Today’s recording is The IT Crowd – Bad Boys. It opens with a social worker (Margaret Cabourn-Smith) addressing an unseen audience, introducing what look like prisoners, who are going to tell their stories in what’s obviously some kind of cautionary presentation; She introduces the first speaker and it’s Moss. “So what’s my story? How did a brother get here? Well, I’ll tell you. It all started when I went to fix a printer on floor seven. As I recall, it was a Tuesday.” Moss is helping a woman…

This is the second part (I) of our long-delayed series looking at Hearts of Iron IV, Paradox Interactive’s World War II grand strategy game and also one of the most popular strategy games currently on the market. Last week, we looked at how HoI4 simulates combat, particularly its focus on operations (rather than tactics or, as we’ll see in later weeks, strategy). Much of Hearts of Iron‘s success is due to its effectiveness as an operational simulator and its operational model is by far the most…

This question came up as I was setting up for work today. As it turns out, “the earliest usage of the names can be traced back to 13th or 14th century England,” according to John Lupton, of the Illinois Supreme Court1. John Doe is a fictitious name used in legal proceedings when the actual name of a party is unknown at the time a lawsuit is initiated. The designation may also be used to protect a plaintiff’s anonymity, though more commonly, it stands in for an unidentified defendant until the…

★★★★★ OK, now this is what I wanted in an alternate Android launch screen. It’s a fork of the stock Android launcher that lets you do a few things the stock one doesn’t, like removing the clock on the home screen, or removing that always-on search bar – or setting it to a different search engine than Google. It’s more capable than /e/OS’s default Bliss Launcher, and a lot more stable and snappier than Fossify Launcher. Customize the grid size, enable/disable notification dots, put widgets…

Love Sonnets & Elegiesby Louise LabéGenres: Poetry Pages: 121 Rating: Synopsis: Louise Labé is commonly regarded as the most original woman poet of the French Renaissance. The daughter of an illiterate rope maker in Lyon, known to her contemporaries for her unusual learning as well as her skills as a singer and lutanist, Labé was in her thirties when she published her complete Works in 1555 and then disappeared from the scene, not to be rediscovered until the nineteenth century. Her love…

For this week, I limited my “engaging time” to almost zero. No matter what people claim, scrolling in Substack is still scrolling. And screens and scrolling don’t energize and rarely inspire me. In spite of my lack of engagement, here’s my 4th week in numbers: Still 8 followers 1 new subscriber, 5 in total 12 notes and 1 post 3 likes on the top performing note 3 views, 1 like, and 1 link opened on my latest post One. Like. That already felt like a huge success. But the most important bit: Stop…

Life is full of trade-offs. I often think about this in terms of vehicles. If you have a big family, a minivan is probably the right call, even if it means sacrificing performance. A luxury sedan may be nice to sit in, but it will cost you big bucks. You can drive a pickup truck, but you will probably pay for it at the pump. In the world of technology, trade-offs change nature over time. The first iPhone was amazing, but it was expensive and only ran on AT&T. The original MacBook Air was an…

It sometimes seems that there is just one thing after another that happens, or keeps happening- doesn’t it? Upon arrival, we went to hook up the dryer, but found out we needed to replace our plug (since this home isn’t as new as the previous one, it uses a different plug). Also, the dryer vent had no way to exhaust, so we had to buy tools and parts to create a safe vent for the dryer. We went to use the bathroom downstairs, and found out that it wouldn’t flush. I had to go to Home Depot and buy…

Also see Jim Grisanzio’s much better photos from CommunityOne.

Geraniums seem to be Italy’s favorite flower: you see them everywhere, perhaps because the vivid red ones are such a lovely contrast to the heavy grey stone of ancient buildings.

Flowering trees from around the world, or at least the US and Italy.

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Abstract. Five Battleship admirals from OpenCompletion played a seeded round robin & solo clears on the random boards from the 2024 post. Pooled over every solo board played, an exact placement-density grid sinks a fleet in 45.7 ± 1.9 shots. Jev, TypeSafe's decision model, played a dozen ways on top of that grid & every one landed inside that interval or within a shot or two of it, including when offered all 100 positions, as long as each cell carried its placement count. Strip the counts & jev…

I lost my keys earlier this week. I had one of those Orbit Key ring things, with my house keys, and the key fob to get back into the apartment building. It was going to be a Process™ to get these replaced, as some of them are fire keys with unique serial numbers that are forbidden to be cut. Just in case, Clara and I went around the suburb where I had the client meeting, including the path I took from the station, to the coffee shop, then back home again. We left notes with the shopping centre…

