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Things didn’t go right from the very beginning. Mr. Valerian Tudori, his baby face shaved squeaky clean, his dimples ready, hopped down the aircraft steps, and almost moaned with pleasure as the soles of his shoes bounced against the...
For many years the game of foot-the-ball has been played in the back alleys of Ankh-Morpork, with teams formed from street communities coming together in sporting comradeship (involving violence and pies, not necessarily in that order)....
https://www.stuckinabook.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/tea-or-books-151.mp3 Thanks again for all your questions for our special Q&A episode of Tea or Books? It took longer than planned, but here is part 2… Do get in touch at...
I'm so back in Emacs it isn't even funny. Also Linux. Dank Linux, to be precise.Toy Story 5 was pretty fun.I still can't focus long enough to write more than a few sentences at a time. I'd consider it a debilitating problem, if I...
So I first saw Claire Foy in Little Dorritt in 2008 and she kept cropping up in other things. She was in the adaptation of The Night Watch, the Sarah Waters novel, in 2011. I wasn't keen. I found her a weak link. In 2015 she was going to...
It’s a bit light, maybe, to be a day’s sole post, so I’m throwing this in as an extra. I was looking through my saved post list on Bluesky and found a few entertaining images that speak to me. Largely they say, “@!#?@!“, just like Q*bert...
Strawberry Earl Grey for the Full Strawberry Moon Adagio's tea blends that are only available on the day of the full moon feel very specifically targeted to my interests.
Not to bury the lede (and in true meme manner) I have some ‘personal news’. I’ll be leaving my role at the National Data Library / Government Digital Service at the end of the summer (September 4th to be precise) and before you ask, no I...
The latest in a sequence of claims of very large scale structures in the distribution that violate the cosmological principle emerged a week or so ago with a paper in Nature. The paper is behind a paywall but here is the abstract: I’ve...
Big news: according to Sony's latest blog post dated July 1st, 2026, quote:In response to shifting trends in consumer preference, new games will be release on PlayStation Store and at retailers in digital formats only.That's right!...
Ok here's what we've got from last month (published in the UK in hardback). With the World Cup in full swing and England not yet out of it, I'm pleased to see at least one football history book on the list! Here are the three that appeal...
Flags flying on the waterfront at Shearwater BC. There are two standard Canada flags and two of Curtis Wilson’s 2005 Indigenous Canada flag I spent yesterday, Canada Day, with my friend Pauline Le Bel inside the common room at our...
I remember 9/11 about as well as anyone would who wasn’t directly involved. I remember being on 24-hour duty that day at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri. I remember being skeptical of the trainees calling for us to look at the television in...
On the comedy beat from Broadway to vaudeville to movies, thinking of two terrific writer-director-performers. One is star of stage, screen, Ziegfeld Follies etc. Leon Errol, born in Sydney, Australia on July 3, 1881. The other is Mel...
The Checkout Counter #43 to my RSS readers: a few people let me know that my RSS feed was broken, so hopefully it's fixed now! please reach out to ayu@sweetfish.site if there are still any issues. thank you!we're halfway through the year...