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Life On Monday I went to see a doctor about the fever that was destroying me last weekend and got a full week of medicines and a Paracetamol IV drip to help get it out of my system. That ended up taking more than an hour, and I was...
Photo of Lyia Meta taken from her Facebook account. Malaysian artist Lyia Meta is a highly accomplished, award-winning and Grammy-nominated Renaissance woman in every sense of the word. She’s not only an insanely talented singer,...
John Keats wrote this to J H Reynolds, a friend and poet, on 19 February 1818 “I have an idea that a man might pass a very pleasant life in this manner—let him on any certain day read a Page of full Poesy or distilled Prose and let him...
F.F. Bruce (1910-1990), The Books and the Parchments, 4th ed. (Basingstoke: Pickering & Inglis, 1984), p. 27 (footnote omitted): The inscription on the sarcophagus of King Ahiram of Gebal, for example, is written in a language almost...
Politics Further Afield The Bots, to Everyone’s Chagrin The Return of Hash-Cash Reading Is Fundamental If Not Those, Then What Agents and Demons As you might have guessed by this going out so late in (for me) the morning, most of the...
#bloomstrolling for #bloomscrolling in Glen Douglas yesterday. Lots of sparkles on the ground. #flora.
Welcome back to the video series on virtual memory based on my article on the same topic. It is also available in ebook format on Gumroad (pdf/epub) and Amazon Kindle, if you prefer those formats.Buy PDF/EpubGet Kindle EditionSo far in...
maccadot ⇦ → .˚○ • ° seal pool 𓈒𓏸.°• → Angels Are Mathematical → anémoïaque → earedworm → retasu⋆⁺₊⋆ → garden star ʚɞ 🚧
In 2018, Tom Cruise and Christopher McQuarrie teamed up to make a short PSA about the dangers of frame rate interpolation, a.k.a. the soap opera effect: It’s a strangely boring video from the men known for exciting filmmaking, but it...
The Confederation Centre of the Arts is nearing the end of a dramatic renovation. As a neighbour, watching the Centre extend itself out and up over the last two years has been fascinating, and I’ve been endlessly curious about what the...
A paper I read on astronomically calibrating pre-Cambrian sediments to get a more accurate chronology of important evolutionary events led me to look up where Earth’s rotational axis has pointed over geological time.
I bought Trades, Quotes and Prices a few years ago and it came with access to some free data to help you understand the concepts. That data was from LOBSTER and it has the limit order book (LOB) of five tech stocks for a single day in...
☕️ It took me far too long to pull the trigger on an insulated French press (I’ve been getting by just fine with a V60 and AeroPress thank you very much). What I have loved about the French press is the volume. Being able refill through...
Stardict Dictionaries — An archive of dictionaries in StarDict format GoldenDict-ng — Dictionary lookup program that supports multiple formats. KOReader — Document viewer for e-ink readers. KOReader User Guide — Documentation for...