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Pre-order the expanded, upgraded 10th anniversary edition of Buck Buck Moose, my best-selling venison cookbook. We've changed a lot in a decade! The New Buck Buck Moose is Here is the latest post on Hunter Angler Gardener Cook.
I just hit a few weird milestones over the span of three weeks, and I’ve been trying to figure out how I feel about them. Consider this post me rambling…
As I mentioned in a previous post (see here), Adam Smith surveys a wide variety of British mercantilist laws in Part #12 of his 1784 pamphlet, but he devotes most of his time and energy here to wool (see paragraphs 17 to 32 on pp. 29-38)...
One of the most famous cases of anti-semitism took place in Lincoln in 1255.On 31 July 1255, a nine-year-old named Hugh disappeared in Lincoln. A month later, on 29 August, his body was discovered in a well. The search for the murderer...
Tech enthusiast Otto Maytion proudly announced Tuesday that his personal AI assistant had successfully negotiated a complex software licensing agreement with a vendor’s AI assistant.“I did not have to lift a finger,” Otto beamed. “My...
A+ cover! Dig in!Subscribe nowNews & NotesAnd now, your 2001-2002 Philadelphia 76ers!I especially appreciate her thoughts on life after basketball. Good vibes.Frankie Munoz - Mikki Moore fanSix degrees of LamarThoughts on a...
From “1915-1930”, “Aquarium and fire boat, New York”: The Aquarium is Castle Clinton, buried within a wood and stucco shell (and full of huge glass tanks on several levels). That’s Battery Park to the left, and the seawall with a rather...
Academic publishing has long been dominated by commercial players. That fact is well-known, as are many of the problems. But there is a growing movement towards new models, under the labels of “open access” and “open science.” Until two...
On the Beauty of RPGsTo do real damage with an explosion, direct the blast. Or so I’ve been told. My father was reading The Anarchist’s Cookbook at one time, and that’s the kind of wisdom that a father passes on to his son. If true — and...
Forest fire photo from Wikimedia 16 July 2026 The wildfire smoke in Pittsburgh today is from wildfires in western Ontario and the Boundary Waters of Minnesota(*). As of Thursday 16 July at 6:03am, there are 857 fires burning in Canada....
Building my own gym workout app
I delivered this talk at EuroPython 2026, I'll update this blog post once the recording is available on EuroPython's YouTube channel. Below are the slides and full list of links and resources included. This talk is a continuation of a...
I didn't get a shot of it because I was headed back to bed, but there was an eerie red glow kind of suffusing the landscape this morning. Canadian wildfire smoke arrived yesterday. There won't be any work on the house today, but there...
Today is an important nuclear anniversary. On this day in 1945, scientists exploded the first nuclear bomb at the Trinity test site in New Mexico.I hadn't remembered until doing some Internet wanderings that the explosion was scheduled...
A late-spring snowstorm on the rugged peaks at Bear Lake, Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado. The post Just a Bit of Snow appeared first on 75CentralPhotography.