My neighbors, lovely, smart, kindly people, are trying to persuade us to try out Netflix's new series " Adolescence ." A sente...

Her grandfather made his own beer from things he grew in his garden. Her family helped her reconstruct it in Georgia.  Reminds me of the tal...

This video, which you may have seen elsewhere, explains why there's no broadband yet in spite of years of government machinery turning....

A series of cartoons by the AI about itself .   I hope there's not really a consciousness there. We are making a tortured thing. UPDATE:...

Manual steering on that monster. It'll be fun pushing it around these mountain roads. Hasn't even been started for years and years. ...

Yesterday I heard someone say, "Sin feels like freedom until you try to stop."  That's a thought that has stuck with me.

Ever since the hurricane blew down millions upon millions of trees in Western North Carolina, we've known that the drying wood would cre...

I've used Signal for years and years for unclassified information that was very sensitive. It's not thought to be unbreakable -- pro...

I’m sure it’s not all like this, but DOGE cracked at least one nut . 

A public library is not secure almost by definition. It is open to the public, meaning that anyone at all can expect to enter and remain mor...

It seems like I have read this story .  Absolute chaos struck a quiet residential street in Elm Park last night as a gang of youths believed...

These boys put on a great concert tonight. It was supposed to have been at the 50th anniversary Mountain Heritage Festival on September 29th...

Adovada is an ancient way of preserving meat with chilies. I found some that I’d made a while ago and then frozen after we’d eaten on it for...

The late, great Snowman was born this day 1937.

The SEP just updated their page on the concept of negation ; this diagram is from the entry. While I was reviewing it I noticed that while m...

The Spring is welcome this year.