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One of the recent answers on Jeopardy! was Kate Chopin’s The Awakening. No one got it. Well, I did, but I wasn’t competing. I barely remember reading this book in high school, except that I was deeply moved by it. I do remember the...
Phineas Taylor Barnum was born in Connecticut in 1810, and over the course of his life flitted between showbusiness and politics – supposedly coining the adage “There’s a sucker born every minute” along the way. In 1980, Mark Bramble...
With 50odd sessions under the belt my Glimmermark campaign enters the third year. Which is maybe not the longest roleplaying campaign I ever had, but certainly one with the most individual sessions. The secret, it turns out, is to do the...
Recently an Amazon executive revealed that she had rejected a candidate who showed up to an interview in a T-Shirt that said “I’m too Hot for a Job”. This caused a lot of noise on social media with folks either supporting her or calling...
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. “Despite the suspension of norms in the mosh pit and the lifting of prohibitions on exercising aggression and violence, moshing was never a free-for-all. Like any social endeavour, there were unwritten rules of conduct. Entering a new...
when everything smells like clams & cornflakes where you gonna put your walrus when it rains
Yesterday, I went to Makati to meet a friend and eat Argentinian food. I also wanted to introduce my dear friend to Argentine cuisine. Apparently, there aren’t a lot of Argentinian restaurants in Makati, luckily, there’s Chingolo. First...
My music-fan cup runneth over lately, in the best way. An abundance of good-to-great-to-unbelievable shows over the past month that have left me wondering what I did in a past life (or maybe this one) to deserve all this. My...
It’s a horrible 36C here today, but I found that one of the more acceptable parts of the house was, amazingly, the loft. With the windows open to catch what (hot) breeze there was, and a fan working, I got some modelling done. First,...
with USBODE (USB Optical Drive Emulator): "Ever wanted a GoTek for CDs? If you have a Raspberry Pi Zero W or 2 W, USBODE turns it into a virtual optical drive. It allows you to store many disk images on a MicroSD card and mount them...
This is a very interesting one and I believe it to be its third iteration. Way back, this was garlic teriyaki and it was a splendid variant – one my wife loved and she’s not the biggest noodle human. Then they came out with a version...
First practice drawing from the Korp Academy. > we’re not learning to draw, we are drawing to learn. Love that.
Yesterday I had an idea for a possible experiment using Chrome's built-in AI support - looking for "date" references in strings. So for example: "I will have my new job in 12 days". Could the AI model recognize "12 days" as a date and...
TECH-NO Philip from It's all in your mind - sorry chaps, keep getting the title of your blog wrong - with the latest on the 'technique' discussion .....Philip is absolutely right about Indie, I reckon. It has shunned experimentalism...