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The mighty Beast. The 2018 RAM 3500 with dual rear wheels.My truck is sold. The new owner is picking it up tomorrow. It has been a long haul, if you'll excuse the expression, getting it …

The Knees needed their daily. Curiosity looked at the map and suggested this. A thin strip of woodland, apparently a ridge between two suburban areas just north of Glasgow. It turned out to be as …

For David Patch, who was a wonderful teacherA consideration of good advice in the age of automation, originally published in CT 206: Real Hollywood Movie Magic.I. The failure of mimickryIn the first acting class of …

Here's another of the compilation cassettes I bought this summer, having taken home a Denon twin-deck hi-fi cassette player from the local charity shop. All Wrapped Up is a 1983 compilation of singles by The …

People interpret symbols as pictures, not words. That makes symbols, like $, more instantly recognized and understood than words, like dollar. The post Show Your Symbols appeared first on Evergreen Data.

Well, here goes another one — Elite Soccer Club is officially live in the App Store. Please do check it out here! The elevator pitch? Elite Soccer (…or, football 😉) Club is an easy way …

This post from Dan Luu discussing how web bloat impacts users with slow devices caused me to reflect on the supposition that faster connectivity means faster websites. I grew up in an era when slow …

It's all about saving the butterflies and the bees lately. With good reason. Without them we're pretty much screwed. Although I'd like to take a moment to give the flies a round of applause for …

In 1974 National Semiconductor introduced what is arguably the first 16-bit microprocessor (it had a 8-bit mode as well which was more efficient but could run 16-bits as well). This chip was made on a …

Every once-in-a-while, I have to measure a system to find out whether its clock is behaving, or at the very least, whether its latency is stable over time. There are a number of different ways …

eager years i love you forever because / i saved you / i wanted your life / more than you did / and like spring / gave it back / when you wanted it / …

Victorian houses in the UK often have hand-painted and gilded house names or numbers on the pane of glass above the front door; the transom window. They vary in their execution, and I was contracted …

One of the glorious things about the internet is that it can answer questions quickly, and generally to a degree of satisfaction that stops my brain itching. Like, recently I saw an ad for a …

If you have ever walked around the financial district you would have almost certainly have seen St Mary Woolnoth church. It sits in a prominent position, at the corner of Lombard Street and King William …

Very few LPs radiate a level of spiritual grandeur quite like the 1974 summit between Alice Coltrane and Carlos Santana, Illuminations. With Coltrane’s harp and soaring orchestration, uncharacteristically patient, technically precise lead work from Santana, …