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George Bellairs set a few of his mysteries on the Isle of Man such as Death of a Tin God (1961) and Half-Mast for the Deemster (1953). Today’s read is also another example of this setting in use.
Paul the Deacon assembled information from some of the greatest scholars and historians and his own observations to assemble his Historia Langobardorum. Written between 787 and 796CE, he recounts the mythical origins of the Lombards.In his recording, he offers us such gems as this, from chapter 4:In the farthest...
Tree on a Mound, John Chrome, etching, 13 x 12 in. ( 34 x 32 cm), in the collection fo the National Gallery of Art, DC. English landscape painter John Chrome, who was active in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, evokes a wooded scene with a wonderful selection of straight and wavy lines and textural scribbles,...
RIP Frank Beard
TIL my Tumblog (which reposts my posts from here) turned 17 years old back in March. Tumblr was quite a place in its time. I remember starting The Watercolor Gallery there and it exploding in growth (did you know I’m slowly restoring that website? Go take a look it is getting there).
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I’m trying to finish up the OpenZFS Mastery chapter on disk space use today. Well, my part of it. I’m planning to dump–delegate, delegate–the section on deduplication to Allan. When you have a co-author expert, use them. Zstd offers compression levels from 1 to 19. The default is zstd-3, a reasonable compromise...
Omniscient Reader's Viewpointby singNsongGenres: Fantasy, Horror, Light Novels Pages: 259 Series: Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint (light novel) #3 Rating: Synopsis: Dokja has been able to step one step ahead in the apocalypse thanks to his knowledge of TWSA, but what if he were to lose that advantage? In the next...
The final album by the Spanish war metal horde didn't diverge even to the slightest from delivering exactly what was expected, and exactly at the same manner: bestial chaos in reverb and echo. As daring this style inherently is, Proclamation had decide to fully compromise to its definition parameters with a record...
I like eggs. I like all sort of eggs. Hard-boiled, sunny-side-up-ed, poached, fried, omelette-d, scrambled, salted, steamed, benedicted, soft-boiled, and even centuried. I used to dislike century eggs, but as I get older, I get to appreciate its taste and texture. Especially if it is in a bowl of pipping hot...
This 404 report justly been getting considerable coverage.Amazon is buying massive quantities of books, scanning them for AI training data, and destroying them in the process. A 404 Media investigation was able to reveal Amazon’s book buying operation, which hasn’t been previously reported, by placing a tracking...

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