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I haven’t read Martyn Cornell’s Porter and Stout, but I wanted to join this Session anyway, largely to pay my respects to Martyn. He was the first beer blogger I ever read, back in the mid-00s; the second and third were The Pub...
Ambassador Stefanishyna’s reference to citizens having “both the right and the responsibility to build their own futures” is a very Ukrainian thought, I believe. Too many of us in democracies that have enjoyed many decades of peace think...
“South African-born pioneer of the British tech industry David Potter, the man behind the iconic Psion pocket computers, passed away on 28th June, six days before his 83rd birthday. Potter was the founder of the company of the same name,...
I had no intention of doing a Fourth-themed post, but JWB slyly sent me a link to Sophie Hardach’s BBC piece “The Viking word hidden in the Declaration of American Independence,” calling it a “simple but not actually wrong BBC piece on...
I wrote this five years ago but can’t find where I posted it. It still holds true today so why not post it here, now? My message for today’s celebration of America’s Independence… The dream of the United States of America has never...
Good morning from Charlottesville, Virginia! ☕️ It’s been super hot and humid in Virginia this week so I’ve been staying inside as much as I possibly can. I did manage to get to Grit yesterday and work on Stream. I need to write up the...
Celebrating the 250th anniversary of a declaration that had a passage decrying slavery removed because southern states complained by eating carcinogenic mass produced meat tubes while the President tells half of us we’re evil Marxists...
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I did not have high hopes for Cape Fear on Apple TV+. I was wrong. The cinematography is next level. Music is great. Dramatic tension feels old timey and yet modern. I’m a fan. 📺
The Nahvalur Eclipse was one of the pleasant surprises of my 2025 review queue. The design is admittedly not for everyone, but as a retractable pen, it works well, and is fun to use. I have one Eclipse in the Cobalt with Rose Gold Trim...
Whenever I remember, I use the #Caturday hashtag over on Mastodon to share photos of my furbabies and I love seeing kitties from all over the world. Cats don't seem to pop up as much on Bear, in fact doing a search didn't bring much up...
It’s one of those two times of year again. Games Done Quick, the bi-annual week-long charity speedrunning marathon, begins at 12:30 PM (“Noon Thirty”) Eastern Time on Sunday, July 5th, that’s tomorrow. The day after today, the 250th...
So, I came across this news article titled, “Riley Thinks Suits Make the Coach. Research Says He Might Be Right.”: The suit had a classic name: the Clark Gable. Navy blue and cut just right, it was the creation of Giorgio Armani, the...
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