The phrase "Icelandic doom metal" popped into my head this morning and now my day has been made so much better.

We need a cutesy name for the dialect LLMglish used in the States. Something like “gherkin” maybe…

Zuck Never Understood the Metaverse YouTube video by The Morbid Zoo

Made a little video about the metaverse, adapted from the part of my dissertation I had to write twice last week because the cat deleted it

youtu.be/aWRzvOiqc-s?...

Long drive to SC this weekend and I need a 10+ hour audio feed of Werner Herzog talking about… really anything at all.

Programming Clojure, Fourth Edition Quickly turn complex problems into simple, working solutions using functional programming, safe concurrency, and the expressive tools of Clojure.

I'm very happy to announce that Programming Clojure, 4th edition on @pragprog.com is now available for both ebook and print orders! pragprog.com/titles/shclo...

Clojure: The Documentary [OFFICIAL TRAILER] | Coming April 16th! 🚨 YouTube video by CultRepo

The Clojure Documentary trailer has dropped! www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJEy...

Tracy Kidder, Author of ‘The Soul of a New Machine,’ Dies at 80

Tracy Kidder has left the building.

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/25/b...

#soul #of #the #new #machine

Episode S07E05: The House with Laughing Windows We found the ideal “quiet little horror as giallo”—1976’s The House with Laughing Windows. We discuss weird Italian towns, brightly-lit attics, and this film’s overlap with folk horror. Also: what’s in that bag?

We found the ideal “quiet little horror as giallo”—1976’s The House with Laughing Windows. We discuss weird Italian towns, brightly-lit attics, and this film’s overlap with folk horror. Also: what’s in that bag?

Emblogginated "As Presaged in March 1993" whereby I read an old computing magazine and write about it with the benefit of hindsight. --> blog.fogus.me/as-presaged/...

cover image

editorial mention

table of contents fragment

I received Ghosts & Scholars #50, containing my first non-computing-related published article! On top of that, I got a nice mention by the amazing Rosemary Pardoe in the editorial. (swoon) That said, this is the final issue of a publication that I've read for decades, so my feelings are bittersweet.

I recently submitted my first piece of fiction for potential publication and unsurprisingly it was rejected. The funny part is that every writer that I know is reaching out to congratulate me.

Not recommended! Getting old is bad for your health.

The box with Kanji saying "Chinese Chess"

Gold Go playing board

Drawer with glass "stones"

Summer olympics themed etchings.

Behold the most confused board game ever: A 1970s "executive"-style Go set with a gold-etched playing surface, Summer Olympic motifs, and a box that says "Chinese Chess"... Seems like a specialty item from the 1960-70s associated with an Olympics hosted in asian... 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo?

LOL. He fails at literally everything!

A bag, some cards and some cubes do not make a game.

Breaking out an old game design that I couldn’t get working…. 10 years ago. 🤷‍♂️ sure to work this time.

Emblogginated "LLMe" --> blog.fogus.me/meta/LLMe.html

Is that a Bleiler that I spy?

Same! 💪

Clojure Core Team Dev Call, Feb 2026 YouTube video by ClojureTV

The Clojure team held a dev call a couple of days ago and the video of the call has landed on YT --> www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngyv...

Can anyone recommend some good studies about the cultural, economic, and environmental impacts of LLMs that are not biased?

Be the change you want to see in the world.

If I could scrobble every song I’ve ever heard in my entire life, almost certainly Seal’s Kiss from a Rose would be at the top, thanks to all of the malls and elevators that I’ve been in.

Sunn O))) ticket for DC

See you there DC.

Moments before the murder of Alex Pretti by ICE cowards.

"All their ferocity was turned outwards, against the enemies of the State, against foreigners, traitors, saboteurs, thought-criminals."

I noticed that the thrift store sells used trophies meaning that I can finally realize my dream of becoming a great bowler!

What the hell happened to mass market paperbacks?!

Fixed! Thanks again.

Thanks. I'll fix it ASAP

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trio improvisation (with Jack Rusher and Andrey)