Bubbles
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Something is amiss . . .Or maybe something is off or off-center and me, I am somewhere in the middle.Do you understand?I am stuck and looking around at the world that somehow consumes me.There is too much to see and so much to consider...
I was wondering why hare did not seem to be working anymore. I tracked it down to a missing line in /etc/pam.d/sshd. The file is there in this snapshot: [12:24 r730-01 dvl /jails/serpico/.zfs/snapshot] % diff -ruN...
It’s that time again in FFXIV – Relic Weapon grinds! The newest patch 7.55 brings the final step of the Relic weapon to the game while encouraging a full-on run of everything in Dawntrail all over again.
The CMS engine that drives this site — Grav — has now been updated to version 2.0.18. Kudos to the Grav team for a very smooth process, very well explained. Of course I have a couple of niggles. It warns that there could be a problem...
Last month, another of the UK’s globe trotting species hunters came up to Scotland to try to add a few more species to his already impressive tally. Having overtaken my own tally during a recent trip to the US, and closing in on six...
There is a whole lot of misinformation out there regarding Donkey Kong 3. There are claims that its commercial failure in North America caused the Donkey Kong series to be shelved for over a decade, even though ports of the arcade games...
I see that Amazon Prime is coming out with a TV miniseries based on what is happening in the Blade Runner universe in the year 2099. I have watched the trailers and they seem….fine. You can see details on the upcoming series, here. More...
Just because you feel attacked doesn’t mean someone is attacking you, sometimes that feeling is worth listening to. It may be telling you that something doesn’t fit with how you currently see the world. But a feeling is not a fact. This...
I’ve been off work on a true ‘staycation’ the last couple of weeks. Stayed in Bristol, mainly stayed at home. Relaxed. Even my blood sugar and blood pressure settled down. Tomorrow is 20 weeks since I first went into hospital. Which...
“Please, let me stuff myself full with beauty, drink light for breakfast, for lunch, for dinner - never again take a Tuesday for granted.” - Julia FehrenbacherHello friends! We had a big storm Sunday night that I was not expecting, so my...
Every gun nerd knows about the Franchi SPAS-11, LAW-12, and SPAS-12 SPS autoloading shotguns of the 1980s; I mean, they were something of a pop culture fad if nothing else. The SPAS-11 was an upgrade of the Franchi 500 meant for mil/LE...
Here we see, some 70 years ago this month, two “all-gun” heavy cruisers, vessels which were once common just a decade before but a comparative rarity in August 1956, captured while showing their respective flags aboard. USS Toledo (CA...
The Army is getting a newfound interest in jungle warfare. COL Keith W. Benedict and CPT Christian M. Hert have a great article in Line of Departure (How Panama’s Crucible is Yet Again Testing Soldiers’ Mettle) detailing how legendary...
Lyres - The Grotto, New Haven, Connecticut, August 18, 1984RIP to Lyres frontman Jeff “Monoman” Conolly, who passed away last week. As his nickname tells us, this guy was indeed monomaniacal in his quest for garage rock perfection over...
Inevitably I’m asked, “Why devote a paper, much less an entire dissertation, to Plutowsky?” I have a two-part answer, the first of which is my personal connection to Plutowsky via his great niece, my fiancée, Loretta. Professionally I...