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I'm Not Doctor Who
I'm Not Doctor WhoJun 28, 2026
#oneaday Day 751: Read/write access
There are a lot of things I don't like about myself, but one of the things that I have always been rather pleased with is my willingness to engage with the English language. A lot of this stems from being encouraged well at an early age, both by my parents and at school, but also...
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just shoot me
just shoot meMay 19, 2026
if i can make it there
The year was 2008, and the movie was Elizabethtown. Actually, that movie was released in 2005 but by 2008 the DVD was out. And DVDs mean only one thing: you watch the same movie over and over until you get sick of it...or until you get just plain sick. Either works. Elizabethtown is not a very good movie at all. It's got a few things going for it, though. Paul Schneider is in it. Alec Baldwin does a pithy but surprisingly amusing cameo in it. The band My Morning Jacket is in it. In point of fact...
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just shoot me
just shoot meMay 7, 2026
Into the Great Wide Open, or, Road-trippin' in South Dakota
There is a place in the United States of America where if you happen to glance out your window as you drive past on the highway, you might see a metal sculpture of a skeletal man leading an equally skeletal T-Rex toward a small western town. Skeleton Man and his pet live “between.” They’re in that hazy world between the place you left and the place you want to be. They are a part of the ride that you live through before you get to where you were really going. There was a time when families used ...
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just shoot me
just shoot meMay 6, 2026
I'll tell you about Texas Radio and the Big Beat
Sherman, set the WABAC machine to about 2006, I guess. I hadn't actually had anything other than a point-and-shoot camera in my hands in quite some time. I used to borrow one of those Sony Mavica MVC FD90 cameras from work just about every weekend though. Anyone remember those? You'd put a 1.44 MB (that's megabyte, not gigabyte) floppy disk in the thing as your storage medium. The disk would hold about six shitty 1.6-megapixel images on it, so if you were going anywhere, you'd either have to be ...
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just shoot me
just shoot meApr 2, 2026
setting the stage
I have a confession to make. I'm not always that good at taking photos. I suppose that I shouldn't expect to be perfect all the time, but even though this is just a hobby, a guy can dream, right? Consider: I started taking photos in high school at the age of seventeen. The story is that I stole my mom's Praktica SLR (she wasn't really using it anyway!) to join the yearbook staff. In this case, join the yearbook staff really means impress a girl. She was the photo editor, and shooting photos = de...
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Kevin R. Kuhl's Blog
Kevin R. Kuhl's BlogApr 21, 2025
Drew Bruenig on Reasoning Models and Chain of Thought
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ben blogs
ben blogsSep 12, 2024
Nate the Snake
Worth the read if you have a spare moment. So, there’s a man crawling through the desert. He’d decided to try his SUV in a little bit of cross-country travel, had great fun zooming over the badlands and through the sand, got lost, hit a big rock, and then he couldn’t get it started again. There were no cell phone towers anywhere near, so his cell phone was useless. He had no family, his parents had died a few years before in an auto accident, and his few friends had no idea he was out here. He stayed with the […]
shitpostsWords
ben blogs
ben blogsAug 19, 2024
Block themes are cool, actually
WordPress block themes have grown on me. Spent a couple hours this weekend sprucing up tcpinball.org. Found this lovely block theme and it all came together quite nicely. Had a strange bug where the Navigation block stopped working on certain pages. Didn’t find the actual cause but it fixed itself when I disabled the Gutenberg plugin.
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Charles Harries
Charles HarriesMay 21, 2022
A short review of CraftCMS
A quick look back on how CraftCMS is working out for me, after a few months of using it.
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Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet
Tedium: The Dull Side of the InternetJan 28, 2022
Randomness, in Four Parts
Despite the fact that this package is about randomness, it’s actually fairly well structured. But as it turns out, order might be more random than it looks.
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ben blogs
ben blogsAug 29, 2021
Matrix Sucks
I’ve gotten sick of explaining why matrix is bad
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ben blogs
ben blogsMar 24, 2021
Hugo blog rewrite
This blog has changed many times...
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Posts, byJP
Posts, byJPApr 24, 2019
Miriscience
Why I created the word "miriscience", and why it's been so important to me.
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ben blogs
ben blogsMar 7, 2018
What White Nationalists Don’t Get
A common and seemingly reasonable argument for white pride or white nationalism is: why can’t I be proud of my culture? Well, you can. Always have been able to. We have Irish pride celebrations, we have German drinking festivals, we have Serbian food festivals. Any European culture you can think of has multiple organizations in North America dedicated to taking pride in their heritage and NO ONE gives them shit for it. But, you see, when you start talking white pride, that’s not a culture. That’s a skin color. There is no white culture, never was. There is no pan-European […]
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Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet
Tedium: The Dull Side of the InternetMar 1, 2018
The Suburban Dictionary
How the sniglet took over, to the point where people use sniglets without realizing it. Sniglets don't appear in the dictionary, but they probably should.
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ben blogs
ben blogsNov 27, 2017
Blog update
More blog history
UpdateWords
ben blogs
ben blogsNov 27, 2017
Antiwitze
Some of my favorite antijokes in German
GermanLinguistics
ben blogs
ben blogsNov 27, 2017
Eggcorns
An infuriating eggcorn tale
LinguisticsWords
ben blogs
ben blogsNov 27, 2017
Fun words in german
GermanLinguistics
ben blogs
ben blogsOct 2, 2017
Hi there
Welcome to my tilde blog
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Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet
Tedium: The Dull Side of the InternetOct 4, 2016
Getting The Next Word In
The word processor doesn't just deserve scolding. Here's an honest look at some budding word-processor innovation efforts. They're worth writing home about.
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ben blogs
ben blogsJul 21, 2016
The Party of Lincoln
Something that struck me as absolutely outrageous (more than other things that I’ve seen this week) was the connection of the roots of the Republican party to the modern Republican party. While it never hurts to be proud of where the party comes from, it is completely unreasonable to claim that the modern-day party stands for the same things it did when it was founded. The Republican party was founded in 1854 on an anti-slavery platform, where it filled in the power gap in the north left by the collapsed Whig party. It saw strong support in the north of […]
2016 National ConventionsWords
ben blogs
ben blogsJul 21, 2016
RNC in Cleveland – Day Four
UPDATE looks like an article of convention notes by two of our reporters ran in the Mining Journal! Trump is officially the Republican nominee for President of the United States of America. My first reaction to this news was a feeling of impending doom.
2016 National ConventionsWords
ben blogs
ben blogsJul 20, 2016
RNC in Cleveland – Day Three
Something that has been on my mind all week is the utter lack of minority representation at the convention. Inside the security perimeter, most black people that you see are working here. I check everyone’s credentials to see what their role here is. Of all the ones that I’ve seen, one hand would be enough to count all of the non-white delegates here. White people are an enormous majority here. Seeing a hispanic or black speaker on stage seems entirely incongruous with the messages and platform of Donald Trump of the Republican party itself. It seems self-defeating for anyone who […]
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