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My weekly blog post. Links this week include an elemental chart showing which ones are safe to lick, the Usenet Archives and a repository of 3D scanned images of publically accessible restrooms. You can meet Emerald, the mosaic kitty and I talk about my recent hip surgery. Plus, as usual, I listened to, read and watched things.
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I use the ISO weeks from Monday to Monday, so ISO Week 2026-W35 is the week of 2026-08-24/2026-08-30.
Churn or Calm
You know the analogy of how your favorite waterfowl (duck or swan) appears effortlessly gliding above the surface, while they’re ferociously paddling out of sight under the water? That’s very much what the tail end of August has felt like.
Thankfully there’s a lot of progress happening amid the stress, but it’s not all observable yet. That’s why I ended up participating in Blaugust…
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Some follow-up reading about Gloria Steinem tumbled me down a linguistic rabbit hole. It led me first to a 2022 New York Times Opinion Round Table by Jessica Bennett, “Gloria Steinem on Ms. Magazine and Feminism Today,” for which “The Times convened a handful of early Ms. editors and writers to reflect on the magazine’s founding and where the feminist movement is today.” It included this passage on the reluctance of the Times to use “Ms.” as an honorific:
Gloria Steinem, Ms. co-founder: It took…
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May the angels lead her into paradise. This obituary is absolutely worth reading, for the thumbnail history of life before feminism as well as for the life and times of a “feminist icon.” “The truth will set you free, but … Continue reading →
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I'm sorting out my books, part one hundred and sixty-five.
Thanks to Folkmoss for mentioning Readest. I really like it! Highlighting anything takes at least a dozen attempts but other than that: great. It looks good and it syncs. That's all I need.
It's not syncing to my Kindle though. Last year I jailbroke my Kindle, but not very well. It's doing stuff but not all the stuff it should be doing. In theory I should be able to sync everything.
I've got over five hundred and fifty ebooks, organised…
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Five posts. This is what I had set as a goal for myself when Blaugust started. And now I am looking at possibly 16 (if I manage to publish this post here today).
When I started, I wasn’t sure whether I was clinging to a once-loved hobby that I had outgrown. It felt strange, foreign even. My sentences felt short and unimportant. But the more I wrote, the more fun I had!
The one thing I didn’t manage to do this Blaugust was to look at any other Blaugust bloggers or even engage in our Discord chann…
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My weekly blog post. Links this week include the story of the brotherhood keeping mustard pure, a reverse Minesweeper game that involves planting sunflowers and an article about an exhibition of some weird and wild knitted things. I show off awesome dinosaur corn holders, talk about upcoming surgery, the 2025 Edward Gorey Envelope Art Contest and link to the Tiny Site Awards where voting is happening now. Plus, as usual, I listened to, read and watched things.
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It's already 4 weeks since the end of this year's edition of Nowe Horyzonty film festival in Wrocław, and I'm finally ready to post some recap of what I saw.
The most natural thing would be to end the post with a "would I go again?" section, but I kept wearing my festival pass on my work lanyard until this week1. I think that speaks for itself. I would do two things differently: lose a bit more money on a less distant hotel (even if the walks were healthy for me), and find someone to hang around…
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Lucky Instar
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August 30, 2026
Welcome to 'random bee', a short writing series where I choose a random page in the book "Bees of the World: A Guide to Every Family" by Laurence Packer, then read up on it and do a short write up.
Today's random bee is:
Genus: Megalopta
Family: Halictidae
Subfamily: Halictinae
Tribe: Augochlorini
check out the huge ocelli - the extra eyes on top of the head. by Ajay Narenda.
Megalopta are super cool tropical bees that are active at night. Because this is so weird for a bee, they…
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Contains Moderate Peril
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I wrote a post 18 month’s ago regarding whether a directors cut of a film is superior by default to the version originally shown in cinemas. Obviously the answer was no and I then went on to give three examples of films where I think the theatrical release is better to lengthier or substantially altered director’s cut that was subsequently made available at a later date. This time round in this post, I would like to do the complete opposite. I shall provide some examples of films that I think ar…
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I offered to put together the video for the final group project of the semester. For whatever reason Panopto was not allowing me to download the file so I can add it to the others. Anyway today is the last day to turn it in so I went searching for another way.
The following was found on reddit and it worked.
Install the TamperMonkey
Install this script from GreasyFork
In Panopto click the new download button.
In the new tab right click and “Save Video As”
Step 4 may vary based on your browser.
