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Yesterday, at 12:06 p.m. EDT, NASA successfully launched the Europa Clipper mission from Kennedy Space Center in Florida. After the launch was delayed because of the hurricane Milton in Florida, we had clear skies over Meritt Island yesterday and it was go time. Clipper’s mission is to embark on a five year plus trek across […]
After decades of hard work from the Realtime Linux developers, it is finally up for merging, fully and officially, into the mainline tree. With the forthcoming release of the 6.12 kernel we can finally say Linux is officially a Realtime OS. Perhaps the next Linux-based space vehicle can use it, who knows. At the Open […]
Chendol, or cendol, is a pandan-flavored jelly-like dessert served with ice and condiments, similar to ais kachang. There’s a popular vendor here in Penang on a street cart at Lebuh Keng Kwee just down the street from the laksa place. They’re called Penang Road Famous Teochew Chendul and Ice Kacang, and their cart is underneath […]
All good things come to an end, sadly. My favorite radio show, Thistle and Shamrock, hosted by the incredible Fiona Ritchie, is going to bid farewell to us in September. After 41 years on air, the show is going to end. I don’t even remember when I discovered the program, but it was sometime when […]
A recent paper published in Nature reveals that NASA’s Juno probe has confirmed evidence of active volcanoes on Jupiter’s moon Io. The probe’s Jovian Infrared Auroral Mapper (JIRAM) revealed that the surface of the Jovian moon is covered by lakes of lava. The data was collected during Juno’s flyby of Io in December last year, […]
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 […]