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This capsule review will have spoilers.Here's some boring facts about the book up front to avoid diving right into the spoilers. The Curious Conundrum of the Conflagrated Condottiero (henceforth referred to as "4C" for the rest of this review) is 26 pages, with Kelvin Green doing the writing, art, and cartography, as he is known to do. It's 26 pages and you can get the PDF here: 4C on DriveThruRPG …

These nymphs have to be the most realistic nymphs I have ever seen. I ordered both patterns. I can't wait to give them a try on the Sipsey and Smith Lake. The bodies of these nymphs are hard body and have weight.

I'm giving a lecture on 'crowdsourcing at the British Library' for students on UCL's MSc Sustainable Heritage taking the course 'Crowd-Sourced and Citizen Data for Cultural Heritage' (BENV0114). As some links at the British Library are still down, I've put the web archive versions into a post, along with other links included in my talk: … Continue reading Links for a talk on crowdsourcing at UCL

If you haven't read part 1, check it out first, as this is a continuation. From poor leaders, I've learned what doesn't work: breaking the team's trust, operating without transparency (a lack of communication), employing a destructive and unempathetic approach, micromanaging, and setting people up for failure. These traits have stood out as particularly detrimental in my observations.In contrast to the negative leadership traits I've observed, my experiences with friends, …

When I'm looking at pdf files in Emacs, I use =doc-view mode=. And usually I'm looking at pdf files because I'm writing a screenplay in Fountain mode. So I'm making changes to the source file a lot, and the pdf is constantly changing. But the pdf in Emacs isn't changing! That is, Emacs has read the file into memory, and displays that memory as a pdf, no matter what has …

The third of my year-in-reading columns has gone up over at Dorian's blog: the best stuff I read in 2023.

New album: A Drop Of The Morning Dew: Live At Bacca Pipes Folk Club released 1 March 2024 Distilling both folk and country influences and performing a heartfelt mixture of self-penned and traditional songs on 12-string guitar and banjo, Serious Sam Barrett was raised in the Dales village of Addingham and began performing in and around Leeds in 2004. With the release of his debut album Close To Home in …

The Challenge: Beverages. Make something to drink.The Recipe: Claret cup from Lady Elinor Fettisplace's Receipt BookTo Make Claret Wine WaterTake a Quarte of strong aquavitae, as much of goode Claret wine, a pound of the beste sugar, beat yr sugar small, then powre the wine and the aquavitae to the sugar and stir the sugar and the wine togather untill yr sugar be dissolved, then ad to it whigt pep, …

Imagine you’re on the hunt for a new sweater and decide to visit a local clothing store. Upon arrival, you engage with Tom, an enthusiastic new employee who began working there last week. You inquire about the sweater selection, and he’s eager to help, providing prompt responses. As this unfolds, Clarice, the store owner, approaches. With genuine concern, she inquires if everything is okay. You affirm that it is, expressing …

Hello, friend.I know, I know... it's been a minute since I've had a proper entry after my end-of-the-year "Things I Like" post. I'm still figuring out what I want to reshape my little corner of the internet into.My initial intent with Makoism was to share a few links and ideas; it has organically morphed back into a proper newsletter/blog. While I aim to keep these together, I still need to …

via Peter Stanfield Watch The Looking Cure - a mini-doc about John Hofsess's Palace of Pleasure - made by Stephen Broomer.“See it and you’ll see a window on the future: a Joyce-Burroughs assemblage of bold, poetic surreal visions of physical love in every conceivable form." - Gene YoungbloodAs Broomer writes in CineAction (the full essay reproduced here): Hamilton's McMaster University of the mid-1960s had a thriving campus art scene. The …

Let us posit a simplification, which will hopefully seem less arbitrary and less reductive as we further describe it. The simplification is this: that the two poles of concern, when it comes to what we call “art,” are the production of pleasure and the production of models. This is a bit what Gabriel Duquette has touched upon in calling “maps” and “chords” the building blocks of a work. The maps …

Today’s reflection is from Bondings 2.0 Contributor, Angela Howard McParland. Today’s liturgical readings for the 4th Sunday of Ordinary Time can be found here. Pope Francis recently said that he hoped hell was empty. “It’s difficult to imagine it,” the pope said. “What I would say is not a dogma of faith, but my personal thought: I like to think hell is empty; I hope it is.” In so much …

Thanks to the diligent and hard work of Clonehenge, we have a really good understanding of Stonehenge replicas and pastiches from across the world. There are a surprisingly large number of these, over 100 (!!), from complete and partial replications of the original monument itself, to installations and structures inspired by those (in)famous trilithons in a range of different materials. “Clonehenge covers replicas and models of Stonehenge from the sublime …