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To the Archon of Burdock's Valley, Lord Iskander Basileon, Imperial salutations, etc. This song was taken from one of the rabblerousers we were charged with vanquishing. We heard them sing it as a form of morale booster. It is the...
What did medieval people think about different races? How did they distinguish one ethnic group from another? This question occurred to me when reading up on Regino of Prüm, who around 900CE wrote the following:Nec non et illud sciendum,...
In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book. Previous contributors include Jesmyn Ward, Lauren Groff, Bret Easton Ellis, Celeste Ng, T.C. Boyle, Dana...
Looking at my peak male physique, and my Keanu Reeves baby face, you would never suspect it, but I recently turned 50. As is the tradition, I thought about writing a post titled "50 Lessons at 50". Unfortunately, I don't have that kind...
In this post we’re going to see how share.acquire.mode=record_limit combined with:fewer consumers than partitionsand various cases of “partition skew”…can result in subpar performance with share groups. I stumbled on these issues when...
An Important reminder at Hunter Gatherer 21C: We are never just ourselves. We are ourselves plus the world we move through. A human being is not a sealed unit but a creature in constant exchange with its surroundings: light and dark,...
Everyone is nervous, at least to some extent, on their first day at a new job. Yet spare a thought for young Pierre (as I have called him). He is the only human living in a world of animals and even his recent couture diploma isn’t going...
The St Katharine Docks are a very pleasant, picturesque and pedestrian-friendly part of London that deserves much, much better restaurants than they has hitherto been blessed with. Banquet 88's immediate neighbours are Café Rouge, Côte...
There’s long been a disconnect between concerns about the massive impact of AI data centres on electricity demand and claims by Sam Altman and others that the impact is really modest. Ed Zitron recently posted a summary of OpenAI’s 2025...
Escaping the Heatwave, Evading the PubA walk from "Best Pubs in South Devon" holds plenty of promise.Yet compromises need to be made. We are on day 2 of the heatwave that has had the news outlets reaching for ever darker crayons. Mrs M...
Thunderstorm in the distance Week in rewind⚽ I went out with friend to watch the Belgian game against Egypt, on the big screen. It wasn't exactly a big screen, rather 2 smaller ones, making it hard to follow at times. However, going to...
Wesley Yin-Poole / IGN: Rockstar Games has finally announced the price of GTA 6, while confirming it features a “single-player experience” at launch. Rockstar said GTA 6 costs $79.99 across PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X and S,...
Chillscape is celebrating Spooky Season a little early with some chill horror (and horror-adjacent) video game music! This week's guest is Dave Pietrangelo, host of "Remember 64" ➡️ https://linktr.ee/Remember64 CHAPTERS ⤵️ 00:00 Intro/...
It is absolutely blazing out there today. Heat warnings are in effect. Friday looks like it’s going to be the hottest day. OPERATIONS: 700 words yesterday, looking for at least 1000 todaySTATUS: DHL have lost a mystery parcel that was on...
A look at the new experimental headingoffset attribute, which lets heading levels adapt to their context instead of hardcoding h2s and h3s. A thoughtful explanation of where this could be genuinely useful, especially in component-based...