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From The Making of the Modern Philippines: Pieces of a Jigsaw State, by Philip Bowring (Bloomsbury Academic, 2022), Kindle pp. 1-3: In March 1521 three ships under Ferdinand Magellan (Magalhaes/Magallanes), a Portuguese navigator in the...
Around a year ago, my wife, cat, and I had just moved from New York City back to Toronto. We stayed with my family in the suburbs. Instead of walking around everywhere, and getting thousands of steps in, all of a sudden we spent much...
Reading Between Two Fires by Christopher Buehlman
This has become my go to song when I am at work. I feel like it really captures the angst I feel atwork right now.
I understand the impulse to say "nothing's impossible". We've been raised on stories about heroes triumphing over impossible odds. Our scientific understanding of what's possible has greatly expanded in the last couple centuries. Things...
Kristin here: David’s passing was well over two years ago, and not surprisingly various tributes continue to appear. Film series, collections of essays by his colleagues and friends, many of whom he never met but whose lives were touched...
I have contemplated trolling software engineers by re-naming “object oriented programming”, and claiming I have made a major discovery, Thing Based Programming.
[1995]Bringing you more classic misses from the 90s underground. From the raucous garage-y end of slacker rock comes this ultra scuzzy monster of a tune. A style much closer to ye olde noisey proto-punk groups like The Electric Eels than...
We’re back into the strip mahjong games today, here going back to 1991. Video System is a company that’s probably best known in retro-gaming circles for Aero Fighters/Sonic Wings, but mahjong games (usually branded Idol Mahjong) were one...
I’ve been cleaning out the loft, and I found this in a box. What kind of exciting pictures could lurk within! Heh heh. Right… during the 90s, while doing Gnus development, I sold a whole bunch of merchandise. These must be the mugs for...
There are days when getting out of bed feels harder. Every step feels like too much. There is an ache in the body that cannot be explained away as mere exhaustion because it is too much, everywhere and nowhere, all at the same time....
Photo of Gloom is Okay by Arran Dawson Media It isn’t often I’m blown away the first time I hear a song, but I have to say that’s what I experienced when I first listened to “Repeat Offender” by Scottish alternative metal band Gloom is...
I mentioned playing on a private WOW servers one of which was the now Defunct Nostrum,watch me as I try to star over.
One Question haunted me to my core about 9 years ago. Would you be proud of yourself, if you stayed doing this for the rest of your career? This question kept me up more nights than I'd like to admit. There are offshoots of this question...