i know the world seems so vast, improbable, looming, astonishing. thinking about it will make you feel just like the sugar ant trekking over the remnants of ...| my varnished soapbox
fix anxiety with this one weird trick!| my varnished soapbox
it's about that time where i need to get a new phone. the storage capacity i got at the time was sufficient then, but it isn't now. storage isn't what it used to be. external hard drives are becoming the norm. i overestimate sentimentality until i get an alert that i'm low in storage. according to my devices, it seems to be an estimated 0.5 terabyte's worth of memories--the rest is hanging tight in various google drive accounts, bringing it over 1TB. this is just me, and what i've accumulated...| my varnished soapbox
some people don't get it, but the ones that do, do.| my varnished soapbox
the prospect of people reading my posts is still something i'm getting used to. it seems silly, to me, as someone who's been online since the dot com era's fruition. i'm an alum of tumblr university and took intro to css on xanga and neopets. i used twitter avidly when you had to text to tweet and actually "quote" a tweet to quote-tweet.| my varnished soapbox
i spent a great deal of thinking on how to tag this. musing? or prose? i try to separate the two as a means to allow the flow of fictionalized recollections ...| my varnished soapbox
About a year ago, , the legendary stop-motion film, was re-released in theaters. Since I had never seen it before, I rushed in. This was the perfect chance t...| Upward Spiral
So I have been reading a particularly egregious historical romance. As histrom readers will know, some books are deeply researched, profoundly infused by their settings, and cleverly structured so that the plots spring naturally from the realities of the time. And others…aren’t.| KJ Charles
Data poisoning is a type of cyberattack where malicious actors corrupt the training data of AI models. This can embed errors, biases, or hidden vulnerabiliti...| people, ideas, machines
Life has been strange with me lately. It has given and taken away. As if the mercy of the universe were a benefit we must pay for with something of equal val...| Ginoz Blog
I picked up the Vermis fictional game books, and it sparked some ideas about the nature of game design. I’ll repeat the thread here, since it seems the internet is disappearing things quicker…| Deeper in the Game
Thinking about what lies beyond our existence is perhaps the question we’ve asked ourselves the most as a species. What happens after death? What is God? Doe...| Ginoz Blog
Last week, Alistair Reece wrote that he is stuck in a rut and looking for a way to break a log jam that keeps him for completing writing projects he has started. His plan? “So here is my craz…| Appellation Beer
2024 was a year of being busy. You probably noticed as a loyal reader because my output on this blog fell off quite a bit. I wanted to get back on track per my New Year’s Day post. How did … Continue reading →| The Networking Nerd
What happens when cost cutting per quarter is the preferred profit method? Continue reading →| The Networking Nerd
By now I’m sure you’re familiar with Murphy’s Law: “Anything that can go wrong will go wrong.” If you work in IT or events or even in a trade you’ve seen things go upside down on many occasions. Did you … Continue reading →| The Networking Nerd
Do all the keynotes you watch sound the same? Perhaps that's the point after all. Continue reading →| The Networking Nerd
The headline — Costco Is Coming for Craft Beer — about store brand beers reads like click bait. The story itself, on the other hand, serves interested readers well. But . . . I can̵…| Appellation Beer
For everyone who ever asked “Where do you get your ideas?” and “How do you come up with a plot?”| KJ Charles
The age old question: Do you really need to be the one to answer that?| The Networking Nerd
I was soliciting for blog post ideas and azteclady on Bluesky asked:| KJ Charles
Greetings from Minneapolis, where the World Brewing Congress will continue through Tuesday. The photo above was taken during a smoky hop preparedness workshop. Today there will be three presentatio…| Appellation Beer
There were many words spilled over beer last week, including some from Jeff Alworth related to one of my favorite topics: authenticity. He even headlines a phrase, “authenticity trap,” that I almos…| Appellation Beer
There’s no compression algorithm for experience. So why do we still try?| The Networking Nerd
This photo was taken during a 2009 visit to Golden, Colorado. The sign has changed, but the message is the same today at Golden Liquors. The Coors brewery is located across the street from the stor…| Appellation Beer
I ran a poll asking my followers which content to produce for Dave's Continuous Delivery YouTube channel. I found it interesting, but I guess not all that surprising, that the results depend upon who you ask. This is Twitter (no I will not call it by its new name, actually I want to call it … Continue reading "In which we discover the audience really matters" The post In which we discover the audience really matters appeared first on Trisha Gee.| Trisha Gee
Today is the last entry in Scott’s diary. Just as the Endurance is most famous for sinking, Scott is most famous for dying – that’s all most people know about him and his companions, if…| The Worst Journey in the World: Graphic Novel
1) Is there a craft beer bubble? Minnesota brewers say there’s room for everyone, but some taprooms face uncertainty 2) How Fair State Brewing Hit Bankruptcy, and How It Plans to Fight Throug…| Appellation Beer
When blogs die: Before getting to some good reading, this. I just counted. I am subscribed to 198 rss feeds, most of them blogs. Most of them out of service. Some now gone for 10 years or so. But y…| Appellation Beer
Imagine a world driven by the strive for progress, improvement and innovation, rather than fuelled by corporate greed. Ideas and breakthroughs are shared freely and openly. Where instead of multiple separate entities having to expend the same effort to unlock the same benefits time and time again, locking them away inside their own corporate silos to ration out to the masses at overly inflated costs; we co-create that benefit, shared freely, and greatly accelerate the pace of innovation for e...| /dev/alias – Hack. Dev. Transcend.