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How Queer Bookshops Changed the Worldby A.J. WestGenres: History, Non-fiction Pages: 336 Rating: Synopsis: The remarkable tale of how queer bookshops built communities, nourished minds, redefined literature – and changed the world. For...
Table of Contents Table of Contents What bhyve Is, and What It Is Not Loading the modules Raw bhyve, Once vm-bhyve as the Daily Interface Storage: zvol or Raw Image Networking, and the Diagram That Explains Everything The Actual Subject:...
I like walking. Fortunately, so does my wife. Our longest walk is the South West Coast Path. It took us seven years to cover all 630 miles, fitting in a week here and there while we worked full-time. Our second longest walk is the Camino...
I finished the OpenZFS Mastery chapter on volumes earlier this week. Zvols support sparse volumes, also known as thin provisioning or overcommitting storage. A sparse volume is a volume that reserves less space than the volume actually...
Let A be a magma, a set with a binary operation. A complete mapping for A is a bijection θ on A such that the map ψ defined by ψ(a) = a·θ(a) is also a bijection, where · is the operation. It defines a transversal of the Cayley table of...
Last year, Ross Montgomery, a British author of more than twenty children's books, debuted with his first novel for adults, The Murder at World's End (2025), which is the first in a new series of historical, retro-Golden Age style...
There are few subscriptions in this world which are worth paying for. Fundamental things, and few services qualify. People launching novelty software with monthly subscriptions sounds crazy to me. Just because SaaS used this model...
I do not like to engage any form of gossips. I find it unproductive use of my time. If I have the chance, I rather use the time to read something or built something. Lately there has been a lot of drama in my circle. This person would...
And now, a day after Dolly Parton's death, comes news of the death of Tim Curry. Like so many, my earliest memories of Tim Curry are as Dr. Frank-N-Furter in The Rocky Horror Picture Show. I didn't see that movie until my sophomore year...
Quick note: I went to Funky Chicken with a friend and it was just the best burger I've tasted in Sweden. It was juicy, rich, and 100 % delicious. This summer has taught me about the simple pleasures in life: great food, awesome company....
All set up for an early start! Vocals first, or so I thought.Next door has the builders in. The hammer is thumping a counter-rhythm to the metronome, occasionally punctured by a musical drill that vibrates the floor. So it's guitar:...
I rewatched The Hunt For Red October this week1, and I noticed Tim Curry was in it. I somehow thought he had died already, and then, the next day, he actually did. A lot of actors from that movie have died. Sean Connery, Sam Neill, James...
Yesterday Simeon Ball sent me notices, in New Scientist and phys.org, of his paper with Robin Simoens on quantum solutions to Euler’s 36 officers problem: Given 36 officers belonging to six different ranks and six different regiments,...
I know it’s a cliche when people share a post and just say ‘THIS’, but holy shit – THIS. When @thatdocphoenix sent this guest blog over to me it fully took my breath away. The totalising fuck that he describes in this piece is what sex...