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Went to Mayo today. Doc told me I’ve been doing great. It’s been since 2009. Every year, still clean. Getting a stick up your peeps is just awful, but having such a great doc helps a lot. BCG is the shit. Fuck Cancer. This post (alll...
MAXWELL GRANT – The Eyes of the Shadow. Bantam H4056, paperback original; 1st printing, August 1969. Reprint of the original novel that appeared in The Shadow Detective Magazine, April/June 1931. #2 in series. Harry Vincent and Claude...
Maia Ramishvili is an artist from Tbilisi, Georgia. Her subjects are primarily women in ornate garb, the pattens and textures of which give the paintings a look of collage. Her restraint on using rendering in faces and hands gives the...
BB28's 25th episode was the franchise's 1000th episode, and to celebrate, the producers completely screwed over fans and feedsters, and the game stayed on its predictable path! Woo hoo!
For those of you in Tokyo, I know you’re just so bored and looking for things to do. After all, there’s not a sumo tournament for another few weeks yet. I’d like to point you in the direction of the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum. They...
Remember Outshire? Here are thirty powerful Foglings for a wizard to conjure, associate with, bribe, and be cursed by. They’ll function perfectly well as fairy princes for any other game, though, I wager. SuppermothLord Suppermoth, Old...
The other day, I found myself wondering how big 52! (52 factorial) is, and that led me to ponder how these could be estimated without a calculator or a computer. It turns out there’s some fairly interesting math behind being able to...
[[https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckgwdn1g58yo][BBC: Trump signs order to rename Lake Ontario as Lake America]]
Kenneth Skovhus: The client went from injecting hundreds of CSS rules during a navigation to zero. Arguably the more valuable change, though, is that styling now has much clearer boundaries at Linear. Components have explicit styling...
I've been an alcoholic for over 15 years, since I was a teenager. My mind has always been my own worst enemy, and from a young age I found that booze was really the only way to shut that guy up. I won't lie, drinking that much for that...
In 1973, Tom Lehrer famously sang that “selling out is easy to do”. That may have been true in the seventies, but it’s not true today: selling out requires both technical skill and a careful sense of how large organizations work in...
It doesn’t look like SuperDuper 4 likes the sparse disk image I was using with SuperDuper 3. I’ve created a new disk image and will see if tonight’s backup successfully completes.
$900.72 to be exact. Ouch. I had a much interrupted night last night, so I was quite thankful that my younger daughter is still insisting on doing the morning routine so I can sleep in. When I got up, I was feeling quite good, overall....
The Odyssey from the Trojans’ POV. Guy with an eye injury arrives in town and does everything he can to get the king’s ear and warn everyone about Genghis Khan (the actor also played a Khan in Andrei Rublev), but is tortured and mocked...
40 cents or a very long time? Today is the marker the day my Dad passed away 25 years ago, nabbed by Cancer. Then ten years later to the day, the morning where I called Mom from my road trip across Canada. We laughed and talked about the...