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Ecclesiastes 3:1-2 states, “There is an appointed time for everything, and a time for every affair under the heavens. A time to give birth, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to uproot the plant…” The inspired writer offers...
I recently diagnosed that the cause of FaceTime being broken on my Mac was the Private Internet Access VPN client
Sometimes you get a bonanza - and so it with this Atlantic piece about the the new right-wing insult-trope of "theatre kid""The White House assistant press secretary, Davis Ingle, recently dismissed Senator Jon Ossoff as a “cringeworthy,...
I was reading Craig Mod’s essay, Walking the Length of Manhattan, this morning, which left me wondered about some of the epic walks I’ve done in my life. I haven’t walked the full length of Manhattan but I must have come close while I...
I watched The 39 Steps, which is a Hitchcock movie from 1935. It’s considered one of the classic spy thrillers.A man in London runs into a woman who claims to be a spy who has uncovered an intelligence network in Scotland. She’s on the...
by Gideon Marcus I've written previously on the lead-up to Apollo 15, and how it marks the first time the Apollo hardware is being used to its full capabilities. On August 7, 1971, Endeavour splashed down in the Pacific, marking a...
This is our second trip to LA in the last two months. So much to see and do! Our first full day in Los Angeles was a very full day indeed. Our hotel in Koreatown was pretty central to everything we wanted to see and do, which was...
JEAN GREY MARVEL HALL OF FAME (TOY BIZ) “It’s non-stop action when the Marvel Universe’s greatest heroines join forces against the power of the Black Queen! Locked in mortal combat with the notorious Queen, Jean Grey of the X-Men uses...
I've contributed a chapter looking at Doctor Who's unexpected moment of massive popularity over the summer of 1979 to the Doctor Who Appreciation Society's new book, Doctor Who 70-79.
From Sunday's New York Times, I learned of "the maelstrom unleashed" by the writer Rachel Cusk's divorce memoir. I might not have noticed this but for the Charybdis of Christopher Nolan's Odyssey. How does one unleash or leash a...
While I’m still preparing next na_game_tool release (still a couple of codecs to RE and implement!), I’ve finally encountered a very rare beast—wavelet game video codec! Gunmetal features SBV format with the minimum header (frame table...
Your CV is out of date. Your LinkedIn isn’t. A CV is maintained by hand. Once a year, badly, the night before you need it. A profile maintains itself: you add the role when you start it, the skill when you learn it, the certificate the...
You might be surprised, but this is a different version of this. Here is the version I got from an Australian friend. If you look at that review, you’ll notice a key difference; one that I’m sad and rather surprised was omitted as it was...
When Life Is Overdirect linkThe Fraley TrioGlen Fraley, Lead, Guitar / Dorothy Fraley, Alto / Patty Fraley, SopranoBassett Recording ServiceSpringfield, OhioB-1386The Fraley Trio had a previous record in 1962. For details see Gloryland...