The 1967 Paul Newman film Hombre is a classic revisionist western. It was based, as many brilliant westerns are, on the 1961 short story by Elmore Leonard, which has been reissued recently by Penguin as part of their short Western Classic series. The book has an unusual protaganist in John Russell (played by Newman in the film). Russell is white, but grew up and lived with Apaches. Despite

Two belated-but-brief points on the Holborn and St Pancras. 1. There's concern/exasperation among sensible politics understanderers that Zack Polanski is fighting the campaign as if Keir Starmer is still Prime Minister. Hasn't he noticed that there's been a change in Number 10? That Labour's polling recovery mean the Greens are finished? Let's consider the key issues the Green leader is running on. First, the cost of living crisis. Andy Burnham has emoted an understanding of the difficulties…

Perhaps things aren't as bleak as they appeared a year ago: I'm testing an open-source VoLTE (voice calling over 4G) implementation on my Note 9, and it seems to be working.

In angling, sometimes we are spoilt rotten with what we catch, most of the time we are not. Barbel angling for me over the last few years has been a slog for the most part as most of you know, however on the odd occasion I have come up trumps with some incredible captures of fish I could only dream of. This leads me on to this session, sometimes we get spoilt rotten. The Trent needs absolutely no introduction, it is without doubt the best Barbel river in the country, so where better place would…

ALTALTGraphic Thought Facility’s campaign for Habitat, 2003 (with a 100% crop below):For a modern take on Alpine, chocolate box scenes were rendered in vividly coloured cross-stitch.

London North Eastern Railway 1950 Brake Corridor Third E1866E (GOLD)The scaffolding has now been removed from around the completed roof, returning light and and the feeling of space to this quarter of the shed. This has in turn allowed access to the doors to be resumed, so door skinning and adjustment works can continue in earnest.Whilst waiting for the scaffolding to be dropped, interior works have continued, with fixtures and fittings being steadily added to the toilet compartment and…

There is a myth that is no longer told, and that is the point of it. It begins, as these stories do, on a mountain. At the top sat the gods, in a hall of white stone open to the sky, and below them, down the long green slope, lived the mortals who did the work of the world. The gods watched from abo…

ALTPoster for the British Council exhibition Work from London by Graphic Thought Facility, 1996:Exhibition design, exhibition graphic and marketing material for a group show of London-based designers. The poster used an impromptu map to demonstrate the proximity of the exhibitors.

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to learn to learn the interface to learn the process to fix the process to consider the people on the other side to find a strong answer, not just an answer to talk to a person just can’t be bothered, full stop. The post LLMs are great when you can’t be bothered… appeared first on Garrick van Buren.

Autumn Walkway – Buckeye, AZ – Fujifilm X-T5 – Pacific Blues Today is the first day of fall! At this time of the year, I get asked pretty regularly which Film Simulation Recipes are good for autumn photography. There are many that will do well. You might like some of them, while others might not match your personal style or be a good fit for the specific light situation you encounter. Still, there are several that I believe are good recommendations almost no matter what, that should serve you…

I already looked at the wurm once, in its role as a chaos agent for the Gruul Clans. But Selesnya makes use of wurms, too, according to chapter 6 of the Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica. However, there’s something a bit weird about the Selesnya Creatures table that lists them among the guild’s assets: Why is […] The post How to Call Your Wurm: Selesnya Conclave Edition appeared first on The Monsters Know What They’re Doing.

Martin Fowler, chief scientist at international software developer Thoughtworks: One of my most successful life-hacks is to avoid people I don’t like or don’t trust. I decline to interact with them socially, and make a deliberate effort to avoid working with them too, even if they are doing much that is beneficial. I feel that hanging out with pleasant, capable people, the people with integrity, has made my life a far better one. Hence my visceral dislike of interacting with an LLM that’s not…

Two rural words, one common and one not, both with interesting etymologies I hadn’t known. 1) brock ‘(male) badger’: From Middle English brok, from Old English broc (“badger”), related to Danish brok (“badger”); both probably originally from a Celtic source akin to Irish broc, Welsh broch, Cornish brogh and thus ultimately from Proto-Celtic *brokkos. Wiktionary says it’s a male badger, but the OED (entry from 1888) doesn’t limit it by sex; to quote its definition: “A badger: a name, in later…

We recently got a great set of questions from someone evaluating hosted zrok for a web-based e-commerce content tool. Their situation: a small team of internal colleagues testing a tool for business work that might later become part of their daily workflow, and their budget was zero dollars. Their main question: Could they use the Free hosted version of zrok? The super-short answer Yes! The short (but with some details) answer If you’re on a small internal team with zero budget, zrok’s Free…

