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The Hairbrush
Barbara Keating was 72 when American Airlines Flight 11 carried her into the North Tower. She had spent the summer on Cape Cod visiting her grandchildren, and she was flying home to Palm Springs....
https://bolesblogs.com/2026/10/07/the-hairbrush/

Filing: Vancouver, WA-based Powerlattice, which makes a power delivery chiplet to reduce AI compute power needs by 50% , raised $86M, after raising $31M in 2025 (Kurt Schlosser/GeekWire)
https://www.geekwire.com/2026/filing-chip-startup-pow…

Filing: Chip startup Powerlattice raises $86M to ease AI’s power crunch
The new funding nearly triples what the Vancouver, Wash.-based semiconductor startup had raised when it came out of stealth last year. Powerlattice says its tech can cut AI chip energy use by more than half.

AI. I’m not a die-hard fan, and I’m not against it either. My feeling is that, used wisely, it can bring real benefits. For example, I use Day One for journaling. I am finding that the AI creator in there is very useful as I can talk or write to it as I go along through the day, and I miss less.

Best Spud Harvest in a Decade Clears the Gloom of Crops Failing from Scorching Summer https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/best-spud-harvest-in-a-decade-clears-the-gloom-of-crops-failing-from-scorching-summer/

Best Spud Harvest in a Decade Clears the Gloom of Crops Failing from Scorching Summer
A spud-tacular potato harvest in Japan showed that banner years are still in the almanac even as climate uncertainty continues to make farming more challenging. 

Fan fiction site AO3 says it will be offline for two to four weeks after a security incident; it hosts over 18M works and has 11M registered users (Bruce Gil/Gizmodo)
https://gizmodo.com/popular-fan-fiction-site-ao3-could-b…

Popular Fan Fiction Site AO3 Could Be Offline for a Month Following 'Security Incident'
"Black October" comes for the fan fic.

For those Magic the Gathering box collectors out there, I'm selling some more of my collection of Play & Draft Boosters boxes that I've done art for.
The following boxes are listed over on my seller page: https://www.ebay.ie/usr/denmanrooke

Gut Feeling: Staff predictions for Cowboys-Cardinals https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/gut-feeling-staff-predictions-for-cowboys-cardinals

Some Middle Eastern powers are waking up to the threat to their sovereignty posed by a US system that consistently privileges Israel’s priorities.
It is early days, but for a Gulf state leader to call for a Gulf security pact that includes Iran,
as Badr Albusaidi, Oman’s foreign minister, did this week,
is a potential Berlin Wall moment.
The implication is that the US should no longer be the security provider for the Gulf.
Iran is viewed with deep suspicion acro…

As Trump fans the flames of a world on fire, can diplomacy take back control?
Amid the chaos, havoc and war caused by a capricious and amoral US president, countries are waking up to the dangers of being excluded and abused by America

Counting Dogs And Broken Films
Athena apparently knows exactly how many treats she’s supposed to get, while my dad’s old home movies proved a little less cooperative. Between updating my genealogy site and repairing a broken 8mm film, it was a surprisingly busy quiet week.
http://www.bobmuellerwriter…

Counting Dogs And Broken Films – Bob Mueller
Athena counts her treats, I update my genealogy site, and a broken 8mm film sends me searching for a way to repair Dad’s old home movies.

Athena apparently knows how to count. At least, she knows when I short her one treat.
Meanwhile, I upgraded my genealogy site and managed to break one of Dad’s old 8mm films during digitization. Fortunately, it broke at a splice, and I found a clever way to repair it.
https://www.bobmuellerwriter.co…

Counting Dogs And Broken Films – Bob Mueller
Athena counts her treats, I update my genealogy site, and a broken 8mm film sends me searching for a way to repair Dad’s old home movies.