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Advert in Record Retailer May 1969 Most famous for writing and recording the original version of “Harlem Shuffle”, Los Angeles soul duo Bob & Earl toured Britain in the spring of 1969. Guitarist Ged Peck, who previously played with...
Welcome to this week’s newsletter, I’m writing it during our 19th year of Flerkcon, a gaming get-together arranged for many years (I wrote about it here! You should make one!). This week I wrote about my 1-hour-per-level 5.5e game called...
There are at several distinct ways of getting accented characters and other non-ASCII symbols in Linux. Confusingly, many of them seem to be called called "compose sequences" and none is apparently well-known.
Duncan Rawlinson photographed this panoramic view during the May 2024 geomagnetic storm, when auroras became visible across much of Ontario. Green and pink curtains of light arc across the night sky above a calm lake, their colors...
Most of my alfred workflows are in python and I often use uv to run them. To make working on them a bit easier, I brainstormed an alfred-uv command to make it easier to develop. uvx alfred-uv install All the workflows I develop for...
The goldenrod is blooming and that means the beginning of a time of transition. The leaves of plants that grow on the forest floor like sarsaparilla, false Solomon’s seal, Jack in the pulpit, deer tongue grass and many others will begin...
Paraphrasing the famous American catchphrase, I have noticed a pattern in my gamedev failures. Generally, people get to see the successes –or games that I finish–, but they don’t see all the projects that don’t get anywhere. And I have a...
happy leo season! 🦁
A bit better today. Did the other two lawns and cut the holly hedge. The gang came for tea. Went home at 7p.m. Never went out.
I was feeling guilty about starting weeknotes and not continuing them. This week, I was reading indieweb blogs in the few minutes that I had internet access on our trip. That’s when I came across Ahn‘s weeknotes. It struck me that this...
Well well well, I’ve had this idea of doodling something inspired by Wenford Bridge - but after a fantastic conversation with blog regular and friend Tom I have moved from idea to reality - well, sketch…Taking the Penpont name allows me...
Every Saturday we round up the best writing about beer from the past week. This time, we’ve got West Wales, South Wales, Belfast and Edinburgh. First, news of an immediate change announced by the new UK Prime Minister, Andy Burnham,...
Sometimes it's just fun to look at Vintage People. You get a sense of what life was like 50 or 60 years ago.We'll start with this photo (dated June 1966) of some family members posing in front of their post-War home. The dog must be...
I briefly dated a guy from a dating app earlier this month. While I'm not looking for a life partner at the moment, I still struggle with feeling like I'm too picky. But on paper this seemed like a good match: we're both well educated...
I saw reference to this in a couple of places. Water is weird. He mentions it has 70 odd characteristics so far. This latest one may be a necessity for life to start, etc. Many decades ago, I had a prof say that he thought water...