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St Colluthus was a Coptic physician who was tried and executed in 314 AD. This was part of the great persecution of Christians ordered by the emperor Diocletian. The original court record survives, more or less, preserved as a martyrdom...
Spent last night reading a stack of issues of the TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT that had piled up over the last few months. As I said in the newsletter the other week (Unphoning), I have been disconnecting from as much of the internet as I...
Joy on the command line.
I feel like building a canoe on Alone rarely pays off. 🔗
I recently finished listening to the Dungeon Crawler Carl audiobooks written by Matt Dinniman and performed by Jeff Hays. I then immediately went back to the beginning of Book 1 and began reading the whole thing over again from the...
Michael explains why exit() can make parallel test workers crash without useful diagnostics, and why verbose flags do not help when the process dies outside PHPUnit's control. The fix is simple: throw an exception instead, so the failure...
Stairs rust in the elements on the UT Southwestern Medical Center’s Purchasing Department building in Dallas. The post Rusty Stairs appeared first on 75CentralPhotography.
Ross McWhirter spent his career counting things. He and his identical twin brother Norris built the Guinness Book of Records out of a talent for tracking down the fastest, the tallest, the heaviest and the most, and it made both of them...
📸 I'm doing Blaugust this year. This is 6/? posts in August. A lot of these were of my friends or me at the beach, so I can only share the ones without faces. I wrote a post about some of the things we did here. I used Kodak 400TX for...
it fitsI had my 2nd chemo cocktail this AM but before I left I checked the base and how/if the molding fitted. The base fits well along the front gap free not that it matters much.left sideThis gap is tapered going wide at the front to...
This week, I’m living in a villa on a vineyard about 9km North of Tarragona, on the East coast of Spain. Gotta say, it’s a pretty place to walk the grounds of. A large part of our choice of location for this trip was, of course, the...
Good yarns. 🔗
The freedom to read is fundamental to a free society. – John Adams* To Molest and Rape When will amateur women learn cops are dangerous sex predators? An Illinois [cop named]…Douglas Lee…was stripped of his [magic] powers and [arrested...
Editor’s note: Our Mind Upon Mind series is a nod to a 1937 Chips from the Chisel column (also featured in “Honest Labour: The Charles H. Hayward Years”), in which Hayward wrote, “The influence of mind upon mind is extraordinary.” The...
Yesterday was a good first day of class at Spartanburg Methodist College, and not just for me. Everyone I talked to yesterday mentioned the good energy on campus.Of course, the first day of a semester is usually wonderful--and fall...