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Years and years and years and years ago... Lester Square and me organised what we called Music Halls, but what were really Music Free For Alls (time limit ten minutes to avoid boring acts). we put one on at the London Musicians...
Favorited Deconstructing A 17th Century Letter by Wouter Groeneveld (Brainbaking) This type of thing is always highly fascinating to me. Using artefacts, here 17th century letters that survived to present day by happenstance and thus not...
On 12 February 1979, an unknown 20-year-old dancer walked into a New York photography studio to earn a few dollars posing for an evening class. She gave her name as Madonna Ciccone. Six years later, the resulting photographs would spark...
We drove to Orange County yesterday. Kelly went to work, and I stole away to the beach at Huntington. I enjoy the scene at Huntington Beach, and I’ve been treated well by the folks in the water each time. Yesterday as I was walking out,...
“Be angry and do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger…” — Ephesians 4:26 Today’s devotional talks about anger between people in a relationship. Anger happens. We’ve all felt it before. I like the scripture above that...
In spring 2025 I had a crisis of faith. I thought about what the technology I'm helping to create might do to our future, and got scared. My worries kept intruding on my daily activities to the point where I needed to seek professional...
This update covers Sunday 08-16-26 through Saturday 08-22-26 (icon Glossary, if needed). LIFE 🈁 This week’s musical theme: Devo, “Big Mess." 📕 Most of the week has been overtaken with thoughts of my friend A., as he is hospitalized in...
obligatory one month without social media on my phone substack essay (contrarian edition) (Apologies for a substack link but this one is worth it.) Quit your phone and change the nature of time and the universe! What amazes me so much...
This is part 8 in a series of posts on writing concurrent network servers. In this part, we'll switch to Go and see how it tackles the challenges described earlier in the series. All posts in the series: Part 1 - Introduction Part 2 -...
St James' Church in Tedstone Delemere Herefordshire We are the Village Green Preservation Society (Ooh, ooh, ooh) The Kinks - The Village Green Preservation Society. When researching churches, sites like National Churches Trust and...
John Gruber links to an interesting story about Dutch regulators fining Uber almost $1 billion for suspending dishonest drivers “without warning or human involvement.” Say what you want about Uber’s practices, dishonest drivers, scams,...
Developer: Coktel VisionPublisher: FindusYear: 1995Genre: AdventureSystem: DOS After issuing a challenge to folks to blog about an obscure game, I figured I should probably engage with this as well so I pulled a game that has been...
If you're creeped out by butterflies and flies, maybe skip this one.111 words · 15 images
for a player in my biweekly B2 game stat progression as Fighter unarmed damage: 1D6 listens/smells successfully on a 4,5, or 6 no thumbs, inventory1, or speech2 Instead of a stronghold, gets a pack unless holding sack in mouth↩ unless...
It’s tough to survive in corporate life if you don’t have someone who makes your day. It gives you a reason to wake up and look forward to going to a place that seems designed to keep you demotivated. Wage labour is perhaps the most...