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From Empire of the Winds: The Global Role of Asia’s Great Archipelago, by Philip Bowring (I.B. Tauris, 2018), Kindle pp. 106-1110: No empire in historical times has disappeared as completely as Srivijaya. Yet this vast Nusantarian...
Amidst the worldwide sadness of the passing of the legendary Dolly Parton this week, I got to reminiscing. Many people have great stories about their awesome connection to Dolly Parton. These are not those stories. the banjo lessons I...
The points are fake and the score is made up but we always finish 70% of our sprint and get around 30 points done per person. Hey waitaminute that almost sounds useful 🤨 I've said before that working in a high growth startup is like...
If you do not follow me on social media (X, LinkedIn), you likely have missed the different work I have been up to. So this is a remix of some of that, posted here for folks to follow along. Crime De-Coder Blog On the Crime De-Coder...
Made it into work today despite really not feeling like it. I just didn't sleep amazing and honestly, work doesn't even need me. It isn't very busy, they should just let me go home and get snuggled up and sleep until I'm rested. Then I...
One horse there looks more curious than the rest. A flock of starlings decided it was absolutely vital that they all immediately move 100 metres to the west. This is arguably one of the most “Hveragerði” photos I’ve taken. The river...
Another frame from the test roll of a new-to-me film. I don’t often photograph people but I’m trying to change that. I live and work downtown so there are opportunities to do more street/people photography but it’s far outside my comfort...
Frequent commenter Y sent me a link to Glottle saying “Probably something after your heart,” and boy was he right. The goal is to guess the mystery language; for each guess you are told how close your guessed language is to the target...
some observations: i still need to be Vigilant, i find myself reaching for backgammon outside the one designated period having the no/low-internet account results in the laptop staying "harmlessly" open all day and it makes me /feel/...
I am following up my last post about how I write with a text about how I specifically get that writing done with Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome. 🧂 It cannot be a straightforward answer. POTS can be completely disabling, a...
I released kamal-backup 1.0 today. Not because the backup command works. That part worked months ago. I called it 1.0 because I used it to move Chat with Work, the application that pays my bills, to a new Hetzner instance. The old host...
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It is a testament to how much things have changed in competitive NES Tetris – a game released the same month the Berlin Wall fell – that this 1hr documentary by Summoning Salt that talks about the 2018 Tetris Championship covers the...
WEDGE ANTILLES STAR WARS RETRO COLLECTION (HASBRO) Hey! Hey! Did you guys know that Wedge Antilles is my favorite Star Wars character? Even though he’s minor? And that it’s not the expanded universe stuff that I like, it’s literally just...
I finished reading 'The Dead Zone' by Stephen King yesterday, it's the first King book I've read (I know, shocking given how much I read, they never appealed to me before). But about half way through, I found that I couldn't put it down,...