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Link Log 2026-08-15

The Virtual OS Museum Every Single Outfit in Hackers Writing by Hand is Good for your Brain – Here’s how to do it There are no lossless transformations of natural-language text Why does everything feel so joyless? Welcome to the age of decadence without pleasure

Bent Steel

The Harambe Arm Bar is an EZ curl bar for bands. It allows for a more ergonomic wrist position when performing a variety of arm exercises. I use it primarily for curls (standard or drag or reverse, wide or narrow grip) and triceps extensions (overhead French press or skull crushers …

It's Not a Costume

I was out of town between mid-June and mid-July, pedaling the hinterland. My last soirée was attending Elektra at the opera, over a month ago. Yesterday, to mark my return to the beau monde , I went to the Kontravoid show. I learned of Kontravoid last year through his collaboration with …

Kaweco AL Sport

I have previously maligned the performance of Kaweco pens . Despite this I am still a fan of the design of the Kaweco Sport, particularly in matte black aluminum. So when a Kaweco AL Sport in black appeared on eBay for especially cheap last May, I bought it. The pen was …

Tour Hydration

I’ve gone through many iterations of my water carrying strategy for touring. This is the current state of things. It will probably continue to evolve. On every bicycle tour I pack my Sawyer Squeeze filter and accouterments . Thus a resupply may be natural (a creek, a lake, a trickle …

Link Log 2026-07-19

Hungrier than before Meu Amigo Nietzsche Ascetic Computing Blow Smoke CV Dazzle Fangs

Promiscuous Art

I went to the symphony last night to check out our new music director . I knew the main event was La Mer (no, not that one ) but did not otherwise look at the program when buying my ticket. Upon arrival I learned that there would also be Wagner. Specifically the …

As We All Must

I don’t use wood pencils very often. Yet somehow I have ended up with five pencil sharpeners: Nakajima Jukyudo Co. 531S , KUM Automatic Long Point AS 2M , KUM Meisterwerk , Möbius + Ruppert Wedge Single-Hole , Möbius + Ruppert #610 Castor . I regret nothing. …a pencil sharpener – that highly satisfying, highly philosophical implement …

Link Log 2026-05-30

Alex & Lee The Trailer Gap The Playboy Fiction Index Rogue One: The Andor Cut The banality of the video podcast

Diva

Last night I went to a screening of the recent 4K remaster of Diva . It looked gorgeous. I hadn’t seen Diva for a few years, but was reminded that this may be one of my favorite films. Every scene is dripping with stylish neo-noir coolness. This movie is probably …

Cold, Cold Nights Under Chrome and Glass

Last week I went to see The Black Queen . This was my first time seeing them perform since 2016, when they were touring Fever Daydream . I had no idea that Danny Lohner had joined the band for this tour until he walked out on stage. At the end of the …

Concerning Harambe Handles

I bought a pair of Harambe Handles back in January. In the subsequent five months my use of them has been more limited than I expected. I regularly use them for split squats. This requires that I stack the Travel Plate on top of the CyberPlate in order to get …

Link Log 2026-05-10

Default mode network Japanese Woodblock Print Search I don’t want a screenshot of your Claude conversation Cultural Topography: A New Research Tool for Intelligence Analysis Apocalypse Early Warning System Glory Box (Brass Against, 2025)

Zebra Magnetics

As mentioned previously , two years ago I bought a ZebraLight H600c Mk IV headlamp. When I was ordering the light, The Internet also suggested that I buy magnets for it . Reader, I did. From K&J Magnetics I bought the D82-N52 . This is a 1/2” x 1/8” N52 …

Restic Continuum

As I was migrating my online backups to Restic , I was concurrently building a system that would allow me to use Restic to complete full-disk backups to external USB drives, thus replacing my use of cryptshot and rsnapshot . I give you Resnap . For me, the main appeal of rsnapshot has …

I would have to relinquish my Street Samurai credentials if I didn't occasionally wear tabi booties.

Bedrock Cairns and Luna Tabu 2.0 . Paired with the mirrorshades , I am led to understand that this is what The Youth refer to as a “fit”. As a wise woman once said, “You can’t let the little pricks generation-gap you.”