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Forget six counties overhung with smoke, / Forget the snorting and piston stroke, / Forget the spreading of the hideous town; / Think rather of the pack-horse on the down, / And dream of London, small, and white, and clean. William...
The wait is over! TWSBI’S latest ECO release - Pink Lemonade with Bronze Trim - is available for pre-order, with pens starting to ship on Wednesday (8/5). Pink Lemonade looks to be especially popular, as the milky pink acrylic gives the...
THE FIRST DOMINO FALLS: Kevin Gausman traded from Blue Jays to Cubs. One of the prospects received in return, Brett Bateman, is already in AAA, and could see MLB playing time sooner than later, particularly if the Jays move an outfielder...
A particular kind of magic happens when three unrelated stories start rhyming. You're scrolling the news, and suddenly a Chinese artist sketching under an ancient oak, a Caribbean poet's obituary, and a debut album announcement from a...
This week’s theme: Jazz and vocal versions of songs written by Irving Berlin. Featured artists include John Coltrane, McCoy Tyner, Sonny Rollins, Ray Bryant, Max Roach, George Bryant, Charles McPherson, Jackie McLean, Rosemary Clooney,...
In a previous video I where talked about social anxiety in FFXIV, one of the top responses I heard was that folks wanted to roleplay, but either didn’t know how to start or were too afraid to try it. I pulled together a number of tips...
I'm doing (a very lax) Blaugust. This is 2/hopefully 31 posts in August. I was thinking about labyrinths recently and got a wave of nostalgia for the early 2000s. At this time I was being home educated by my mother, and one year (I...
The rain is heavy outside.I suppose the rain matches the mood and the mood matches the time.At least, for me. I think now is a good time for me to get this out. The wind picked up but so has the rain. Perhaps now is a good time for me to...
Still working on Emacs Config Gems part 3. Fell into a deep rabbit hole and got lost for a couple of days, then climbed out just to discover another one I have to explore next. I wanted to crunch the first few tweaks of my Emacs config...
[They did say it’s hard to see, not hard to hear.] HOW WOULD ANYONE EVER BE ABLE TO TELL THAT THIS DRONE IS THERE?1 Footnotes: Be sure to have your speakers on when watching the linked video. That video is also archived here. ↩︎ Link:...
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In the summer of 1961, a 19 year old model climbed out of a swimming pool at a Buckinghamshire country estate, and a British government started dying without anyone in the room realising it yet. By the time the fallout finished two years...
A couple of years ago, Sony re-released a movie that had flopped only a few months earlier. Morbius had died at the box office in April 2022, opening to $39.1m and then dropping 74% in its second weekend. But over the following weeks, a...
In 2023 I published a blog post The myth and reality of Mac OS X Snow Leopard that included links to the release notes of some Mac OS X updates. Well, let's look at the release notes for the 10.6.1 update: […] It looks like the so-called...
If you are Canadian, chances are you have the day off today. Maybe you have no great plans other than to hang out in a hammock or beach yourself somewhere. And that’s fine. But if you are someone like me who likes to be productive even...