Monthly recap: February 2024
Minor update(s) * Meeting a few people after a long time * Had a cold that lingered a long time (but, ended up having a few hot toddies for it) * Hiking in Sanborn County Park * A visit to half-m…
Agam Brahma
1922 posts
Shogun
Watched the first three episodes of this show, pretty good. I was unaware how much this was based on real events! Saw a review in the WSJ:…
Relax, UFOs aren’t real
What do I even make of this headline?! This would’ve been an Onion piece a decade ago. Still, good to know ……
Programming in “Thonny”
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We live in an age of abundance, in many respects. There are more ways to learn things than ever before. In my case, I was looking through options for my daughter to play around with. We previously…
Warfare as Reality Show
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I have been following the Russia-Ukraine conflict for several months now (not since the beginning, but since perhaps October 2022). The show I’m not going to get into the political who-did-what-and…
Songs of war, songs of life
Sometimes there’s a “just right” aesthetic about a piece of art. If you get it, you get it. It’s a gut level infantryman song. Obviously dated because it’s about events from over two decades ago.…
Making languages
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An excellent look behind the scenes, of fictional languages in popular works today. I've been curious about whether or not the new Dune movie would feature "the J-word", and looks like…
Roam and Raycast
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“Quick capture” is important, especially if you have too much of a “monkey mind”. I use Roam as a combination of bullet-journal, and thinking playground, but there can be friction in using it when no…
On heros becoming villains
It has been surreal to watch several of my early heroes become "villains" Matt Taibbi: got turned on to him after insightful reporting after 2009 (remember Goldman Sachs as giant squid) --…
A tale of three agents
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I had an experience that I feel encapsulates the tradeoff between a few different products that each claim to replace part of the “general search experience”. I asked the following question: How can…
Link curation re-evaluation
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Some random thoughts here, on the topic of “sharing bits of what I come across”. I’ve had this Wordpress blog for over 12 years (including items that started here, and other sources ingested here ove…
Wiring up
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(Originally a draft post for a longer series on “the first day of the 90s”) I found this piece amusing and naive. “The Internet in the 90s” is something that will be revisited later, but for now, her…