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A question I asked on Hyde’s under/over: Before we find our own voice, we usually copy our mentors or heroes. Who was the teacher or model that inspired you when you started blogging, and how did following their example eventually help...
Bathtub Reviews are an excuse for me to read modules a little more closely. I’m doing them to critique a wide range of modules from the perspective of my own table and to learn for my own module design. They’re stream of consciousness...
AI is a Swiss Army knife. It does everything and excels at nothing. That’s exactly why it wins. The best tool is not the sharpest one, it’s the one already in your pocket.
We have come to our eighth and final lesson in our study of the doctrine of assurance. We have been using the eighteenth chapter of the 1689 Baptist Confession as our guide, and we come now to the final paragraph of the chapter:True...
I like this definition of culture: those qualities of a society that make a favorable impression on the mind to enable people to relate, communicate, and learn effectively. A person who embodies these qualities is cultured. I think of...
It’s ridiculous to spend more than $100,000 so they can chase after cats. – Matt Leif Though I’ve always loved The Pink Panther theme, I’ve never featured it, so here’s the title sequence from the movie in memorial to the saxophonist who...
Image by Manfred Antranias Zimmer from Pixabay We live in incredible times with such possibilities that is clear. Although its easily dismissed hearing how Meta’s Instagram approving illegal adverts, Claude AI chats appearing in public...
Last Week Words not come good today - I basically blew all my writing energy on another post that is not yet published (explained below), and so this one will be quite short (other than the later sections, which I wrote as I went along...
Last month, A. Carver published the fifth title in the Alex Corby and Cornelia Crow series, entitled Death in 13 Rooms (2026), which is a collection of previously unpublished short stories that has, sort of, been foreshadowed in previous...
BlToday’s TDC is from one of those wonderful random web pages one finds while browsing through the web. Play around with this rolling stone and share a screenshot or a video of what you create. I played around with the sounds and chose...
The phrase דֶּרֶךְ אֶרֶץ derekh eretz appears hundreds of times in rabbinic literature. Literally meaning "the way of the world," it has multiple meanings. Generally, they are divided into these three categories:accepted manners,...
What Did It Mean? by Angela Thirkell published 1954 This one was suggested when we were looking at books with question-marks in the title last year. When I found out it was a later book in Angela Thirkell’s oeuvre, dealing largely with...
I’ve been doing a tarot pull every morning for the last six weeks or so. I’ve been working with the cards on and off since my mid-teens, albeit with some long fallow periods, but this is the first time I’ve sustained a daily practice of...
It's now been around 18 months since I ditched Chrome as my daily web browser, both on desktop and mobile. Not once have I missed it. Chrome has for a while been a joke when it comes to performance and that was a part of what led me to...