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Quite a few pairs of pears. All small, hard and inedible. There are too many for a) the good of the tree b) the quality of the fruit and c) my tollerance to all things pear like. A cull was carried out and umpteen of the blighters have...
I was amused when I opened this new arrival to see a reproduction of the picture which is currently being used as this month’s blog header. The coincidence confirms that this is my kind of book, being a collection of paintings, drawings...
Once upon a time typesetting mathematics was very expensive. It took a skilled operator hours and hours to get multi-line mathematics setting right. Now we’ve developed software which careful mathematicians can utilize themselves to...
An I’iwi belts out a song from the branch of a tree on the Pu’u O’o Trail off Saddle Road.
Have you ever seen one of those mega cruise ships in person? The word "impressive" hardly does them justice. We had the entire crew, all the cats and kittens from each of our clowders, in Port Canaveral for a team cruise vacation....
Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860), Parerga and Paralipomena, Vol. II, Chapter 21, § 244 (tr. Adrian Del Caro and Christopher Janaway): When we see the many and manifold institutions of teaching and learning and the great throng of pupils...
I went to the movies with my partner to see the new “Spider-Man: Brand New Day”. Fun movie. I usually don't like 3D because it gives me a headache, so I was looking at the options on the Cineplex website to get the tickets and I saw...
I don't like slop. I don't care how it was made, even if you created it with your own hands.
I am pleased to reaffirm I'm not the drooling fanboy I hope I never will be so I'm disappointed but not surprised I'm underwhelmed by the new Lambchop, as good as it is, it hasn't saved me, I wanted it to, you can vouch, my fault for...
Edited by Claire – but if you need the pdfs and cannot get them through the usual ways, email me to send em. Robinson Crusoe: After the Island
I've been thinking about my social media usage in light of a few posts: Harrison's post, There Will Never Be a Version of Twitter that’s Healthy for Me Olly Headey's posts, Minimalising and The urge to be anti-social Alan Jacobs' post...
DjangoCon US is a six-day international conference for the community by the community about the Django web framework, held each year in North America.
How do you delegate authority while maintaining coherence? That was the question at the core of Traction Heroes episode 43. It’s especially tricky in large organizations. Leaders can go about it one of two ways: top-down and bottom-up....
When I was a teen, I possessed a naive supposition that, after a certain age, I would know exactly what to do. I've never not known what to do as much as now. Accompanied by this muddled loss is something older, ancient: shame, the...
Barbara Payton was pulling in $10,000 a week, dating Gary Cooper and Howard Hughes, and being talked about as the next big blonde star to come out of Warner Bros. Ten years later she was turning $5 tricks in parked cars on Sunset...