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In my recent weekly updates of activity at the Open Journal of Astrophysics, the latest of which is here, I’ve remarked that we had built up quite a backlog of papers accepted but yet to be published. This is no doubt due to August being...
Back in September of 2020, I provided an in-depth review of McDonald's Spicy Chicken McNuggets. I thought they were utterly delicious thanks to avoiding being too spicy, but still having some zip to them. They've been gone from the menu...
IntroductionWell, we’re finally here: the discussion of variance in golf I’ve been working on for months. The good news is that the work is done. But the topic is long and dense, so I’ll be breaking it up into three parts to make it a...
On the 23rd of September we will come to San Jose to run the We Are Developers World Congress North America and I am dizzy with planning and excitement. 10k attendees, 600 speakers, tons of content. If you use WEAREDEVSDAY on checkout,...
Learn the fundamental principles behind OOP and how they connect to the syntax of Python. Introduction Welcome! This article will teach you the core ideas behind object-oriented programming, commonly known as OOP. This is the article I...
We got the fourth issue of RevERBerate, a fanzine devoted to Edgar Rice Burroughs, in May 2026. Like the previous ones, this one is again 48 pages, it is printed on high-quality, glossy stock, perfect-bound with color cardstock covers....
Jenn drove our coach and I followed in our truck (due to the tow failure) 261 miles / 420 km, about five hours of driving, from Wild Rose RV Park in Hope, British Columbia, Canada across the border to our home base near Shelton,...
August Derleth is not really one of my favorite authors. But he has two redeeming qualities.First are his Solar Pons stories. They are a pastische of the Sherlock Holmes stories and could be easily dismissed, but I found them rather fun....
The C64 Appreciation Society has two videos on works by Access Software, which got its start making Commodore 64 games. Their first product was an interesting wargame called Beach-Head. It followed an interconnected mini-game structure,...
A truly interesting and very well-written article has appeared in Early Medieval History this month. Fortunately it is open-access. The article is T. Dailey & Justin Piggott, “Ascetics, slaves, and necessity in Late Antiquity: renouncing...
I recently posted some code snippets for tabbed content containers that easily drop into bearblog pages/posts. I’ve had some pretty good reactions to this, and I really appreciate it! I’ve received a few emails from folks asking for...
Over the past couple weeks I’ve been revisiting Nora Goldschmidt’s Fragmentary Modernism: The Classical Fragment in Literary and Visual Cultures, c.1896 – c.1936 (2024). It has me thinking about fragments again and how they might be...
Good morning my fabulous readers. This will be a quick post as I just wanted to share something cool I built with Cursor over the past couple of days - a LEGO screensaver. I'm a huge fan of "show me something random from something I...
Though it’s been more than four decades, I still remember the jarring contrast. A broiling sun bore down on my skinny shoulders as creek water that felt as if drained from a glacier caressed my sun-kissed 8-year-old legs. While water and...
Miykon Vintage Tank-Style Watch Introduction This is possibly one of the stranger watches in my collection. It was a total impulse buy on Amazon. It has some unique features that are completely right, and some that are completely wrong....