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A recent Mastodon post by Didier Malanfant lamented the death of the open web thanks to walled gardens such as Discord (which was called out specifically). I do concur with the statement, but after thinking about it a bit more, I wondered just how long our open web records last. A forum can disappear into […]
Today we continue with our Penang food tour! For lunch I had one of my regular favorites, Uncle Kin’s (confusingly, sometimes called Uncle King, even on their website) chili pan mee noodles. Although the dish didn’t originate in Malaysia, it is very popular here thanks to the large Hakka community especially in Penang. The major […]
I’ve lived in Penang for quite a while, and the people here love to tell you that the food is excellent (and it is). I never intended to make this a food blog, but since I have a “food” category on the blog I would be amiss not to give you a little tour of […]
I got myself a Raspberry Pi 5 last week, and I booted it up for the first time today. I imaged Ubuntu onto a USB stick and it is slow but usable. I love the 4 ARM64 cores that I have to play with!
So I’ve been reading up a bit on Finland and it’s cuisine and folk tales, and I came across lohikeitto, Finland’s version of salmon chowder. I decided to give it a go, and lo and behold it is a great, hearty soup. The key to making it fragrant is dill. Lots of dill. Here’s the […]
Ingenuity has taken its final flight on Mars. On January 18th, NASA scientists saw that one of its rotor blades was damaged during landing, and thus it is grounded for good. The little robot copter was only meant to fly five times in 30 days, but it ended up making 72 flights and logged over […]
On December 11th, NASA did a deep space laser communication test from 19 million miles away by sending a UHD video of a cat from NASA’s Psyche mission which was launched on Oct. 13. The signal took 101 seconds to reach Earth, and the data transfer rate was 267 megabits per second (Mbps). The video […]
I always enjoy Spotify’s annual year-end event where they make a little slideshow about your listening habits. Now, I’ve always loved violins. Growing up as a nerdy kid, you fall in love with Star Wars and did those films have excellent music, which I listened to on cassette on a Walkman in my youth. John […]
The Lucy probe was launched by NASA way back in October of 2021 (I feel like I should have remembered this, and yet my memory is failing me). Its 12 year mission is to do flyby surveys of asteroids; two in the main asteroid belt and six more Trojan asteroids, which share an orbit with […]
On Sunday, September 24, 2023, a little capsule touched down in the Utah desert. It is the sample return mission from OSIRIS-REx, a space probe that touched down on asteroid 101955 Bennu in October of 2020, and collected a sample to return to Earth. I vaguely remember the touchdown on the asteroid, one of humanity’s […]