Don’t Look Back Vesturbæjarlaug Spoke at length with ‘Charlie’ from Brooklyn while lounging in the big hot pot today, speaking of music and food deserts and life here and elsewhere. All good things must end, and as I was walking back to the changing room I realized that this would probably be the last time I would trod these frigid tiles. They didn’t seem so cold then. Inside, the last shower,

Agree to Disagree is a regular feature on LADBible. This series pairs up two celebrities who are typically on a promotional tour for a new movie or show. The interviewer gives them a series of questions, and they need to use a Likert-type scale printed on a table and glasses (sometimes containing booze) to make their response.For example, here is an Agree to Disagree segment featuring Keira Knightley and Ben Whishshaw, who are promoting the second season of Black Doves on Netflix. PS: I LOVED…

The Last of the Mohicans; A narrative of 1757 by James Fenimore Cooper | Project GutenbergIt was published in 1826 so I thought we could revisit this classic.

More than what I see and even more that what you think or assume, and beyond what either of us think or feel or believe about the reflection I see in the mirror, there is an ongoing truth concerning the difference between facts and opinion.There are certain facts which go beyond our approval and denial. One of these facts are I am me and you are you and despite faults and flaws or similarities and differences; we both live and breathe. Then again, living and breathing are left up to…

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*With apologies to Tom Francis. Written with His Majesty the Worm in mind. For all spells, you cannot bring another creature, but your gear and what you are holding travels alongside you. Rhoumin's Slithering RushComponent: A rotting snakeskin, emblazoned with geometric patterns that almost look like script. Pick a room on the map (in the Crawl Phase) or zone in view (in the Challenge Phase). You go there so long as there is no physical obstacle (like a door, wall, or sheet of ice) blocking…

Checked in at Cardiff City Stadium (Stadium) — Cardiff, WalesLast time I was in a football stadium in Wales, Swansea were playing Hull at the Vetch to retain their place in the league.

📷 294/365 - Looking in. Shot with Halide, which unfortunately isn't very good in low light situations.

Ray Liotta in Something Wild (1986) Vitals Ray Liotta as Ray Sinclair, volatile ex-convict Pennsylvania to Virginia, June 1986 Film: Something Wild Release Date: November 7, 1986 Director: Jonathan Demme Costume Designer: Norma Moriceau WARNING! Spoilers ahead! Background Three years after his film debut in the 1983 box-office bomb The Lonely Lady, Ray Liotta made a more explosive impact through his Golden Globe-nominated breakthrough performance in Jonathan Demme’s darkly comic thriller…

Last week Becky at Online Goddess wrote about the cost of blogging. Then Olu from Olu Online followed up on the cost of being online. Aside from jokes about the costs to my psyche, the actual financial costs for being online in the fashion that I am are kept as low as possible, but not completely dirt cheap. All dollars are CAD. Cable InternetDue to being on disability benefits, I get access to a special government-sponsored plan with Rogers for 75 MB/s down, 50 up, at $28/month after tax. This…

As Sarah eluded to in her last post, work has been overwhelmingly hectic lately. If only people would heed my advice and try their central heating out in September, rather than waiting for it to get cold before discovering that their diverter valves have seized in the hot water position! Sorry, rant over. As a result of the torrent of cold clients, I've only managed a couple of trips out after the perch, and they were only short trips. I have still managed to catch a few, and a couple of pike…

People Whispering To Each Other (Photo by Felicity Tai via Pexels) Introduction First things first, I need to address a couple of statements in Candy’s post1 : the op probably never will see this but You didn’t think I would see your response? I saw it before it turned up on Bubbles. I knew about it from my analytics. I mentioned you in my Polish is for Desks, right?2 article. I emailed you back in July about another post you made. So, as soon as I saw you in my analytics I knew I had to read…

The blogger Robert Birming promotes and writes about blogging and sometimes sets challenges for bloggers to respond to. His latest one is called 'Knowember' where you post (in November) in response to 4 prompts about yourself and your blogging. Then he lists the posts so bloggers (and their readers) can get to know each other and their blogs. I don't usually do such challenges when I see them but decided to respond to this one. I've read some of the 'Knowember' posts by other bloggers and…

You could feel a large collective exhale across the USA this week following the midterm election results, signaling that there’s still some life left in the old republic. It was such a rush I’m surprised the leaves still hanging on the trees remain attached. The sound we all heard was out of a medieval war movie when archers loose their arrows. We continue to live in historic moments and there’s no question this was one of them. One that felt good, after so many that haven’t. It’s also one that…

The group explore more of Floor 3, get into a fight with some ogres and finally find the wererats, including Captain Nasty's sister. Party Members Vaco Adjacent - Level 7 Paladin Telperion Desh - Level 7 Lich Huntsman - Level 6 Martial Artist FollowersJenx (Bombard 4), Rutger (Robot 7) and Captain Nasty (Fighter 7) Session RecapBeing short staffed the group decides to keep things simple and just goes down to the north-western quarter of floor 3, one which they had explored a bit in the past,…

#coffeeneuring2026 No. 7; 10.9 km round-trip A multi-purpose ride. Shake-down cruise for the new, flat pedals and a coffee, but as the coffee is less than 500 metres from home, and that would not tax the pedals, a long way round. To give the pedals a bit of a work-out I went first down the hill to the river near the Vatican, dropped down onto the cycle path, and cycled back towards home turf. It was a fun ride. Do the pedals make a difference? I think so, but it is quite subtle. It certainly…

