A nice day but a cool wind still. Cleared the big rose bed and burnt all the hedge clippings. The gang came for tea. Jane doing a funny little walk.
And so we conclude the July 2026 RPG Blog Carnival - our topic was "Small Gods, Saints and minor divinity!" - on my mind was the fun I have had with small gods in my recent campaigns; divinities on a personal scale. This was a double-header hosting with Sea of Stars. Sea of Stars has done their round up - if you have read that already then Advantage on Arcana 'more little Gods' and Taichara's contributions are the only extras. We got responses from: Sea of Stars own response the Fate of the…
What caught Frugalist’s eye this week. Weekend Reading – featuring the week’s best money and investing articles from around the web – can be read by any logged-in Monevator member. Alternatively please subscribe to our free email newsletter to get future editions direct to your inbox. The post Weekend reading: Don’t sweat the details appeared first on Monevator.
xkeeper posted a blog post about their issues running TCRF.On a related note, here’s my webserver’s HTTP response code stats for today, across all of my websites:fluffy@nautilus[/var/log/nginx] fluffy$ cut -f3 -d\" access.log | cut -f2 -d\ | sort | uniq -c | sort -n 3 408 4 502 4 503 10 410 20 504 56 307 60 403 165 406 225 401 462 499 662 405 670 500 819 202 1739 304 2989 400 6299 206 16352 302 32402 301 52673 404 83035 303 192512 200 308859 429 This is pretty disheartening. For those who don’t…
Plant identification books use one sense to identify a plant: vision. Yet sight is also one of the easiest ways to confuse a plant. ... Continue The post The Sense Books Forgot appeared first on Robin Harford from Eatweeds.
Pre-1150 (Old English) fēdan: "to nourish, give food to, sustain" — the base verb, from Proto-Germanic *fōdjan, ultimately PIE *peh₂- ("to guard, graze, feed"). 1570s–1580s (agriculture/animals/plants) First noun use of "feed" (1575, George Gascoigne): fodder given to livestock. Still the everyday sense today ("chicken feed"). This branch stays agricultural — it's not the one that leads to "news feed." 1660s (mechanics — the branch that matters) "Feeder" as a mechanical apparatus for conveying…
A few more pix from the archive this morning: Second studio in Houston back in 2021. Third studio in Houston circa 2024. Writing table at 3rd Houston studio. Early TSG script, written in Los Angeles around 2016, before I adopted more of a “Marvel Method” working from loose plots instead. #archive #TSG
Here’s a quick history of minds. First, there were no minds, just stupid stuff undergoing simple local interactions. Then appeared the first proto-mind: Darwinian evolution, via DNA. Under this, the universe made choices according to a purpose: adaption. But such choices were made locally, using little memory, models, or foresight. Even so, organisms changed to better achieve this adaption purpose.This DNA-based selection evolved minds, which did have memory, models, and foresight. This allowed…
Let's head on down to Orlando, Florida, to visit Walt Disney World, circa March 1976. The park had been open for less than five years at that point! As I've said before, I sure wish I could have seen it in its early state, but... I still haven't visited. D'oh. Today's images are from a small batch of only five slides.First up is this view from near Cinderella Castle, which I assume is more or less behind the photographer (?), with part of the moat in front of us, and a pretty bridge crossing…
Every Saturday we round up the best writing about beer from the past week. This time, we’ve got Hanoi lager, warm ale and Belfast oysters. First, news from London of possible changes to a unique (?) drinking culture: Westminster Council is running a consultation on whether to limit the amount of people allowed to stand around outside pubs on summer evenings. Helena Horton broke the story at The Guardian on Thursday and the original headline described it as a ‘ban’; it’s been updated online…
This is the last part (10) of a series of blog posts. Please start with part 1 first. The title of this post is admittedly a bit clickbaity. To overcome evil is a task which will need the collective efforts of whole humankind. Therefore I will not be able to provide a complete bunch of instructions about what needs to be done. But I can’t resist to discuss a few aspects which I think might be relevant for success. As we have seen in part 7 it’s fundamentally impossible to contain evil by…
KDE has a little utility called ksshaskpass that is invoked by SSH to prompt the user for credentials. It can then store them in KDE Wallet so you don’t have to type them again next time. The other day I had to set up an elaborate SSH configuration with jump hosts and what not and found that it actually couldn’t handle some of the prompts I encountered along the way. A regular password prompt, nothing too fancy. The way an “SSH ask pass” program works is relatively simple: You point the…
but specifically in baltimore. i've spent the last 2 hours tweaking bits of my blog while re-watching emily in paris. i also updated my now page and realized i'm not "making" anything and that was disappointing. note to self: make things. reply to this post.
Source Scientists discovered ancient wolves on a tiny Baltic island where they could only have been brought by humans, suggesting an unexpectedly close relationship between people and wolves thousands of years ago. Evidence indicates the wolves were fed, possibly cared for, and may even have been managed or selectively bred long before modern ideas of domestication. 5,000-year-old wolves found on remote island rewrite what we know about domestication ScienceDaily…
It's quite late as I write this. I'm lazy about posting sometimes, but there hasn't been too much going on. Wednesday I went to a lgbtq+ meetup group thing and it was mostly chill. The people were pretty alright, though ironically I didn't vibe with the person who plays magic there. I tried playing with them (I brought my beginner bar cube, but we didn't play it) and the decks they bought were the worst constructed decks I'd seen in a long time, and the other two people we were playing with…
After updating Gitlab, one particular background migration task (BackfillPartitionedWebHookLogsDaily) never finished.
