Rome Odunze not fretting over dad's shots at Bears following WR's catchless game vs. Bengals https://www.nfl.com/news/rome-odunze-not-fretting-over-dad-s-shots-at-bears-following-wr-s-catchless-game-vs-bengals
Pete Carroll's locker room victory speech vs. Patriots https://www.raiders.com/video/pete-carroll-locker-room-victory-speech-vs-patriots-2025
Hmmmm… here is a problem I did not anticipate.
Every time I empty the main pond hole of water, (the actual hole under the liner) water returns within an hour or two. I’ve done it 4 times now, and it keeps filling back up with water.
Obviously there is water underground infiltrating into the pond hole, and/or the water table itself is above the bottom of the hole. It is not coming from either of the other holes because they both have the same amount of water in them as they did this morning.
I have “watered” the blueberry patch and hazelnut tree a lot with the water that I have been cleaning the filter with… and we also had lots of water flying around outside the liners yesterday as I tested the pump. So it is quite possible that the ground around the pond is simply well saturated.
I think I am going to have to just keep removing the water (and putting it into the sewer) until it does not refill. We have a week of hot weather coming. Surely that will be enough time for everything to dry out completely.
Otherwise I might run into some issues if the rains return before I can anchor down the pond liner with gravel and get the plumbing in!
How is time already running short!?
Never underestimate the ability of water to find a place where it is not wanted. 😆
#poolpond #backyardProject #diy
Nasdaq had its worst 5-day run since April, falling 3% for the week as the combined market value of eight most valuable AI-related stocks fell by about $800B (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/8c6e3c18-c5a0-4f60-bac4-fcdab6328bf8
Read the Room: Inferring Social Context Through Dyadic Interaction Recognition in Cyber-physical-social Infrastructure Systems
Cheyu Lin, John Martins, Katherine A. Flanigan, Ph. D
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04854
A profile of Josh Wallace Kerrigan, also known as Neural Viz, a filmmaker using AI tools from Midjourney to Runway to create a cinematic universe (Christopher Beam/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/the-future-of-ai-media-parody-of-the-apocalypse-g…
I tried going for a 1km run this morning, first time out since tearing my calf back at the end of July.
After a few minutes walking, I started running slowly, only to make it a few hundred metres before feeling a weird "ping" in my leg that suggested I was maybe being over optimistic.
I walked the rest of the way, with no problems, but I'm a bit sad that I'm not quite ready to get back on the roads yet, to say nothing of the tennis court 😕
My wife read some of the Discworld books years ago but lost interest, I have tried to get her hooked for a while.
This morning we collected an old edition of "Alles Sense" (Reaper Man) from the post office. She just wanted to have a quick peak inside. That was an hour ago. I silently retreated to another room.
Now I just heard her shout "I want a curry!" from the living room.
A van der Waals material exhibiting room temperature broken inversion symmetry with ferroelectricity
Fabia F. Athena, Cooper A. Voigt, Mengkun Tian, Anjan Goswami, Emily Toph, Moses Nnaji, Fanuel Mammo, Brent K. Wagner, Sungho Jeon, Wenshan Cai, Eric M. Vogel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03977
Pose-Free 3D Quantitative Phase Imaging of Flowing Cellular Populations
Enze Ye, Wei Lin, Shaochi Ren, Yakun Liu, Xiaoping Li, Hao Wang, He Sun, Feng Pan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.04848