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Reinvigorating 'Love is Verbing' with a lush green poetical to cool the eye, soothe the ears and quench the thirst for something less parched than currently being experienced in England and other countries...' Enjoy! GREEN CADENZAS The...
[“This…is Devlin St. John.”] Recently, comedian and TV host John Oliver has made guest appearances on two different soap operas. For his “Days of Our Lives” stint, he even brought his own wig, and it is magnificent: [Photo credit: Days...
Actually, we've looked at the cats and dogs previously, but there's no good synonym for 'animals' beginning with p? I grabbed most of the outstanding Peterkin sets, when they appeared in one of the local garden centre's as post Christmas...
For 25 years, Herb Ritts built his entire career on physical perfection. He photographed the most idealized bodies in the world, supermodels glistening in black and white, Madonna at her most sculpted, an unknown actor named Richard Gere...
I haven't posted here in a while because I've been very burned out recently, but I've been reading a lot and recently started reading this year's Booker Prize Longlist. I've been reviewing those books over on Tiktok and decided this...
bitsy will be ten years old in october! it's a little hard to believe, much less know exactly what to say about it - 2016 feels like several lifetimes ago, and 2016-me like a different person - but i know i can say that a large part of...
Hello, loves! I entertain myself by seeing how to improve the bee ContentFactory method. Tout le monde déteste l’IA. The bee is a bit of a mess: class ContentFactory: def bee(self, *, name, initial_sayings): gift_sentences = [ 'Oh, thank...
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Walking down the street, I noticed a ringing phone box so, naturally, I answered it. What happened next was a few minutes of pure fringe magic! I had a little chat with the caller, he welcomed me to the smallest venue in the fringe, and...
A few months ago I wrote about one of my methods for dealing with "technical debt" and I had to cut a huge throat-clearing section from the opening about how I don't really like the term "tech debt" as a metaphor. Obviously I'll use the...
Nvidia just told Wall Street it'll personally cover up to 25% of the loss if the GPUs backing $500 billion in AI data center loans turn out to be worth less than the paperwork says. TechCrunch called it "risky but brilliant." I'd call it...
This is often how I feel about discord servers or other online communities. Are we having a conversation with each other or is everyone just stating their own thoughts without reading or considering what the person before them sent? I...
Take this code, defining a small NamedTuple with a keyword argument per field: from typing import NamedTuple Point = NamedTuple("Point", x=int, y=int) Run it on Python 3.13 or 3.14, and you’ll see: $ python3.14 example.py...
In order to feel happy we need to 1. come to terms with the fact that we live in the age of abundance, and 2. accept that abundance is not the key to happiness. Scarcity is. There is happiness in owning precious things, and using them no...
Platinum Komodo Fountain Pen. “But Brad, wasn’t Stationery Fest two weeks ago?” Yes, but we had to cut things from the last episode and we still had notebooks to empty! Myke and I cover those last bits, including a quick chat with Ryder...