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In the early to mid-90s, I ran a BBS out of my bedroom. It wasn’t very popular, but I did have a lot of time on my hands and I spent a lot of that …

Online forums, especially Hacker News and Reddit, are very hostile to LinkedIn. Everyone makes fun of the self-promotion and silliness that goes there. There are complaints the site is unusable, which I didn't agree with …

Eldiario.es, an independent online newspaper based in Madrid, has just published a remarkable data-driven story about how inequality perpetuates itself (perhaps we should say that it's inflicted upon people) in Spain.Notice the combination of different …

Yep, that’s it: I like painting with watercolors. As a hobby. As a student, I thought hobbies were lame. Because: why be a hobbyist when you’re developing a skill that you can get really good …

Overlay Deployments for SaltStack or building exception systems with Ansible · February 18th, 2024 Let's take a look at a real world problem and build a simple solution for it. We have a complex configuration …

My pal Zach has this ritual when we play D&D - before we start, he rolls the D20. Over and over and over again.

All set for replacement windscreens. Work is ready to start with the Accurscale class 37 reviewed earlier this year – it’ll become 37037 as it was in the summer of 1992. The first job will …

Aldermaston Wharf is a lively spot on the Kennet and Avon Canal in Berkshire; ABC hireboats operate from there, and these rather fine tea rooms, that I've just done this picture of. There's prints of …

Thirteen years ago, my wife Dimitra wrote a children’s story about a magical kite for the teacher training course she was doing in England. Today is Clean Monday, a day when Greeks traditionally fly kites, …

This week, my lady-friends over at Desperately Seeking the `80s spent half of their weekly podcast recounting the litigious shenanigans of a quarelsome network of duplicitously opportunistic pizzeria owners, back in the `80s, who’d unwittingly …

17 Feb 1890-29 July 1962 Today is R.A. Fisher’s birthday! I am reblogging what I call the “Triad”–an exchange between Fisher, Neyman and Pearson (N-P) published 20 years after the Fisher-Neyman break-up. While my favorite …

Here are the 2023 awards [connected to my read smd to-read lists]. As the votes were made by participants to the 2023 Chengdu Worldcon, Chengdu, China, censorship later came to light, regarding authors critical of …

According to Neil Cohn, contemporary comics viewers follow eight protocols for determining viewing paths: “Go to the left corner.” “If no top left panel, go to either the highest and/or leftmost panel.” “Follow the outer …

Groucho Marx? David Bellamy? Max Miller? Monty Python? George Little? Barney Horrigan? Anonymous? Picture of Auguste Rodin’s 1882 sculpture “The Kiss” Question for Quote Investigator: In 1979 the Bellamy Brothers released a popular country music …

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