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Where I live, the surest harbinger of the end of summer is The Minnesota State Fair. It runs for ten days, starting in late August and ending on Labor Day. The Fair’s Fine Art Competition Previewis usually on the warmest day of late...
THE STORY: Charles Graham makes a visit to Chicago's Century of Progress exposition and while passing through the Belgravian Pavilion he sees a man open a doorway. The man's hand is covered with blood and he immediately closes the door....
Here’s a book I haven’t read in some sixty years: Antony van Leeuwenhoek and His ‘Little Animals’ by Clifford Dobell, published in 1932 by Harcourt, Brace and Co. Reading it was the product of childhood obsessions colliding: biographies...
It’s a diminished place. Here are two things I saw and wanted to share here about the death of Dolly Parton today, at age 80: And an editorial cartoon: Celebrity deaths don’t usually affect me, but Dolly Parton radiated such tremendous...
Here’s the latest short on the Global Nerdy YouTube channel: Debugging with Claude Code. Enjoy! The post Debugging with Claude Code appeared first on Global Nerdy.
Every witch has some form of regret and her own way of bearing it.It is Witchcraft Wednesday as well, so the word regret seems apt.Ash Witch died with regret on her lips. In the course of leading refugees from Yog to West Haven, she had...
I'm hitting that the personified junk-shop aesthetic that I’m always going for. I have a gig Friday that a friend’s putting on that’s a bit of a farcical variety show, including a drum battle that doesn’t have real drummers, for example....
Just needed one more carp to hit 200 this summer - any carp would do. To The Puddle and as always - park up and quick lap looking for the big ghostie. And there she was, crusing along a reed line. Bit of crust launched into her path -...
Fujifilm X100 Photographer – Austin, TX – Fujifilm X-E5 – Classic Retro SOOC Live is back THIS Thursday, August 27th, at 10 AM Pacific Time, 1 PM Eastern. Nathalie Boucry and I will have a bunch of guests to chat about a number of...
On the way back from Crich, I dropped in to Wingfield station. Knowing nothing about it, other than having spotted a sign on the way up to the tramway museum, it was one of those wonderful discoveries that happen occasionally. The...
Bridges were definitely burnt. ~ Link: Tech (Or Political?) Choices, by Rodrigo Ghedin, Manual do Usuário
There's an ongoing bandwagon about naming procedures. Here's mine, styled for ZLDA. The procedure is simple. Roll twice on a cultural name list, and smash or twist the two names together in some way, then polish a little. Do not think...
I’m on a VPN setup with several friends that, obviously, includes a VoIP network. I also have an old magicJack adapter and a deep and abiding need to use hardware in ways I should not. There was obvious synergy here. Plugging in the...
It's a bumper-size 2000 AD this week! Prog 2497 beams directly in from the Nerve Centre with an expanded 48 pages of comics, including two instalments of The Oubliette, the conclusion of Book Two of Nightmare New York, and even more...
Hey man, thanks for coming over. Wait, wait, wait, hold on, uh, don’t take off your shoes for a second. Listen, I’ve got this desk, and I sorta really need to get it out to the garage. Could you, I mean, it’ll only take a second....