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Podcast episode No. 0037: The wooden chair

0037: The wooden chair0:00/387.98933333333331×Episode details: Readings of two passages on the subject of wooden chairs, as seen in the Wooden chair as exemplar of emptiness section of the Quote ba...

Rollenpielszenen: Treffen auf dem Dach

Wir werden erpresst, damit wir nicht auftreten.

Whence GoDaddy’s Authority To Supersede RFC-1480?

For the second time in three years, I’ve been involved in a marathon series of emails with usTLD Locality Support at GoDaddy, trying to work out registering a domain within the portland.or.us zone ...

Daily News Stuff 11 February 2026

Swiss Family Blobinson Edition Top Story The global memory market is set to hit $550 billion this year. (Trendforce) Thanks a bunch, Sam Altman. Speaking of which, two of the SSDs I ordered during ...

Five amazing snow-view open-air Japanese hot springs in Hokkaido [Photos]

Great reasons to add yukimiroten to your vocabulary and itinerary alike. Before we talk about places to hop into a hot spring, let’s dip our toes in the waters of bathing-related Japanese linguisti...

Scattered Minds by Gabor Maté

Why read the book? Gabor Maté wrote Scattered Minds. He lives with ADD himself and worked as a doctor with children and adults who have it. Maté says ADD is not an inherited illness but a reversibl...

Snail Homes, Bog Bodies, and Mechanical Flies: Robert Testard’s Illustrations for Les secretz de l’histoire naturelle (ca. 1485)

A wondrous illuminated manuscript, which gathers and illustrates the marvels of the world and beyond.

VibeOps Folks Rejoice! Warp Launches Oz for Managing AI Coding Agents in the Cloud

Can run many agents simultaneously, targets developer teams.

What’s new in the 2025–2030 Dietary Guidelines and why it matters (or doesn't)

Federal nutrition advice has evolved over the years.

A Random List of Silly Things I Hate

Apparently this is a thing now, so I'm gonna join in. 🙃 Seafood. 🤢 Rude people. Late people. People who don't like dogs. What's that all about?? The sight of blood. I'll faint. Immediately. Like Ma...

HTTP/2 From Scratch: Part 1

Re-building the web in Go to learn more about it

The Gullah Geechee Roots of Jacksonville’s Cuisine

The story of Jacksonville can be tasted as much as it can be told. Especially amongst Jacksonville's Gullah Geechee community. The Gullah Geechee descended from enslaved Central and West Africans w...

Witcher 3: The Wild Hunt, Heart of Stone, Blood and Wine

I first bought and played through the Witcher 3 back in 2015 on the PS4. At that time I wasn't doing my schtick of wanting to write reviews for every game I played, so instead I have added a back-d...

Makers on Manager's Schedule

AI Game Worlds and Humane Games

I learned about Project Genie and similar "world building" AI tools. While I suspect their best use will be generating slop for social media consumption, I take my critique as an opportunity to exa...

Do not apologize for replying late to my email

Do not apologize for replying late to my email You don’t need to apologize for taking hours, days, or years to reply to one of my emails. If we are not close collaborators, and if I didn’t explicit...

Precommitment

“Take me and bind me to the crosspiece half way up the mast; bind me as I stand upright, with a bond so fast that I cannot possibly break away, and lash the rope’s ends to the mast itself. If I beg...

COB LED Lighting for my Son's Room

About a month ago I upgraded the lighting in my son’s bedroom to a COB LED strip.

Installation

How You Show Up In The Room Matters More Than You Think

Every interaction is a deposit or a withdrawal. The post How You Show Up In The Room Matters More Than You Think appeared first on Above the Law.