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I have had exactly two conversations this week about denormalization, which is a sign that it is time to write a blog post. If you already know what denormalization is, you will likely find this blog post uninteresting. That is okay! It...
Just below the heart and just above the solar plexus, to be precise, is a temple in the valley of grace. And here, two fingers' width in front of your chest, to be precise, is a flame that does not burn but gives sweetness. It is like...
House of the Dragon; OK, Season 1 was, in my opinion brilliant and highly watchable. Season 2 not so good. Treading water at times, decent action but only later on in the episodes, twists up to a point but looking back it was more of a...
Photo by kaleb tapp on UnsplashWhile the recent livestream interview with Anne Kadet was very warmly received, it’s been suggested that I should offer a text “takeaways” sort of post for those who aren’t really into video. (After all,...
Gail Simmons revealed that Top Chef season 24 won't film at the end of this summer, as usual, and also cleared up three mysteries about Top Chef Carolinas' scheduling.
If I could give someone younger than me one piece of advice, it would be… well, first of all, they’re not going to listen. I know this because I didn’t listen. I don’t remember taking a single piece of advice from an older person when I...
You can treat more compelling wants as a reward for having fulfilled less compelling needs. Inspired creativity keeping you up past your bedtime? Reward yourself with resuming your pastime at some point after a good night's sleep. Social...
Lumi was off school early today because of the excessive heat. It is a pity that there doesn't seem to be a direct translation for the German "Hitzefrei" (which basically means "free because of heat"). I think she used her time very wisely.
Julius Caesar stood on the bank of a shallow river called the Rubicon. It was 49 BC, and he was out of options. The Senate, marshalled by his rival Pompey, had ordered him to surrender his command in Gaul and return to Rome as a private...
Raymond Chen writes about a man whose work affected us all: I recently learned of the passing of someone whose work nearly everybody knows, but nobody knows his name. Tony Krueger is remembered in Wikipedia as the person who ported the...
I always meant to have some major epic planned for today’s post, but alas. What I have instead are some shorter, compartmentalised thoughts on the whole debacle. Why Brexit? There’s a fair bit I could talk about: The evolution of the...
Humans suffer two big but under-discussed biases, which together make us overly favor people we see as prestigious and sincere. First, humanity’s superpower is cultural evolution, wherein we copy each others’ behaviors, and this wouldn’t...
Punk songs tend to be very, very short and fast. But, one day, the NOFX guys said "fuck that" and decided to make something a bit longer, and here we are, with an 18-minute punk song written in '99. To be honest, it feels more like...
Spaceports always have bars where you can blow off steam after a passage and meet potential patrons. They usually suck. In cases where it's helpful to flesh out a spaceport bar with an evocative detail, throw two dice and consult the...
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