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1. Drink water when you are thirsty.You will live longer than if you don't. Beer's OK too, now and then.2. Rise a little earlier if you must be somewhere.Time does not bargain with you.3. Write things down.Memory is brave until next...
Heatwave No. 3. Garden / Outdoor jobs. Pickwick Papers. Walton admin x2. “New” dentist. A kestrel. Scything has started Slow start on Tuesday. Hadn’t slept well in the middle of the night and it took me ages to wake up properly…. at 9am....
There's been a short CiB hiatus while I attended an important family event, but now we are back in business with very important TV-watchingThe Little House on the Prairie books by Laura Ingalls Wilder are a phenomenon: always in print,...
Note: As usual, tl;dr at the end. Tomorrow morning, WhatsApp goes dark, and it’s not just a short downtime, but it is a termination of the service. The servers turn off, the domains don’t resolve anymore and no mobile client is able to...
When I was working for that large ISP's tech support department, it was a strictly telephone job.
Duncan Rawlinson photographed this winter scene in the 1000 Islands region of Ontario, Canada. Fresh snow traces the curved branches of a small shrub in the foreground, while dried marsh reeds and grasses stretch across the middle ground...
ZEB ORRELIOS (New Republic Pilot) The Vintage Collection 3 3/4-Inch Deluxe Action Figure Item No.: No. G2766 Manufacturer: Hasbro Number: #400 Includes: Bo-rifle (pole mode), Bo-rifle (blaster mode) Action Feature: n/a Retail: $27.99...
Examine the legacy of the islands’ knitting industry. Started in the 1500s, the knitting industry first produced garments for commercial sale incl stockings & undergarment Guernsey frocks. Using a soft worsted wool, they supplied warmth....
Today is my birthday. I was born on an Air Force base in France, where July 14 is Bastille Day. My mom always told me that when I was born they had parades and fireworks and people took the day off to have a picnic; it was years before I...
TripGeo Air is an impressive new browser-based flight simulator that lets you fly over a photorealistic 3D model of the real world.What makes TripGeo Air particularly fun - besides the thrill of flying over your favorite landmarks - is...
Imagine every person in a country is assigned some sort of score, and a higher score is better. I can’t share the specifics around the score I’m investigating right now, but on the population level it is collected by a government agency....
I feel like I’m on one of those generational runs at the moment, like Phil Taylor, the last four Beatles albums, Blackadder, Man Utd in the early nineties, and the John Lewis Christmas ads. Where I can do no wrong with what’s for dinner,...
★★★★: RIP Sam Neill. Great movie though, per usual. So many fun details. And wild how it just established what a T-Rex sounds like. Everyone just agrees now. FYI: My reviews are scored out of 4. Also, thanks for subscribing to my RSS...
Whilst primarily used for entertainment and as a creative hobby, Model Railways can be used for a number of different purposes, such as props or storylines in TV, films and even music videos, history education tools, promotional items...
In philosophical discussions of emergence and reductionism in chemistry, molecular structure has received significant attention and debate. Sometimes molecular structure is used to justify strong emergence, i.e., that molecular cannot be...