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I’ve been recovering post-Shore Leave and catching up on my shows, but I figure I’d better talk about my trip before I forget the details. I left home a little before 10 AM, stopping at the bank first to get small bills from the ATM so I...
There is nothing more desirable than change. Like a field of grass awaits the rain in this humid weather; So do I await the thunderstorm and the freshness of summer. There is nothing more tedious than same. Days rotating in a nauseous...
Is it asking too much to want two World Cup semi-final upsets?
I ordered some furniture for my balcony some months ago, and today it arrived. It’s a small balcony, so I thought some small chairs would make sense… The shipping company said they were going to be delivered in one 47kg package: And I...
Ruins, the card-building, card-shedding game by John D. Clair, served to answer a question that’s been niggling at the back of my skull since I first played Mystic Vale almost a decade ago. Namely, why don’t I like these things? Not John...
I've been searching for a volunteer opportunity for the past year or so, trying to find something I can stick with long-term and that will help my community while also speaking to me personally. I try to contribute to clothing drives and...
all this talk about feasts has me hungry and whatever I have at home won't be enough that one crucial chomp will stay missing
One wonders what Wednesday might bring...→ The Wall Street Journal
I was born in the USA. Many tongues call me "American": Italian (americano), French (Américain), German (Amerikaner), Dutch (Amerikaan), Afrikaans (Amerikaner), Japanese (アメリカ人, amerika-jin), Filipino (Amerikano), Hebrew (אמריקני),...
Hello, loves! I have an on-line meeting that I can pay only small attention to. Herewith, a report on whatever tiny changes I find. No plan This is just some time to spare, improving what I see. I’ll start from Dungeon, I think, but look...
Unplugged.I'm really enjoying Linux right now (both KDE and Dank Linux with Niri). It could be just a mood (it usually is), but I've noticed that whenever I'm using the Mac, I just want to switch back. This is new to me. On the other...
I keep doing this, with so many things but particularly cameras.181 words · 1 image
Here’s a lovely hack that I’ve used when machete-mode debugging. Say you have a class, and you want to find its live instances, perhaps to check how many there are or what value a certain attribute has across them. Normally you'd have to...
Read the full post at - The Society of the Spectacle by Guy Debord Guy Debord wrote The Society of the Spectacle in 1967. He was part of a cohort of media theorists — mostly French, though I’d throw Marshall McLuhan in there too — who...