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I found these in a drawer full of “misc”. What can they be? Hm… “Night light”… “lustgården”… “The lie”… Oh! Right! Back when I was watching 87 Bergman things I got these DVDs from a prolific French bootlegger — he had tons and tons of...
This post dedicated to the lovely Loch, who asked for information on a Baronial city that wasn't the capital. Here are four!SantepheneThe Barony's second city, about half the size of the capital, and situated further south, on the coast....
It was wild, it was nuts, it was the most ambitious project ever! It was refined urani–er, I mean. The backend of this website is now running, and you read that correctly, running, ActivityPub. What the hell? What the heck? What do you...
There are games in improv which are designed to make you fail. For instance, you have "Chain Murder". In this game played with a 3-4 people, one person stays on stage while the rest go somewhere else so they don't overhear the...
In this conversation, I speak with Dr. Patrick Boudreau about the psychology of climbing, flow and other states associated with excellent performance, the differences between climbing indoors and outdoors, and whether physical activity...
Následující týden se koná, dneska už tradiční dvojboj konferencí, WUG Days a SQL Server Bootcamp v Brně. A tak jako obvykle, připravil jsem několik přednášek.
.post-body a { color: #000000 !important; text-decoration: underline !important; } Note: This is a revised and consolidated version of four posts I wrote last year on Benjamín Labatut’s The MANIAC: 1, 2, 3, 4. Novel-writing, like playing...
When you buy a domain name, your registrar will typically offer to provide you with a collection of DNS nameservers. For most people, most of the time, that’s plenty sufficient. A trip back to 2006 My secondary domain danq.dev has three...
I was talking recently with someone who spends time in the orbit of a hyper-successful, hyper-wealthy person. They described the schedule: back-to-back conferences and events, meeting the who’s who of the business world, closing deals,...
Ever caught yourself rooting for the bad guy who turns out to be the good guy? That's the whole pull of the space pirate. A skull on the sail, a ship that probably shouldn't fly, and a captain who answers to nobody. Japanese sci-fi...
A lot of people are rude and dismissive to people who have scientific misconceptions. Often, they belittle people who don't understand how, say, seasons work. They say this makes a person unusually stupid. This seems wrong to me, both on...
From Max Hubacher, January 11, 1952, “Old red brick house in downtown Brooklyn, L.I., on the site a park is planned. In background the Manhattan Bridge.” It’s amazing that it could be so hard to place a photo taken in downtown Brooklyn...
I had to purchase this slide of headless CN 8463.
Brennan: "Nearly all of Florida is below the 95% immunization rate for herd immunity for measles. So, is your message to Florida parents to get your kids vaccinated?" Byron Donalds: "No. My message is the reason we have seen a measles...
Lost Carcosa is now available at the LotFP EU shop! My involvement with Geoffrey McKinney's Carcosa goes back to almost the beginning. About a year after the release of the original Supplement V: Carcosa Geoffrey expanded one of the...