I stole his cardigan. In my defence, I was cold and he left his cardigan on the back of a chair in the library for at least fifteen minutes. I’m almost certain there’s a law that says that objects left for more than 15 minutes are eligible to be stolen. So, I took his cardigan and he isn’t getting it back. It’s thick, knitted in natural brown wool and the baffling thing is that I keep discovering pockets inside. Why there are that many pockets inside? Who knows? Maybe he is a wizard and all his…

Renew How's it going? It's been nearly two months since I've last posted. I don't really have much to talk about here, but I do like keeping this somewhat up to date. Here's how things are going at the moment. Went to a concert with my best friend, got to hear some really cool bands. If you like nu-metal, definitely check out a band called Mulch. Black Heart Society was also *really* good. Work has been busier than ever. Hopefully as the holiday season starts to pick up, things will slow down…

A million versions of this post exist in my head; there's actually an earlier draft somewhere in my unpublished posts that I'll probably take and morph into something else later on. But right now, it's 3 a.m. and I'm sitting in front of my anatomy work, trying to convince myself I've got more to give. I probably do. I'm young, and the years are so very short. I went back to my commonplace book to add a note I've been keeping in my stethoscope case, and got stopped in my tracks by another thing…

Smarting from the loss of that decent perch during my last session on the Soar I was keen to go back and try again. I also still had over half a pint of maggots left somehow (I'm sure they multiply in the fridge), so finished work early and headed down the motorway and was parked up on the bridge in Kegworth by 4 o'clock. Walking up to the lock the river looked a bit lower than last time and was gin clear, so I could easily see the bottom well over halfway across. It was also bright and sunny,…

Did you know there was a sequel to Super Mario Bros. 2?And no, I don’t mean Super Mario Bros. 3. I mean a 1996 follow-up of sorts to the solitary “plucking and chucking” chapter in the Super Mario story. Nintendo would not attempt something like this again until Super Mario 64 DS, released in 2004, but the game historically known as BS Super Mario USA — and which, for the purposes of this project, has been renamed Satellaview Super Mario Bros. 2 — resists comparison to anything else because it…

[ Content warning: mundane, rambly, neurotic. ] A couple of years back I wrote a long whiny blog article about putting up some shelves in the bathroom and how miserable it had made me to do it. I said: When I put up shelves in the bathroom back in May, I was a psychological mess. For every little thing that went wrong — and there were quite a lot — I got all stressed out and wondered why I dared to perform this task. The outcome was good, but I had a lot of stress getting there. Through the…

I made some changes to rss2discord, most notably: Now it batches updates into a single post It lets you provide a custom message which can be used to send a role ping or the like I am mostly posting this blog post to test the latter in production on my server, but also it’s nice to have more visibility for rss2discord. comments #rss2discord #code #Discord

I've photographed buzzards a lot round here. There might be one, there might be multiple. They are all called Buzz now. That's an androgynous name, right?55 words · 1 image

After Operation Wolf and Operation Thunderbolt, Taito switched to a sci-fi setting for their next gallery shooter, Space Gun. Much as their previous games had drawn inspiration from American action movies, Space Gun is very obviously based on Aliens, as you explore a colony outpost that’s been overrun by xenomorphs. The game uses the same ...Space Gun was first posted on September 22, 2026 at 2:11 pm.©2017-2025 "Hardcore Gaming 101". Use of this feed is for personal non-commercial use only. If…

This summer was long, and it was hot with persistent humidity. Finally, that seems to be breaking as we get towards fall. Actually, I guess autumn begins today! The days are getting noticeably shorter! Last night we had a nice rainy night. The rain wasn’t heavy, so we left the fan in the window, which brought in the damp and cool rain-filled air. Between the white noise of the fan and the sound of the rain dripping, it was really relaxing. This morning, when I got up, I could hear it on the…

My Weird, Dark, Twisted HabitSeventeen years ago. (Seventeen years ago?) When I started this blog, that is, when I decided to take on another thing in addition to taking care of a spouse with chronic illness, making art to sell in galleries, being in porn movies, playing games, and doing all the other chores a person does to stay around and sane, I had a simple idea about doing stuff on the Internet.In fact, I'd had this idea since I started doing anything on the Internet, much earlier, near…

Once it gets dark these days I am ready to put the house to bed.

Such beautiful drums. See also from Wikipedia: Noble & Cooley is an American musical instruments manufacturing company based out of Granville, Massachusetts. Having been established in 1854, it is the oldest drum company in the United States and is one of the oldest in the world. Having manufactured toy drums at the beginning, Noble & Cooley soon entered the professional drum market. Noble & Cooley has specialized in snare drums, although the company also manufactures whole drum kits. The…