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St James' Church in Tedstone Delemere Herefordshire We are the Village Green Preservation Society (Ooh, ooh, ooh) The Kinks - The Village Green Preservation Society. When researching churches, sites like National Churches Trust and...
This is part 8 in a series of posts on writing concurrent network servers. In this part, we'll switch to Go and see how it tackles the challenges described earlier in the series. All posts in the series: Part 1 - Introduction Part 2 -...
John Gruber links to an interesting story about Dutch regulators fining Uber almost $1 billion for suspending dishonest drivers “without warning or human involvement.” Say what you want about Uber’s practices, dishonest drivers, scams,...
Developer: Coktel VisionPublisher: FindusYear: 1995Genre: AdventureSystem: DOS After issuing a challenge to folks to blog about an obscure game, I figured I should probably engage with this as well so I pulled a game that has been...
for a player in my biweekly B2 game stat progression as Fighter unarmed damage: 1D6 listens/smells successfully on a 4,5, or 6 no thumbs, inventory1, or speech2 Instead of a stronghold, gets a pack unless holding sack in mouth↩ unless...
If you're creeped out by butterflies and flies, maybe skip this one.111 words · 15 images
It’s tough to survive in corporate life if you don’t have someone who makes your day. It gives you a reason to wake up and look forward to going to a place that seems designed to keep you demotivated. Wage labour is perhaps the most...
I just finished The Inner Game of Tennis [ad] by Timothy Gallwey, which has been on my reading list for over a decade. I happened to see a copy featured in a bookstore and bought it as a plane read. It’s short and sweet at under 200...
This week, I had to write CSS for a design where a list of elements got a bit of extra design treatment if there were at least three nested items inside it. <!-- Base design --> <ul class="magic-list"> <li>Item 1</li> <li>Item 2</li>...
Part TwoQuoteThe realm of poetry does not lie outside the world, a fantastic impossibility, the product of a poet's mind; it wishes to be precisely the opposite of this, the unadorned expression of truth, and must for that very reason...
I’ve been talking with my friends and partner about this sort of thing. Often I’m not even the one to bring it up. There’s a preponderance of hustlers lately and it sucks seeing both suckers and bad-faith agents eating it up. These are...
Tags: #music #rss-clubWell, the weekly RSS Club update is a day late. Look, I have to level with you: work has been off the hook lately. It’s been that way for months, and the last couple of weeks have been a surge of particular...
One of the first classes I decided to take when starting the Chinese language course at university was History of Chinese Art. And, this is one of my favourite paintings: Night-Shining White by Han Gan. Why? Because the description the...
Treating myself to some yummy food. Happy to report that after a day of moping, I was in better spirits today. We agreed to get brunch in the morning, which is always exciting. Something to look forward to. We'd been saving money by...
CompleteTheHaiga is a haiku, senryu and tanka prompt project with images created by Josiah. All haiku by Cendrine Marrouat. Source