If you've ever had to search for "how to make Excel quit removing leading zeroes," I have an app for you. SmoothCSV won't turn some random number into a date and then refuse to change it back. In fact, it won't format anything unless you expressly tell it to. It doesn't try to be a lightweight spreadsheet; it's a grid editor, first and foremost. It leaves your data as it is, with no helpful "guesses" at what you might be trying to do. That's the pitch, and it's enough to make this my CSV editor…
My interview with Dr. Claudio Vellutini on The Blue Hour is now available as a podcast. In this conversation, I speak with Dr. Claudio Vellutini, Associate Professor of Musicology at the University of British Columbia School of Music, about opera in Vienna and the cultural exchanges that shaped one of Europe’s most influential musical centres. Drawing on his recent chapter in Vienna: A Musical History and his book Entangled Histories: Opera and Cultural Exchange between Vienna and the Italian…
Eventually, every Linux user opens an app and finds a generic placeholder icon staring back from their dock/panel. It looks like the dock is broken, but it almost never is - the cause is a single line in the app’s .desktop file, and it only takes a minute to fix. Here’s how to find it and fix it yourself, on any desktop.
Gadzooks! This screenshot could be from any film! Aside from the man looking like John Glenn, there are hardly any clues here to even help in identifying this scene - but if you have a crackerjack memory, perhaps you'll guess it anyway. Give it a try! As always, if you are not familiar with the rules to the Impossibly Difficult Name that Movie game or the prize, click here.
The bell: Buttercup Festival 3-386www.buttercupfestival.com
I wanted to give a real quick word about the Exposure Compensation found within each Fuji X Weekly Recipe. I get questions about this fairly regularly, and there seems to be some confusion. Let me give a short explanation of what is meant when a Recipe says (for example) Exposure Compensation: +1/3 to +1 (typically). The “typical exposure compensation” provided with each Recipe is intended to be a starting point and nothing more. It was never meant to be a rule, only general directions. For…
I liked Richard Hanania’s two prior books, but less like his new third one, Kakistocracy: Why Populism Ends in Disaster. (“Kakistocracy” means rule by the worst, least qualified, or most unprincipled.)I accept Hanania’s core claim, which is that, all else equal, political factions whose supporters are less elite tend to govern less well. Robustly, elites tend to be smarter, better informed, better organized, and to more follow local norms and laws. Yes, there are exceptions, and Hanania tries…
gonna rank from worst to best song ranking system 😇- need to have a looong conversation with whoever made this song 🥹- teared up a little 🥰- i love love love 😊- very good 🙂- good with some issues 🤔- i would let it play in the background ig.. 😪- not feeling it 😠- no this is bad. 😡- this is really bad. 🤬- play this around me and im taking a gun out. for both of us. shingiru (soonshua) 🤬 dont let these two form a unit ever again. take a shot (hoshi) 🤬 i swear i'll disband cortis. warrior 🤬 so so…
This snapshot is labeled Four Generations, 1905 - with no names or locations! It is glued to the back of the paper that has the 1906 wedding cake and 1901 Frank Hankins photos. Since those photos are clearly linked to my Hankins-Kellam line - and the buildings in the background look like they could be at Hankins, Sullivan County, New York. I looked in my database to see if I could find any families linked to the Hankins/Kellam families that had four generations of males living in 1905. I found…
The first recording today starts with the end of Arthur. There’s an episode of Newsround with a bit of Oscar news, which is nice as this year I don’t have the Oscars recorded. I think they were stuck on Sky by now, and we didn’t have Sky any more. There’s a trail for Space Hoppers and one for We Are The Champions. Then it’s Barney’s Barrier Reef – Conmen. Featured wildlife today include the Stonefish, something I’ve been terrified of ever since I watched an Australian drama called,…
I'm not much of a Tekken player. I've always thought the games looked super neat, but the biggest issue these days is they don't have anything even close to good netcode. That, plus tekken players seeming to hate the last two entries in the series, has put me off really trying it. This game however, seems very neat! Rush looks like it's fixing things that tekken players hate, while actually innovating in ways that I think look cool! Plus the fact that it's an indie fighter with rollback…
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Japanese outfit Dowser began as a 4-piece. In 1991, their debut release was the soundtrack for the cult cyberpunk horror flick “964 Pinocchio”. Founding member Hiroyuki Nagashima is now a professor at Tokyo University’s Graduate School of Film & New Media, where he teaches sound design. Together with fellow founder, Masateru Terai, and new member visual artist, Takashi Miyagawa, Nagashima has recorded a fresh Dowser set for local label All Horned Animals. The album, entitled “Schema 1+2”,…
