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The old world is dying. The new one is slow in appearing. In this light and shadow, monsters arise. ~Fiamma MontezemoloMay you live in interesting times. It's an Ancient Chinese curse. Likewise it's a blessing, in the same sense that...
Norway's ISO country code is NO. Under the YAML 1.1 spec, unquoted no (case-insensitive, along with yes, on, off, y, n, true, false) is treated as a boolean and not a string. You can see the problem here. ~ cat test.yaml countries: - NO...
(And that's how you know I'm not really a coffee person, since I could only come up with four types)
🔖📚 Read Navigating the Brain Poisoning of Book Censorship by Kelly Jensen. A great piece about how even fighting censorship can prime you to start looking for content in books that isn’t there.
Living questions Instead of chasing after easy answers, the poet Rilke urged a young artist to “live the questions”. Sound advice maybe, but which questions really matter, and how can we go about living them? “I beg you … to have...
I’ve been a bit busy today marking repeat examinations, so I’ve only got time for a short post. Yesterday, while working on something else, I got to wondering why it is that people often touch or stroke or scratch or hold their chin...
On August 8th, we celebrated this year’s HTML Day. (Or more accurately, many people around the world did. I tried to put together an event for our local community but failed to garner enough interest from speakers and partners and had to...
Hello, loves! Tout le monde déteste l’IA. Even working incrementally, I think it’s too soon to be generalizing the Bee Denizen. Discuss, decide, do. I don’t think I can clearly define why I think it’s too soon to start moving toward a...
Happy Monday, once more! And that means it’s time for Fantasy with Friends: all the prompts are hosted at Pages Unbound, if you’d like to join in. This week’s prompt is about fantastical plants: What fantasy plants have stuck in your...
I’m just starting out with bird photography, and I’ve compiled a short-list of birds I want to take photos of, to have some sort of goal when I’m out there and what to look out for. It also helps if I have a few birds I’ve looked up to...
KEY TO THE LOWER LEVELThe lower level of the complex is rough and unfinished. The walls are irregular and coarse, not at all like the more finished walls of the level above (except for Areas 38 and 39). The corridors are roughly 10'...
A calm small town named Marta at the Lago di Bolsena. Saw a little egret for the first time: beautiful!
As you may be able to guess from my lack of blog content recently, I have been struggling. Not only struggling to catch anything blog-worthy, but struggling in this weather, I am not cut out for hot weather, I think that’s why I love...
H. Warner Munn (1903-81) was an author of horror and fantasy works, and a member of the Lovecraft circle of friends. He is probably best known for his early work for Weird Tales. His most well-known works are “Tales of the Werewolf Clan”...