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This week’s theme: Vocal duets. Featured artists include Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, Ray Charles, Betty Carter, Carmen McRae, Sammy Davis Jr., Louis Jordan, Rosemary Clooney, Billy Eckstine, Sarah VaughanThe post Podcast: Vocal...
We have had a stretch of farm stand eating. You may say, "Of course--it's July--it's how we're all eating." But I spent 24 years in South Florida, where summer is not a growing season, where growing any sort of vegetable during any month...
This is a boring story that will impress no one. I needed to look around at options for a third-party company to help with something business-related. I had contact information for three vendors I wanted to talk to. Email addresses,...
We’re just slightly past the halfway point in this year’s 20 Books of Summer challenge and our host, Annabel, has suggested that we look back at our reading so far in the form of a summer road trip: Take a look at the books you’ve read...
Our kids like listening to music on their tablets, and we decided it's worth it to pay some money so they can make playlists and don't need to listen to ads. A family account makes sense if you're more than one person, and we ended up...
Apropos of nothing: Here's the common MAGA style USA agruement for curtailing and/or snuffing out free artistic, ideological and political expression.'"You expressing your point of view oppresses me, you enjoying your civil rights...
I’ve been lax in posting my photos here. So here you have about two months’ worth of pictures from around Hveragerði. It’s a lot. I apologise in advance. Since I’m guessing many of you have had a somewhat stressful day like I did, here...
A year ago I spoke at the Creators Conference of the German Producers Alliance in Munich, detailing the interesting bifurcation in German cinema. (You can read my article write-up here Why German films look so different at home and...
UpdatesMy first week post layoff is completed - and I'm starting to settle into a slightly different rhythm of gardening leave. A few times this week I have felt 'adrift' without the scaffolding of the rhythm of my days, so it's up to me...
By Greg FerrisTalaraskaGeneric/UniversalLevel ... 3? The hills making up the Archian border with Caledos are pocked with dozens of abandoned mines. These leave a lasting reminder of the rush for silver in the years prior to the rise of...
“Genocide” has a legal definition that was unanimously adopted by the United Nations in 1948. It means “any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as...
Blogging for 8 years hasn’t been unicorns and rainbows. I abandoned my blog for months. I’ve also wanted to quit more than once. Even when I preach to write like nobody is reading, my last 100 daily posts made me question if I should...
Recipe What Passes for Design Notes Maintenance Get to the Point Entropy Arbitrage Scrawls Library Updates Next While not nearly as important as some historians like to present it, today marks the 178th anniversary of the second/final...
Fitness and wellness brand OptiBite has officially entered the pharmaceutical snacking space with the launch of its new GLP-1 Protein Bars, designed for health-conscious consumers who want convenient appetite suppression in a format that...
The Eversense 355 is a Continuous Glucose Monitor (CGM for short) that, unlike other similar devices is implanted. It lasts a full year and then it needs to be replaced.It has now been six months since I got the Eversense 365 sensor in...