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I had an email today from the roaster I buy coffee from, with their new price list for September. The decaf I’ve been enjoying for around a year is going to rise by around 35%. Thankfully I get a 10% discount and a loyalty cashback which...
Hey, want to know what someone besides me thinks of the forthcoming book? Corners of the Deep Dark‘s tenacious antiheroes pulled me along on a brainy puzzle journey that left me wanting to read their next adventure. That blurb comes...
★★★★: On its surface, it's sort of a doofy movie. The typing scenes are overwrought and there's an undercurrent of casual misogyny that probably fit right into 90 hacker culture. I didn't really get it at first (and my early reviews...
Today's been a bit of a rollercoaster, and it's only 1pm! Welcome visit to the kitchen from a large moth, though. Glad Charlotte was out.168 words · 1 image
Suppose you were able to go back in time, to an era before computers, and give someone contemporary cryptography. Encryption methods that are essentially unbreakable now would certainly be unbreakable then. But there’s a catch: not only...
“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” - Ralph Waldo EmersonHello friends! Monday has been a whirlwind; I’m hoping the rest of the week slows down, just a little....
Florida-based KelTec announced last week that a major Pacific Rim maritime agency has once again selected the company’s tactical bullpup shotgun for use on patrol. The South Korean Coast Guard has long used the well-reviewed (once you...
With the sunsetting of the AV-8B in USMC service in May, it is refreshing to see these images from the recently concluded Neptune Strike 26-3 of Spanish AV-8Bs (the world’s youngest Harriers) of Novena Escuadrilla (9th Squadron, the...
Harry Dean Stanton - SNAP/KCRW, Santa Monica, California, June 24, 1987I watched Partly Fiction, Sophie Huber’s Harry Dean Stanton documentary, last week and it was a beautiful, intimate portrait of the late/great character actor, who...
For a time, the children gathered together around the workbench where they made things with junk using glue guns. Others chose to create using construction paper, tape, and staplers. They talked quietly amongst themselves as they worked,...
The British Royal Fleet Auxiliary (RFA) is roughly akin to the U.S. Military Sealift Command (MSC) in that they man naval auxiliaries with civilian mariners on contract. While the MSC’s CIVMARs kinda “go native,” the RFA wears a very...
It’s entirely possible that the world has heard just about enough from me. After all, I’ve written three books, I’ve been inflicting Scientist Sees Squirrel on you for over a decade, and the data would suggest that I’ll give a lecture,...
Serial miscarriers, especially those over forty, become accustomed to grieving in isolation. Two or three losses elicit sympathy and compassion. After the first, friends and therapists suggest that you plant a tree or have a ceremony to...
First, humorous imaginary p.s. on my last post from cow on a.i. regurgitated by my elderly neighbor Jean - thanks. 'A.I.? You mean artificial insemination of course. Totally unnatural, but an awful lot easier.' Thought that was quite...
I hear from the Guardian that Anthony Fauci pled the Fifth 100 times in Senate hearings about his actions during the pandemic. To a certain knee-jerk portion of the body politic, I hear this means that Trump's former advisor is guilty as...