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Dumplings sind die fernöstliche Variante der gefüllten Teigtaschen und liegen seit einiger Zeit in Berlin im Trend. Von den vielen, asiatischen Restaurants rund um die Charlottenburger Kantstraße haben sie fast alle im Angebot. Doch einige Restaurants greifen dabei auf tiefgefrorene Fertigware zurück. Nicht so bei Little Little, denn hier werden die Dumplings liebevoll frisch und von Hand gemacht. Was gibt es hier chinesisches Nudeln und Dumplings kreative Füllungen...
About the Site I've been writing online since the mid-90s. I've created dozens of blogs and websites over the years, and Brandon's Journal is the latest. This site serves as a place for me to explore my thoughts and interests, which vary from comic books to spirituality. There is no set theme nor posting schedule. It's just a site where I share little bits of myself with the world. Site CreditBlog Hosted on Scribbles Guestbook by Meadow Contact Form by Letterbird/Good...
Interesting chat at the Film Fest. I saw ace producer Christine Vachon interviewed (above), then Ken Burns, then a panel discussion on horror. If there was anything that stopped the events from being fully fascinating, it was probably the generality. Horror is a huge subject, even if you focus on UK horror, and Vachon and […]
Imagine a story where the events in our lives that happen online are never depicted or mentioned. A day would seem twelve hours long and the protagonists would spend two thirds of that time asleep. I was gifted this Panerai Table Clock by a client a few weeks ago. I should be keeping it in its box, as it’s crazy expensive. But what’s the point in having things and not enjoying them? So it lives on my work desk, sitting on top of the little box containing a medal I was...
OK, Ok it isn’t the size of a guided missile cruiser on wheels, but Rheinmetall has marked a key advance in modern loitering munition technology by successfully demonstrating the FV-014 loitering munition/kamizakee drone launching from a container while in motion. Developed entirely in-house, the system was launched from a modular Containerized Missile Launcher at the National Test Centre in Cochstedt in July 2026. During the test, the loitering munition demonstrated its...
What began as a dredging effort to deepen Savannah Harbor near old Fort Jackson became one of the most significant underwater archaeological discoveries in the city’s history. The artifacts have now been unveiled at their new home, the Savannah History Museum. In early 2021, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers crews working on the Savannah Harbor Expansion Project unexpectedly pulled a cannon from the riverbed. Another scoop brought up two more, prompting crews to halt dredging...
Sullivan Summer Under Review:The Tongue I Dream In. Sheree Renée Thomas. PM Press, September 2026. Reading Sheree Renée Thomas’s The Tongue I Dream In, as the mercury tops triple digits in my city, billionaire wedding announcements appear via jumbotron, and semiquincentennial celebrations are interrupted by storms surely sent by the ancestors, one thing is obvious: it’s a good time for the Black speculative. An addition to the PM Press Outspoken Authors Series—a place...
Ya hace algún tiempo traíamos como novedad que Sacrificium tenía pensado grabar nuevo material. Su... The post Sacrificium Prepara Nuevo Disco...Y Vienen A Argentina? | “Hay Algo En Argentina Que Siempre Me Fascinó…” first appeared on Del Otro Lado Metal.Fuente: Del Otro Lado Metal
Bosch from the Haywain TriptychI thought Jim Murphy's video about playing OD&D with the 3 "Little Brown Books" (or Delving Deeper or FMC) plus Strategic Review Vol 1 No 1 for the random dungeon generator was an interesting take a campaign idea. Not really for nostalgia, but simply to try and tackle D&D with only the resources folks might have had access to in 1975 a year after D&D's release. One addition I might make to this list would also be to add Alarums and Excursion...
2026 is another year of short stories. In this weekly series, I track my short story writing, from idea and draft to submission. This is the week of Aug 10 – Aug 16. Stats Stories Finished: 3 Submissions Currently Out: 9 Submissions Total: 29 Rejections: 22 Acceptances: 0 Submissions and Responses One form rejection this week, for Taco Cat. I still have one other submission out for this story, but I may look for more places to send it. Goals My goals from last week: Keep...
In Saturday's write-up, I spent some time on the late-night talk show wars, now fully joined with the addition of Merv Griffin to the continuing battle between Johnny Carson and Joey Bishop. We've got a second sighting of Merv tonight, with an appearance on WCCO at 7:00 p.m.; since Arthur Treacher, Merv's sidekick, is on the show, it looks like an episode of his old syndicated show. Doesn't hurt the hype, though. Speaking of which, you notice that WCCO is showing...
La historia del Black Joke es más que interesante y tiene un remate genial, es que nació como un barco negrero, los barcos que transportaban esclavos bajo el nombre de Henriquetta y bandera del imperio de Brasil. Pero no se quedó en manos esclavistas sino que en un momentoFuente: Fabio.com.ar
Yesterday, I learned that security/pam-ssh-agent-auth is abandoned and deprecated. Looking back, I first used this about 13 years ago, and wrote about it while describing how I set up ansible clients. Today, I tried one of the two recommended replacement: security/pam_rssh – mentioned by Romain Tartière security/pam_ssh_agent – the one I’m trying Very much a drop-in replacement Here’s what I did. Install it: The following 1 package(s) will be affected (of 0 checked): New...
