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The one moment that changed my impression of The End of Oak Street was during the end credits. The man sitting next to me turned to the person he was with and said, âThat was such a good movie.â Iâd been sitting in the theater practically fuming over what a bad time I was having, mentally deducting a half-star from...
Come on in A hibiscus flower seen on an evening walk. And a bee who accepted the invitation and covered itself in pollen! Quote of the Day âThe political problem of mankind is to combine three things: economic efficiency, social justice and individual liberty.â John Maynard Keynes Musical alternative to the...
Gordon White tells a story at the end of this episode about a co-worker whose mother had died. She went back to Yorkshire to be with her sister on Christmas when, on Christmas Day, they found a butterfly flying around the kitchen. The sister said, âThatâs mom!â Gordonâs co-worker said, âThatâs just a butterfly.â She...
Pierre de Ronsard (1524-1585), Odes 2.18 (tr. Malcolm Quainton and Elizabeth Vinestock): My mind is thoroughly exhausted from too much study of Aratus' Phaenomena; it is time I had some fun, and went out into the fields to play. Good Heavens! Who would want to praise those who, glued to a book, never have any...
AUDACIOUS BOOKCLUB HAPPENINGSOur August bookclub selection is The Simp by Roshan Sethi. We will be in conversation with Roshan on August 26th at 8 pm EST/5 pm PST. Registration is open. For newcomers, there is a bookclub FAQ if you have questions about how it all works. And this is what we will be reading for the...
Plus teen monsters, tween lamsters, and the twenty-five greatest genre docs ever?
For most of my life, I thought the sound effect of crickets playing was just that - a sound effect. Something that they put in movies and tv shows to cue awkward silence. Not something that really occurred in real life. Living in a more northern climate, crickets weren't something I'd ever encountered. One summer in...
The first question you would probably ask if I told you that Google bought Spirit Airlinesâ data at auction, including internal emails, documents, booking information, and other corporate data, is whether Google would use it to improve Google Flights (Googleâs flight booking tool) or start its own airliner. The...
I have been working on a new (post-markdown) markup language Carve. And I wanted to know how it performs for input and output. Especially compared to Markdown and Djot, which mainly inspired me here. And it happens that Pandoc released 3.10.2 recently. Everyone who converts documents knows the process loses things....
Jinny Lu is a six-year-old pug with a big tongue. She has the standard odd-but-cute features of a pug and an aforementioned big and floppy tongue. She is not remotely ugly. Yet, she was crowned as the Worldâs Ugliest Dog for 2026. Huh?The whole point of the contest is that there are dogs who have really, really ugly...
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