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No, not hand grenades, but (portmanteaued) fag frats, sexually specialized college fraternities. A topic that sprung out of my Sundance interview posting, in a comment by Gijs Doorenbos: F.A.G. fraternity -> ΦAΓ ? (Should be available as...
An updated ethics statement and a week full of unique perspectives. This "Week in Review" catalogs one of the most productive and diverse in the modest history of our publication.Make sure you check out the end of this article where we...
🛣️ More Freedom, Less Supervision My daughter is now in the Oberstufe and loves the new freedom it brings. She chose German, English and History as her advanced courses, and it seems she’s pretty happy with her choice. She’s especially...
Earlier this summer, my wife and I adopted a dog. We live downtown, which seems to be a new environment to the dog. She’s only been interested in walking around our building: any further, and the stress becomes too much for her to...
✨ In This Edition ✨ 📟 Short-Form Content: On many, many leaks - of credentials, unpublished games, and entire passports; being ""opted in"" to chatbot activities; and on having the robot create a "podcast" instead of talking to your...
Do you like to listen to music that sets your mood for writing? I do. This playlist inspires me to create. Give it a try, if you have ideas for additions, let me know. Writing Music by Heurista on Spotify Writing Music by Dan Murray on...
The stats Since that I posted that first article on August 16, 2006 to Global Nerdy, it’s been… 20 years 2 blogging platforms (Blogware, then WordPress) 11 million pageviews Almost 5,000 articles (this one will be number 4,989) 2...
When was the last time I did one of these? Last year? Here's a collection of things I've enjoyed from the last 8 months, I suppose. Video games Satisfactory I knew I shouldn’t buy this game after playing the demo, but I bought it anyway,...
Last week (13 August) saw the anniversary of the 1977 'Battle of Lewisham' when local communities and anti-racists from all over the country mobilised to oppose a march by the far right National Front from New Cross to Lewisham, events...
On my recent trip to Switzerland, I spent a fair amount of time wandering down the supermarket aisles to put together cheap meals. I enjoyed the experience of trying out Coop and Migros-branded supermarket chocolate and trying out Heidi...
Analog I deeply appreciate stationery and its constituent processes, accoutrements, and instruments. I am a frequent user of these products and sell them for a living. I don’t, however, align myself with the use of the term “analog” to...
[content: hurting animals] Yesterday in a discussion with some undergrad philosophy students, one of them argued it’s immoral to benefit from wrong acts. If someone kills an animal and nothing will be different if you do or you don’t eat...
Getting stuck into GitHub and Jira is not the most creative way to work, but it's a good way to get things done. GitHub I merged my first pull request into our core prototype this week. It was the fiddly little change that I mentioned...
Being competitive has its advantages. You always fight hard, you never give up, and you always give more than you think you are capable of. But competitiveness is useful when the battle is on equal ground. Like in sport, where you know...