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"Wait a minute! I know how to play this game."The children were standing around a table upon which were the tokens, dice and other parts and pieces from the board games Monopoly and The Game of Life. The night before, I had discovered,...
James Taylor with Dennis Wilson and Laurie Bird in Two-Lane Blacktop (1971) Vitals James Taylor as “The Driver”, laconic race car driver Arizona through Tennessee, Fall 1970 Film: Two-Lane Blacktop Release Date: July 7, 1971 Director:...
Playing a book by its cover.If the composition is considered and the elements compelling, great book covers come in all styles. From the grim dark to the art house, there's a treasure trove of inspiration out there. Below are examples,...
When I find my cake's in times of trouble Cake Wrecks Jen, she comes to meSpeaking words of wisdom:"Let it bleed." And when my flower's oozing darkness Or icing balloons spring a leak: Cake Wrecks Words of Wisdom:Let it bleed. Let it...
Image of a checklist with circle with a slash over the top. I feel fairly certain in saying the author of the post 5 Albums meant no harm. Even the prompt: Introduce yourself with five albums that have shaped you seemed quite innocuous....
Jack LeClair died on Saturday.Jack was a neighbour, around the corner on King Street, for all the years I’ve lived in downtown Charlottetown, a fellow “downtown liver,” as our mutual late friend and neighbour Catherine Hennessey used to...
Welcome back to another round of Simple Sudoku Solvers! If you are unfamiliar with the series, I suggest you start with the first post or by perusing the…
[This is one of the finalists in the 2026 book review contest, written by an ACX reader who will remain anonymous until after voting is done. I’ll be posting about one of these a week for several months. When you’ve read them all, I’ll...
This is the margarita I make when I want something refreshing, spicy, and absolutely packing a punch. One of my favorite Ina cocktails is her jalapeno margarita because, true to Ina form, it’s balanced, tasty, and absolutely does not...
The US soccer team didn’t actually lose, those were antifa shape shifters, pretending to be the US soccer team.
Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar’s The Time Regulation Institute is a novel about a (fictional) Institute founded to synchronize every clock in Istanbul, and then in all of Turkey. The book is generally read as a satirical allegory of modernization...
Here at LSOZI, we take a break every Wednesday to explore the old steam/diesel navies from 1833 to 1954, profiling a different ship each week. These ships have a life, a tale all their own, which sometimes takes them to the strangest...
The latest addition to the LEGO® Technic Ultimate Car Concept Series is packed with great new elements, as I revealed previously. Today, I’m finally building the set and find out if 42232 Koenigsegg Sadair's Spear Megacar also provides a...
Overcast and cool. A hen turkey foraging at the woods’ edge suddenly vaults into the air with a great flapping and clucking and lands on a low walnut limb, a red fox like an apparition melting back into the shadows.
Agentic commerce is a buzzy term, but is still pretty abstract for developers asking what they can actually build today. This post explains MPP through a working Laravel example, and introduces the new square1/laravel-mpp package. Read more