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In wine, “smooth” is a dangerous compliment. It sounds harmless. Who could object to smooth? It’s friendly and never interrupts dinner with an opinion aboutContinue reading
firstly, the spider man image has nothing to do with this post other than I like spider-man and he is reading is just amusing. Anyway, I am trying to read more. I feel calm, at peace and not thinking about anything else when I am...
Because I keep finding web pages listing other web pages (different blog lists that list independent blogs), I decided to add a category on my blogroll just for those. It also features my first pixel-art “masterpiece” and two quotes: one...
Comics Curmudgeon readers! Do you love this blog and yearn for a novel written by its creator? Well, good news: Josh Fruhlinger's The Enthusiast is that novel! It's even about newspaper comic strips, partly. Check it out! Heathcliff,...
5 May 2026 Today we’re on our way to Magee Marsh, Ohio where we’ll be birding early before The Biggest Week in American Birding begins 8-17 May 2026. It truly is the “Biggest Week” as it draws 80,000 to 90,000 visitors to the area each...
We'll spend some time going through most of the options, in the end you'll have confidence to set up a system to your liking.
I really enjoy re-implementing things that already exist. Sometimes it's just out of interest, sometimes it's to make it faster, or work in a different way, or improve the code quality, but I love having that concrete expectation of what...
Ben Nadel replaces the nginx proxy and URL rewriting with CommandBox in his local ColdFusion development environment....
From Hellhound On His Trail: The Electrifying Account of the Largest Manhunt In American History, by Hampton Sides (Knopf Doubleday, 2010), Kindle pp. 319-323: THE FBI REMAINED confident that the warrant they’d issued the previous day...
These Maple-Miso Smashed Cucumbers are a crunchy, no-cook summer side dish with Persian cucumbers, vinegar, white miso, maple syrup, sesame oil, red pepper flakes, and sesame seeds. Salting the cucumbers first keeps the salad punchy...
As long-time readers of this site will know, I have a fascination with television pilots. Let’s be specific about what I mean, here: a true pilot isn’t just the first episode of a TV show. It’s something made separately from the rest of...