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I kindly turned down the offer when a client today asked if I wanted a cup of coffee. We sat down and he poured himself a cup. Then, of course, I couldn’t resist having one as well. If he hadn’t mentioned coffee, I wouldn’t have missed...
Encountered a while back via Facebook, this YouTube video: [text:] Los Futbolitos, es un dúo de youtubers dominicanos, compuesto por Ángelo Valdés, alias “Will” y Vincent Peréz, en el que se dedican a hacer videos sobre fútbol y...
The imbalance conjecture is now a theorem. James Alexander Schreib and Yousof Yavari posted a proof last week. What does the conjecture theorem say? Start with a graph G and for every edge, calculate the absolute value of the difference...
This is not a heartbreaker.I default to g20 for pickup games, but I keep missing certain house rules. This will be my default going forward (living document, obvs). The jar is there to contain the scope. (easy to share, read,...
Like most people who studied English Literature in college, I've fantasized about writing a novel one day. Over time that goal has, let's say, slimmed responsibly to fit its britches. These days I'm more interested in short stories, but...
Just a genuine question that came up in my mind. I've been reading a lot of Insta posts about the (new) algorithm and that you get the most profile views / new followers / engagement if people respond to your post. Instagram will show...
Coolness. I've blogged for around 20 years. Used a dozen platforms. Always end up quitting, because of spam, psychos in the comments, ads, poor design, or boredom. I have never been bored on this platform. I have never been spammed, or...
Here’s the last of a set of varieties that came in an enormous bucket I found at a local grocery for CNY. These have been pretty good! Let’s try this last one. Mo Xiao Xian Spicy Chongqing Noodle – China A distributor / import sticker...
The problem with also being a publisher is work in progress often skips public scrutiny. The scrutinising isn't so essential as the act of putting it out there and cementing part of its reality, which I do less than ever resulting in a...
17:27 - Gonna bake some chocolate chip cookies for The Shopkeeper as a thank you. I have all the ingredients except for a bar of chocolate. So now I need to go to the grocery store for one bar of chocolate, which seems excessive. I...
I went to plenty of great sessions when I was in Belfast. One of the best was during Belfast Tradfest, out at The Hatfield with Bríd Harper, Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh, and Michael Rooney. I ended up sitting next a lovely local fiddler named...
Yeah, I'm committing to the bit.I recently converted Dungeon Module B1: In Search of the Unknown to Into the Oddish. It's B1, but with Pokémon. I even created a sandbox for it, just as I did with the original B1. I've been running B1 in...
Orosius, Against the Pagans 2.6.13 (tr. Roy J. Deferrari): It is not necessary at this point to amplify the unstable conditions of changing events. For whatever is made by the hand and work of man collapses and is consumed by the passage...
A.W. Pickard-Cambridge (1873-1952), Demosthenes and the Last Days of Greek Freedom, 384-322 B.C. (New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1914), p. 489: The claim of Demosthenes to be ranked among the heroic men of the past rests above all on the...
I was taken aback by the description “QUANTUM DRY” but then I remembered Chapter 40 of the Feynman Lectures on Physics on the topic of The Flow of Dry Water, by which is meant the flow of a fluid with zero viscosity (i.e. inviscid flow)....