• East during the spring and west during the fall: You know you're in for a ride when you read an article that includes the sentence Most magnets have two poles: north and south.  (Phys.org)
  
  Most?
  
  Most.
  
  They've found a new type of magnetic material that has eight poles.

• Do you miss the days when you could just switch a computer on and it would instantly come up with the BASIC prompt?  Miss them no more.  (ThoreauBasic)
  
  It can run as a regular Windows app, but can also boot directly from BIOS.
  
  
  
• Is everyone at OpenAI insane?  (Tech Crunch)
  
  Another "safety" employee has left the company, saying it needs to be run "like nuclear-power plants or busy airports, with layers of redundancy and careful, time-consuming planning, so that the occasional and inevitable human error does not open a door to disaster."
  
  But that's missing the point.  If you pour toxic waste into a reservoir of drinking water, you go to jail.
  
  
  
• It being spring and all, I made my pilgrimage to the hardware store's gardening section to see what native plants they had on offer.  I needed to replace the boronia that died over winter and start finding new plants to substitute those lost to wallaby predation.
  
  Came back with a boronia already in flower, a kangaroo paw likewise, another  westringia to complement the one I planted this time last year which is absolutely thriving, and an aca-cia.
  
  
  

Musical Interlude

1 Wallaby predation.

Posted by: furball321 at Monday, October 05 2026 06:34 AM (nzXoV)

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