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A favorite short story Three Hermits by Tolstoy
See here and here for the rest of the thread.the thing is all state AGs have to do to deep-six this merger is delay it until OpenAI can't pay Oracle, Oracle's stock dives, Larry's collateral goes poof, etc.[image or embed]— Christopher...
A good product strategy is a well-articulated sequence of steps explaining how a team will achieve a goal. The logic is sound — it goes after goals that are valuable, leans into the organization’s superpowers, and leverages unique...
Three weeks from today, my onground classes start at Spartanburg Methodist College; it will be both similar and different for me. It will be my 3rd year of full-time work at the college, after 1 year of adjunct work, but the beginning of...
In Withnail and I, one of the most quoted scenes in British cinema has Withnail drink lighter fluid, straight from the can, out of sheer desperation for a drink. It plays as pitch-black comedy. It also really happened. The man who...
Water willow at Duck Hollow with (possibly) Tripudia flavofasciata moth feeding, 27 July 2025 (photo by Kate St. John) 21 July 2026 Join me this coming Sunday for a bird and nature walk at Duck Hollow and the Lower Nine Mile Run Trail —...
In a world where television isn’t always all I want it to be, it’s delightful when something feels 100% entirely right. So it was on Sunday night, where the BBC broadcast its closing montage for the World Cup. BBC Sport always do these...
Irrigation usually enters wine discussions via viticultural practices, water policy, regional regulation, or sustainability. But irrigation also shapes what wine tastes like and what we mean when we say a wine expresses the place in...
We'll cover doing backups and restores with and without Plakar and show how you can save money along the way.
Paris’s public transport tickets suck… for now! In his blog post yesterday, Terence Eden observed that of all the cities he’s travelled to over the last year, Paris had the most-ridiculously-unhelpful public transport ticketing system:...
I made up this little cheat sheet this morning to tuck into my logbook for Maine cruise. I've done the same in the past, particularly with the sounds South Carolina and Georgia, sjust o that I can wrap my head around the local...
My first Colorforms kit showed up when I was four or five years old, and I fell for it completely. The pieces were reusable, and the sets were affordable, which mattered a lot in a house where new toys could be kind of rare. This was...
On July 11th I did another Sprague - Redditt - Elma for gluten free goodies trip. I had some company this time!
I've not seen sunflowers with orange petals before. This local planting caught my eye and Idecided to stop and photograph a few of them. To my delight bees were feasting onthe pollen. (click to enalrge)Summertime––warm days, lots of...
Two photos from Max Hubacher. First, from January 26, 1956, “View of lower Manhattan as seen from Brooklyn Bridge on a dreary winter day”: Second, a year earlier on February 2, 1955, “Brooklyn Bridge (Brooklyn side) on a cold, dreary...