John Nicholas

A grey cat sits on a dining chair beneath a dining table. She is framed by the side of a tablecloth.

Catisfactory

A randomly generated finite state machine, made of the emoji 🐢, 🐣, 🐧

🐢🐣🐧

OH Senate votes to shorten mail-in ballot return window; OR officials will not conduct criminal investigation of errantly registered voters who cast ballots; Schwarzenegger, others urge Supreme Court to hear ND's Native American voting rights case: electionline.org/news/2025/11...

40 years ago, I was thoroughly enjoying Epyx' brilliant multi-event cold-climate sports spectacular, Winter Games. It continued the series' tradition of unusual but very entertaining events, all articulated via absolutely top-tier audiovisuals, and all extremely fun to play.

Should the web platform adopt XSLT 3.0? · Issue #11578 · whatwg/html What is the issue with the HTML Standard? Background This is a follow-up to #11523. That issue raises concerns regarding security issues, code maintainability, and the complexity of aging browser c...

I think people from the @TEIConsortium or @adho.org would help us enormously if they found the time to intervene here and describe use cases from our field for a modern XSLT in the browser: https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/11578

#balisage

Shiela Thomson

Encore Presentation: From iXML to XSpec (originally given at Markup UK)

#balisage

Is Invisible XML Ready for Undergraduates? Trying iXML and XProc on a Music Analysis Project in an Undergraduate Text Analysis Course—Michael Simons, Elisa E. Beshero-Bondar

https://www.balisage.net/Proceedings/vol30/html/Beshero-Bondar01/BalisageVol30-Beshero-Bondar01.html

NIST publishes Implementation Guidance for Common Data Formats NIST published a guidebook developed by The Turnout to help technology providers implement the Common Data Formats (CDFs). It contains materials on how CDFs are constructed, cross-referencing data ins...

Attn Election 🤓🤓! NIST recently published “Implementation Guidance for Common Data Formats”. The CDFs support the VVSG goals for interoperable election systems and this guide ("missing manual"?) dives deep into implementing NIST’s CDFs. Read, share, and reach out! turnout.rocks/our-blog/nis...

YouTube video by The19eighties The Sisters Of Mercy - Black Planet

Thursday mood www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Eun...

Don't forget about the Sega's CD "Special Edition"!

The cover of Byte, the Small Systems Journal, for April 1981. In it, a Robert Tinney piece depicts a small bezeled computer on a man's steel wristwatch; the tiny QUERTY keyboard and four side function keys fit on the face, while the micro-CRT reads, "INSERT DISK". Two fingers gingerly load the 5 1/4mm diskette into the side of the wristwatch.

FUTURE COMPUTERS? (Source.)

An image titled "Recurisve Panda", with a picture of a waving panda labeled 'Panda' in the bottom left, and an image of the page "Recursive Panda" in the top right. The caption reads: "Figure . Recursive Panda. This picture, in which a panda appears recursively, is created by drawing the panda with a graphics editor that generates Postscript output and then adjusting the resulting Postscript code. The idea is borrowed from an example given by Reid."

RECURSIVE PANDA (Source.)

I may have been at this talk in person!

Ruby is an odd mix: high level but primitive, familiar but strange.

I liked that the main character was a fairly anonymous everythug

Soft rock is wailing guitars put real low in the mix

Windows 11 is the buggiest, least reliable version since at least ME.

And while it is too early to talk about 2025, I think interoperability will be a major theme!

Interoperability with what and how? Let me know your guesses!

YouTube video by Gil Scott-Heron - Topic Gun

Thursday's Mood music.youtube.com/watch?v=-1cJ...

Do UK ice cream next.

YouTube video by Joe Jackson - Topic You Can't Get What You Want (Till You Know What You Want)

Thursday mood. www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjUw...

election worker: any person who interacts with those coming to vote. This includes any poll worker, election day worker, early voting worker, or other temporary staff engaged in supporting the voting or vote counting process. #ElectionTermOfTheDay #ElectionGeeks pages.nist.gov/ElectionGlos...

vote-by-mail: method of voting by which eligible voters are mailed ballots and information packets by the local jurisdiction. Voters may be able to return their marked ballots by mail, bring them to an election office, or drop them off in secure drop boxes. pages.nist.gov/ElectionGlos...

YouTube video by LCDSoundsystemVEVO LCD Soundsystem - new body rhumba (from the film White Noise) (Official Audio)

Tuesday mood. www.youtube.com/watch?v=JG17...

The Ohio story is under PA. We are neighbors, but not the same!

absentee voting: voting that can occur unsupervised at a location chosen by the voter either before or on election day. #ElectionTermOfTheDay #ElectionGeeks pages.nist.gov/ElectionGlos...

Good morning to all the psychadelic data cats out there!

election day: the last day on which voters may cast a ballot. Absentee votes and early votes may be cast in advance of election day. #ElectionTermOfTheDay #ElectionGeeks pages.nist.gov/ElectionGlos...

special election: primary or general election that is not regularly scheduled. A special election may be combined with a scheduled election. #ElectionTermOfTheDay #ElectionGeeks pages.nist.gov/ElectionGlos...