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I filled the last page of my Stillman and Birn pocket beta today, a bit less than a year after starting it. Last page After a hot and humid run this morning I went to my favourite cafe and sketched Orit, my favourite barista. The line...
More. Snakes aren’t simple tubes. Their bodies have five regions—including a short neck
In the early 1980s the former Odeon cinema site in Camberwell, on the corner of Denmark Hill and Coldharbour Lane, became a branch of the discount jeans chain Dickie Dirts. By 1984 it had closed and been squatted, which I believe it was...
The United States must create a new type of more vertically-integrated foundry to continue pushing Moore’s Law in both performance and cost. And we’re finally on our way. Substrate in October 2025: Substrate was founded to return the...
John Wyver writes: As I manage to do on most Sundays here is a collection of links to stuff that I have found interesting and rewarding over the past week. The header image, which seems suitably seasonal, is ‘Paddling at the beach in...
Welcome to another The Simple Catholic Sunday Funnies! Growing up, one of my favorite parts of Sunday was flipping to the comics section of the newspaper: a little pocket of humor, color, and light-heartedness to start the week. Now, in...
Hello everyone and welcome to my Sunday Meals of the Week post. Every Sunday I like to share with you, my dear readers, all of the deliciousness that I have enjoyed as my main meals for the past seven days.It is hard to believe that we...
I don't know if you've ever noticed, but some tube station names have apostrophes. And some don't. with: Earl's Court, King's Cross St Pancras, Queen's Park, Regent's Park, St James's Park, St John's Wood, St Paul's, Shepherd's Bush...
Earlier this year I began taking a look at the crime fiction reviews of Barzun and Taylor, as collected in A Catalogue of Crime. So far, I have looked at authors beginning with A, B, and C. Continuing alphabetically, today’s post is...
Sorry, but that infernal tetanus shot is rearing its head again. After tomorrow, the blog is a one-man show for the rest of the week. The better part of discretion is for that man to rest and get back to 100%. Click here for full story
My wife and I recently rewatched all of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, and I managed to catch all the episodes I’d missed the first time through. I was surprised to find Les Misérables featuring prominently in a fifth-season episode, “For...
I realized I used the one that has the Subway colours again. Whoops. I mean, it works fine, but I don’t want someone expecting to get a six inch ham and cheese from the site.
Miscellaneous bits of news and fun stuff from around the Internet... ...We have a winner for my bloggiversary celebration giveaway! She has been notified. I'll be posting the MAVERICK quiz answers on Sunday....August 8th is the birthday...
At the end of each week, I usually collate a lightly edited collection of recent comments I’ve made on social media, which I think of as my public scratch pad. I tag on what books I may have finished reading. Knowing I’ll revisit my...
The Roottrees are Dead is a deduction game by Jeremy Johnston set in 1998, which tasks you with doing online research to complete the family tree of a trio of very famous teen models. The history of the game itself is pretty interesting....