Профиль

Arsenic and old lace (1944, cary grant)

Dr Jonas in Conspiracy Theory (Patrick Stewart in a rare evil role)

Hmm, maybe I should update the script to also post at least one heron picture if there is one (currently it just posts the latest) www.flickr.com/photos/eichi...

12 new pix http://flic.kr/p/2srApjZ [Massachusetts,Farrar Pond,Lincoln,fence,great blue heron,Reflections,bird song,catbird,birds,chipping sparrow,eastern phoebe,murmuration,Wood Street,sunflowers,In flight,seedlings,feathers,trailcam,scenery,swallow,opossum,Concord,branch,leaves,water,flock,night]

If I were Charlie Stross I'd feel like giving up electrek.co/2026/07/23/t...

Hmm, I've seen a bunch of (fictional) tech priesthoods (mixed between preserving knowledge and hiding it) but I don't think I've seen one that anchors it in the present day (would probably have ISO vs ANSI schisms/holy wars...)

New Ice Cream review: Kimball Farm Lancaster (Lancaster) https://icecream.thok.org/kimball-farm-lancaster/

Or maybe Douglas Rain :-)

I'd want David Attenborough. I'd *get* Gene Hackman.

I was actually there for the herons but the nests are empty (it's been a week or two and they were close to fledging anyway.) Saw one very relaxed heron in the swamp. www.flickr.com/photos/eichi...

16 new pix http://flic.kr/p/2sraLTn [Assabet River NWR,Massachusetts,Sudbury,eastern phoebe,wood duck,ducklings,ducks,sky,great blue heron,tufted titmouse,Puffer Pond,Reflections,barbed wire,butterflies,goldfinch,swimming,chipmunk,ripples,warning,monarch,sign,nest]

(Imagines a modern update where traffic is disrupted because so many people are trying to take selfies with the lions)

concordbridge.org/index.php/20... it's just a tiny little study but I hadn't realized that Arlington's 1970's efforts to keep the riff-raff out actually got repealed in 2024 malegislature.gov/Bills/193/H4...

Everything I know about traditional shaving comes from Sweeney Todd (aside from all the murders there's actually a *lot* of real shaving going on :-)

In the early days of the roomba, I described it as "you're not buying a robot vacuum, you're buying a room that stays clean" and things like self-emptying bins make it better at that, things like voice communication make it *worse*

Also, something with a personality probably *isn't* something I can apply bugfixes to. (Worse, it probably *is* something that responds to negative feedback and/or torment/discipline.)

A) No. Very No. Practically, "personality" in an appliance is a huge waste of resources; emotionally, the whole point of having a robot do it is that *noone* suffers, not that I'm pushing the suffering on to some other entity that appears to be capable of it.

Ooh, that sounds like the more valuable insight (more likely to connect with the reader, more likely to *startle* the reader if they're expecting chekov's dumpster to be smelly and not for it to be noisy/squirmy :-)

Heh, I argued a version of the *wrong* side of this back in the day, shaped like "Yes, Ada helps you write million line projects, but they'd only be 100K lines of C++" (and of course even in the *short* term I won the argument :-)

This is really, really bad. This is one of the complexes we use to communicate with spacecraft in deep space. The effects of climate change are extending out into the Solar System.