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This update covers Friday 08-21-26 through Saturday 08-29-26 (icon Glossary, if needed). LIFE 🈁 A lot of messes cleaned themselves up, so this week was less stressful than the one before. 📕 A.’s health still isn’t great, but his...
Life and Death of a French Soldier in the American War of Independence 1778-1781 eBook : JOST, BERTRAND: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle StoreThrough extensive research, the author reconstructed the story of a young French foot soldier from his...
In my post reviewing The Inner Game of Tennis, I wrote that I thought the book applied to any physical activity. I also think it could apply to language acquisition, because we speak and listen with our automatic mind. You don’t want a...
Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860), Parerga and Paralipomena, Vol. II, Chapter 21, § 247 (tr. Adrian Del Caro and Christopher Janaway): For most scholars by far their pursuit of knowledge is a means, not an end; for this reason they will...
We have a referendum coming up in Alberta. Rather than facing the challenges of our province, our provincial government enjoys the electoral success that comes from pushing the lines repeatedly, while wrapping themselves in flags of...
The Battle of Newtown (August 29, 1779) was the only major battle of the Sullivan Expedition, an armed offensive led by Major General John Sullivan that was ordered by George Washington to end the threat of the Haudenosaunee who had...
It’s finally Saturday. And while we would normally be doing something as a family today, instead the missus is at work and the little one is off doing whatever it is that 10-year-olds do. Which means I have the house to myself. So I the...
from the Alí Chumacero Personal Library, Biblioteca de México
Proviamo a spiegare in poche parole cos'è e come funziona un feed RSS e la sua importanza per la diffusione di notizie nella rete.
There is a particular feeling some old software has that is hard to explain without sounding sentimental. You open it, it appears almost immediately, and it does the job it was built to do. The menus are where you expect them. The file...
Connection takes work Bad relationships are common, and good relationships are hard. Should that be a surprise to us? Being close and connecting with other people challenges every facet of our soul. - Stillness is the Key Page 143 I...
In this final installment of my week in London earlier this year, I look at some of the other places I visited – some of which were definitely must-see places, while others are more of a “well, at least I visited.” The photos in this...
From 'Why not normalise use of AI in writing?', by Amit Kumar, assistant professor in the Institute for Development and Communication, Chandigarh, in The Hindu, August 29, 2026:Whose authority is being protected by that resistance and...
More craft paints, cardboard, and coffees and this is the most content I’ve felt “in the hobby” in what feels like forever. I❤️Ivar Tramway
For those new to CabbieBlog or readers who are slightly forgetful, on Saturdays I’m republishing posts, many going back over a decade. Some will still be very relevant while others have become dated over time. Just think of this post as...