Slim Summer Saturday Tram stop of the month: Beddington Lane Location: Beddington Lane (a lane leading to Beddington) Opened: 30 May 2000 (like all* the tram stops) Previously: a minor halt on the Wimbledon and Croydon Railway (1855-1997) Borough: Sutton (but almost Merton) Annual taps: 115,246 (the least used tram stop between Wimbledon and Croydon) Reasons for visiting: few 25 things to see: two dour platforms between two industrial estates, the back of SIG Distribution, four bins, the start…
There’s something wonderfully old‑fashioned about a pan of Butter Swim Biscuits—the way they bubble up through a pool of melted butter, turning golden at the edges and impossibly tender inside. This small‑batch version gives you all that homestyle comfort without making a dozen biscuits you don’t need. If you love recipes that are simple, cozy, and just right for one or two, these buttery beauties will fit right into your kitchen routine. They come together in minutes, bake up like a dream, and…
Saturday Q&A This week's headline theme was tougher than we thought. We thought we'd given away the store with the Davy Crockett hint, particularly if you consider both references to him in yesterday's posting. Today, we'll add the hint that we think Jeremy Allen White would do pretty well with this theme, too. Click here for full story
weather: ⛅ "balmy" critters: house finches maybe "hate" is a strong word, but diel's post enlightened me about my own shift in opinion. i used to think of fictional AIs as characters. the narrative structures around sapient AIs usually allow and encourage this. for example, SHODAN, GLaDOS, and durandal. these are all computers who go rogue from their programming, which is generally framed by their stories as a kind of psychotic break--except that the narrative makes them more human and more…
My Blogspot in 2011: Ranting Devigner see what tech articles I was reading lol dev and design rants I was making also lol Devigner = Designer + Developer Before "Design Engineer" was coo
Once a year, given the chance, my family uses to do a summer trip away from home. This year we decided to move to Spain, visiting another piece of the Country. Having been in Madrid, Barcelona and Valencia (many times) the initial idea was to go Bilbao and norther area of Spain, moving from city to city with a car. Then we realized this would be a nice travel for us parents, but for my ~9 years old child would be a bore.We were fascinated by the Andalucia, but also scared of this heat that’s…
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Through the years, I've tried many different creative and personal outlets. I've tried graphic design, songwriting, crochet, and video editing. But the one constant thing has always been writing. The earliest I can remember was writing short stories at age 9 for my dad who was working abroad at the time. I didn't want to become a writer professionally, but I enjoyed reading and writing. When I was 12 up to 15, I was writing a lot of prose and poetry on Tumblr. Not that they were any good, but…
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herdr is actually worth the hype The Green Mile meme “I’m tired boss” is how I feel about most multiplexer apps these days. I am a zellij mam after years of futzying around in tmux configs i settled on zellij brcause its 80% works out of the box. I run most agents in there own panes split into tab groups. Works well even now. After dismissing it for a while I thought if its getting this hyped but people who aren’t usually hype lords - if you didnt go openclaw retarded you pass my benchmark - I…
Literature is a hobby, and not. It is an academic discipline, and not. It is a diversion, a distraction, an escape. But some of us can’t imagine a well-lived life without it. There’s a lot of talk about books being good for us, making us better, more empathetic people, all of which may be true but that’s not why I read. If I were asked for a definitive explanation, I would be lost. In part it’s habit, the pure momentum of a lifetime spent reading, and I see no reason to stop. I know good books…
Resolve is doing the thing anyway.Not because it is easy. Not because it is fun. Not because anyone is going to thank you for it. Sometimes resolve means standing there when every sane instinct says to walk away, go home, lock the door, and let someone else deal with the nightmare.Cases in point: Larina Nichols and Vera Rook of Jackson, IL.Larina does what she believes is right, even when it costs her. Especially then. She will argue, complain, lose her temper, and probably make some deeply…
Every week, I share something I learned in the previous seven days. I usually find these while I'm putting my weekly newsletter together but somehow, they don't quite fit! This week I learned exactly how to watch the upcoming Solar Eclipse - including location, direction and timing - all from this clever site:Solar Eclipse at sunset · August 12, 2026Dove vedere l’eclissi? · ¿Dónde ver el eclipse? · Wo die Finsternis sehen? · Où voir l’éclipse? Get better at work. Every Week. One Email.…
It’s that time again, when the Dawes brothers descend on the Isle of Man (literally this time, as they flew over), I have to think up a different snappy title, and they both send me lots of photos. Just a few today, and a torrent follow…… Ron reports….. Early start to catch 0810 flight from Gatwick, which did not take off until 0900 but landed only 20 minutes late. Having checked in and put our bags in our room, we were free to go out before midday. Took bus to Derby Castle to have our first…
