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Allan Rankin sang:The Jeffery boys are strong and leanThe best damn workers you’ve ever seenThey’ll cut more wood than a horse can haulNear six chords before nightfallThis morning, at The 5th Wave, the daughter of one of the Jeffery boys...
You probably don’t really think of Who Framed Roger Rabbit? (1988) as a frock flick, but
For years, people have used social media to seed disinformation in order to swing elections. Now, the answers our search engines and expert systems produce have become more vulnerable.
A commenter recommended the book, Addiction by Design: Machine Gambling in Las Vegas, by the anthropologist Natasha Dow Schüll, and I checked it out of the library. It’s a study of people who play slot machines and video poker, focusing...
Back when I was a salesman and young and with no real direction or idea as to what I wanted for myself, the bad days were hard and the hard days were unbearable to say the least.An older friend of mine used to tell me, “just keep...
When the agent does the typing, your fundamentals quietly atrophy. Why it happens now, and the habits I'm using to stay sharp.
Y’all already know that I am not a horror fan. Horror has always been my least favorite movie genre, and there are very few movies within the genre that I even consider worthwhile. When I went to see Obsession, I was already outside of...
In the previous post, we learned how to get started with managing and building a Haskell project with Nix. In this post, we learn how to easily create statically-linked executables for Haskell projects with Nix.
Vitals James Garner as Jim Rockford, wisecracking private detective and ex-convict Los Angeles to Las Vegas, Summer 1974 Series: The Rockford Files Episodes: – “Backlash of the Hunter” (Pilot episode, dir. Richard T. Heffron, aired...
In-depth demonstration of 3D lettering and shadowing effects with Bold Statements’ Pieter Snijders.
(Sarah Read is an author, editor, yarn artist, and pen/paper/ink addict. You can find more about her at her website and on Bluesky. And her latest book, The Atropine Tree, is now available!)Have you ever been asked what pens you would...
For a while now I’ve been working with the people at Shiny Frog – the team behind Bear – on something new. Today it goes into beta testing. It’s called Lettera, and it’s a Markdown editor for macOS.