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A mysterious problem afflicted our home internet connection. The symptoms were strange: 50%+ packet loss to the outside internet, and anything that relied on a connection was very unreliable, except my desktop computer, which was also...
In 1979, apprentice embalmer Karen Greenlee stole a hearse, the body inside it, and confessed to years of necrophilia in a letter meant to be her suicide note.
Seeing a good many Gatekeepers in the grounds of the music school at the moment. The time of their emergence is generally round about now. The woodland walk with brambles is ideal habitat for them resembling as it does a woodland ride....
Boxcar Children #7 The Woodshed Mystery by Gertrude Chandler Warner, 1962. Grandfather Alden’s sister, Aunt Jane, calls and tells the family that she’s decided to move back east. She’s been living on the family’s old ranch out west, but...
Three great works of Marxism mark the transition from Marx and Engels' work on economics into the modern era. They are Lenin's Imperialism: the Highest Stage of Capitalism, Nikolai Bukharin's Imperialism and World Economy and Rosa...
What follows was published two weeks after October 7, 2023. It was almost immediately pinned to the top of the feed there, and it has remained there atop the dormant husk of that account ever since. At some point this week, I encountered...
GitHub Actions deploys were taking three to five minutes. The site was pre-rendering more than two thousand static pages, and most of them existed only to redirect. Here is how issue #90 cut the page count in half and got deploys under...
Thoughts ⚽️ I've never been a big fan of the USMNT (I'm a full on supporter of the USWNT!). I'm still not a fan of USMNT, specially after their red card "suspension". I feel like their result against Belgium was what they deserved.
It was late on a weekday evening, shading towards midnight, sometime in the early winter months of last year, and I was walking back home on my daily constitutional. Somewhere along Chestnut Street near Gough, I recall; not quite...
Brunette River, pre-run: Morning glow. Two words you don’t want associated with a run, yet here we are! I opted to run the river trail today, after missing yesterday due to strata hijinks (and stupidly hot weather) in order to get a run...
A few months ago, I entered a writing contest called "Dear Aliens." The concept was to write a short piece communicating what aliens visiting Earth should know before they arrive. What a fun premise! I couldn't resist sending in an...
Table of Contents Table of Contents The Source The Runbook Dependencies prepare_paste build_masala add_chickpeas serve Post-Incident Notes Every household has one dish that started as an accident and ended up in production. Ours arrived...
fiThis week’s Top Ten Tuesday is a fun prompt: “Book Titles That Include the Word [insert word of your choice here]”, and I glanced around my shelves and took a bit of a guess at what might be interesting, picking the word “city”. Let’s...