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The new season of HBO’s epic fantasy series House of the Dragon is about to release its fourth episode. The show is set in the fantasy land of Westeros, which is loosely inspired by England in the High and Late Middle Ages. The story is...
I miss when you could close an app, open it a few seconds, minutes, or hours later and it was still where you left it instead of reloading for ✨engagement ✨ or whatever
Drawing From Your Memory by Shiki Kawabata combines the “kids learn to make manga” genre with an “I went back in time to save a classmate” story. We first meet Mahoro after she’s had huge success. Her manga series spawned an anime, a...
Dinner Jazz With ECM is a fascinating anomaly in the label’s history. Released in 2011, the compilation did not emerge from a conventional studio project or from Manfred Eicher’s austere curatorial imagination. It was assembled through a...
Hello, I'm still working on this game thing! It's definitely not an engine; I'm fairly convinced that a game engine is not something I want for myself or to provide for other people, especially after reading this article (ᔥ Casey). The...
At sunrise we were already outside in the 1kn wind getting the anchor up. After the 360° change in wind, we had a bit of the chain under a rock but we managed to wrangle it out without getting wet. As we were motoring out, the wind...
In the age of GPS navigation, paper maps aren’t just quaint; for most drivers, they’re unnecessary. Yet this trusted companion hasn’t completely […]
By the time this post is out I have had my Plotter for over two months, and it has been more or less the only notebook I have used since I got it. It has worked out perfectly based on why I decided to get one. The biggest win for me with...
It seems like every day you read about some new fake web site or site network spewing disinformation or AI slop into Google results. One of my strategies for getting around this search crud is restricting my search to authoritative...
This wonderful story was alluded to in an Emerald episode on death: “The Story of Jumping Mouse” (pdf)
With the advent of modern coding agents, many visualization projects that I had proposed in the past, but dropped due to the time and complexity of the coding portion of the task, have now become relatively feasible, in that a reasonable...
Thought my Emacs init file needs a bit of cleaning - it contains configs from maybe 5 and 6 years ago. It’s a nostalgic learning experience. More fun than I thought. More to come soon 🤓
The first recording today is a repeat of Pokemon Battle Dimension – Ghoul Daze. Media Centre Description: Ash continues his quest to become the greatest Pokemon trainer ever. He travels through the Sinnoh region, where he is challenged...
Wonderful words by the ever erudite Adam Turner. Konformer come from Nuremberg, a city steeped in all kinds of history. The three piece band – synths, bass and drums – make music that recalls the culture of West Germany in the late 1960s...