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Hi, welcome to this write-up of Exercise #002 by Sofia Santos on Gralhix. Here you can see what steps I took (and the thought processes behind them) to get to the answers, but of course there are many different ways of reaching the same...
What have you recently finished reading? I didn’t get much reading done yesterday, but on Monday night I finally finished reading Emma Southon’s Servus, which I originally received as an ARC. It’s pretty thorough on the topic of slavery...
He scolded the clankers
When you’re interested in studying a family of functions, it can be useful to look at a differential equation that the functions solve. This is a theme I’ve written about several times, most recently here and here, but also three years...
A few years ago, we looked at organizing bookmarks using Logseq and Raindrop.io collections. To be honest, this was neat but still failed to really give me the ideal bookmark experience I am looking for. I want to have huge collections...
George Eliot (1819-1880), Middlemarch, chapter XXIV: Mrs. Garth, like more celebrated educators, had her favorite ancient paths, and in a general wreck of society would have tried to hold her "Lindley Murray" above the waves. Hat tip:...
Pictures from an old business trip, from the times when we had plenty of time, not like today when everything is hush-hush, quickest and shortest as possible.
On the road in Idaho at an industry event, so instead of our regular Warship Wednesday programming, please accept this glimpse of the past. Every warship fan knows of the (in)famous Great War-era Moltke-class battlecruiser SMS Goeben,...
Marcel Breuer and his “harem” (from left to right: Marta Erps-Breuer, Katt Both and Ruth Hollos-Consemüller), c. 1927 Photo by Erich Consemüller, There's a 1927 photograph of architect and furniture designer Marcel Breuer sitting in one...
I went and Bubbled using the "random post" function, and found a couple of really great posts, with very little traction. Here is a list of the good ones I found, and I recommend going for a treck yourself. 16 Laps Around the Galaxy, 20...
CapnRex101 / Brickset: The LEGO Group has revealed the latest LEGO Super Mario sets, featuring new LEGO minifigures of beloved characters, at gamescom in Cologne. The new LEGO minifigures mark a refreshed LEGO Super Mario theme, newly...
In early 2026 I made a sort of reading plan. Since it’s “Staying Motivated” week in Blaugust, let’s see how that’s actually going. The reading plan had two main parts: follow Jared Henderson’s 2026 reading list, and find time for three...
Oberbozen is situated above Bozen, and you get a nice view of the Dolomites. Bozen, however, didn’t convince us as much - we should’ve returned earlier to Lago di Caldaro to swim some more.
Freudian slip? #git #merge #merde #french #dev #code
I love when a character in a novel is a reader. How did Raj’s constant re-reading of Vanity Fair shape his attitude toward Hollywood and the L— family? What connections did he make or fail to make between the novel and his life? Is there...