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Legendry actor Tim Curry died on August 24, 2026, at the age of 80. He was best known for playing Dr. Frank-N-Furter in the cult classic The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975). He also played Wadsworth in Clue (1985), Long John Silver in...
Alex Skopic, at Current Affairs, wrote about the functional use and abuse of stimulants by people who are overworked. I stumbled upon it by way of the latest issue of Web Curios, and I think the general thrust of the article is something...
One of the first things I bought with my own money as a kid was an internal 100 MB Iomega Zip drive with an ATAPI interface. I remember asking my computer teacher Mr Jones where he’d got his, and he wrote me a referral that got me a bit...
What caught my eye this week. Weekend Reading – featuring the week’s best money and investing articles from around the web – can be read by any logged-in Monevator member. Alternatively please subscribe to our free email newsletter to...
October, 2026 A man sat on the couch, browsing real estate listing on his phone. His wife was next to him, watching the Food Network, volume low. The kids were asleep in their room, all three of them. The room was dark. "I should've...
The City of London has long been a subject of fascination for me and these powerfully atmospheric glass slides of over a century ago from the London & Middlesex Archaeological Society Collection at the Bishopsgate Institute evoke the...
peanut spread with cocoa, apparently this is a new flavor for Nutella and it had been 60 years?! since they had a new flavorit kind of reminded me of the chocolate JIF (I think they had a peanut version) I had many many moons ago, this...
I grew up next to the woods. Houston is half scrubby, half pine trees. So some really big humongous trees grow, and when the world wants to go ahead and take something back, it does quickly. But at the end of my street were woods, where...
Date night with my husband at New Rivers in Providence RI. The food was fantastic! Selfie a day for a year, day 10: Aug 28, 2026 edition.
distance_of_time_in_words is a small Ruby gem that turns two Time objects into a human-readable string like “3 days and 4 hours”. Two separate bug reports against it this year turned out to be variations on the same theme: computing a...
<h1>Gatekeepers</h1> <p>6 months ago I wrote on [[Tools, thinking and people]] where I explored how interacting with AI is a bit similar to interacting with Google Search 20 years ago.</p> <p>Today I want to talk about a different thing...
The Other World's Books Depend on the Bean Counterby Kazuki Irodori, Yatsuki WakutsuGenres: Fantasy, Manga, Romance Pages: 176 Series: The Other World's Books Depend on the Bean Counter (manga) #6 Rating: Synopsis: It was just a normal...
A rusting gasoline pump at an abandoned shop in China Camp Village in China Camp State Park near San Rafael, California. The post Old Pump appeared first on 75CentralPhotography.
<h1>Gatekeepers</h1> <p>6 motnh ago I wrote on [[Tools, thinking and people]] where I explored a bit how interacting with AI is a bit simialr to interatcing with Google Search 20 years ago.</p> <p>Today I want to talk about diffent thing...
I read Middlemarch by George Eliot for my 20 Books of Summer list. I had never been interested in reading Middlemarch until recently, but my husband was interested in the book and found a nice copy at the September book sale in 2022....