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Garden jobs. Quiz night. The Odyssey. Eating out. Some good walks. Still hot and sunny. Everything is parched. Panorama from Sugar Loaf summit Computer admin Tuesday morning, once I’d surfaced. Another sunny, breezy day, RW here cutting...
The concept of "third places," introduced by Ray Oldenburg, highlights social spaces outside home and work, crucial for community connection. Unfortunately, American urban planning has systematically eliminated these places, leading to...
With the ‘lights on’ over Cwmbach in recent weeks I’ve recognised I would need to do something about the fresh grey ballast vs the cinder ballast used in the sidings. Procrastination set in - I dislike weathering ballast and certainly...
I had already read this book about ten years ago, but I didn’t remember anything except the beginning and the end. I listened to the audiobook, and I appreciated it… but not as much as I’d hoped. This time I will finish the Earthsea...
I don’t know how we got into Czech movies, but this is a little gem! An exceptionally funny and nonsensical comedy! I need to dig deeper into this treasure chest. Rating: 🤯Hey, thanks for reading my blog via the RSS feed! Feel welcome to...
I listened to the audiobook… and, once finished, I immediately ordered a physical copy. This is one of those books you need to reread every now and then, or at least it left me a very strong impression. Rating: 😍Hey, thanks for reading...
Another fantastic comedy, with an amazing opening title sequence and song as a bonus. The characters, the story, the gags… Perfection! Rating: 🚀Hey, thanks for reading my blog via the RSS feed! Feel welcome to get in touch!
Listening to the audiobook, my third book by Lem. Interesting indeed! *Still in progress* 🏃Hey, thanks for reading my blog via the RSS feed! Feel welcome to get in touch!
This post contains mentions of sex and suicidal ideation. My other selves are not the problem. The problem is The Not Knowing. (Huge caveat: I’m lucky enough to not have daily blackout amnesia but instead lesser daily amnesia between us,...
I reckon this week's video on how Claude is tying together info from UniFi, Home Assistant and the Pi-Hole is an absolute ripper. Or at least the concept is - if ever there was an actual value proposition for AI it's taking lots of noise...
A lovely vegan sushi restaurant Z found. One does not simply fly from Denver to Taipei… because there are no direct flights. So this year we decided to fly from Denver to Tokyo first, and then, after a few days, move on to Taipei. My...
A nasty, dull day with rain at times but warm. Washed Doc’s car and cut some more of the privet hedge. Nell gone to Dot’s for the day.
The root (or perhaps better to say roots) ענה anah is generally said to have four meanings in Hebrew. Klein identifies them as follows:: answersing afflictoccupy Let’s look at each of them and the words deriving from them.AnswerThis...
People who know me know that I am not really active on Social Media, and by Social Media I am referring to the sites like Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. Instead I use Mastodon which is an open source equivalent of Twitter and Pixel...
When we tried to get an intuition for the differences in distribution functions, we learned that children subjected to a treatment had greater variation in their score than the reference group. (Continue reading the full article on the...