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It was never about Balogun, a relatively unimportant player compared to the rest of World Cup teams roasters. It was not about the game between USA and Belgium, that many of us in non-American timezones, whouldn't have sayed awake to...
Before I worked at Suncoast, I worked at two mom and pop video stores in my hometown. That was how I first got paid to spend my time around movies. Those stores did rentals, with return bins, late fees, rewinding, and customers looking...
My friend Sophie is very ill, so a little over a week ago she asked if I’d sit her dog Hallie. Though Hallie is a great big bitch and has a few odd personality quirks, she is a frequent visitor to Sunset and mostly knows how to behave...
We’re on a quest to find the minimum viable alternative to the 60/40 portfolio. (That is, a conventional 60% equities/40% nominal bonds or cash asset allocation.) What’s wrong with the standard 60/40 portfolio as featured in all your...
The last 24 hours have been full of contrasts. On the one hand, it was the first full day of Music Week at Lutheridge:--Monday began with a long walk with the S. Florida church friend who is staying with us for the week. Up and down...
I was just having a quick browse of the recent blogs feed and saw Chloe's post on wanting to switch to floor desking. I had other plans for writing today, but as I was just musing on this very subject yesterday, it seemed more prudent to...
Congtatulations to the Belgian football team. Thankfully the USA did not go "all the way" and Trump's idiotic cheating did not succeed. FIFA are awful and once again have been exposed as a corrupt organisation unfit to run the world's...
Like many retro computer fans out there, I was dismayed to learn this past week of Sony’s plan to stop producing physical box release games from 2028. It is a sad confirmation of what most of us already knew - like streaming is trying to...
A team is in planning. Someone asks for another engineer, another month, or a narrower scope. A few years ago, the useful questions would have been about the problem, the risk, and the cheapest responsible way to reduce it. Now a...
Have you ever been mysteriously unsubscribed from an email newsletter? It happens to me all the time. But I expect it. In fact, it’s how I can tell which “experts” are really beginners.I subscribe to a lot of newsletters and I use RSS to...
iPhone prices on Apple.no (including 25% VAT, rounded up), that are not “fixed” are as follows: This is what Apple has intended. 17 Pro: 16,000 NOK (€1,430) Air: 15,000 NOK (€1,340) 17: 12,000 NOK (€1,072) But prices from the “premium...
We're about to go on vacation. And I have decided not to take my newish Macbook Air M4. Just on the off-chance something might happen to my favorite piece of technology. And also: we'll be travelling a lot and staying in lots of...
I’ve never been convinced by the ‘seven stages of grief’ thing, even after they’ve come up with assorted workarounds and cheats to deal with the lack of empirical evidence to support the model as originally proposed (you now don’t have...