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After I light up, mothically speaking, I usually have a scout about the garden for moths that are activating as it gets dark but not necessarily heading for the trap. I almost stepped on a Pipistrelle bat swooping low to grab one of the...
“Women the world can lean on” First seen in 2019, Emma Rice’s adaptation of Malory Towers is back on the road this year as part of her selection of revivals hitting theatres across the country. The stage version of Enid Blyton’s beloved...
A very fine month indeed, in all sorts of ways. There was a cinema visit, a birthday party, many meals with friends, and a growing sense of contentment with the life I am privileged to enjoy Highlights of the month: Guerilla gardening,...
Finished reading Daimonic Reality by Patrick Harpur. Highly recommended, if you couldn’t tell by all my quotations from it. The great gift of strange books like this is a fresh pair of eyes. There’s always something invigorating in a...
An electric meter at the Prada Marfa art installation by artists Elmgreen & Dragset near Marfa, Texas. The post Today’s Mood: Half Dead, Defective & Rejected appeared first on 75CentralPhotography.
SOLDIERING AND SACRIFICE . This is one of the RSC’s big hitters: five stars everywhere ,and promoted more as comedy than the romantic-chivalric classic it is, Rostand’s 19c tragic epic in hexamers, set in Franco-Spanish wars of the 17c....
A couple of months ago I improved some of our dialogs and this time I worked on some more. Did you know that you can just paste the clipboard’s content into the Dolphin file manager or on the desktop to create a new file from it? Just...
A glance at the Wikipedia entry for Edmond Rostand’s 1897 play Cyrano de Bergerac shows that it has been astonishingly successful with dozens of stage, film, television, and opera performances. I saw last night the roistering Royal...
This week on the People and Blogs series we have an interview with Andy Baio, whose blog can be found at waxy.org. Tired of RSS? Read this in your browser or sign up for the newsletter. People and Blogs is supported by the "One a Month"...
by BobDaHacker Wow! This is a mistake I’d probably have done on my first semester in college. Not when working for FIFA. Though I do wonder if real humans wrote that code before the fix. My guess is no. I gotta say this person has a lot...
From The Russo-Ukraine War: The Return of History, by Serhii Plokhy (W. W. Norton, 2023), Kindle pp. 15-16: On the eve of his all-out invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Vladimir Putin would claim that it was the Bolsheviks, Vladimir...
A choppy night. The wind swung to the north and strengthened. SPARTINA was exposed to wind and chop coming down about the mile-long fetch of Cape Lookout Bight. A bumpy night, got some sleep somehow.Sleep in, wake to a cool north wind....
dry fittedFeeling a little better today, still sore and painful with movement, but I could manage it. Chopping the pins took me almost an hour. A concession on my part to minimize antagonizing the pain center. It laid flat on the bench...
Today’s question is, “What do you do to improve your sleep?” and frankly, I find the question offensive. But if you must know, my current sleep strategy consists of being a night owl until about 3:00 AM, getting a light dusting of...