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Sometimes my curiosity gets the better of me. The long-ish walks I take around the neighborhood for exercise often pass through a long, narrow overlook park called Fairview Park, which basically has one long, winding one-way street with...
I slide into reality like one of those old great ball players who slide into third base with hopes to lead his team to a run that wins the game.Jim Carroll said, “I just want to be pure.”I don’t know how possible this is for me. Then...
We started a conversation yesterday on the use of urine by medieval Western European physicians to determine health. I thought today we'd go into exactly how the urine was an indicator of health.Examining sediment in the urine was one...
A deep dive into PHP attributes, from metadata and Reflection to practical design patterns, Laravel examples, performance, testing, and the cases where explicit code is better. Read more
8th JulyHere we are into July already. This was something of a frustrating trip and yet also fairly enjoyable. I had heard there was a family of long-eared owls in the Pentlands. Gordon had been walking his dog and had enjoyed a...
A crew of Canadians and Michiganders took a remote operated vehicle (ROV) to the deepest point of Lake Superior, a point known as Superior Maximus. It’s the first such attempt in some 40 years. In that attempt UW-Milwaukee researcher J....
Cassie Pritchard, on Twitter:I get why so many liberals are fundamentally disdainful of democracy these days—it’s because liberalism is exhausted. It’s out of answers. Liberalism won, it delivered the world it promised, and people still...
The merged PR can be excellent while the source of judgment remains unclear.The project is a success. The pull request is clean, the design document is thorough, and the change shipped faster than expected. Yet at the six-month review,...
Hey Michael Kriegh! We're so glad you decided to add Cameo Balconette Lift Up Bra Buff to your top drawer! How does it fit? Do you like the style? Tell us everything! dear J from Pepper… though i am not sure i am the sort of customer you...
Translated by Brian Nelson This is the second book in Émile Zola’s Les Rougon-Macquart cycle, if reading in order of publication. A few years ago I read the first book, The Fortune of the Rougons, which lays the foundations for the rest...
Georgia is a timeless typeface that comes free on almost every computer. No CDN, no @font-face, no extra requests. At the defaults it's soft and classy -- the kind of look that still holds up. A little negative tracking and a slight...
A journey into the labyrinth of the City of London. Once this idea popped into my head one night in the pub I had to do it. To navigate the City of London just using the ancient alleyways, passageways, lanes and courts. What city would...
A couple days ago, Levent Alpöge, a mathematician working at Anthropic, discovered a counterexample to the Jacobian conjecture using Claude Fable 5. I was curious whether most mathematicians were trying to prove or disprove the...
Bee on clover blossom Continuing to reset my brain, I am currently enjoying time away from home and work by doing family stuff in a nicely green part of our little country. This involves a lot of reading (did I recommend 'Dungeon Crawler...
Thanks to the good folks at Yanko Design (and some others), I’ve pulled together a list of interesting links over the last year that touch on the topic of design (e.g., smart phones) and interior design (e.g. chairs). Devices: Let me...