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Sharaban is like abazhur: it makes sense once you separate the French elements to char à bancs or abat-jour. You can find both charabanc and abat-jour in an English dictionary. The name char à bancs means carriage with benches, and it...
if i get an email that i dislike, a person is being disrespectful, or just unpleasant - should i still reply? i appreciate someone going through the trouble of sending me an email and want to make internet feel frendlier, on one hand. on...
Asher of Lincoln had a son, David, who married a local woman, Muriel, and at some point moved to Oxford, where he lived in a house on St. Aldate's (now site of the Oxford Town Hall), where Oxford Jews congregated their homes. (The...
In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book. Previous contributors include Jesmyn Ward, Lauren Groff, Bret Easton Ellis, Celeste Ng, T.C. Boyle, Dana...
The breeze is soft at the momentand the previous rain made it easyfor the sunrise to take placewithout the usual humiditywhich has been with usfor the last few days. The heat is more like an analogy or at least to me, I use the heat as a...
Trowbridge, population 37,000, is the county town of Wiltshire, although it is now the unitary authority of Wiltshire rather than the county council. So it makes sense to start our visit at County Hall in Bythesea Road (which...
The 1597 edition of the Opera Omnia of Tertullian, edited by Franciscus Junius, is one of the rarer early editions. A few days ago, I learned that there was a copy at the Tresoar library in Frisia, in the Netherlands, shelf-mark “F...
What is Dave wearing today? Dave is currently wearing a white Nike T-shirt, green running shorts, white socks, and Stan Smiths. How does Dave feel today? Dave feels foolish and full. What are the factors affecting Dave’s mood? Dave woke...
My passion is sparking delight through the absurd and bringing people together with creative scheming. But that has not been my job for the last four years. My job has been Data Monkey in Big Tech. For awhile I’ve lived a bit of a...
Stereolab - October 1993At this rate, we could probably just turn Doom & Gloom into an Aadam Jacobs Collection appreciation blog. The goods just keep on coming (and coming). To wit! The volunteers behind this heroic tape preservation...
Stereolab - October 1993At this rate, we could probably just turn Doom & Gloom into an Aadam Jacobs Collection appreciation blog. The goods just keep on coming (and coming). To wit! The volunteers behind this heroic tape preservation...
It’s kind of incredible how quickly Capcom became a significant piece of the arcade scene. The company originally started in 1979 as I.R.M. Corporation by Kenzi Sujimoto, and if you think that sounds similar to Irem, well, Sujimoto was...
If you’re wondering exactly how a mailbox provider like Yahoo, Google, Comcast or Fastmail might implement support for decoding and displaying BIMI (Brand Indicator for Message Identification) logos in or near the inbox, then I’ve got...
This is an ancient Japanese Sustainable forestry technique called “daisugi”. It allows for lumber production without cutting down trees. Specially planted Cedar trees are pruned heavily * (think of it as a giant bonsai) to produce shoots...
I ran across this old article in my digital files from that awful Covid Theater year of 2020, Alison Herman's story "We're Going to Run Out of TV" (complete with the panic headline; exclamation point optional). "[A] drought is upon us,"...