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work-in-progress “You’ve got to start with the customer experience and work backwards to the technology.” That quote is the clichéd but a true one from Steve Jobs in his closing Q&A in the Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference in 1997....
On the morning of August 5, 1763, Dr. Johnson accompanied Boswell on the stage-coach that would carry him to the port of Harwich. Then twenty-two, Boswell would be taking the packet-boat to Utrecht in the Netherlands, where he would...
It is Witchcraft Wednesday, so let's make today witch-focused. Every witch carries a burden.For some it is knowledge, either learned through books or experience. For many it is power. And for others still it is the terrible understanding...
“Family isn’t always blood. It’s the people in your life who want you in theirs; the ones who accept you for who you are. The ones who would do anything to see you smile and who love you no matter what.” –Dez Del Rio Kanna dreams about...
Twenty Years Ago on FITK It was a strange rendezvous, this meeting in a funky coffeehouse in Moorhead, Minnesota. How she ended up on that lonesome prairie was a long story that I was eager to hear. We had graduated together, done a few...
I don't talk about my day job here too much. I do commercial retail real estate deals, mainly for small businesses and smaller neighborhood shopping centers. I get a lot of calls from new businesses. In dense urban areas, the one thing...
So, before the last post of June 4th's show-plunder, we ought to look at this rarity, although I will shoot it again for the Khaki Infantry page, as Dave Skrivener's image has been doing sterling work there, for over a decade, while I...
The eastern sky at 04:54 ACST Sunday, August 9, as seen from Adelaide. The Moon is about to finish occulting the bright star Elnath.The inset shows the telescopic view at the time. (click to embiggen).The eastern sky at 04:34 AEST...
For every one of my blog posts, my static site generator1 pre-computes an atproto TID defined by the post date time and its slug: const TID_ALPHA: &[u8; 32] = b"234567abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz"; fn atproto_tid(date_rfc3339: &str, slug:...
I'm nearly through the Manx photos, but had to use this one taken in the little museum (I think) beside Laxey station. Information is a bit sparse, but I assume this is a tiny shelter from the Manx Electric Railway. The post box is a...
I have once again entered a period of my life where it takes me five to seven business days to answer text messages and my replies start like old Victorian noble: "My dearest friend, the winner has been harsh and all signs point to an...
sourcenikhil usually posts a lot of stuff that hits close to home for me, and one of my main sources to try and soothe myself a bitthis one just completely broke my mind because it is literally what i feel constantly put into wordsbeing...
My Quorum story is a unique one. I last owned a bottle of Quorum in 2011. I got through 75% of it and tossed it. It wasn't that I didn't like it; I really enjoyed it. The problem was the citrus. I don't know what the 2000s formula of...
Garth Ennis and Colin Wilson’s acclaimed DC/Wildstorm miniseries returns to print in a lush new collection from The Treasury of British Comics!One of the most fondly remembered characters from the Treasury of British Comics returns in a...
Greasy forehead, sore ankles, and a dull headache cap your traffic-jammy ride home from a long day at work. Dragging yourself to the door your stomach rumbles and grumbles as you picture the bland frozen burrito you’re gonna nuke for...