At Frankfurt Airport:
Stderr
All the unbuffered error messages
At Frankfurt Airport:
Marketing is an inherently dishonest profession, in my opinion; its purpose is to misrepresent and manipulate. The other day I was at the surviving local hardware store, and ran across a piece of marketing from my distant past.
Monterey Bay Aquarium is one of my favorite places.
One of my many secret vices is NPR’s Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me! [Read more…]
It doesn’t have a bayonet mount, so it’s hardly usable.
There are a bunch of videos of this on youtube; they started showing up in my feed around the time when I was hunting for wire rope for damascus-making.
Alec Steele is a young British blacksmith who does charming videos about his adventures with making stuff. He and Ford Hallam are single-handedly changing my attitude toward youtube; it’s not entirely a cess-pit: it’s what we take from it.
These stories may have appeared elsewhere in comments I’ve made, but why not pull them into a posting of their own?
[Warning: Bees] [Is Apiphobia a thing? I’m going to assume it is]
This is via Atlas Obscura, which is a must-read if you’re a nexus of weirdness. [atl]