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Most retellings of Elvis Presley's funeral stop at the hearse pulling out of Graceland's gates on 18 August 1977. That's usually where the story ends: eighty thousand mourners lining Elvis Presley Boulevard, a white suit, a Cadillac...
first one doneChecking that the depth is 3/8" deep on each one. helperThis spans the two rods of the vise and I set the narrow rails on top of it. Solid base to chop the mortises on.oopsI was being careful, taking teeny whacks so I...
It's been a strange beginning to the work week. Let me record, so I don't forget.--I've been in that liminal space where it's time to settle into the semester, yet I could still delay doing that for another few days. My office hour time...
Here’s a bunch of random things that happened in Blender Video Sequence Editor (VSE) since the previous blog post. For the full picture check out VSE related release notes of Blender 5.1, 5.2 and upcoming 5.3. Below I’m mentioning only...
The latest newsletter finally went out. This is issue #235: Can't Stop Won't Stop. As always, sign up lives here. Recently, I had to turn down working with a novelist I admire. He had a fantastic idea for a graphic novel; an exhilarating...
Previously we’ve run through how to open an online broker account and how to buy and sell ETFs. Today we’re going to look at purchasing an index tracker fund. Next stop, the world – muhaha! (Oops, did I say that out loud? I meant to...
I've been receiving lots of "Undeliverable Mail Returned to Sender" lately for Protohackers signup attempts. Protohackers login is via a "magic link", so attempting to sign up or log in results in sending an email. But none of the email...
Snowy mountain peaks in the Rocky Mountains, as seen from the summit of Flagstaff Mountain near Boulder, Colorado. The post Distant Snowy Peaks appeared first on 75CentralPhotography.
The Prime Minister of Spain, Pedro Sánchez, likes to invoke international law. Imagine that one day, someone had finally responded to him. Not just anyone, but one of the founding fathers of international law. It happened just after the...
What a way to finish a Fringe. After a week of political theatre, historical musicals, personal testimony, clowning and spectacle, BIRDS: Alex Hines and Sarah Stafford arrived as the final show in my festival schedule and promptly...
Time for some links, time for some reading? Democracy v the Machine: the Birth of the Digital Age and the Warnings That Were Ignored, by Jill Lepore, The Guardian The Great Romance Slump, by Faith Hill, The Atlantic Your Friendly...
Projects I’ve finished installing minidlna on my home server. Now I can finally disable another service exposed, until now, by Qnap. The goal is always the same: The Qnap NAS should work only as network drive. In the future my aim is to...
I couldn't keep up with my weeknotes this year but I enjoyed writing them :( especially the media round-ups - books and film - as I found I often had something to say if I sat down and thought about it for a second or two. So here are...
The Gunpowder Plot is having a surprisingly good Fringe. Having already encountered TheatreGoose’s take on 1605 elsewhere in the festival, it is striking to find another company returning to exactly the same historical event. The...