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I have been staring at Barrie Cooke’s pencil sketch for a month, sucked into the mesh of scribbled lines whirling between two figures in a boat, hauling in a curved fish in a net. They are a man and a boy to my eyes—an older boy, 17 or...
A nice day but a cool wind still. Cleared the big rose bed and burnt all the hedge clippings. The gang came for tea. Jane doing a funny little walk.
And so we conclude the July 2026 RPG Blog Carnival - our topic was "Small Gods, Saints and minor divinity!" - on my mind was the fun I have had with small gods in my recent campaigns; divinities on a personal scale. This was a...
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Plant identification books use one sense to identify a plant: vision. Yet sight is also one of the easiest ways to confuse a plant. ... Continue The post The Sense Books Forgot appeared first on Robin Harford from Eatweeds.
Pre-1150 (Old English) fēdan: "to nourish, give food to, sustain" — the base verb, from Proto-Germanic *fōdjan, ultimately PIE *peh₂- ("to guard, graze, feed"). 1570s–1580s (agriculture/animals/plants) First noun use of "feed" (1575,...
A few more pix from the archive this morning: Second studio in Houston back in 2021. Third studio in Houston circa 2024. Writing table at 3rd Houston studio. Early TSG script, written in Los Angeles around 2016, before I adopted more of...
Here’s a quick history of minds. First, there were no minds, just stupid stuff undergoing simple local interactions. Then appeared the first proto-mind: Darwinian evolution, via DNA. Under this, the universe made choices according to a...
Let's head on down to Orlando, Florida, to visit Walt Disney World, circa March 1976. The park had been open for less than five years at that point! As I've said before, I sure wish I could have seen it in its early state, but... I still...
Every Saturday we round up the best writing about beer from the past week. This time, we’ve got Hanoi lager, warm ale and Belfast oysters. First, news from London of possible changes to a unique (?) drinking culture: Westminster Council...
This is the last part (10) of a series of blog posts. Please start with part 1 first. The title of this post is admittedly a bit clickbaity. To overcome evil is a task which will need the collective efforts of whole humankind. Therefore...
KDE has a little utility called ksshaskpass that is invoked by SSH to prompt the user for credentials. It can then store them in KDE Wallet so you don’t have to type them again next time. The other day I had to set up an elaborate SSH...
but specifically in baltimore. i've spent the last 2 hours tweaking bits of my blog while re-watching emily in paris. i also updated my now page and realized i'm not "making" anything and that was disappointing. note to self: make...
It's quite late as I write this. I'm lazy about posting sometimes, but there hasn't been too much going on. Wednesday I went to a lgbtq+ meetup group thing and it was mostly chill. The people were pretty alright, though ironically I...
Source Scientists discovered ancient wolves on a tiny Baltic island where they could only have been brought by humans, suggesting an unexpectedly close relationship between people and wolves thousands of years ago. Evidence indicates the...