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Humans have two main relations to animals: they are either food or pets. We ban dogs, cats, and horses from use as food in the U.S. We require humane slaughter for most livestock, but not poultry, and require minimizing pain and distress...
Writtle is a village and civil parish on the outskirts of Chelmsford in Essex with a population of around 5,300 people. It was recorded in the Domesday Book as Writelam and subsequently as Writela. It was a Royal demesne and the site of...
I think I have this weird sense of self belief [see: I Can Do This] in part because I’m a middle child. A forgotten child. I’m sure not all middle children feel the same, or even grow up the same. But with four brothers and a much older...
[This post started out as a tribute to Hall of Famer Don Nelson, who passed away last weekend at age 86. I have a fantastic Nelson profile stashed somewhere on my magazine shelf. But, as sometimes happens, I couldn’t locate it. In any...
In and of itself, the Song of Solomon is not particularly weird. It's a wholesome erotic poem, mostly told as a dialogue between two young lovers. Sure, some of it sounds odd to modern ears. The man sees some analogy between fawns and...
"Dive! Dive!" Film producer/director Irwin Allen let audiences dive deep into the waters of adventure with Voyage of the Bottom of the Sea, his second of three feature films that he made at 20th Century Fox studios in the early 1960s....
The parched grasslands of southern England are largely bereft of wildflowers in flower. For the most part they flowered early and faded early. So it is in the damper locales we get some greenery and a splash of vivd colour. Case in point...
Silly dream: I want my domain, chrisdeluca.me, to return something for every protocol supported by curl. 💽
I found this mysterious box in the attic, so I opened it… Dramatic reenactment follows: It cannot be! Oh well. No treasure… except the precious boxes themselves! My preciouses boxeses!
Thoughts The heat and lack of rain is getting ridiculous.
I can hardly believe we’re here already, but we’re just 3 short weeks away from Hobonichi Day which means it’s almost planner season! I actually did a mid-year planner report back in May, but I’m excited to change some things up this...
It’s been a while since I shared a picture of my nails! Usually I go for bright colours, but this time I’m pairing bright clothes with black nails. Sadly the top coat ruined the perfect layer of glossy colour beneath, but I still love...
Here’s a seemingly simple question: given a chunk of multi-line text, how do you split it and return an array whose members are the constituent lines of the text? Hopefully, your first instinct is to reach for some sort of...
Market Place This and more in today's update to Northern Folk Archive here -https://northernfolkarchive.pagecord.com/wigan-town-centre-13-october-2017
After 5 years and 7 months of working for PlanetScale, this past Friday was my last day. PlanetScale was my longest tenure ever. I never thought I would stay for such a long time. But it was a place where I could shine, and it had an...