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A new Jess Kidd book is always something to look forward to and this year we’ve had two of them: first, Murder at the Spirit Lounge, the second book in the Nora Breen Investigates series, and now Little Spark, a standalone novel set in...
Hmm... well since it was never born it can never die. 'It' was/is/will never 'be' - life doesn't noun although humans appear to! Words appear to be 'pockets of power'. We make them into things. MEANING: starts with 'me' and are the same...
Yes. The holiday season is finally over so now I can get back to doing more of nothing in particular. That's not strictly true. Everyday opens up like some swirling black hole of strange activities that I just fall into. Before long...
I received a digital proof of this from NetGalley, courtesy of the folks at Random House and Vintage, so thank you to them for that. Switzy is the twelfth book from this year's Booker longlist that I've read, and it might be the one...
Adding a Dark Mode toggle to your website is a nice touch that many users appreciate. When implementing one, the default instinct for many developers is to reach for a simple binary switch: Light on one side, Dark on the other. While a...
Back in March I wrote about my new retro motherboard rack using BILLY bookshelves, which someone submitted to the Orange Peanut Gallery. It was a bit of a silly post, but it did solve a real issue I had. The email responses I got were...
Few writers exert as powerful a hold over young theatre-makers as Federico García Lorca.Part of it is the poetry. Part of it is the politics. But mostly it is because Lorca offers emerging companies the opportunity to make theatre about...
Great work there, Slickerman*Still alive to this very day, by all appearances
I recently encountered smart glasses in real life for the first time. Not in a shop, at a technology conference, or in a demonstration video. Someone I was spending time with was wearing them. I didn't know that at first. We were walking...
facade of Joanine Library, University of Coimbraestablished 1717WikiOne of the primary functions of libraries was to protect books from the physical effects of climate, theft, vandalism, and bugs. And the role of library historians is...
I already knew how to put things on a Kubernetes cluster. Helm packages the YAML. kubectl apply makes it exist. cert-manager mints the certificates. What I did not have was a boring answer to “what happens next week, when I have...
2024 short horror-fantasy novel. Castle Drax is falling apart, and the only way for the family to survive is to sell it, though nobody wants to.
I also observed a math classroom at another Summit charter school. Here is what I recorded in my notes. The Precalculus class began at 10:40 and ended at 12:15. Ethan Edwards is in his third year of teaching at Summit. He was a math...
Duncan Rawlinson photographed this aerial view of a small island shoreline in Ontario’s 1000 Islands region. The frame captures a mix of fall foliage—red and orange maples alongside still-green trees—set against the deep blue of the St....
GEONOSIAN PICADOR with Orray The Vintage Collection 3 3/4-Inch Vehicle Pack-In Figure Item No.: No. G2769 Manufacturer: Hasbro Number: #411 Includes: Pike, Orray, plugs for orray, reins, stand, wagon Action Feature: n/a Retail: $79.99...