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Because Belgian or Belgian-style Witbier has become such a minority style these days we forget just how good it is in hot weather. Lost & Grounded, our local taproom, has had Hop Hand Fallacy, a Witbier at 4.4%, as a permanent part of...
Interesting examination of whether therapists are too quick to suggest patients cut off ties with their parents. Of 7,000 estranged parents in a recent survey, some 3,000 said they believed a therapist had played a role in the split.→...
AOMO – Art of missing out BOMO – Beauty of missing out COMO – Chagrin of missing out DOMO – Delight of missing out EOMO – Ecstasy of missing out FOMO – Fear of missing out GOMO – Guilt of missing out HOMO – Happiness of missing out IOMO...
I thought Microsoft had got a handle on buggy Windows updates. Alas, since installing the KB5095093 preview update for Windows 11 25H2, the audio on my desktop PC is occasionally broken after resuming from sleep. Broken here means that...
Back in April at the most recent Art of Hosting we convened, someone asked me “does the Art of Hosting make good faith assumptions about people?” I’ve been thinking about that question ever since, and not satisfied by my answer which,...
What’s the point of putting things into my read-it-later app? Actually, I know the point: it gives me a false sense of accomplishment. I now have this essay in my possession. It makes me feel good about myself immediately—without doing...
As a sort of prelude to the article below, I should point out that I do have an AI policy that boils down to “I use AI to revise, not to write”. But I do want to understand the limits and possibilities of what can be done and get a...
Still from "Clotheslines," directed by Roberta Cantow, 1982.*Sawyer Made split-step stool, for Walker Street Market, photographed by Winnie Yang via The Secret Strategist.*"Ideal Hollow" by Nichola Manning, via drifting lament.*Shell...
Status: Hot again. Not heatwave-hot but still a bit sweaty. Resigned to taking it easy this week with just one little thing happening on Thursday afternoon. Had both great-nephs over briefly this afternoon. Younger G wanted to see all...
I'm working on a thing set in 1895 featuring a person who is not from 1895 and the handwriting seemed like an immediate giveaway. I thought if I'm making a character learn to write properly then probably I should try too. The traditional...
MEANWHILE, IN TEXAS: SCENE 13, TAKE TWO: Starship Flight Test 13 now scheduled for NET July 23, with the launch window opening at the same time as the previous attempt, 5:45 PM CT (6:45 PM ET/22:45 UTC). Hopefully she flies this time,...
Long awaited by absolutely no one Project Diva Mega Mix review
“Period tracking is a simple job that plenty of apps can do. But most apps these days—including those that track health data—store information about you on their own servers and sometimes even share that data with advertisers. The...
FAREWELL AND THANK YOU: SpaceX booster B1069 to be expended after its 32nd flight (scheduled this evening) on the Northrop Grumman MRV-MEP Mission, after an ISS resupply flight, three commercial satellite launches, and 27 Starlink...