Terima kasih untuk teman baik yang mengambil foto saya yang ini. Dua pekan lalu saya resmi menjadi mahasiswa untuk kedua kalinya. Yes! Tahun ini saya jadi mahasiswa pascasarjana. Magister di bidang Manajemen, di instansi tempat saya bekerja sekaligus tempat saya menimba ilmu saat program sarjana. Kalau kata teman saya, sudah rezeki. Kalau kata saya, barangkali alam bawah sadar saya kelewat cinta sama tempat ini. (Ha ha ha). Kuliahnya diadakan setiap hari Sabtu dan Minggu,...
After my positive experience with Misfits Market, I decided to try out some other online grocery store delivery systems and see how these services compare. Today I’ll be talking about my experience with Martie Goods; another online grocery store with a mission of reducing food waste and making pricier items more accessible. Founded by two moms, Martie has been around for five years, and requires no membership or subscription fee. You only pay for the items you want to buy...
Less than a week to go until RG and I head off to Switzerland and Italy to trek the Tour de Monte Rosa with KE. Money The trip notes say to take 120€ and 200 CHF. I’ve got the Euros and I’ve ordered the Swiss Francs for collection from Thomas Exchange en route to St Pancras. Comms My 1P Mobile package gives me roaming for unlimited calls and texts and 500MB data each month. I’ve bought an extra 10GB data boost for the month so that I can use apps, check maps, sync Strava,...
I took this from Kurt Vonnegut’s marvellous 1973 novel Breakfast of Champions. It’s a story of how an artist hits back when his work is mocked. The speech of the artist is a direct quote from the novel, and, although it is made by a painter, I hear Vonnegut defending his art against those who mock it. Rabo Karabekian, a minimalist artist, has painted a picture entitled absurdly The Temptation of Saint Anthony. The painting is twenty feet wide and sixteen feet high and...
We are all newbies at being adults. It’s just that some has been a newbie for a little longer than others. We all are newbies at being of age 21. Or 35. Or 56. So do be kind. We are all newbies. We are doing a lot of the things for the very first time. Musings from a Tangled Mind: There I stood, holding a pack of brand-name ultra-soft toilet paper in my right hand and the store-brand double-roll in my left. And I was seriously weighing the financial trade-offs. […] That...
Petermann Glacier in Landsat images from July 21st and Aug. 13 2026. Indicating the rift that leads to iceberg calving of berg A-yellow arrows. Additional significant rifting inidicated by red arrows. Berg B is not a stable configuration. The Petermann Glacier in northwest Greenland is significantly different than the fast flowing large outlet glaciers, such as the Jakobshavn and Helheim Glacier we here so much about. Petermann Glacier is much thinner at the calving front...
Green Kentucky coffee beans have far less evidence of being edible than the ripe beans. I look at the evidence, and then cook and eat some. Green Kentucky Coffee Tree Beans is the latest post on Hunter Angler Gardener Cook.
Yes, for all the travels I have made with my family, we did scheduled visits to supermarkets, small and big. And, when available, we also visited wet markets and farmers markets. During the last trip, we bought noodle sauces, potato chips, and soup ingredients. Flew them all the way home, and have some delicious after-vacation meals. (Yes, potato chips can be meals.) ~ Link: [Why Travellers Are Obsessed With Foreign...
Mini-Server, Part 29 Entropy Arbitrage Next This week’s not-quite-interesting anniversary celebrates the launch of the North River steamboat—“the Clermont” in some circles—the first steam-powered commercial water vessel, originally operating on the Hudson River between New York City and state capital Albany, which should make “North River” make a bit more sense as a name if you know the eastern United States. And with that, on to the week’s projects. Mini-Server, Part 29...
My first chairmaking students in a class co-taught with Alexander Bear at my home shop, the Kansas City Woodworkers’ Guild. I started teaching chairmaking one year ago, fresh off a week assisting Chris’s Chairmaker’s Toolbox class. I had just a few chairs under my belt and probably wasn’t quite ready to teach anyone else how to make them but I had a willing co-teacher and enough reckless abandon to try. We set off on a ten week adventure, building chairs in three hour...
The computer I use the most is my couch laptop. It's a MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Early 2015) running Debian 13 and sits on a little roller table thing that I can pull up to me while I'm sitting or push out of the way and the top of it tilts up; it's a pretty nice setup. Day-to-day, I'm doing normal web browsing, reading my RSS feed, checking social media in a web browser, typing up blog posts with Typora and interacting with Claude Code via VS Code to work on my...
Movement of magnetic North and South poles 1945-2000 (image from Wikimedia) 17 August 2026 Yesterday I described how rock pigeons and rock lobsters navigate using earth’s magnetic field. Behind the scenes I learned how much the magnetic North pole has moved recently. I hadn’t noticed because I no longer use a manual compass that has to be manually adjusted for the local declination. Suunto Compass (from Suunto Watches) World Magnetic Map showing declination from true north...