For those new to CabbieBlog or readers who are slightly forgetful, on Saturdays I’m republishing posts, many going back over a decade. Some will still be very relevant while others have become dated over time. Just think of this post as your weekend paper supplement. A New River for London (29.09.13) There cannot be many commoners who have given their name to so many parts of London as Sir Hugh Myddleton (or had their name misspelt as much), and today marks the 400th anniversary of the opening…

I've been digitally replicating another old Airfix kit that I built about a hundred years ago, this time the Hannover CL-III, as usual in 1:144 scale. It was sometimes described as the German equivalent of the Bristol Fighter, but in truth it was never as dangerous an opponent as that British machine. Here's my Airfix Hannover, in 1:72 scale. I painted it before I had any real idea of how the lozenge camouflage fabric used by the Germans in WW1 actually looked, and though I don't think it's too…

Written by Andy PanthroNo number, just dripping with gothic design (and dripping with blood)The Quest For Glory series has a special place in my heart, the blend of adventure gaming and RPG has always been a favourite of mine. I have fond memories of this particular entry, from the Lovecraftian elements and Slavic mythology, to the links back to prior entries in the series. Apologies for everyone waiting so patiently for me to get around to this, but I feel like, with Halloween just behind us,…

There’s a part of me who reads that earlier post and says, “Oh, come on, it’s just a fire. Don’t be so dramatic.” And, yes, that part of me still speaks up now and then. Poor thing. He just wants approval from all the “smart people”. I’ve had to remind him several times now that our life felt far too thin when we were attending to what the “smart people” had to say. He’s maturing, but he’s also good to have around because his raised eyebrow sometimes checks my worst enthusiasms. Anyway, why…

Visigothic King Erwig called a council on 9 January 681 the Twelfth Council of Toledo. Part of his reason was to have the bishops attending confirm his accession to the throne to replace Wamba as legitimate. The Council also declared laws created by Wamba null and void.They then set about to revise the Visigothic Code that had been established in 654 by King Reccesuinth (seen here), called the Liber Iudiciorum, or "Book of the Judgements." That code had abolished the idea of treating Romans and…

★★★★: Bits of it felt slow but I appreciated the scope and detail of all of these lives. The characters were hard to root for, but everything was beautifully acted. His wife, especially. Thoughts, questions, comments? Reply to this review.Note that my reviews are scored out of 4. And thanks for subscribing to my RSS feed and supporting the indie web!

This is part of a series. Read more about it here. Gilsbrecht Leythers - Winter Landscape with Travelers and Ice skaters Snow had finally fallen and the town, as usual, took the first occasion to go ice skating on the lake. In their Breton town, the water froze almost instantly, though it was the custom of nervous mothers to fret as fathers coaxed their children onto the ice. Some for the very first time. For Louis, it was his first winter on the ice. It would also be his last. The ice would…

Parsing CSV files is a common task. What are our options? We’ll start with cl-csv, add the data-table library, and present lisp-stat’s data frames. This is another contribution to the Common Lisp Cookbook so you should read it there as this is where it will get updates. With a very simple dataset we could split CSV lines manually (subseq, split-sequence, str:split, cl-ppcre…) but when a column contains the separator, a library starts to be useful. And a library will be even more so to help us…

Been a little busy around here. The weather was unseasonably warm, but I'm not complaining. We got the sliding glass door installed in the new house, and it's a huge disappointment. When we met with 84 Lumber to pick out our windows and doors (Andersen) last summer, we had a 3-panel slider in mind that was of a kind of European design. The price was astronomical. The manager suggested another door that had three panels. We assumed that meant that two of the panels slid, so we'd have a wide…

I notice more and more that I don’t have the skills nor the patience to write proper articles / blog posts that appropriately communicate my feelings / reckons on different topics. One of the problems is probably that I think faster than I can type. I often start writing, dumping whatever comes to mind regarding the topic at hand into a text file and sometimes right in the middle of a sentence, I start to lose interest. (or – ha! – focus) Even now, while writing this, my mind wanders off to…

I’m still thinking about what AI era teams look like. The metaphor I’ve been pondering is that these new team shapes will compare to the classic DDaT/GDaD ‘two pizza team’ in the same way that Sevens does with Rugby Union. This might be influenced by the fact it is the opening weekend of the Nations Championship! The teams are smaller, things happen faster, it can look chaotic and unstructured but there are tactics and method in the madness. The same goals (heh) remain. The roles share names…

I've written on-and-off over the years on the sometimes tempestuous relationship between television and the movies. The big studios have variously viewed television as a novelty, a threat, and a partner; for its part, network television has gone from lusting after major studio films to owning the studios themselves, while ceding actual movies to cable and streaming services.We are, however, primarily interested not in the present but in the past, and so we go back to a time when big-screen…

Megalodon Adult vs Baby Size ComparisonAwe. Who doesn't love babies? They are the cutest little things, right? Well, mostly....Perhaps not quite as cute if they could bite your arm clean off! A baby Megalodon would have been an impressive neighbour but not a welcome one if you were on the menu. They were pretty big right from birth and they just kept growing! Even the lower published

If you like this content then you can support it by becoming a member or buying my book on Analogue Productivity. On Highlights Just this morning I started a "thinking" book on my ereader which is rare. I almost always sit down with a physical book and take notes on paper. I've always struggled with what do do with the highlights after. Yes I can type notes, but ereader keyboards have always been pretty terrible so it's not a pleasant experience. Then I decided that I'd worry less about the…