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IntroductionOur back garden ends at a fence that is covered in Hedera (commonly referred to as ivy). If you know anything about gardening, you already know this plant grows quickly and relentlessly. It wraps itself around anything it can...
Minitel Magis teardown - again.
Dearest Little One, I know you’ve been having a rough time. We’re dealing with the grief of it all as well here and now. Just wanted to take the time to reach out and let you know how proud we are of you. You’ve survived and adapted to...
We now have more details of what happened. Every time we learn more details, it somehow makes things seem worse. The remaining details may have to wait a bit. OpenAI: We recognize there are a lot of questions and speculative details...
Another Monday Message Board. Post comments on any topic. Civil discussion and no coarse language please. Side discussions and idees fixes to the sandpits, please. I’m now using Substack as a blogging platform, and for my monthly email...
A couple weeks ago, the CEO of Snap was all over the news in the US because he and his wife made a large donation. The weird part about it was that every news outlet that covered it had an acrobatic title where they didn't specifically...
It’s late July, early August, so it is time for the annual Light&Saber Listicle. To clarify language here is my article about the price brackets. The goal of this article is to recommend to you a knife and a light that This year...
Galway Kinnell (1927-2014), The Poems of François Villon. New Edition. Translated with an Introduction and Notes (Hanover: University Press of New England, 1977), pp. 36-37 (Le Testament, lines 159-160) with note on p 227: Valere pour...
In the summer of 1922, a photographer named Fred Daniels posed three young women on a rock jutting out of the sea and took a picture that ended up in fashion magazines around the world. The women weren't models. They were dance students,...
My latest post on the difficulties of young parenthood has loosened something in the back of my mind. In a few others’ too; thank you so much for your encouraging messages! These small replies might not seem like much to you, but they do...
Every World Cup starts with outrage and ends with 'best ever' — and this one, controversies and all, was no exception.
An intriguing story in a compelling sci-fi world with genre-mixing gameplay held back by outdated technical limitations. A hybrid side-scrolling space shooter and top-down action adventure brought to modern platforms twenty years after...
This is another album in the series of Kansai-area techno compilations I played on here before. This one's got a bit more diversity in styles than the last volume - Okano Freak's track is much more straightforwardly bright 80s pop, and I...
This post is dedicated to the lovely Loch. The Forest of Worms is popularly held to be depthless, and exploration from the ground has certainly born this out. Whence then, comes the so-called 'Iron Panoply', which was retrieved about 150...