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I'm going to sound a bit like the character Stefon from, "Saturday Night Live," whenver he describes a nightclub that, "Has it all," because when discussing the first issue of, "Gastronomique," it really does have a lot--and that's a...
If you read my original post about how having Crohn's has affected my relationship with food, a sequel is probably a decent surprise. It ended pretty definitively. Well, I've changed my tune. I'd part with the Crohn's and deal with the...
What would a Bretton Woods for the stablecoin dollar era look like? Matt Dines thinks Asheville might be the key. Yen intervention, rewired trade routes, tokenized gold and new settlement rails all converge towards the next evolution in...
32..... .....Well, what can I say that hasn't already been said, my first ever visit to the S.Tame, the Trent' biggest contributor was a blazing success, but my day / journey didn't start there. My alarm went off at 0330 for an early...
Life Survived work till Thursday. Now I’ve got two weeks of holiday. I plan on spending it wondering why the builders haven’t finished our flat yet, going to the splash-pad (as a transparent means to ice-cream acquisition) and cycling to...
As regular readers will know, I am a sucker for old-fashioned printing — one of the best parts of my job as a proofreader in a printing and design department in the 1980s (do such entities still exist?) was hanging out with printers and...
I've just finished M. John Harrison's The End of Everything, which is the third book from this year's Booker Prize longlist that I've made my way through. This is actually the second time I've read it, and the second time I've tried to...
I have made an entire talk about profiling. Still, I keep running across projects that don’t use profilers much or at all. Or even more commonly, they do use profilers but do not know they can enrich their projects with profiler markers...
real-language-facts:well what if i don’t want to stress syllables, this world is stressful enough as it is for a small and innocent syllable
They bring me reference volumes for work in progress, allowing me to hold them open on the lectern itself. My reference works are mostly big heavy volumes, very hard for my disabled hands to cope with at all. Lifting them is a problem in...
This week on the podcast: The trio reunites to discuss Google’s new Pixel lineup, how we feel about Siri AI, and clipboard managers.
Despite the lack of constitutional amendments with respect to war powers, there are two inescapable legal changes that must be kept in mind when analyzing questions of war powers in the present. Along the pathway pioneered by Bruce...
Emmanuel Terray was a French political activist and Marxist anthropologist whose work was enormously important in the development of anthropological ideas. This short book is a collection of two seminal pieces, translated from French,...
Stone, sky, sunlight and the Snake River all united into shining flow… The Loren Eiseley quote, “If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water,” has become sorely overused, but I find it to be more and more true. I sometimes...