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What is IM? 1 | a partial/selective life history 1.1 • TFR: the Berkeley years 1.2 • hitotoki: the Maui decade 1.3 • 13 cantos: a prose-poetic statement 1.4 • hitotoki: the Maui decade 1.5 • escarpment: the flowing now [ in progress......
Most of today went to plan. This morning, my younger daughter and I headed into town. Our first stop was to visit my mother which… went as well as can be with her, I suppose. She did try to launch into how my brother basically needs to...
Happy July and Happy Summer!It's now time for a detailed look at July schedule on Turner Classic Movies.This post is being published a bit later than usual due to a heavy workload ahead of the holiday weekend. There are lots of fun...
I used to watch F1 race and I support a small team called Minardi. This little racing team has never won any race, but many future champions started in this small team. I love this team is because of its fighting spirit. There were just...
Jake Casella Brookins Hello all! It’s been another hectic month for me: in addition to all the usual things, I was on the road to present a paper at the SFRA conference in East Lansing (which was wonderful), and am in the midst of moving...
High Society is a Reiner Knizia game from 1995. I have heard of it so many times that I feel like I have played it before. This is one of the classics from Reiner Knizia that always comes back in print. This is an auction game. Everyone...
The American experiment is not going well. Our civic culture is at an all-time low, we have given up our great achievements of the twentieth century, and it isn't clear where effective new leadership is going to come from. I am...
Despite seemingly an hour of runtime spent goofing around with ghosts, and the last hour of the movie being exhausting nonstop fights, this movie finds time for a surprising amount of plot twists. Jackie Chan is a kung fu monastery...
Book review for The Pathless Path by Paul Millerd. I rated it 4 stars The Pathless Path introduces the concept of the “default path” or life script that most people tend to follow, or aspire to follow. Get a university degree, a 9 - 5...
Review by Sandre the Giant Released: 9th January 2026 Stop the presses, the Killchain is reviewing Chilean death metal again? Well, it is an open secret around here that when we see a promo hit our emails that has Chile mentioned, we do...
Background For some years now I own a Xiaomi Mi 2 scooter. Of course I flashed it with SHFW using the ST-Link method, which then allows using the normal SHFW Android app to do all updating and configuring. This worked perfectly fine for...
Scribed by Sandre the Giant Released: 15th May 2006 Until just this week, I had no idea just when I got into British hardcore/metalcore/whatever they are now heroes Architects, because I have had their debut and a matching shirt for as...
Satya Nadella at Microsoft’s Build conference this year: Perhaps the most important design criteria for us is: ‘how do we earn the permission from the communities in which we are building these data centres?’ That’s where these...
I don't usually remember John Allen's birthday - July 2 - until after the day has passed. This year I happened to notice the announcement in the G&D group (former Yahoo group) and decided I'd celebrate with a special train. I assembled a...
Swung, the past tense and past participle of the verb swing, is spelt double-u u. Without the abbreviation, w, it should be written suuung.