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The latest edition of The List features releases from Vehlinggo stalwarts Fawn, Bunny X, NINA & Radio Wolf, and Miami Nights 1984, who are all giving us quality art to help us navigate our wild world. Never let anyone tell you there’s no...
I added the “I’m feeling lucky (random)” link, which presents a random writing prompt, dare, or other inspirational thing. It’s essentially the same code as this, but as a plugin. Code here.
I was returning home from lunch on an otherwise uneventful Friday last week. Unlike most of the days, I wasn’t listening to music or texting someone while walking. Not habits I’m proud of, or would write about in my autobiography. As I...
I like it when people reach out to me about weird little video game-related mysteries that have been bugging them for years.I really like it when I’m asked the question and I realize I have no idea what the answer is.And I especially...
I’ve been all kinds (well, 2) of ill recently and it’s rubbish. Last weekend I had (I think) COVID - something along those lines anyway. Then on Wednesday or Thursday my wife and six-year-old both had some sort of norovirus. Lots of...
I have been alerted by a reader to an odd etymology: the word aspic, in the words of the OED “A savoury jelly made with meat stock; a cold dish consisting of such a jelly set in a mould and containing pieces of meat, seafood, or...
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I can’t say for certain that this will be my last AI post for a bit, but last night just before bed Stella asked me to ask the AIs about boba tea. I decided to indulge her and was surprised to see that, after doing such a horrible job on...
[In this case, the internet is a series of tubes to nowhere.] Adak Island is 1,200 miles from Anchorage, and all but deserted since its naval base closed in 1997. Nevertheless, it receives government-subsidized internet service at a cost...
4-star hikes • 2 to 5 mile options • Moderate | Gain 530 to 1,780 feet • Wallingford, VT | Southern Region . White Rocks Cliffs, best viewed from Ice Beds Trail. The striking quartzite talus slopes of the White Rocks Cliffs are a...
Yerba Mate isn’t one flavour. It’s a spectrum as wide as wine or whisky, shaped by country, cut, smoke, age, and the temperature of the water you pour. A shade-grown chimarrão from Paraná tastes nothing like a barbacuá from Corrientes. A...
About five years ago I made a mental decision to document all of the songs that get stuck in my head. This might be hard for some people to understand, but when I get something in my head, it usually takes a couple of days for it to wash...
In Bede’s Ecclesiastical History book 3 chapter 29, he quotes a letter from Pope Vitalian to the Anglo-Saxon King Oswiu, encouraging him to adopt the new simpler Roman calculation of the date of Easter instead of the Irish method using...