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Travel has kept me from the early apples this year. I've missed the local farmers market where it is likely at least one vendor has offered Lodi or Vista Bella, or maybe even Pristine. Left to right: Vista Bella, Yellow Transparent,...
I did a spoiler-free post about Regicide Legacy in April, giving a quick overview and showing the basic game components. This post continues from there. The first part of this post will contain no spoilers. If you have not played the...
I'm just glad it's the weekend. posting the time lapse is some kind of torture
Brooklyn NY We’ve visited the Maman in Alexandria, but I realized I hadn’t logged that visit; so I’m logging this one. We were visiting DUMBO in Brooklyn and it’s severe heat advisory, so we decided to enjoy a drink, cookie, and air...
My freezer is full of Mountain Fresh Plus tomatoes, which is irritating to my wife because there’s little room for other items. But I think she’ll forgive me in the winter when we can pull out quality tomatoes to make salsa and sauces...
Kalshi and Polymarket are the big names in the new sector of "prediction markets", and other established names like Robinhood and Crypto.com are getting in on it too. They claim to be the most accurate way to predict future outcomes, but...
The first recording starts with the end of Jakers: The Adventures of Piggley Winks. Then it’s a repeat of Shaun the Sheep – Mountains out of Molehills. Media Centre Description: Children’s animation. Set on a remote rural farm, Shaun’s...
Yes! Finally! I felt well enough to go the Costco stock up trip! In fact, I was up quite early and feeling rested. Did the morning routine and prepped the truck. We even remembered to grab the ice packs from the freezer before we left....
As the title says. This one is a mix of bugs, birds, and scenery, with a few horses thrown in. Original post here. One more clutch of Barn Swallow babies before migration.A barn swallow yawning. Or screaming? Scream yawning.Barn Swallow...
A UI shouldn’t lose your inputs.If you are typing, each and every key should result in a letter in order. No characters should e mssig or rerodeerd.If I switch windows with Alt+Tab and then type, the events must always go to the newly...
Thus far this week (see here and here), we have seen Adam Smith’s survey of two historic overseas trading firms organized as joint-stock companies: the Royal African and Hudson’s Bay companies. Today, we turn to Smith’s survey of the...
Opens with convincingly real and unrehearsed news interviews, which they empasize are real and unrehearsed, but is the interview guy not aware that he’ll be in a movie? Why’s he gotta be so dry? From this drab beginning, the movie gets...
This is such a niche topic, but can we combine our knowledge about the drinks packages on cruises? For those of you who are where I was ten minutes ago: it seems that cruises charge extra for drinks such as soda, interesting coffee...
The “Yentervention” is the key to understanding everything at stake: Matt Dines takes us through the carry trade, Treasury demand, Fed liquidity tools, and Japan’s role in the next U.S.-aligned AI and industrial system.
It’s pretty rare for me to find an anthology in which I love every story, but this one really hit it out of the park! Here are my per-story reviews: Intro: Getting Martha Wells to write the intro is an amazing get! She also does a great...