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Watched at the bar on mute, this appeared to be quite bad. The director was a real 90s Guy, starting out with Erik Estrada and David Carradine then breaking through with Tom Berenger and Billy Zane. The editor did Miller’s Crossing and...
The City of London Council generates scandals at a such a rate and on such a scale that it stretches the resources of this blog to cover them. The latest scandal - which registers high on the Richter scale - consists of unelected Council...
And that it wasn't even capable of committing.
Well, crud. While feeding the cats this morning, I noticed the cat bed in the isolation shelter was askew. Not far enough to be pushed into the hammock, which has happened before, but getting there. So, after finishing with the food and...
Amazon sent me an email on 14 May to tell me that my old Kindle would be completely unsupported “Starting May 20, 2026” – i.e. six days later.
Concerning.
On the surface, Peter Watts’ novel Blindsight is a space adventure about first contact, but it’s mostly a series of lectures on the nature of consciousness. Watts works to convince the reader that space-faring intelligent aliens can...
Paul Erdős’s, in his 1946 paper published in the American Mathematical Monthly, posed two general questions about the distribution of distances determined by a finite set of points in a metric space. 1. Unit Distance Problem: At most how...
Quaker St 1967 by Philip Marriage Click here to book for The Gentle Author’s Tour of Spitalfields Contributing Photographer Lucinda Douglas-Menzies sent me these photographs of Butler’s Wharf from 1980 that she discovered recently. “One...
I love my snowcaps, in landscape photos and pens. I have been using Montblanc pens for a long time, about three decades now. Slowly the numbers have piled up. The newest pens have a sharper, more stylized white six-pointed star with...