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Yesterday (June 2nd 2024) we lost one of our great sporting heroes. Of course I’m talking about Rob Burrow CBE who played scrum-half for Leeds Rhinos. He was the tender age of 41. He lost …

Does he know what his sentence is?” “No,” the officer said, wanting to continue with his explanations, but the traveler interrupted him: “He does not know his own sentence?” “No,” the officer repeated, pausing briefly …

I am back at Strange Horizons with a review of The Black Orb by Ewhan Kim, translated from Korean by Sean Lin Halbert. This is the tale of an unusual apocalypse, as mysterious dark orbs …

A polacca through it's first stages before basing, priming, and painting.A little houy.I finished assembling and rigging a few more ships including a little houy, a whaling brig, a polacca, as well as a a …

DDoS Update The Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack is ongoing. Even after I moved our load balancer to new hardware and a new IP address. This means that the attackers are not just targeting …

This year World Athletics introduced the three distinct categories for the athlete of the year title, track, field and road (they called it "out of stadium" so as to be able to include cross country) …

This is the full text of a letter written on behalf of one of the defendants charged with narcotics violations in conjunction with the death of my friend and collaborator Michael K. Williams. It was …

Hope you had a blessed Sunday! Time for another Catholic Meme Monday. Jesus, I trust in You! One of the more random and silliest posts I have had in a while. If you think I’m …

What social changes gave us “helicopter parenting” and, now, even more “intensive parenting”? This New York Times podcast from a few weeks ago, inspired by the Surgeon General’s report on parental burnout, explains all. Michael …

The first of many oddities in these pictures – granted, it is hard to choose – is arguably the tone. Why are these photos, with imagery that looks contemporary or certainly no more than 50 …

I was told to be at my first driving class 10 minutes early. In the rush to beat traffic, I forgot to apply antiperspirant for perhaps the first time in Taiwan. Then, I was unable …

Oil paintings don’t look that great in books but photographs do. This is part —but only a part—of the reason why photobooks are ubiquitous in the photo art world. No other art form seems so …

Do you remember my interview with John Schoustra? He is – I thought about this for a while to make sure I wasn’t forgetting anyone or exaggerating – the most innovative, open-minded, and experimental avocado …

As I'm closing in on the end of the Confrontation project, I've decided to do some gap filling. This essentially means finishing off any WIP figures and making sure each gang is at least 10 …

In Japan, riding a steam train through outer space is a melancholy symbol of the human journey. Like the gentle drift of the sakura petal, the whistle of a train means a transition in life. …