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Mutiny (2026) • View trailer3.5 stars (out of five); rated R, for considerable profanity and strong, bloody violenceAvailable via: Movie theatersBy Derrick Bang • Published in The Davis Enterprise, 8.23.26Jason Statham’s action thrillers...
If you were wondering why you haven't seen any new DLR trains recently, I think I might have found them. Last week we were driving from Vitoria towards Pamplona on the Autovía del Norte (or A-1), a key Spanish motorway. The scenery was...
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"Second Skin" is a 1997 science fiction novelette by Paul J. McAuley. It is about a man who visits Proteus as a secret spy of a trade delegation. Non-Spoiler Summary In A Nutshell: The story follows Ben Lo as he arrives on Proteus, one...
In this Music for the Next Generation series, I usually introduce artists that I'm a big fan of and/or who have made a strong impact on me. Lana Del Rey is not one of them. I'd be lying if I said I was a fan.Don't get me wrong; I don't...
All business is a gamble. That product idea you had might succeed, and it might not. That person you hired might work out, and they might not. That business loan might get repaid, and it might not. Even a small business like Codemanship...
So, in 2026, we have a new owner of the Commodore trademarks and a new Commodore 64! Well, actually, it is a bundling of a number of already available components into one system.But, whatever. It has the original Commodore logo splashed...
I’ve been on a bender lately of reading books about gender, specifically a lot on the experience of women in society, and it’s radicalising me in the best way possible. Many years ago, during my trip through Europe in the summertime, I...
I've been building diagnostic tools for identifying and correcting errors with the syncing and backup process of the JottaCloud backup solution. Claude triggered my inner nerd, when after questionened to review it's size of the CLAUDE.md...
In the last few weeks, I’ve been complaining that everyone is wrong about AI watermarking: it isn’t really anti-consumer and it doesn’t make the outputs any worse. The watermarking papers demonstrate1 that this is true, but I thought it...
There are things that are the most visible when they’re no longer there. Gone Lately, our oldest pet, MiniBeastie (of her real name IV as in Ivy and cat number 4) has not been well. She started coughing and not breathing well in the...
1. The Hungry Tree, King’s Inns Dublin 2. The Trinity Twins, Trinity College Dublin 3. UK’s tallest Giant Redwood, Center Parcs 4. The Anne Frank Tree, Seattle Center Peace Garden 5. Giant Sequoia, Seattle Center Tree Walk 6. The...
I recently went to a weekend of weddings that bent tradition - sticking to some and tweaking others.
August 21, 2026 This is the third year that I’ve started with Boden’s autumn suit (it seems to be something they do each year) to build an autumn/winter capsule wardrobe. The first one was here, and the second one was here. You could...
Three new beers from Heaney Brewery to round the week off.Correct Me If I'm Wrong, with the brewery's sober logo playfully scrambled on the label, is a "farmhouse ale", which I'm taking to mean a saison. Reading that it's brewed with...