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"This is 4D chess!!" shouted Matthew Goodwin into the howling void that is Twitter. With such an endorsement, you just know he was heaping praise on stupidity. And so it was. At 2pm Tuesday afternoon, Nigel Farage fielded a press...
C.S. Lewis, letter to his father (July 19? 1915): However, this I suppose is part of the curse inherited from our first parents: my private opinion is that after the words 'In the sweat of thy brow shalt thou earn thy bread' [Genesis...
Sometimes we go quiet for a while. We recently celebrated the United States 250th birthday, but unlike the 200th anniversary, several events were canceled at the last minute because of bad weather. At least we enjoyed time with our...
We made a break for it while the weather was playing nice. Out of Whangarei, around Busby Head, and north back toward the Bay of Islands. Going back up bought us three things: a change of scenery (badly needed), more anchorages to pick...
Status: When I sat down this evening and opened this document I was surprised to see I hadn’t got any links ready for today’s post. None whatsoever. I’d sorted out the reflective cover for the bay window, which hangs nicely now and is...
So…this was one of the films which I’m not into, but couldn’t necessarily tell you why. Petra von Kant (Margrit Carstensen) is supposed to be a fashion designer living….somewhere in Germany, but we never see her doing any design work;...
Own your own content: POSSE it, they say. Own your content. Publish once, fork it five times. RSS, Mastodon, Bluesky, webmention, pick your parasite. Fix the typo in two minutes. Already too late. Fossils wearing your name. The author’s...
Football match at the kindergarten. Since Suvi is not interested in football at all (I can't blame her), she and her friend were given the role of first aiders – with deployment during the match. (The ref didn't seem that interested...
Man, 3.1/10 on IDMB for this? That's, like, *¼ on the four-star scale, And while I know I'm perhaps overly reluctant to get below two stars unless there's either something so shoddy that it looks amateurish about a movie or it's entirely...
In the past I’ve done several articles on pochade boxes and other painting systems. I’ve tried over time to follow up with update articles as the market changes, but I finally realized the usual post format wasn’t ideal for this. So I’ve...
A heavy sadness when someone utterly brilliant dies. Inman Harvey was the coolest person at Sussex. He looked at things in a different way, and was super influential for me and many others. He carried all this gently, always relaxed,...
Last week Sony announced that from January 2028 they will no longer be producing physical discs for PlayStation games. In some ways this announcement isn't a completely unexpected surprise. Videogame consoles have become increasingly...
Like the New Zealand keeper I've been standing up to the stumps, well above the knee rolls anyway.Thin water, overgrown banks and roasting temps have seen me don the beach shoes and swimmers in the cool water.Rare bankside sortieI even...