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Affording It

Tensions are running a bit high today. Over the last few weeks, I had been waiting on my Mounjaro prescription to get filled. At first, I thought that it was an oversight on my doctor and that they...

Elon Musk Wins Defamation Lawsuit Brought by Someone Musk Allegedly Misidentified in X Post

From today's Texas Court of Appeals decision in Musk v. Brody, decided by Chief Justice (retired) J. Woodfin Jones, joined… The post Elon Musk Wins Defamation Lawsuit Brought by Someone Musk Allege...

Another Day, More Brackets! — See Also

Which Trump Administration Attorney Most Deserves To Lose Their License?: Vote on the winner (?) of the John Eastman region! But Wait, There's More!: Vote on the biggest loser in the Stephen Miller...

The Pizza Resistance

Read The Pizza Resistance Customer: "What the f***?! The customer is always right!? You heard of it? I want my pizza now! Why should I be wasting my own time?!" Read The Pizza Resistance

My Recollection of Kobe Bryant’s 81

Bam Adebayo's 83-point performance on March 10, 2026, prompted me to recall how I learned and shared the news of Kobe Bryant's 81-point performance on January 22, 2006.

Gap Week: March 20, 2026

Hey folks! I was traveling this week to give an invited talk at Western Michigan University, so I don’t have a blog post ready for you. That’ll also probably be the case for next week (where I will...

Re; Return Old Online Things to your own Site

I read a good blog post by Lisa Charlotte Muth titled I’m bringing everything back to my website. In the post, she described how she pulled everything she has published online in various places sin...

Another ANOTHER New Lick of Paint

So it turns out I didn't like the mustard yellow and steel blue design that I created a couple weeks ago. It just didn't sit well with me, and if I look back over my design history the designs that...

Daily News Stuff 20 March 2026

Dove Grey Afternoon Edition Top Story Bluesky, one-time social network and latterly psych ward for those who can't cope with the harsh truths dished out daily by CNN and whatever MSNBC is called to...

Mister Donut wows matcha lovers in Japan with new Dora Matcha doughnuts

Like a sweet fusion between doughnuts and dorayaki pancakes, this is an Uji matcha experience you need to try while in Japan. Matcha lovers will want to mark their calendars for 25 March this year,...

HavenGPXParser is now open source

HavenApps has released HavenGPXParser, an open source Swift package for working with GPX files. It reads, validates, and writes GPX 1.1 documents. The parser uses streaming so large files do not fi...

The Hospitallers Change

Founded originally to care for the sick and poor in Jerusalem, there were new statutes for the Hospitallers in March 1182 under the leadership of their grandmaster, Roger de Moulins. These new stat...

Doctor Who: Big Finish, Bigger Scarf – The Fourth Doctor Audios, Part 1

The Companion Chronicles concept, which has a companion actor mostly narrating a story audiobook style with another actor in a “second voice” role to add aspects of audio drama to the production, w...

Systemd’s New Feature Brings Age Verification Option to Linux

The optional birthDate field gives other projects a standardized data source for age verification compliance.

Neanderthals Used Birch Tar as an Antibiotic

An international study led by the University of Cologne has shown that birch tar, a material traditionally associated with tool-making by Neanderthals, possesses antibacterial properties that could...

80 TB of RAIDZ Storage

4x 30TB Seagate Hard Drives Over the course of my life, hard drives have continued to get denser as far as their data capacity. Back when I was traveling for years, I could comfortably put most of ...

The Social Smolnet

The Social Smolnet It might have been an email thread. Or a lobste.rs comment. It was a discussion about yet another attempt at a new decentralized social protocol. And we reached the conclusion th...

Star Formation

Interactive Entertainment

Sometimes in between writing these entries, a certain set of thoughts will come about. I'll think through the ideas and say to myself, "That would make a good Cogito entry," but then I'll end up si...

Putin Furthers Civil Society Facade as Tool of Control

Richard Arnold