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In many policy areas, the usual convention wisdom on policy is actually in substantial conflict with many of the specific details that experts know about that policy area. However, experts who point this out are usually accused of being...
Today has been ok. Work was kinda bleh, but at least it went by fast. But I was so emotional today, I kept crying because I was sad about things in my books, even the book that I finished that I didn't like. Just a lot of 'what if things...
Members of the Grapes of Wrath group play music worthy of putting on a record. The SPHS students are (left to right) Brian Magnan, Bill Lichty, Ralph Sias, Danny Morrow and William Doheny., San Pedro News-Pilot, May 17, 1967. The Grapes...
I’m a few years into my homelab. (might go into a bit more detail about that at some point!), and I often need to ssh into one of my servers. At home, I can just do this by using a domain name like: ssh ahoy.m.example.ca ssh...
All aboard for my Below Deck Med season 11 episode 7 recap! It gave us an allergic reaction, an unhinged preference sheet (which I transcribed!), and a suitor trying to charm the bachelorette with his nonsense AI pitch and rant about...
Bill lies. Bill lies without pause. Bill lies with gusto. Bill lies a lot. The list of things Bill has lied about, if type-written in a 12 point, single spaced font, would probably stretch to the moon and back. I've documented many of...
Possibly the first Mystery Science Theater 3000 movie I’ve ever watched on its own – though I followed up by immediately rewatching the episode. Somewhere along the way I heard that the movie is actually excellent, and that’s not true;...
Back in the day, I was a bit of a gym junkie. I would train pretty hard, consume a lot of supplements, and read a lot of bodybuilding magazines. Despite being totally unblessed with the necessary genetics, I would quietly obsess over...
Review by Sandre the Giant Released: 27th March 2026 Lurking beneath the grinding, sodden soil of Kent, England comes Iron Slug and their debut full length record ‘Deceit and Misery’. Bringing hefty sludge and doom heaviness to the scene...
...and it ended yesterday, with Spain defeating Argentina in the 2026 World Cup final — an ignominious match, one of the worst finals in recent memory, imho — one must deal with the inevitable W.C.-withdrawal symptoms by looking for a...
Last time we checked in on the Doctor Who Magazine comics continuity, we took in the first half or so of the Eighth Doctor’s tenure in the comics. This was an era of long, ambitious story arcs which saw the comics giving the...
🍕 I’m JA Westenberg. I write essays about technology, philosophy, productivity, and what it means to be human. If you like ideas that take their time, you’re in the right place.While you’re here, a few things I’ve built: Kerouac, a...
I’m down to just five habits now. Today ends the 100 days of connecting with my sister. Most days this amounted to sending her a video to update her on my life and she would send a text reply of what was going on with her. The videos and...
The first recording today is a repeat of Pokemon Battle Dimension – Playing the Levelling Field. Media Centre Description: Ash continues his quest to become the greatest Pokemon trainer ever. He travels through the Sinnoh region, where...
“Dub Souljah” is the first 12 on Sotofett’s new label, Resonance Of Dub. Those of us in Japan were lucky enough to pick up promos of the inaugural 7 last November, when the Norwegian DJ / producer was handing them out while on tour....