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My excellent Nick Roche commission. First up, a quick piece of housekeeping for people that don’t follow me on social media: Because writing Revisitation is so time consuming and difficult (and whilst my break for …

It’s been a choppy old couple of weeks in WordPress land. I’m not going to go back over the whole clusterfuck – there will be plenty of people writing about what went on – basically …

Open Academic Publication Posted 10/28/2023 I’m currently at a workshop on open practices across disciplines, and one topic of discussion is how to change the academic publishing process to be more accessible to both authors …

What is the smallest number of points in the -dimensional (hyper)cube needed to hit every -dimensional subcube? To be clear, a subcube of dimension is obtained by fixing coordinates to some specific values and then …

Adding 70ft of N-scale layout and some overview picturesKanata Rail overview pictures Feb 2024:

Dorothy Parker was a brilliant wit whose words have withstood the test of time. A writer with a knack for wisecracks, Parker’s life was just as fascinating as her written output. Gail Crowther’s Dorothy Parker …

Empire gown from Delineator, January 1893. Butterick pattern #4944. Sometimes a new fashion takes off and becomes dominant. Sometimes not! While browsing through a fashion and pattern magazine from 1893, I learned something new — …

Thimbleberry Books, Marshfield, WI (Like The Indie Bob Spot on Facebook and follow The Indie Bob Spot on X)Thimbleberry Books is located on a busy downtown street surrounded by many small businesses, in a building …

Morning folks.Well, another post about film and I'm not even a hipster.Nor am I using the truly ghastly Ilford colour film either - a film that reminds me of the free stuff you'd get every …

Metadata Author: [[Katy Hessel]] Full Title: ‘There Is a Bullet in My Brain’: The Searing Art of Hollywood Nun Sister Mary Corita Category: #articles Summary: Sister Mary Corita was a nun and artist who used …

A short introduction to the rdbg/debugger extension for VS Code, plus a guide on how to set it up correctly to debug your Ruby on Rails applications, as well as your RSpec specs. The VS …

U.S. senator Margaret Chase Smith of Maine was asked on the radio program “Who Said That?” in 1949 what she’d do if she woke up in the White House one day. The senator replied: “Well, …

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During the conference’s haymaking class, Lauren Muney gave me a gorgeous antique scythe. She had prepared it for someone in the class, and I was the only one without a scythe. More...… Continue reading Post …

I like the stripes on this one: the contrast between the vertical stripes on the bodice and skirt, the horizontal stripe on the skirt, and diagonal of the bias-cut sleeves. The maker even made the …