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Religion’s a funny one, Rob says on the way to the pub the next week. Funny how? I say. What does faith mean if it means believing in fairy tales? It’s an act in itself. Don’t you like that? You … Continue reading →
There is a contrarian hot take chestnut that gets bandied about occasionally against the prevalence of randomness in roleplaying games. I articulate a simple counter-counterargument in favor of the mainstream approach of enjoying the...
WowHaus 1940s wartime control tower in Tholthorpe, York Perhaps a familiar property to site readers, this 1940s wartime control tower in Tholthorpe, York, is now up for sale. Where does the time go? It seems like only yesterday that I...
“It’s probably aimed a little more at newcomers than experienced Homebrew users.”
I use saltstack to manage deployment of docker containers in my homelab. For two of my cloud servers, I am running them in memory constrained environments for cost reasons, and typically only run the minimum required there. Since I...
Cargo containers loaded aboard the MSC Rachele at Freeport, Bahamas. The post Packed Tight appeared first on 75CentralPhotography.
This is an irregular column that rewinds the clock back some years to see what was on the taps at certain pubs. Too many of these will no doubt be from my local, The Great Northern Railway Tavern (GNRT), in North London that has been a...
We’re spending a few days at the cottage at Ross Priory this week, working in beautiful surroundings. So for today’s TDC here’s a pic I took yesterday afternoon while reading and watching the wildlife. Oyster Catcher Oil flickr photo by...
No sé cómo es posible que esta escritora chilena haya permanecido fuera de mi radar durante tanto tiempo. Nació en Chile en 1910 y, a los nueve años, se trasladó a París, donde terminó la secundaria y comenzó sus estudios universitarios....
From The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine, by Serhii Plokhy (Basic Books, 2017), Kindle pp. 105-107: FROM THE VIEWPOINT of the Rus’ elites of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, the unions with the Kingdom of Poland had caused nothing …...
Yep, it’s another Pride-themed book bundle. $40 for 40 books, running from June 18–30. “The Relative Positions of Dead Things in the Dark” is in this one.
Smarter search and a tidier interface. Here's what caught my eye.
Some summers, I find myself reading far more than I expected to read. Others, not so much. It’s been not so much this summer for whatever reason, but I do continue to chip away at books on my summer reading list and tell myself regularly...