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A lovely warm sunny day. Asked Doc about Charlie’s flat. I hope I can get it. Car washing. H.T.B1.G.Doc making 105 to date. Not much in to burn. Young Martin out of lab left.
It is generally accepted that GURPS Vehicles, the vehicle design supplement for the third edition of that game, is not something anyone would use at the table; I'd agree with that. But it did form the surprising basis of a campaign I ran...
My 20th and final book for the 20 Books of Summer challenge is the winner of this year’s Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction, Alice Jolly’s The Matchbox Girl. I wasn’t sure about reading this book as I’d heard that it was written...
Earlier this week, I looked at a review copy sent my way by Seven Stories Press, a novel in which an Argentinian man had a rather unusual experience in Berlin, and today’s Women in Translation Month choice is another little present from...
NABRUN LEIDS New and Significantly Jointed The Vintage Collection 3 3/4-Inch HasLab Cantina Pack-In Item No.: No. G1302 Manufacturer: Hasbro Number: #HAS011 Includes: 1 tumbler, 2 blasters, 1 alternate hose Action Feature: n/a Retail:...
Duncan Rawlinson photographed this panoramic view of the 1000 Islands region during winter. Snow blankets the granite islands and frozen shorelines while open water reflects a soft, overcast sky. The elevated vantage reveals the...
Of Dice and Dragons themselves give us this months prompt Time, both in world and above the table, for the RPG Blog Carnival. I have gotten a fair few strategies to make the real-world clock run - from 'run with 3' roster games, regular...
Python A-Z is a blog series about Python. Each day, I share insights, ideas and examples for different parts of Python development that match with the letter of the day. Blaugust is an annual blogging festival in August where the goal is...
Well, this is unexpected. There were rumours while I was away–and Hugging Face reportedly turned down a $500 million NVIDIA investment earlier this year–but buying the entire thing for $12.9 billion doesn’t fit my mental model of NVIDIA,...
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Popular perception of history are almost always constructed out of half remembered facts, myths and legends and very often have no real relation to what actually took place. In the western world the popular perceptions of the Ottoman...
It's been harder to fall asleep. Somehow, my brain is starting to think that my desk job is dangerous. Having to wake up to do things that I don't want to do is getting harder to white-knuckle through. And after spending 3 hours doing...
In July, at the start of this latest North American ‘distraction’, I experimented with various couplings. Trying all the ‘main stream’ examples wasn’t a cheap experiment and ended largely frustrated…The Microtrains 1015 (now very...
If you’re weighing Sonnet 5 against Sonnet 4.6 for everyday Claude Code work, here is the short version. Sonnet 5 is the better default for most jobs. It answers more concisely, runs much faster, and is now permanently cheaper than 4.6...
"When you boil it all down it's only album art", so said the critic who knows better. Pleasant packaging and mostly meaningless. But perhaps there's more of this sort of thing growing wild and free out there - however I've lost the will...