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If you’re looking for a cozy, comforting chicken dinner with a bright, modern twist, this Salsa Verde Chicken with Herbed Cornmeal Dumplings is exactly the kind of meal you’ll want bubbling away on your stovetop. Tender chunks of...
Yesterday the Mayor published a slew of data on the first year of the Silvertown Tunnel. How's it going, did traffic congestion decrease, have noise and pollution got worse, have the new bus routes been a success, is anyone still using...
You’ve probably heard about this one by now. If not, you can get up to speed with OpenAI’s statement, OpenAI and Hugging Face partner to address security incident, or the more evocatively-titled BBC article, OpenAI says its AI went rogue...
We are never done with anything, it's fucking exhausting. I just look forward to death so much, to for once not have to do it all over again, oh, 'tis going to be a great day.
Nau maiYesterday we traveled from Auckland to Singapore. If there was one gift, one priceless skill I received from my time with the 59th Special Forcé Battalionette it was the ability to sleep anywhere. Anytime. Lying down, sitting,...
See below, in kitschy pseudo Polaroid glory. The weather was milder today, but a bit more humid. I enjoyed the walk. Keep OutSun dappled trailThe riverNo tractor trailers
My home town has a thing for summer festivals. I’m sure it is in no small part due to the three months of oft-times brutal winter weather we endure. Then again, perhaps this is some form of fertility rite, with lots of skin on display...
“Feeling admiration for someone is a privilege that becomes a calamity when the person we admire dies.” With age, such calamities proliferate. We start accumulating meaningful deaths. I don’t recall many, except JFK’s, having much impact...
The full game is out in 6 days. What do you mean by “counting the days”? Honestly, this demo feels like a full game already.
I was recently offered some very old Hornby O gauge trains. I turned them down, but here are some photos. All the stock dates from the 1930’s, I think. I cut my teeth (figuratively) on model railways with the 1950’s, British Railways,...
Saw Robyn Hitchcock doing "Brenda's Iron Sledge" on Old Grey Whistle Test and took against it. Witnessed a support slot for R.E.M. in '87 and that sealed the aversion. Then I'd run into college rock types in America and be mystified by...
Every query that returns user data filters by owner. That's the contract — and one forgotten WHERE clause leaks another tenant's data. Here's a second, automatic layer that fails closed, built on a SQLAlchemy do_orm_execute hook.
ignis is a small pourover coffee store off the Yanaka Ginza shopping street in the Sendagi / Yanaka area. We went here at the recommendation of one of my readers (thanks, keep them coming!) Having visited the area recently to check out...
So I'm driving out of my community garden the other afternoon, my shocks straining with the weight of zucchini when I pass a cop sitting in his car. I knew what I had to do … It was hot in the garden. Even on days when people aren't...
I know, but I started with the alliterative titles, and I'm determined to get to the end of the plunder-posts with the same trope, so some are going to be a bit weak! Also, I've been a bit blearh, for the fortnight since the show, the...