Daily Drawing 1028

Many moth enthusiasts and recorders use the term “Wogan” to refer to a night of no moths in or near the trap, or indeed seen anywhere in the trapping site. It’s a reference to TV and radio entertainer, the late Sir Terry Wogan. He hosted a quiz show called Blankety Blank back in the late 70s and early 80s; it’s a British version of the US gameshow Match Game. For moth-ers, #NoMoths when you’re in #TeamMoth is usually recorded as a Blank, hence the allusion to Sir Terry. I think mothing expert…

VIDEO TRANSCRIPT: There’s a scene towards the end of Some Woman at the National Theatre, where I sat there thinking, “You’re going down this road, are you? You’re really going down this road.” It had been quite an interesting play up until that point, had some interesting ideas, but it just got a little bit silly, a little bit OTT. It’s the story of an ordinary woman, played by Anne Marie Duff, who has given up a potentially big career to raise a family, and is doing less interesting work.…

Adventurers Character Race Class Description Ainsley Human Ranger level 1 An older gentleman with a groomed moustache and a wooden pipe in his mouth, covered in dark green cloak. Astrid Hunnisdottir Dwarf Fighter level 4 A dwarf with burning hair and a belt fashioned from harpy scalps as a reminder of dangers of friendship and singing. Aurella Elf Fighter level 1 / magic-user level 1 Exiled and chased out of her tree commune, she now wanders the Wilderlands. Bragi Twinefinger Hobbit Fighter…

Forgive the short list this week; I’ve been sick and it’s taken up a lot of my energy. ▷ Here’s Mike Eckman with a review of one of the stranger cameras you’re going to come across. Read Acmel Sequence 8 (1972) ▷ I agree with Alex Luyckx that having an all-mechanical SLR in the stable is a good idea, if for no other reason that it is more likely to be repairable over the long haul. He explores one in particular. Read FTb — Revisited

Saturday morning at World’s End and Driver Ned potters around the sidings with ‘Hercules’ and a couple of tipper wagons. Rumour has it the rather large locomotive name plate has been ‘borrowed’ from a mainline diesel hydraulic locomotive, but seeing that nobody knows where World’s End is, it’s unlikely anyone will come looking for it.Derek and Clive standing next to the old railway carriage which has been repurposed as a bar are waiting for it to open, for they have a delivery of turnip based…

10:48 - I got invited to not one but two Halloween parties next week! This is a first! One is at a queer space and the other is at my friend's elementary school. XD Good thing I have a few costumes in my arsenal. I'm saving this year's costume for our party on Saturday!

Yesterday I was on a call with my Achan (dad in Malayalam). He was trying to join a Zoom meeting and with Zoom installed on his laptop and with the meeting ID, he still found it daunting. As I was trying to guide him through the whole process, I realised that Zoom app has changed again. Relatively small but changed neverthless. I couldn’t recall anything from the back of my head. I had to relearn the UI as my Achan shifted the whatsapp video to show the floor instead of the laptop screen from…

Yesterday, a new security release was published for Ruby, but the official docker images took a long time to become available. The Ruby team has it’s own docker repository, and they published a new version quickly, but it is Ubuntu based, so if you are using a smaller image, that might not be suitable for you. In case of a security release, you should wait too long and luckily you can still take things in your own hands and just build a Ruby image. I deploy my apps with Kamal, so here is a…

In 1786 William Bancroft, a baker, grocer and Methodist preacher brought Methodism to the tiny hamlet of Mereclough. The next year, local resident William Halstead volunteered his cottage for a regular meeting place of the converts. This arrangement continued until 1824, when a purpose-built chapel was constructed. The popularity of the movement meant that a […]

TypeScript 7 got fast because it was rewritten in Go. Vue projects could not use it. vue-tsc works by patching the JavaScript TypeScript compiler, and the Go version has no JavaScript compiler to patch. That changed this week. TypeScript 7.1 beta ships an official plugin point called content mappers, and Johnson Chu released Vue Language Tools v4 alpha on top of it. TypeScript’s own tsc now type-checks .vue files. No more vue-tsc, at least on the CLI. It’s an alpha, and the PR behind it is…

Still a bit chilly this a.m. Went to see Cyril. Got half gallon of juice on way. Dot, Ron and Jane came for tea. Jane looked lovely in new coat.

Monday Such a beautiful sunrise! Pink, misty. In the garden strands of spider silk as thick as string catch in the sunlight. Clouds of warm air waft lazily from rooftops. In an incredible act of self-sabotage dressed as self care, I watch it from the window and refuse to go out. Part protest too – three weeks of not walking made getting up in the pitch black untenable. Who does this? Tuesday Get up in the dark and leave before sunrise. Try to catch the sky unawares, but whether you look…

This blog post is a weekly update of my journey in Djangonaut Space , an 8-week mentoring program for future open source developers in the Django ecosystem. Series: 3… 2… 1… becoming a Djangonaut Djangonaut Log 1: Lift-off and first week in Djangonaut Space Debugging a flaky test — how I methodologically tamed an annoying bug Assumptions are sneaky (you are here) The number 1 thing I always talk and write about in regards to debugging is to leave assumptions at the door and validate everything…

Au cas où ça aide les au autres. Pas facile à trouver. Rdv alternatif hors la zone interdit de manifestations à Nantes. Ne restez pas chez vous !! Surtout pas ! C'est ce qu'ils veulent ! (Boostez svp !) https://www.facebook.com/100057495517260/posts/pfbid02jRhwpHnBnyrkvQZoVt2tw2JBVCguQhaPfeKekFPKtF4v97MjDyEYhGET7QTXxhVKl/ #nantes #stnazaaire #Châteaubriant #17octobre #24octobre #giletsjaune

