I read yet another paper about the Ordovician period:

The Great Ordovician Biodiversity Event (GOBE): definition, concept and duration by Thomas Servais and David A.T. Harper, Lethaia, vol 51, pp 151-164

There is a PDF of it.

I’ve read Men, Martians and Machines, and another Ace Double with Six Worlds Yonder and The Space Willies. many times since I was a child. The unifying theme here is: written by English sci fi humorist Eric Frank Russell.

At 2025-11-15T15:38:20Z, I submitted my Goofing on Meta blog post to the Hacker News link aggregation website. Shortly after that, at 2025-11-15T18:22:00Z, short blurb tech news website slashdot.org put an article about the same blog past in the Technology News section.

Since I run my own web server, I can see how the two sites’ users compare.

I put an oscilloscope on a doorbell transformer to see what the output waveform looks like.

I set up two Raspberry Pi SBCs with GPS boards as NTP servers earlier this year. I used an oscilloscope to see how far apart the “pulse per second” (PPS) pulses that the GPS boards output.

QAA Podcast (nee’ Qanon Anonymous), Premium Episode 238 and Unclear and Present Danger 2025-09-14 episode, cover Starship Troopers in very different ways.

Early in March 2025, I noticed that a web crawler with a user agent string of

meta-externalagent/1.1 (+https://developers.facebook.com/docs/sharing/webmasters/crawler)

was hitting my blog’s machine at an unreasonable rate.

2025-11-29: Hacker News and Slashdot comparison for this post.

What happens when pacman fails when you’re trying to recover from uninstalling a package that pacman needs?

1023 % sudo pacman -Syu
[sudo] password for bediger: 
pacman: error while loading shared libraries: libicuuc.so.78: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

What To Do When Nothing Has Happened?
Raymond “Randy” Freeman
Process Safety Progress September 2011 (Vol. 30 No. 5)

How should you estimate the probability of some catastrophic event that hasn’t happened yet?

Interesting paper:

Impact-induced initiation of a Snowball Earth: A model study
Minmin Fu, Dorian S. Abbot, Christian Koeberl, Alexey Fedorov
Science Advances, 10 eadk5489 (2024) 9 February 2024