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Dahilan (Reason) by Mesándel Virtusio Arguelles (De La Salle University Publishing House, 2026) It wouldn’t be too much to require that before reading Parra one consider the
I went to the library, and just browsed. No aim. Path of least resistance. I hadn't been to this library before. Found myself browsing a shelf that seemed to have no order. Fiction, non-fiction. Then I saw the receipts. This was the...
Welcome to the weekly newsletter. This week on the blog I wrote How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love 5e. The most popular posts this week were Dolmenwood Resources for You, Dungeon, Inc., A First Review, Reading in the Dark, Close and...
I have a small batch of scans featuring various parades, and thought it might be fun to share some of them today.This first one is from the 1950s (I believe), from Long Beach, California. A bathing beauty waves to an appreciative crowd,...
Time management training is popular. The evidence that it works is thin. The critique that landed hardest for me: these trainings teach planning and structuring, and they leave volition alone. Volition is the capacity to protect an...
All done in brickGlancing up a York backstreet called Oglethorpe, I caught sight of this, a brick building of 1648, to which a pair of curvy, Dutch-style gables with dormer windows were added a bit later in the 17th century. It is said...
In the 2 weeks since my last post I've spent a bunch of time getting my Forgejo Action Runner working. Although really it's more "getting certain things working on the runner". After years of using, making, and fixing Github Actions for...
After a week in which, holy Toledo, freakin’ glaciers melted in Nepal and all-world all-star champion megawatt entertainers Dolly Parton and Tim Curry passed, the question of how the heck Monsieur Blogmeister can write today’s post...
On route to Carrot Road where Burnley play Norwich City this afternoon. A long journey and mixed start to the season means that there is plenty of room on the coach today - much needed as I have some work to do en route.
I've been keeping a list of all the movies I've watched on Letterboxd since August 2018 - so that's eight years now, and as of today 1005 total movies. That makes 125 movies a year. I think the number is pretty inflated by 2020 and 2021,...
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A couple of days ago I wrote that smarter form targeting was coming to CIDER, and I ended that post by asking whether I’d got the resolution rules right and whether anything still surprised people. I got an answer. CIDER 2.1 will ship...
on first sight acceptance and growth seem to contradict each other since when i accept myself, why should i want to grow? or when i want to grow do i really accept myself? here is a different perspective: accepting the things we can’t...
Every Saturday we round up the best writing about beer from the past week. This time, we’ve got newstalgia, community spaces and hangmen. First, some stats on community pubs via the Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA): Since May’s bulletin,...
Source Hello there Contender! One of the biggest great whites being tracked in the North Atlantic just pinged off Ingonish Beach in Cape Breton. Contender is a massive 13.8-foot roughly 1,653-pound male who has travelled more than 7,000...