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Let’s start with the obvious. Layoffs suck. The Microsoft layoffs especially suck. These teams were told to make games for GamePass, and then told that their games weren’t profitable enough. There’s probably another essay I can write in...
“Perhaps you know this word, but I didn’t: ‘cromulent.’ I've seen examples of it used to describe players of different sports.” So writes a friend. The word was new to me, so I went to the OED for the definition: “acceptable, adequate,...
For reasons mostly unknown, even to me, I am endlessly fascinated by vaporwave. I totally missed it early on. But there was a documentary that came out about a month ago that explained it all, which I found really interesting, because...
Tuesday 7th July 2026 It’s yet another Tuesday tale of competition between bus companies in the Home Counties. While Thames Valley and Carousel have dampened down their skirmishes with tactical withdrawals in Berkshire, the battle for...
Olivis Coleman as a self-service checkout till that answers back? Yes, I’ll have some of that, thank you very much. Of course, a till that answers back needs a customer to backchat, and that comes in the form of hapless Henry (played by...
Katie Paul and Courtney Rozen, Reuters: Meta Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg acknowledged shortcomings in the company’s sweeping restructuring at an internal town hall on Thursday, saying the systems known as AI agents had not progressed...
I recently released fff-plus.nvim, a small extension plugin for fff.nvim. This is the next version of an idea I wrote about earlier in Why I Forked fff.nvim and Turned It Into a Complete Picker Ecosystem. That post was about my old...
Back to the Farm Pond - and not a run on the livebaits. But a couple of carp stalked out made up for it - including double #9 at 14lb 12oz.
Optionality is mathematically correct for hedge funds and quietly ruinous for human beings. In this episode I break down why the “keep your doors open” advice we give ambitious people backfires, and why the irreversible choices I fear...
Players Lt. Gunt Zama, ex-Navy (Gourd Dwarf) Maj. Rosalie Klein, ex-Army (xtinak) Laszlo "Lazer" Llewelyn (Mistuh) Evie Moth, ex-Navy (Scribble M. Horror) Cpt. Minnow Blux, ex-Army (Oldhawkeyes) SummaryIn the early 'aughts, Krongu...
JOHN FARR – The Deadly Combo. Ace Double D-301, paperback original; 1st printing, 1959. Published back-to-back with Murder Isn’t Funny, by J. Harvey Bond (reviewed here). Mac Stewart us only a cop in a prowl car, but when the body of...
There was a casualty of Gardeners' World - My Merlin Mayflower. Normally, a very reliable locomotive, I fired it up to put on a show while the judges did their thing. It had run well earlier in the day, but now it was backfiring, there...
People on the internet have a weirdly negative attitude towards work. When I see someone on the internet talking about their job, they're usually unhappy about it. When I hear people talk about their jobs in real life, they're much more...
Where: Blakeburn Lagoons Park (Port Coquitlam), Blackie Spit (Surrey), Piper Spit, Burnaby Lake (Burnaby) Weather: Mostly sunny, 17–20°C In which I wore sunblock and did not get roasted. Blakeburn Lagoons Park One of the lagoons, framed...
Tssssssssssssss. AWESOME! There’s even more awesome here: Photo from: here The post #643 The sound of steaks hitting a hot grill appeared first on 1000 Awesome Things.