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By NikolineSelf PublishedOSRLevels 3-8 As above, so below. Above, Tell Arn is abandoned, the Hyrkossi kings ashamed of what is buried there. Below, stranger kings hold greater shames, and greater terrors are locked away. The mistakes of...
Happy birthday, Adela! (Also, my blog is 13 years old today, 3 July!) As I mentioned at the end of my previous Adam Smith post (see here), Smith devotes Addition #11 (pp. 13-22) of his 1784 pamphlet to the herring bounty. Here, he begins...
Working hard won’t make you rich. I know that’s not what we’ve grown up hearing. We’ve heard the opposite. Put in the hours. Outwork everyone. Grind now, get paid later. Do that long enough and the money shows up. It doesn’t work that...
It’s no secret that the Hollywood Comet loves musicals. In 2010, I revealed I had seen 400 movie musicals over the course of eight years. Now that number is over 600. To celebrate and share this musical love, here is … Continue reading →
I’ve been on a rose trail for years. I’ve collected roses in France, Bulgaria, Morocco, India, Pakistan, Iran and even China. From the velvety richness of classical French perfumes to the luminous transparency of contemporary...
Did the milk expire? California bans ‘sell by’ food labels to cut food wasteFor years, I’ve been fighting a lonely battle against throwing away perfectly good groceries. Those random dates stamped on the packaging are just a giant scam...
In this week’s issue of The Savvy Diabetic: Insulet hires first chief R&D officer amid growing competition Modular Medical Announces FDA Submission of Pivot Insulin Patch Pump CEO vows to put patients first 4 surprising health benefits...
From Max Hubacher, March 1950, “Brooklyn Bridge”: We’re looking west from the Manhattan approach, a bit west of the Manhattan anchorage. The Woolworth and Transportation Buildings on the left, and the Municipal Building on the right are...
Sand cat (photo from Wikimedia Commons) 6 July 2026 There is an elusive desert wild cat that is so similar in size and shape to a domestic cat that it could be mistaken for one. The sand cat (Felis margarita) lives in disjoint areas in...
Watched: The Return 🍿 Odysseus brings the war home with him. As Simone Weil said of The Iliad, the true hero is force itself.
Since 2005, Franklin Leonard has run an annual survey of film industry insiders, asking for their favourite screenplays of the year that have not yet been made. The result, the Black List, has become one of the most watched documents in...
I like heat. I even like humidity. (Dry air send my throat, eyes, nasal passages into a panic.) I also like watching tennis which around here happens in the dead heat of summer. My favorite social media comment ever was a guy yelling at...
Bathtub Reviews are an excuse for me to read modules a little more closely. I’m doing them to critique a wide range of modules from the perspective of my own table and to learn for my own module design. They’re stream of consciousness...
fixing a missed stepI didn't plane a reference edge before I ripped the cherry frame to width. All four of them were uneven - they had humps that didn't line up. Went back to square one and planed one edge flat, straight, and square to...
It is absolutely disgusting to see just how corrupt an organisation like FIFA is. We knew it all along, of course, but having it laid out so openly, as is currently the case with the rescinding of that red card, is frustrating and sad....