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The Beeline Imagine how attractive these flowers would look if you were a bee. According to the invaluable Plantnet app, it’s Verbascum chaixii ViLL. Which is ‘Nettle leaved Mullein’ to the rest of us. Quote of the Day ”The only function...
I probably own more than a thousand game CDs, cartridges and floppy disks and yet I’d be hard-pressed to tell you the last time I physically touched a piece of game media. My gaming nowadays is nearly all downloaded – most frequently...
A big thank you to a donor from Instagram for this – she sent two varieties of Chun Noodles after seeing my initial review. Taiwanese dry noodle is truly a favorite of mine – let’s cook it up! Chun Noodles Spicy Peppercorn Noodles –...
The annual prediction market conference was earlier this month. This was the year prediction markets went from an obscure hobby to a multi-billion dollar industry; from semi-illegal to having the President’s son as an advisor. I can’t...
In the fall, I’m teaching a new music history class at NYU on 20th century American popular music. This is not a history of rock. When the department says “20th century”, they mean the entire 20th century. We don’t get to Elvis until...
# No work today, and most likely tomorrow, due to a bad migraine. I've had a nagging headache all week. It started getting so much worse in the early hours of this morning, forcing me to get up and take some pills. I've been popping them...
July’s here, so it’s time for a look back at June! Which was a bit of a weird month, but I seem to have said that last month too… June in general: Mostly the thing that sticks out about June this year was how hot it was, in the UK. I’ve...
Click here to book for the Gentle Author’s Tours After he photographed the end of the trams in 1952 at the age of twelve, photographer Colin O’Brien became fascinated by recording the ‘last days’ of vanishing aspects of London life....
Evert Duykinck, Public domain, via Wikimedia CommonsAs of last year, I had a gaping hole in my reader knowledge. I had not read a single Jane Austen novel! I could probably blame not having taken BritLit in high school. They just weren't...
Gelatle's (apparently they combined the words gelato & turtle) blood orange shiroan gelato was more like a sherbet.This had blood orange juice, shiroan (sweetened white bean paste), and also used some kiyose honey....different but super...
[And yes, this will absolutely lead to arson.] Speaking of wildfires, don’t bet on them. Let’s all be better than that.Link: https://www.hcn.org/articles/people-are-betting-on-wildfires-should-they/
Poetic CSS Understand CSS as a system — so you can write, review, and maintain web styles with confidence on a timeline and under budget. My friend Miriam Suzanne has a new course on CSS. I've learned SO MUCH from Miriam over the years...
The remarkable voice system described for Mubi seems to interact with relativisation, but textual data is scarce. In textual examples of subject relativisation, the same suffix shows up that Jungraithmayr describes as forming attributive...
It is too hot. I sat and read some random assorted comics that I enjoyed today, but couldn't put words together in my head to describe much about them other than, "Matt Fraction's take on the original Batman deserves more love, along...
I haven't read much any Stephen King fiction books. It, Pet Sematary, Green Mile... None. I know, I'm a terrible, awful person who doesn't deserve the title of a 'reader'. That said, I thought it was about time I gave some King books a...