Having a server at home or even at an office is so old school. All the cool kids host their servers in the clouds somewhere. Even this blog is hosted in the cloud, or rather an ocean, Digital Ocean. Of course, quite a lot of the ‘cloud, cloud, cloud!’ hosting chants come from people with […]
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Knives Out is one of the best films I have seen in theaters for quite some time. That, of course, was back in 2019, but with it now being released to Amazon Prime I had a chance to rewatch the movie and enjoy it again. One thing that immediately struck me was the text on
I really like buying computers. Or perhaps more accurately, I really like researching to buy a computer – it is satisfyingly quantifiable. Since I already have two perfectly good laptops, and feel I should wait for the release of new RTX 3xxx series graphics cards anyway, I need a different kind of computer to buy.
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I went for a walk today and decided to turn it into a sampling of all tree species in the ravine and the northern slope above. I was surprised at the number of different species, many of the sample leaves I collected as ‘duplicates’ turned out to be different species. So for the Schmidt Coulee
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It has been roughly a month since wearing a jacket became unnecessary on most outdoor excursions. In that time, helped by ample rain, the ground has gone from barren to jungle-thick vegetation. The biggest change, of course, is the new driveway. There has been a fair amount of rain and wind, together they are responsible
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Sewing has never been a particularly strong hobby of mine. The actual sewing is easy enough, but all the other parts – sizing, cutting fabric, and so on, make it all terribly difficult. Still, here we have me investing a few hours after which I felt immensely satisfied. Something broken was made a useful tool
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This release represents several months of fairly hard work for me. It even has a pretty, if simple documentation website that you can check out here. It features quite a number of bug fixes, including several rather critical ones that fixed cross validation not actually cross validating. As always, my biggest focus was on data
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I was very excited for A Memory Called Empire when I purchased it last Winter. I was, of course, in the middle of a vowed non-stop reading of the Wheel of Time, so I didn’t let myself read it then. Yet the excitement remained. A space opera based on Roman (or perhaps more Byzantine, if
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