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Lurks should be a training video for the Intergalactic Federation of Planets called “What NOT to do if you crash land on a mysterious alien planet” because the protagonist does so many things wrong. You would think that she has never...
Es gibt eine Menge gastronomischer Angebote, die man in Leipzig erwartet – von hip über vegan bis hin zu sterneverdächtig. Schließlich hat sich die Stadt inzwischen zu einem „place to be“ entwickelt. Irgendwie passt da… Der Beitrag...
The strange death of a pioneering Cold War computer scientist.
Disclaimers Opinions expressed in this post do not reflect the views/positions of no affiliated group. Unto Caesar what is Caesar's: Claude helped beautify all the diagrams used in this article. Hook My hierarchy asked me to take the...
I'm awake at a weird hour because of piloerection. I assure you piloerection is an actual term and a condition of the human body even though the Bear Blog editor insists on underlining it as a misspelling. It means the erection or...
In the run up to the Season of Scenery painting challenge I’ve been finishing off a few bits and pieces, but have got a bit behind with blog posts. So I’m trying to catch up a bit tonight while I’m watching Norway beat England beat...
She is not only vastly stupid, but also vastly lazy. – W.A. Mozart There was no way I was going to feature anything by the Village People over one of my favorite songs (which I’ve somehow never featured), sung by Bonnie Tyler but written...
“For Ubbo-Sathla is the source and the end. Before the coming of Zhothaqquah or Yok- Zothoth or Kthulhut from the stars; Ubbo-Sathla dwelt in the steaming fens of the new-made Earth: a mass without head or members, spawning the gray,...
The Case of the Running Man (1958), the 52nd entry in the Ludovic Travers series, rang in the last phase of Christopher Bush's decades-long run as one of Britain's premier mystery novelists as two more would appear in the late 1950s and...
I am slightly baffled by the objections raised by Southwark Council to Steven Thorpe’s decision to place a chunk of the Berlin Wall in his garden, not least the observation that it presents an “oppressive sense of enclosure and stark...
Anne Lamott has written over 20 books. Among them, Bird by Bird, one of the most popular writing memoirs. I just devoured her interview on David Perell’s YouTube channel. Here are my quotes, extracts, and lessons: #1. “The point is not...
The huge website/webzine of which I have the honor to be a senior editor and manager of its Greek edition for many years now invited a group of authors to post their favorite photos they personally took of their own bottles (Well, a...
That is a header I've wanted to write for so long! 22 trips, across 4 seasons, 2684 miles driven to accomplish one objective, find and catch a double figure Barbel. This is so far my single biggest hurdle cleared in this challenge yet....
for me, summer is the time for death. when i was a kid, i had no school in the summer, no fun new classes, no new tv series starting up, and parents would try to send me away somewhere so that i would enjoy the sea. the sea i liked, the...
I have been part of some interesting conversations over the last two days around AI. It’s hard to avoid AI as a topic around most tables you sit at these days. Now that we all have access to the same LLM models from Anthropic or OpenAI,...