At a Christian conference today. It’s about how to amplify love and cohesion in a time of increasing division. The agenda will look at the rise of the Christian far right and what Jesus really says about caring for the stranger in our midst. I can’t wait for it to start! For Debbie’s Six Word Saturday

2022 horror novella. Alex Easton has returned to what's left of the ancestral home, a hunting lodge in Gallacia. The caretaker has died, but nobody quite wants to say how…

Große Bilder, große Gesten, großes Ego: Jörg Immendorff war kein Künstler, der sich dezent im Hintergrund hielt. Kommunist, Beuys-Schüler, Kneipenwirt, Professor und irgendwann Freund des Bundeskanzlers. Ein Lebenslauf, bei dem die Berufsberatung vermutlich kurz das Zimmer verlassen hätte. In der Retrospektive „Immendorff“ im Kunstpalast Düsseldorf kannst Du vom 25. September 2026 bis zum 10. Januar 2027 entdecken, was hinter diesem öffentlichen Image steckt. Rund 120 Werke aus fünf Jahrzehnten…

Two or three posts ago I visited an old back road in Swanzey on a rainy day, complaining that the day was so dark I couldn’t see any of the tree colors that I knew were there. On this day though the sun was shining brightly and wow, could I see the tree colors. Many of the trees out here are black birch (Betula lenta,) which is also called sweet birch or cherry birch. The “cherry” birch name comes from its bark, which along with its leaves can fool you into thinking you’re seeing a wild cherry…

What is a song by an artist you don’t usually like? Never been a fan, even if her hips don’t lie, and I struggle with her voice I think. Sure a lot of her music is catchy but, I dunno, how do you quantify something like this? However, my 5 year old has recently “discovered” this song (it features at the end of Zootropolis) and I’ll happily admit it’s fab. “Try Everything” by Shakira Listen on Apple Music Your browser does not support the audio element. Listen to Gordon McLean's Apple Music…

Those fireworks you heard two weeks ago were part of the fiery but peaceful celebration triggered by the announcement that MPorcius Fiction Log had read and blogged about at least one story from each issue of Weird Tales printed in 1926. We've rested on our laurels enough and now the machete starts swinging again as we begin working our way through 1927. Today, the January 1927 number, which has a pretty good monster cover with a fully clothed damsel in distress (somewhat amateurish but…

I’m not enjoying this. That isn’t to say I don’t find the time at the bench restorative, just that I’m doing jobs on a list, to get me somewhere I am excited about…Sometimes I wonder if we’re honest about our Modelmaking. There will inevitably be moments where we’re less than enjoying things - and yet we wax lyrical about this and that… unless it’s ballasting.That is something I enjoy and everyone else feels is socially acceptable to admit not enjoying, more to describe as something to be…

Welcome to your weekly ttrpg newsletter! This week on the blog I wrote Giving Feedback in a Game and Twilight Sword, A First Review. Most popular other articles were Dungeon, Inc., A First Review, Dolmenwood Resources for You, Running Red Dragon’s Tale, Good Adventures and Great Adventures and Player-Led Upbeats. As always, if you like this newsletter and want to receive it in your email inbox every Saturday, please subscribe, and feel free to pass it along to a friend. Table of Contents…

this website is now listed on 1kb.club and 1mb.club. both are maintained by brad adding your own site is done via email and you don’t even need an account browsing both clubs i found websites which i added to my feed reader and others i removed by sending a patch sorry brad — more emails incoming…

there's a movie showing tonight, and my best friend has the lead role. i've been looking forward to it for a couple weeks, and if i had any kind of long-term memory that would be months instead. i remember how excited she was to be part of it during filming. i'm thinking about not going to see it after all. i feel like i cant keep up. for every two steps i take forward, everyone else takes three. is that my fault? maybe. probably. i could blame other things too, i suppose. disability, mental…

Hello from my home in Helsinki! This is NordLetter #128, a weekly newsletter on living and walking in Finland. To follow the series, you can subscribe here. A new NordLetter will land in your inbox every Sunday. Not a fan of newsletters? No problem! You can read previous editions here. You can also subscribe to the RSS feed. You can reach out to me by replying to this mail. I am also posting on Mastodon. Grey skies and sun peeking through Grey skies abound.Yellow trees dot the landscape.A tram…

sometimes you just have a bad day. because you had a bad dream; because someone isnt keeping promises; because you miss your friends; because it all feels pointless because sometimes you just have a bad day. i dont understand it and i dunno if i'll ever know how to get through these, not without some kind of anger or self harm or lashing out at someone, and i hate it a bit. but they happen. and you survive them. and maybe tomorrow will be better.

Every Saturday we round up the best writing about beer from the past week. This time, we’ve got 80/-, simmer and sip and (the absence of) bog myrtle. First, some brewery ownership news: Rebellion Brewery in Marlow, Buckinghamshire, has become employee owned after its founders began the process of exiting the business. The BBC article we’ve linked, by Jamie Morris, considers the question of employee ownership more broadly, with evidence from Abbeydale in Sheffield suggesting it improves employee…

Here are three random scans of random places (or things) around the country. First up is this scan from a black and white negative, showing a place called the Pioneer Motel, which is attached to "Pioneer Fine Food" (breakfast, lunch, dinner - EAT). I thought that finding the location of this place would be pretty easy, but I had no luck. How about YOU? There are a LOT of Pioneer Motels.Next is this photo from June, 1967. I had no clue as to where this is, but luckily that sign behind the VW…

Moneyball (2011)