping app that allowed me to pick a route with the most tree-lined streets and …
: …do Americans not know that Canadian Bacon is a thing that only they say? I think they think …
: So Sable looks like a playable Moebius graphic novel with a nice soundtrack. I defy you to find …
: Torontonians! The Village is BACK. It’s the best Toronto newsletter I’ve ever subscribed …
: They. Have. A Little. Lockdown. Song. How are people okay with their children living like this? …
: Want to get really angry? Canadians subsidize highly profitable oil and gas companies to the tune of …
: Want to get really angry? Canadians subsidize highly profitable oil and gas companies to the tune of …
: I did not know there was a cover (cover?) of Music for Airports. Eno/Wyatt/Davies: Music for …
: This is a/ pretty stupid, and b/ NOTHING TO DO WITH SELFIES. Unless the PET is taking it, it’s …
: Well, 2010 MacBook Pro, looks like your days are numbered. Mojave requires 2012+ machines.
: This article is relevant to my interests. bit.ly/2JeCmPE
: This article is relevant to my interests. bit.ly/2JeCmPE
: I know a lot of folks are feeling less than happy about the MS Github thing, but I’ve actually …
: Pogo, for me, is the ultimate milkshake duck scenario. bit.ly/2LPBNtz
: I think bare directory listings will be to 2018 what bit.ly/2J8JwB4 was to 2014. (I made one …
: Oops, nevermind. Some stuff I’m uploading is getting really odd permissions.
: So I’m trying to upload this image to my Dreamhost site. It’s called …
: One fun thing about Roseanne is seeing conservatives say they’re “cancelling” ABC. …
: Jennifer gets me. bit.ly/2H322ci
: If you don’t care about graphics, you can just use @replit. Then there’s zero config.
: Inspired by a Hacker News thread, I decided to see what it would take to get QBasic up and running …
: The make up of my inbox: 2% personal email 6% useful notifications 12% newsletters 5% newsletter …
: The make up of my inbox: 2% personal email 6% useful notifications 12% newsletters 5% newsletter …
: My daughter is learning about Kenojuak Ashevak at daycare this week! bit.ly/2L8qyLE
: My daughter is learning about Kenojuak Ashevak at daycare this week! bit.ly/2L8qyLE
: My daughter is learning about Kenojuak Ashevak at daycare this week! bit.ly/2L8qyLE
: Someone’s finally done something worthwhile with CSS. bit.ly/2Jc5iHn
: Someone’s finally done something worthwhile with CSS. bit.ly/2Jc5iHn
: It’s probably just me, but I am driven NUTS by Twitter’s grammar in my mentions. X …
: One of my best purchases in the last year was my Mi Fit Band 2. Terrible in so many ways, but every …
: If you’re viewing this on my micro.blog account, you’re not seeing my new theme. Totally …
: So many shows I love get cancelled so quickly. I love stuff that follows the miniseries format, like …
: Sorry, everyone. Still doing a little debugging.
: Trying out crossposting again!
: Trying out crossposting with IFTTT.
: Brooklyn-99 is no more. Why must bad things happen to good shows?
: Let’s try this again, but as an iFrame.