Wasn't this a small subplot in the "Poseidon's Children" series by Alastair Reynolds?

Congratulations, Dennis! You’ve been in our thoughts.

My first car was a ‘72 Nova. I didn’t exactly love it, but the thing was a tank and it had enough room in the engine compartment to crawl in there and work on anything.

Incredible talk! It was one of the most information-dense sessions I've ever attended. Lots of great things to think about and take back to our library.

This one?

Go with the gym membership at first. Find something close to your house or work so it’s convenient. Every time I buy gym equipment for the house it winds up sitting in a corner, then moved down to the basement, then on Craigslist or given away.

Four rafters sitting on top of a chicken coop

Putting a roof on a chicken coop and I got to use my speed square for it’s intended purpose for the first time in years.

Golden crepuscular rays shining down over the English countryside at dawn as seen from the window of an airplane.

Sunrise over England at 10,000 feet.

Sometimes it's nice to remember that even Marcus Aurelius was like "you don't have to comment on everything bro"

Brightly colored orange and yellow Chicken of the Woods mushrooms growing on a downed tree trunk.

Chicken of the Woods mushrooms spotted on today’s trail walk.

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Law Firm Pressures Brown University to Erase Research on Anti-Wind Groups

My lab's been attacked by an anti-wind group and their lawyers. They threatened the science funding of my whole university, to shut me and my undergraduate research assistants up.

NYT just covered it. 1/n

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/c...

Zerowriter Ink Your open-source e-paper typewriter

You mean something like this? A Raspberry Pi Zero or even an ESP32 should be able to do it, and both are low-power.
www.crowdsupply.com/zerowriter/z...

CamelCaps FTW

Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins Of The Internet The Origins Of The Internet

I don't know if this is quite what you're looking for, but this was a book I used to assign to my students. It covers the technology developments that led to the modern Internet and it's a fascinating read.
bookshop.org/p/books/wher...

I have a lot of ruth for what you’re saying. It was a word with a lot of feck and gorm. Luckily I kept my couth intact and was kempt by the end.

A red-tailed hawk sitting on a brick wall under some trees.

Met a red-tailed hawk walking around UVA Grounds this morning. We interrupted her trying to grab a squirrel and she wasn’t very happy about it.

As Jod is my witness, it will always be a hard “G”.

If your model requires that you ingest the entirety of copyrighted works then you should pay the creators for it. This is not, by any definition, Fair Use.

Copyrighted works do not fit the description of “public data”. And if you need them for training your model then you should negotiate to reimburse artists and authors for their use.

Four pieces of crown molding cut and labeled as samples to correctly duplicate the angle and direction needed for inside and outside joins.

I don’t do trim work very often, and I always second guess myself and do the cuts wrong. So for this crown molding I made four (really six) reference pieces. #carpentry #woodworking #diy

Ah. We’ve reached “depression” in the cycle of grief, then. Progress.

Burning it is the only option now.

I remember going to see Survival Research Labs in Austin many years ago. Glad to see these guys are still around, and apparently still intact.

About nine years ago I ordered a refrigerator from Lowe’s. After several weeks and multiple assurances it would arrive “soon”, I went up to the store and they admitted they accidentally ordered a Canadian model and it would never come in.

Ah. Great point.

Those are both perfectly reasonable exceptions, in the "not wanting sharp pointy things unscrewing themselves and spinning off in random directions" sense. I still don't understand propane tanks.

Not to mention fittings for propane tanks.

That looks amazing! What kind of wood did you use?