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Go ahead, point and laugh. Call me a nerd. I can’t help it. I am always making a spreadsheet about something. Too many browser tabs? Put them all in a spreadsheet. Forget what all your hobbies/active projects are every two weeks? Put...
The last Wizards home game our family attended back in April was a disaster. We forgot to bring noise canceling earmuffs for the baby and spent most of the night in the dreary concession stand hallway. Guest Services were only able to...
Wallgate Wallgate Market Place Summer days like this, with temperatures day after day in excess of 30ºC, are so unusual that many struggle to cope when the sun is at its highest. Some take sensible precautions, like an umbrella, while...
The Mystery of the Missing Treasure by Janet Lorimer, 1987. Pete’s family has moved from the city to a small town because his father has taken a new job, and the move hasn’t been easy for him. Besides leaving his friends and his school,...
I’ve gathered up two of my themes for bear blog and made them available for all to use. I plan to make some more and hopefully get a good collection going. Feel free to check out the themes page if you’re interested. In addition to the...
Superhero films are not generally a lot of fun when there’s serious world saving to be done yet Supergirl ,while it does have some darker hues to its story, is light and breezy enough to make you smile. Unlike the most recent Superman...
Paul Kafasis on the Rogue Amoeba Blog: Free The Icons: With last year’s release of MacOS 26 (Tahoe), Apple made a mess of app icons. In the first betas of MacOS 27 (Golden Gate), however, there are signs of a turnaround. We’re urging...
This took me aaaaaaages omg. Link to the Ravelry page. I'm kind of dissatisfied with the shape of the black side, which is the side where I did the reductions (which I expected to be easier!) but I've been doing this long enough to know...
This novella may only be 102 pages long, but each and ever page of In Shadows We Fall drips with palace politics, intrigue, and deception. Madson’s Aurealis award-winning prequel to the Vengeance trilogy, rips along at a blistering pace...
I submitted talk proposals about Pystd, the from-scratch written standard library for C++ (custom design, not a implementation of the ISO specification) to a bunch of conferences. Unfortunately all of them were rejected, so it's blog...
I have been blogging since the early 2000s on a variety of platforms. When I discovered Bear, it was refreshing. Bear reminded me of the internet of the 1990s. Friction-free, populated by normal people. It is so undemanding. Setting-up a...
Those days when you need oven mitts to put in your seatbelt.
The Sayings of the Desert Fathers. The Alphabetical Collection. Translated, with a forward by Benedicta Ward, rev. ed. (Kalamazoo: Cistercian Publications, 1984), p. 73 (Theodore of Pherme, #1): Abba Theodore of Pherme had acquired three...
Time to bring this lightly-edited review out of the vaults! This obscure Biograph short not only contains one of Mary Pickford’s earliest film appearances, but it was also my first contribution to a blogathon back in Ye Olde Days of …...