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    Dylan Being Dylan

    I’m a huge fan of Bob Dylan. He’s such a fascinating character – literally a self-made man, an assemblage of americana and brilliance that provided the background music for my life.

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • November 16, 2022
    • Art, Things That Delight Me
    • 5 Comments

    How to V-2

    This is going to be exciting for those of you who have been contemplating starting your own ballistic missile program.

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • November 12, 2022
    • Things That Delight Me, War is a Racket
    • 52 Comments

    There’s No Fool Like An Old School Fool

    I was looking at some pictures (they were unavoidable) of the queen’s lying-in-state, and I noticed an odd thing.

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • September 27, 2022
    • Art, Things That Delight Me, Things that make blood squirt out my ears
    • 11 Comments

    From Midjourney

    I’m fascinated by how the AI models get better extremely fast once they are exposed to a few thousand users frantically working at them.

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • July 20, 2022
    • Art, Things That Delight Me
    • 20 Comments

    Midjourney

    By now you have probably heard of Dall-E and Midjourney, etc.

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • July 8, 2022
    • Art, Things That Delight Me
    • 22 Comments

    A Challenge

    I was clearing up some cutoffs in the shop, and noticed a couple of largeish pieces of bog oak in the pile.

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • June 25, 2022
    • Art, Things That Delight Me
    • 1 Comment

    Never Interrupt Your Enemy When They Are Making A Mistake

    No, that wasn’t Sun Tzu, it’s attributed to Napoleon Bonaparte (it’s in his book of collected military maxims) – I don’t believe that was one of Bonaparte’s; it sounds more like Talleyrand, who had a great deal of experience at standing on the sidelines watching Bonaparte make mistakes.

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • June 20, 2022
    • Things That Delight Me, Things that make blood squirt out my ears, We are Fucked
    • 30 Comments

    Cheese

    You’ve probably heard of the US Government’s strategic Helium reserve, or the fuel reserve. But, did you know that there is, under a mountain, a Tolkienesque city made of stacks of food?

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • June 11, 2022
    • Capitalism is a disease, Things That Delight Me, Things that make blood squirt out my ears
    • 15 Comments

    Why Do We Let Ourselves Be Ruled By Garbage?

    Contrary to my high school opinion, not all politicians are bad. Some actually appear to have decided that what they want to do in life is serve the public.

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • June 2, 2022
    • I don't even know how to categorize this one, Reviews of Things, Things That Delight Me
    • 13 Comments

    Not Your Friend!

    It’s really an amazing adaptation, to have an anal sac that you can express at someone when they get annoying. Think what human civilization would be like if we had that ability.

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • April 28, 2022
    • Art, Things That Delight Me
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