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Art is stealing. Stealing means blending your sources into something new: an artistic smoothie. Not that I consider my writing “art,” but here are 7 writers I’ve stolen from: #1. James Altucher. He’s the writer who has inspired me the...
Eggnob's been progressing pretty slowly over the last few weeks; between trips away and the scorching heat I've been too tired to do much level design, but I have sorted out all gameflow / UI stuff to the point where there's a "game",...
From The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine, by Serhii Plokhy (Basic Books, 2017), Kindle pp. 204-205: The Treaty of Kuchuk Kainarjae, signed in 1774, looked like a setback for Russian aspirations in the Black Sea region. Imperial...
I see that this is week 26, so I’ve been writing this newsletter weekly for a little more than six months! If you like it, please forward it along to someone else who might like it, and of course subscribe to get it delivered in your...
The only way to live in this heat is with your feet in (very) cold water. Admittedly, the pool used to feel much larger when the kids were much smaller, but it still gets the job done. Thank God this new garden has a tap, so filling it...
Happy weekend! Here’s hoping the forecast spoke true and we’ll be getting some cooler weather here, because the heat is incredible. It is definitely too bloody hot (a song which is stuck in my cranium something fierce). Books acquired...
The state does not have a free-floating power to restrict…ideas. – Judge Kevin G. Ritz The Cop Myth (#1541) How long will America ignore the costs of its sick worship of police violence? …In the decade to 2024, the number of Americans...
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The first world problems have been coming at us hard the past couple of weeks. Amidst the excitement of moving into our new house we started to experience a streak of serial disappointments so consistent that it seems scripted. It...
Contents:- Similarities between fishing and gardening- A secret Hertfordshire chalkstream - The Itchen in a heatwave- Fishing report from Northern Italy - An author faded from view- Carp on a fly (baiting the water with bread, you say?)-...
HTML Day is an annual celebration of HTML during which we gather in-person to write HTML, learn with and from each other, and enjoy the beautiful fusion of the real world and the independent web. HTML energy is all around us. Let’s...
Life The cat continues to shit in the kids’ room. Hard to tell if this is a protest, or if its litter box isn’t big enough and/or if it’s a bit thick. Maybe a bit of all three. The low point of the week was the builder laying the...
I don't really care for the roll under Characteristic value saves in a game where players always want to roll high. Classic Traveller already has a good system that insinuates what advantages high or low stats might give in a situation,...
A while back I related how I had been mocked by an English person for using the word “burglarize”. I ended by saying: Okay, whatever. Brits have been mocking the American language for centuries now. Let them go ahead. We all know who won...
We have a laptop with a broken arrow key. It's quite annoying! I wondered how easy it would be to remap a different key to be the right arrow key? Turns out it was dead easy on Linux. This can be achieved using an application called...