Birding post soon, Cedar Waxwing now
I ll write up today s birding tomorrow, but here s a preview featuring a handsome Cedar Waxwing.
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Tonight I edited a 17 year old post
Why? Because I was looking at my tags (all 100 million of them) and Nic noticed one that was so long it wasn t wrapping properly in a column. I said it was probably for a review of the movie 2012, which I remembered correctly. Then we reread the review and Nic pointed out I had ... Read more
But is it art? Fire hydrant edition.
A fire hydrant I shot on my S26 a few days ago, turned into a mostly black and white photo in Affinity Studio:
My featured quote is a paraphrase
And I only found out, by chance, today! Dorothy Parker was a poet and writer who died back in 1967. Her acerbic wit lives on through her many biting quotes. One of them is this: I hate writing, I love having written. You can see a wide selection of her quotes, including the one above, ... Read more
Instagzam and other logo redesigns
Today, Instagram updated its logo wordmark. CNET had a nice image of the before and after, presented below as after and before: Although I don t think AI was used in the creation of the new logo, it still smells of it in the way AI messes up things, like: Speaking of Ars, their creative director ... Read more
We’ll always have Blue’s News
With more people talking about the idea of a dead internet, I find weird comfort in the gaming site Blue s News, which served as my homepage over 20 years ago and looks pretty much exactly the same now as it did then: I still don t get the three lines at the top, though.
Empire (1990) aged like milk
Like a lot of people, in 1990 I bought Queensryche s fourth album, Empire, because the song Silent Lucidity was such an effective clone of that big, spacey Pink Floyd sound. I ve said before that if you dropped the song onto either of the post-Waters Pink Floyd albums, no one would have batted an eye. But ... Read more
Run 1,053: Five degrees of perspiration
Today s run was the opposite of Monday s: hot and gross. Monday it started out at 19°C, which was nice. Today it was 24°C and I felt every one of those five extra degrees. It started out seemingly well, with an initial pace of 6:08/km, but I slipped to 6:18/km and after that it was Slog ... Read more
A collection of assorted thoughts on “Tech sucks: You have to vote with your wallet, or nothing will change”
Andreas over on 82MHz has written about how you can t expect giant tech companies to change if you keep buying their products: Tech sucks: You have to vote with your wallet, or nothing will change. And I agree. I realized some years back that for all my Apple-bashing here on this blog (it is legion, ... Read more
Run 1,052: The early runner gets the BPM
Today, the difference was all in the timing and weather. Once again, it was sunny and warm, but the max temperature today is expected to be 25°C, which is a bit cooler than it s been on recent run days. That helped, because it meant it would not be as hot, no matter when I headed ... Read more