# For some reason, I started thinking about what I'd do if I had to use a minimal setup. What instruments would I choose? What could I do without? What constitutes a minimal setup, how many devices are talking here? From the gear I currently own, I think it's no surprise that my first choice would absolutely have to be a TD-3. You can't have acid without an acid box! Another essential is a drum machine, but which? It would be the LM Drum purely because of the flexibility of being able to load…

At the last possible minute, I decided to apply for a Guggenheim Fellowship to support my American Nukes project. It was a scramble to get it done in time, and I only just made it. The Guggenheim is a prestigious prize (i.e. it gets reported on in the New York Times) and has a significant monetary award, but its main benefit, at least from my point of view, is that it confers a measure of legitimacy on an artist and upon a body of work. As I’m entering the exhibition phase in the development of…

just got an email from blogger that some of my videos, 23 of them that are on my blog will be deleted because they are non-playable...whateverso instead of me hunting down the 23 of those videos, I'm just gonna let them pull them outI requested for an export of said 23 videos, so we'll see if they actually send something for me to look atAnyway, just a heads up.

Click to book Here is Tom Fellows at eighty-six years old, squinting into the light with a half-smile that betrays a circumspect nature honed by a lifetime driving a cab around London. Tom has seen all that existence has to show and he presents himself to the camera with a diplomatic restraint that could equally be deference or suspicion. Tom is looking out at us and making his own assessment of the situation. I came upon ‘Old Tom’ in the pages of ‘London People’ by Rev F Howell Everson with…

NOTE: A few days ago I went to a 20th anniversary screening of CARS (2006). Has it really been that long since it came out?!I'm not certain if I'd seen the film in its entirety since 2006; it was long enough since my last viewing that it really felt fresh and new. The movie is endlessly creative in a way we perhaps now take for granted, given the passing of a couple decades.Below is a short review from the early days of this blog. If, like me, you haven't seen CARS in years -- or perhaps ever…

August was focused on the Goblin Tarot, which you can see over on Patreon, but I also managed to release some new prints: Gathering While I Still Can We All Must Take Off Our Mask Sometimes The Things We Must Set Free Again And Again When My Time Comes, I Can't Promise I Won't Be Afraid

Alright today let's take a look at everyone's favorite mash up between fantasy smut and the kind of computer nerd who owns three katanas. It's Shadowrun! It was my very first ttrpg ever. Both as a player and the first game I ever ran. I think that makes me the perfect candidate to review it 30 odd years later, don't you think? So what you need to remember about Shadowrun is that the rules don't matter. Or maybe they mattered a lot. I've no fucking idea because I can't remember any of them. What…

DC has posted several preview pages from next week’s issue of The Flash, and you can see them at Adventures In Poor Taste. The preview features Wally fuming at the blistering response he received from Green Arrow last issue — but then he has a Flash of Insight about a disaster happening in multiple cities at the same time. Check it out at the link! THE FLASH #37 Written by RYAN NORTH Art and cover by GAVIN GUIDRY Variant covers by EJIKURE and JUNI BA $3.99 US | 32 pages | Variant $4.99 US (card…

A mural in Downtown McKinney, Texas, depicts a figure giving a ‘hang loose” or “shaka” sign. The post Hang Loose appeared first on 75CentralPhotography.

Hey everyone, are you like totally craving banana pudding right now? Well you’re in luck because today I’m bringing you a recipe for banana pudding cupcakes! A couple days ago, I was organizing my 174 tabs on my phone’s browser when I came across a recipe I had opened months ago and never made. I decided right then and there I was going to make this recipe ASAP. I have followed Well Made By Kiley on Instagram for a while, but I don’t think I’ve made anything of hers until now. These brown…

Brian: Senator Carr, thanks for joining us. Carr: It’s a great pleasure, thank you. Brian: This ban you’re proposing for personal mobility devices like scooters and ebikes… Carr: Yes, they’re a scourge, aren’t they? Brian: How are they a scourge? Carr: Well people ride these things at speed, and they put the safety of people around them at risk. They’re a menace Brian. A menace and a scourge. Brian: So like cars, then? Carr: No, not at all like cars Brian. Cars are legal, and they have…

Today, Jehovah’s Witnesses revealed that members can now have a blood transfusion comprised of its four main components without being punished and shunned. This comes in addition to a rule change earlier this year that allowed Witnesses to potentially store their own blood for medical procedures. I have a range of feelings, from shock, hurt, sadness, and happiness to rage and relief. From the age of six, I was trained like a parrot to recite Acts 15:29 and Leviticus 17:10 to 14, and coached…