I…
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Somehow, today the blogging conditions are even worse than yesterday 's... I am on a train again :D Also a little micro mini travelogue
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Portrait of a Pulp Jockey
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Content Type: Text
Read Time: 5 min
Topics: Simplification, Capitalism
I used to think on paper. I used to bullet journal. I used to focus on the experience rather than on the results of writing - tasks, projects, presentations, diagrams... work product. I don't exactly remember why I stopped but it was almost certainly something akin to "but I'll never out this anywhere or do anything with it" and a flavor of "my life is too complicated to do every…
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In 1968 the dilapidated freighter Corita hastily leaves Freetown to avoid a customs inspection. Captain Lansen (Eric Porter) has a cargo of dangerous explosives which he is smuggling so he can finally retire. His ship’s passengers also have reasons for leaving in a hurry. Dr. Webster (Nigel Stock), together with his daughter Unity (Suzanna leigh), is relocating due to his indiscretions with patients and illegal operations. Alcoholic pianist Harry Tyler (Tony Beckley) is aimlessly drifting from p…
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August 25, 2026
18th century illustration by Charles Reuben Ryley. source.
Everyone knows monkeys but I think most people think about cute white-faced capuchins or macaques or the langurs of India. Monkey have a lot of diversity and live in many different habitats.
The largest monkeys are especially interesting and consist of the mandrill and the drill. People may assume mandrills are baboons and they do look pretty similar (both are monkey species), but mandrills are their own group. I think mo…
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If you take a look at my website's homepage, you'll note that it's titled "Brennan's Weblog." This is my attempt to pay homage to the original portmanteau—web log, which only became "blog" in April 1999, when programmer Peter Merholz jokingly shortened the word on his site Peterme.com by breaking it into the phrase "we blog." Because we do, don't we?
"I've decided to pronounce the word "weblog" as wee-blog. Or "blog" for short."
This seems like it would be the origin point of the word, but that'…
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Hey There!
It's 8:20 AM EDT, 56°F, Humidity 90%, Wind 1 mph E, sunny, AQI 41
I haven't been outside yet since we're in a motel room, but 56° seems cool. Fall is definintely creeping up on us.
Yesterday we packed up and left Springfield IL, dropping off Daughter at the airport on the way out. As always, it was an emotional scene for DW, as she hates to see her children leave after a visit. Friend took off in her own car for MN earlier in the morning. Once we dropped off Daughter, DW and I hit the…
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Content warning: this post discusses punk music that contains themes of humanity repeatedly failing itself.
I recently came across some of my music writing from years ago where I reflected on my favorite albums of all time. Since I've been listening to one of these in particular a lot during the last couple of years, I thought it fitting to dig in to a few of the tracks and discuss why I find them relevant in today's world.
The album in question is All Ages, by Bad Religion, which was released i…
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Hey There!
It's 8:39 AM CDT, 62°F, Humidity 77%, Wind 1 mph S, sunny, AQI 64
We had a fantastic day yesterday, celebrating Daughter's birthday in style. Because we are all heading out this morning, this will be a short post, with some details perhaps at another time.
After we all got up and dressed, we went out for brunch at a small upscale breakfast place. Downtown Springfield is not as bad as the area we're in. It seems the south and west sides of town are better.
After brunch we went to visit…
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My weekly blog post. Links this week include a map of all the deaths that have occurred in the Grand Canyon, a source for audio-only files of TV shows and movies and a prototype for a game where you walk through an ASCII city. I've got some info regarding a cool upcoming science talk and a flash sale for a cross stitch site that's selling their whole catalog for extremely cheap. Plus, as usual, I listened to, read and watched things.
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I am heading to Cornwall, Pennsylvania, tomorrow to visit my parents. Their retirement community was built on land once owned by the Coleman family that operated the Cornwall Iron Furnace and includes several historic buildings related to the furnace and the family. The greenhouses may be my favorites. They started as a grand conservatory built … Continue reading Historic Cornwall →
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Thoughts on TV shows and my current viewing habits.
This so-called recurring post is certainly becoming quite irregular, as It’s been over a year since I wrote the last instalment of The Idiot Box. I noted back then how I was watching less television and to be frank that hasn’t really changed. Although there are plenty of well written and entertaining shows out there, too often choosing to watch one effectively places you in an opened ended social contract. For example, I watched the first seaso…
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Sometime in August 1979, I was travelling with my father by train to London, when I first saw posters advertising the Ralph Bakshi animated version of J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings. The film had been released in the US the previous November and I aware of its existence because I had read articles about it production in Starburst magazine. Even at the age of 11 I was interested in genre films and television, having been raised on Doctor Who and Ray Harryhausen’s back catalogue of fanta…
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The transition into the 16-bit era represented a substantial leap not just in technology, but also in memories. So, let’s talk about heading into the SNES and what would become my comfort game: Zelda: A Link to the Past.
My mother and I moved about an hour away from my father, so that she could attend college. I have few memories of the Nintendo during that period of on-campus housing, aside from having a pet rabbit who consistently chewed through the cords to the controllers. At a certain point…