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“Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.” - attributed to Pablo PicassoHello friends! I’m just enjoying the sounds of summer these days. The birds, the bees, the cicadas, and even the hum of activity. Here are...
Lou Reed: “Coney Island Baby” - St. Mark’s Church, New York City, January 1, 1976It’s been far too long — almost two months! — since we took a trip into the Louniverse. And anyway, we’ve somehow yet to really celebrate the 50th...
As touched on previously, four of the greater Gorch Fock-class training barques (USCGC Eagle, FGS Gorch Fock II, NRP Sagres, and NMS Mircea) met up in Norfolk earlier this summer as part of Sail250 and carried on to New York. Now, headed...
In the Newsletter this weekAnalysis: After years of frustration, suddenly progress with France - Spain rail connectionsBullshit Meter: Direct trains Trieste - BeogradGood week: A little summer holiday pauseAlso a good week:...
Everyone’s favorite Disco vintage super carrier and almost-Kidō Butai vanquisher just transited to her new home at Norfolk after being the center of the Sail4th naval parade/International Naval Review 250/FLEETEX 250 in New York. Note:...
Or, “Pardon, I didn’t catch that…” for the rest of your life. Official period caption: “American howitzers shell German forces retreating near Carentan, France. 11 July 1944.” Note the shoulder patch has been obscured by the censors....
Go's concurrency is one of the main reasons people like the language. You write go f(), send values through channels, and the runtime scheduler runs thousands of goroutines on just a few OS threads. It feels effortless. None of that...
About twenty years ago, I was working on what would eventually become RavenDB, and I needed an engine to handle queries. Writing a query engine from scratch is its own very large project, quite separate from writing a database engine. I...
1) And you start to wonder who isn’t whoand who isn’t realand then you start to ask yourselfand you think even more . . .then you rethink about who told youthey “were there” of how they were on your sideand next, you realize who it...
Italian Transport Minister Matteo Salvini went to meet President of Serbia Aleksandar Vučić, and promised there would be Trieste - Beograd direct trains. There was no commitment as to when these trains would run, or whether they would be...
I work at Automattic and they have an extremely unusual set-up (that I’ve written about before): they’re a wholly remote company and always have been. Maybe that’s not so unusual, except for the fact that they’re also a 20+ year old...
Licoricia of Winchester, the second wife of David of Oxford (one of the wealthiest financiers in England in the 13th century), was a successful businesswoman herself. Her first husband, Abraham son of Isaac, was an extremely wealthy...
I went to bed recently knowing the next day had at least three potential issues waiting for me. One had already made a surprise arrival that evening. Another looked like a tricky conversation. The third could go either way. I fell asleep...
What is Dave wearing today? Dave is wearing the overpriced T-shirt he purchased a while ago from a souvenir shop near Bryce Canyon, as well as running shorts and socks. How does Dave feel today? Dave is frustrangy, which is a portmanteau...
I’m a Florida Man.I don’t mean I’m one of those idiot caricature Floridians who are always making “Florida Man” headlines for bizarre behavior such as throwing a live alligator through a drive-thru window, or pooping on a dead possum...