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The Landscape Project is to blame for a massive unintentional experiment currently happening in my backyard. I'm relearning how to grow everything that I grow - in pots. Earlier this year my front yard was ripped out to make way for......
My recent viewing of French film noir led me to try a new release from Kino Lorber, VERTIGO FOR A KILLER (1970).Known as VERTIGE POUR UN TUEUR in its native France, the film interested me as it stars Marcel Bozzuffi, who appeared in...
It's the ceremonials! And the emphasis being very much on the British Guards, but there are others, and among them a couple of really interesting figures, and one diminutive chap who is jostling for best of show! Marx recycling-fodder,...
Chuck Tingle did a “reading” at the Internet Archive this week, and I had to write about it. Chuck writes erotica, horror, and comedy books with titles like Space Raptor Butt Invasion and Pounded in the Butt by My Handsome Sentient...
13th july to 19th july what i did i was sick for the better part of the week, and my partner also. it wasn’t a great week health wise, but things are looking up: it seems a conflict of some medicines was causing my partner’s issue, and...
"[The young British] see standards as inhibiting. I see them as defining. They see tradition as deadening. I see it as nourishing. It may be that, as an American, I idealize the British situation. But I hope not as absurdly as they...
Avis Reflection – New York, New York The real pleasure of the X Half is having a very compact, cute camera I can use to capture everyday life. An EDC (Every Day Carry) camera, as they say. That was what I was hoping for from the device....
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I am still primarily a Scala 2 developer, so I’ll continue to lean into sealed traits in these examples. Scala 3 enum covers many of the same ideas, and in a syntax closer to Rust’s! Defining an enum # A Rust enum implements sum types,...
What is the fair way to respond to an argument? I’m of two minds about this. Some people prefer to just address whatever words were literally written in the argument, taking them at face value and without interpretation or trying to...
Brand for FIFA World Cup 2026Today (July 19, 2026) the 23rd iteration of the World Cup ended. This was a unique tournament this time increasing the amount of teams to 48 from the previous 32 limit. This meant this tournament would...
The last line from a prose poem by Grace Yee called “Living Among Trees” From the latest issue of Heat: …I know that when lightning strikes a giant sequoia and burns out its heart, you can step inside the trunk, look up at the sky and...
📍 BLUE BOTTLE COFFEE KAMAKURA CAFE (ブルーボトルコーヒー 鎌倉カフェ) Enjoying a cold brew in this heat. Location: Kamakura, Kanagawa Prefecture, JapanComment by email
Since these guys have popped up a few times in the current Krevborna campaign, I thought I should add them to the world-building blog posts. If it wasn't obvious from what follows, the cauldronborn are Krevborna's answer to the idea of...
annual correspondence and it's warm on my birthday yes i'm young in year it's industrial heritage, again, more so, the same lake on the water this time and i am trying to sketch the devil but he keeps moving and wind laps the still still...