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This was the natural next step after playing Electrosphere. Spoilers for all three games, obviously. Ace Combat 04: Shattered Skies - ★★★☆☆ People were talking about these games when I was still in high school. Somebody I used to talk to...
I got an idea. Few words, a sentence or two. I start writing. After few lines it's clear it's going to be shit, a novel. Explaining, examples, luckily not many metaphors as my English level does not allow it. The first spit is lazy mode....
Writing like this comes with real professional and personal risk. If you believe it's worth doing, please subscribe. Your support is what makes all of this possible. Can’t do this without you.Quick vibe check on American democracy: Mitch...
Just a quick apology to all subscribers of the RSS feed, whom I accidentally sent a lot of duplicate posts to. I was working on the site and pushed to the wrong deployment, which caused the main site to start behaving like it was the...
I know I am a sucker for nandert videos and just post all of them here, but they're great content for people who care about Los Angeles area rail. Nick Andert is a documentary filmmaker whose main hobby seems to be "churning out massive...
If you ever travel to other countries, particularly to the same ones repeatedly, register an Apple Account for each country with an easy to remember format. For example joe.uk@example.com, joe.es@example.com, joe.jp@example.com....
C.S. Lewis, letter to his father (December 4,1915): There is also a 'Greek Literature' by Gilbert Murray, the bad verse-translator, which I have read with dire anger, as he degrades Homer from a poet into a 'question' and prefers that...
Poland's Second World War produced more than its fair share of stories that sound made up. There's a bear who hauled artillery shells at Monte Cassino, and then there's Krystyna Skarbek, a countess from Warsaw who skied across a mountain...
Dear Constant Reader, I hope those of you who had a holiday weekend last week enjoyed it! If you are using any kind of electronics, bring all the cords. Whether it’s a projector for your class, a black light for your act, a video camera...
Good news for readers of Nadezhda Khvoshchinskaya! A cluster of articles about her, compiled by Aleksei Vdovin, is out in Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie: First up is A. Kim’s translation of Hilde Hoogenboom’s “‘Я раб действительности’:...
Anthropic's Claude is named after Claude Shannon.I've read a couple of biographies on him, and one of my favorite things I've learned about that period is how magical Bell Labs was.Specifically, the cafeteria.The Bell Labs cafeteria at...
Our review of The Rage of Party: How Whig Versus Tory Made Modern Britain, by George Owers, first published in September 2025. This lively account of the origins of party politics in English (and then British) history is enormously...
Words: Chris ArnsbyBruno Brookes: “Good evening. Welcome to another sizzling Top of the Pops. All hot stuff on the show tonight. Later on we’ve got Bryan Adams for you. INXS, Billy Bragg, and Bros to name a few. First of all at number...
Sara and Nora are on a trip now to Iceland, London and Paris. A few picture of this are here, along with some classics (standards?). Airport drop-off. The bags were sized to fit for flying Iceland Air as they are fairly strict about...
I hope other cities are seeing a similar trend to that of Minneapolis — we’re seeing a revival of independent physical video rental shops (the latest being a cafe/rental experiment called Saturn Video). So far three have entered the...