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Down on his luck Curt Blair is waiting out a rainstorm in a “ritzy hash joint” just outside of Hollywood, USA when he steals a fancy camel hair overcoat then flees intending to sell the coat. It’s how he makes his living these days – ripping off suckers' coats, rifling the pockets for treasures and cash, then selling the ransacked coat. But this time all hell breaks loose and he’s …

The stroke-dasharray attribute in SVG is more flexible compared to the dashed style in CSS. While there are numerous articles and examples about its usages, including Line animations, Pie charts, Circular progress bars, or even Hamburger menu icons, there's still something new to explore. Unlike CSS, stroke-dasharray accepts multiple values, which will be picked cyclically according to the stroke length. Imagine it as an infinite repeated value sequence, the odd-numbered …

At the beginning of the summer, I had the opportunity to join the team at Royalty Pharma for a great event at MIT (link here). It was an interesting time for me as I was thinking about the new role I was about to take at Bristol Myers Squibb. While I had certainly been “a leader” for several years now, I was pushing myself to think through and question my …

If you teach high school or introductory college physics (or just know the subject well), I wonder if you can tell what I’ve done wrong here: OK, well, I haven’t given you a lot of context. Early in our study of forces, I make sure students see a lot of examples of objects that are […]

Rather than posting my annual roundup of PulpFest reports here, you can find it over at the PulpFest website. As my final post here about PulpFest 2023, I thought I would highlight a walk through the dealers’ room that I uploaded to ThePulp.Net’s Youtube channel. In addition to this video, you can find more about […]

It's gotten cold out there! Autumn is finally here and with that comes cooler weather and the need to heat homes. Residential wood smoke from home-heating should be expected, especially at night and in the mornings when woodstoves and other wood-burning devices are regularly used. Temperature inversions and light winds can cause smoke to stagnate, especially in valley communities. This blog is intended to focus on wildfire smoke, but forecasts …

My new poetry pamphlet from Melos Press, The Dictionary Speaks, is now out and can be ordered post-free via this link.From the publisher’s blurb:-NICHOLAS MURRAY’S many books include poetry, two novels, critically acclaimed biographies of Franz Kafka, Aldous Huxley, Bruce Chatwin, Andrew Marvell, and Matthew Arnold, and studies of Liverpool, Bloomsbury, and British poets of the First World War. He is a Fellow of the Welsh Academy and, with his …

On curation, or fighting back in the age of the algorithm TL; DR – Our digital spaces are run by algorithms: they dictate what we see. The fight back againt this begins with curation. That means bringing our human agency back, to define the digital worlds we inhabit. Does anyone remember Twitter lists? They’re an under-promoted, underappreciated feature where you hand pick your favourite Twitter handles and add them to …

This year’s race season didn’t go the way I hoped at all. After a strong start at Ironman 70.3 St. George in June, I failed to finish Ironman Coeur d’Alene and had to drop out of the Echo Triathlon in July to deal with my knee pain. My make-up race, Ironman Canada, was canceled at the last minute due to the wildfires in British Columbia. After all that, I was …

Previously, this park was the pits, but thankfully, the playground has undergone an almost full renovation. I loaded up two ten-year-olds to check it... The post Spring Garden Park appeared first on StrollerParking.

By far the largest part of Schumachers book is in regard to the third world and this section really hasn’t aged well at all. The world is different place 50 years on, but it exposes in one way just how little economic progress some countries have developed and just how much progress countries have made. Schumachers approach is very much a what we can do for them or really to …

This three ingredient fig jam is designed for canning and uses just fresh figs, sugar, and lemon juice. It’s bright, flavorful, and so easy to make. If you find yourself awash in figs every year, keep this recipe handy! Hello friends! I realize that it has been an absolute age (more than a year!) since I’ve posted anything new here. I have desperately missed sharing my canning practice with all …

I quit the old bird site last December, and I’ve been a happy Mastodon user instead ever since. Nonetheless, I’ve recently begun dalliances with Threads and Bluesky. I’m not looking for greener pastures, but I’m curious about what’s on offer now, and I want to find some of the people who I don’t see on Mastodon. Juggling social media platforms is inconvenient, but seemingly unavoidable at this particular moment, as …

We’re thrilled to unveil our latest endeavour – the IMMERSIONS project! Our new initiative, the IMMERSIONS project, is funded by the European Union’s Creative Europe program, and is set to transform the world of electronic music and cultural engagement across Europe. This collaborative effort brings together four countries – Poland, Norway, Portugal, and Lithuania – in an ambitious endeavour to create a European hybrid music network that bridges geographical and …

http://chat2024.com is a candidate simulator that lets you chat with them to get their positions, in a good simulation of their style of speech. In a quick session this morning it seemed ok at that. It even responded appropriately when I challenged “Biden” about shipping cluster munitions to Ukraine. It did an appropriate job when […]