Thoughts as they occur to me.
Secret conversational extract
we aren't making any progress at all. it always looks terrible. rethink the entire approach of how you are drawing to the screen, and make sure that you are updating the display correctly. none of the changes that you are making have any effect, think hard and do something different
Good morning!
Coined in 1987, the term Knowledge Navigator described a future computing system and how people might use it to navigate worlds of knowledge. In a sense, the user is actually the “Knowledge Navigator,” though the term often refers to the system’s primary interface, a tablet computer. That part (i.e., the tablet) often stands for the whole system. – WikiPedia
I love that Le Mistral is in Le France and you can Essayez notre API to use Le Chat.
People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson The Conduct of Life (1860) ‘Worship’
Hit my usage limits twice in one day.
Update
Mounted the starlink mini onto the roof of one car. Drove around into a zillion different previously dead zones.
Review: just bought a second starlink for the other car.
Read this in the local paper about the local ski mountain, and the birth of snow making.
In Mohawk’s second season, Mohawk did not get any snow and resorted to ordering several tons of ice blocks, crushing them and spreading them on the slopes. This process was time consuming, costly and overall a worse experience than real snow. From this season, Shoenknecht got the idea to look into snowmaking. Shoenknecht enlisted the help of the TEY Manufacturing company, run by Wayne Pierce, Dave Richey and Art Hunt. The three engineers used the research of Ray Ringer to build the first snow making machines. These machines were brought to Mohawk and are the first documented case of a trial run of the snow making machine.
Examining Mohawk Mountain’s rich history - The Lakeville Journal
This winter has been a real one – so much better than last year, there's actual snow on the ground for the last few weeks. The ponds are frozen over, ready for ice skating.
In the years following his major breakthroughs with microwaves, thinking there might be a sort of electrical life to everything, Bose began experiments on vegetables. He attached electric probes to various vegetables, and claimed to record a "death spasm" in the form of a spike in electrical activity. He hooked a cabbage to a voltmeter in front of the playwright George Bernard Shaw, who was reportedly horrified to witness the electrical "convulsion" of the cabbage as it was dropped in boiling water. Shaw, it must be said, was a vegetarian.
Turn on search, ask it about the cornwall market in ct, and it spits out this gem
Recent Developments
According to local coverage, the market underwent a significant renovation and rebranding under new ownership. Will Schenk acquired the space in late 2022, renovated it extensively, and relaunched the venue as the Cornwall Market in January 2024—marking a new chapter for this iconic local business. LITCHFIELDMAGAZINE.COM
Pretty impressive overall.
When I worked at a newspaper, we were routinely dispatched to “match” a story from the Times: to do a new version of someone else’s idea. But had we “matched” any of the Times’s words—even the most banal of phrases—it could have been a firing offense. The ethics of plagiarism have turned into the narcissism of minor differences: because journalism cannot own up to its heavily derivative nature, it must enforce originality on the level of the sentence.
– David Shields, Reality Hunger