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Show: Star Trek Strange New Worlds S4E5 — "Level-Five Transporter Accident" Aka The one when the crew turns into puppets (you read that correctly). This episode was an improvement over the one where they went to the party planet, and...
Something of a sequel to Part2 - Garway. In around 1170 - The English King, Henry II granted the Knights Templar the rights to a preceptory at Garway. A preceptory being a local administrative centre both for spiritual needs as well as...
Reading one of Robert Birming's post, We Live and We Learn, made me think of something my mother once told me and I don't know if it was something she learnt or was told, but I distinctly remember her saying to me one time: One of our...
Engineers love to bicker about what “is the way.”Some of what we bicker about is recurring: tabs vs. spaces, Vim vs. Emacs. There is no true right or wrong. It isn’t that Vim is better than Emacs, and tabs aren’t necessarily better than...
Today was the last day for the Oh Hey coffee spot at Founders Hall, so I stopped down to have my friend Lori Joy make me a flat white. It was very good.Oh Hey will be missed downtown; you can still grab a coffee at their Brackley Beach...
Greetings, programs. Once again, I'm a bit behind on these posts, but I just got back from two weeks of travel and I'm so happy to be home for a while. My last trip was pretty stressful. On the way out, our plane blew a tire (or tires)...
There's a Strange Planet comic where two characters have friends over. "Your home is beautiful," the friends say. "Thank you," the characters say. Then confess, "We own things but have hidden them." My friends came to stay and despite...
Special functions are special because they’re useful. They can also be shrouded in arcane terminology. These two facts are related. The more widely useful a function is, the more likely it is that the function will be discovered...
Welcome to Libby. As we pulled into Libby, the sign welcoming us to town was fantastic. Unlike the other small towns we'd been through in northwestern Montana, there was no WordArt here. Surely a sign doesn't say much about the people in...
Abandoned Iron Truss Bridge, Denton TX. I've been thinking about love, lately. What it really means. I used to think love meant you'd do anything for the other person, but now that I'm older, I realize that's not love, that's...
A useful agent trace must show what it missed, not just what it recorded.
Pretty sure it’s time for bifocals or progressive lenses and I’m just about due for my annual eye exam, so this should work out well. 👓
From Empire of the Winds: The Global Role of Asia’s Great Archipelago, by Philip Bowring (I.B. Tauris, 2018), Kindle pp. 39-41: Even at the lowest sea levels of the last ice age, there was deep water between Bali on the edge of the Sunda...
Northolt is a town in the London Borough of Ealing, west London, with a population of around 30,000 people. The first recorded evidence of a human settlement here is from 872 where an Anglo Saxon place is recorded as Nord Healum. It then...
here it comes again every single day the pavement whispers screams of the seed of the fall other things said Fadd9 Yesterday :: Sunday, 23rd August 2026