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Montague Burton, the tailor of taste. But, imho, not so tasteful these days on Long Eaton High Street.I have just been alerted to the "restoration" of a Burton's store in Derbyshire. I know this isn't in London, but I fear this type of...
My brain has been ping-ponging all over the place. I wish I could say that I have seized summer, that I have put together a new book length volume of poetry--or even that I've written lots of new poems. I wish I could say that I've...
Here at LSOZI, we take a break every Wednesday to explore the old steam/diesel navies from 1833 to 1954, profiling a different ship each week. These ships have a life, a tale all their own, which sometimes takes them to the strangest...
THE STORY: Liz & Bob Macklin purchase an old home in Marshall, Massachusetts and begin an extensive rehab project transforming the gloomy, dark paneled, house into a bright, livable home. Liz is curious about the former owner, Seton...
Source: Tinfoil Pigeons — see the aircraft overhead right now
How a Log4Shell-style LDAP/RMI callback returns a javax.naming.Reference, byte for byte — and two serialization bugs that only a real JVM catches.
This column is a guest author feature, written by a friend of the site whose work I am thrilled to host at Retro XP. This entry is from Exalclaw’s Wallace Truesdale. Previous entries in this series can be found through this link.“Art...
If you still haven’t decided which burger recipe you’ll be making for the upcoming holiday weekend, I’m going to encourage you to make Thomas Straker’s Chili Cheese Smash Burgers! Homemade milk bread buns toasted in butter, topped with a...
Warm and humid with an occasional breeze. Mosquitoes are out in force, both large and small species, flying with disconcerting speed. I clap and clap.
Embeddings are numerical representations of real-world objects, such as words, phrases, text, images, audio, and video. Since the real world is so complex, these representations are usually vector arrays of floating-point numbers. This...
I don't follow football (soccer) but I do enjoy watching football (soccer) matches. The tribalism of the whole football (soccer) scene just leaves me cold. I hear people at work talking about how "we" did at the weekend and it just...
I’m happy to present another title in the Grammaticus Free Library series: “Squirrel” by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman. The PDF comes with vocabulary notes and a grammar exercise on non-standard, dialectal forms used by the author.
Futurism points us to what happens happens when tech bro "engineers" run into actual engineers: A scathing takedown video — a collaboration between Irish aeronautical engineer Brian McManus from the YouTube channel Real Engineering and...
#1 Ecco #2 Flurry of peregrines #3 All gone except Yellow A flurry of peregrines. But who? 30 June 2026, 4:51pm (photos from the snapshot camera) 1 July 2026 This morning when I pulled motion detection photos of the Pitt peregrine nest I...
I recently started building products focused on healthcare affordability in the US. As I was ramping up on a new space, the biggest question that sparked my curiosity was: how did we get here? This question is the inspiration for this...