Clint was just innocently farming when some assholes come along, steal his wife, murder his kid and burn down his house. Cue a training montage! The assholes are a murderous rogue group in the union army, so Clint joins the confederates. Cue a war montage! The last of the confederates surrender when the war is over, and while pledging their loyalty to the revived union they’re all gunned down. Clint sees this, chain-guns 100 unioners, and goes on the run. “After I get to likin’ someone they…
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Perfume PosseThree Lindens A couple of weeks ago I asked about linden fragrance recommendations, and y’all delivered! Here’s the first three, which I got from Surrender to Chance, and other samples are coming via … somewhere (Scent Splits, maybe?) It’s been like an… Continue Reading → Perfume PosseThree Lindens
Its been a while since I last wrote a post. I don’t really know what to write about but I have this feeling of wanting to let thoughts out of my head. I’m not sure if it’s tiredness or overstimulation that made my brain feel mush but all I could do the last couple of days is half-listen to my audiobooks while I go through my daily routine. Eat, workout, shower, go to work, go home, sleep, repeat. I don’t mind the routine, it makes my days go by pretty fast and it forces me to stay present…
Whenever a social media whatever lets me set a header image I pretty much always use a photo of moss that I took from when my partner and I visited Iceland about a decade ago. We just went back and we had a blast. Birding took us way off the beaten path, as did my years long obsession with Bárðar saga Snæfellsáss.
Visit: https://www.instagram.com/coyoteyipps/
Shipwrecked Paradise Island Tiki Bar is the Sacramento location and sister property of the original Shipwrecked in nearby Davis. Located in Midtown near Capitol Park, the bar is basically an adult version of Rainforest Cafe thanks to elaborate set pieces, animatronic snakes, and a jungle theme. They call themselves a tiki bar and while there aren’t tiki idols there are plenty of skulls and stone idols that fall enough into a “big tent” categorization of such things. We arrived before 5:00 for…
Been wanting to check out this teeny bakery, Chikku TakkuNot sure how long they have been in business but it is run by a cute grandpaI tried their chocolate filled Doraemon...226 yen (tax included)So delicious!Glad I tried this bakery and will be back whenever I am near byChikku Takku3-18-9 SannoOta, TokyoClosed: TuesdaysHours: 8:00-20:00*cash only
Clean Sweepby Ilona AndrewsGenres: Fantasy, Science Fiction Pages: 228 Series: Innkeeper Chronicles #1 Rating: Synopsis: On the outside, Dina Demille is the epitome of normal. She runs a quaint Victorian Bed and Breakfast in a small Texas town, owns a Shih Tzu named Beast, and is a perfect neighbor, whose biggest problem should be what to serve her guests for breakfast. But Dina is...different: Her broom is a deadly weapon; her Inn is magic and thinks for itself. Meant to be a lodging for…
The weather today was absolutely perfect. After a morning of running errands and a stop at the park, I found myself just chillin’ at my campsite. Soon, a white mist slowly wafted from behind the van. It seemed to come out of nowhere. I’d just watched an episode of The Why Files (on YouTube) about parallel universes and people who may have shifted into one and came back. Was this a portal to another universe opening up? I blinked several times trying to focus on the white mist… wondering if my…
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This has been burning a whole in my bookmark collection to write about. Last month, Ian Walker wrote about Aftermath and their decision to seemingly sidestep their commitment to the BDS movement targetting Microsoft and Xbox by publishing an article about Forza Horizon 6. Following that, co-founder Luke Plunkett wrote about that post on Bluesky. From there, Ian gave his personal perspectives on why regardless of the intent, the article served to remind potential customers of the game’s…
Movies and TV shows and cartoons, I watched them all from a very young age. When I was a child, the real-life situations were not so good, but these stuff let me live in my imagination away from all the problems I had. These stuff made me feel different kinds of emotions and explore my own fantasy while popping, of course. So although it is very cringe to admit and feels like a psycho, I became addicted to these a lot. The only thing after this was a lot of sugar in lemonade. But this…
It's a long way from the Southern Rockies, but this video fits the June 20 theme of "predators and fawns/calves." A friend in Poland sent the video's link to the news site Notes from Poland. The European bison, sometimes called "wisent" (similar to ours but taller and slimmer) was extirpated by over-hunting. Its population has recovered in a few places due to re-introduction from captive herds. The largest population is in Poland's Białowieża Forest, one of the last examples of Eastern European…
