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I just don’t get it – while everyone is out buying new rods and reels I just buy some essentials. A new 4 weight fly line, a new fly box and some polaroids – the polaroids have got some magnification built in to help the eyesight – to be fair I am turning 50 this year. Just got to get some other essentials sorted – some flies, possibly some new …

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Well, I missed a Recently post on January 1st, so scratch any other resolutions, I’ll just live my life. Reading In loving memory of the square checkbox is the kind of UX rant I’m there for. Interfaces that have different behaviors should look different, and familiar styles are so valuable. I wrote about Web Components and Jake Lazaroff wrote in response: “The Web Component Success Story”. I agree with his …

Ever since the double-whammy of ‘having kids’ and ‘global pandemic’, I haven’t been going to board game nights at game stores that much. To regain some of my exposure to new game releases, I tend to watch ‘Top 10’ lists for the last year. This year, I decided to compile all of the top 10 lists I could find to create a global list. This took way more time than …

There are two kinds of people: those that think of February as the lowest point of the year and those that love it and I am firmly in the latter camp. February is the month when the garden really starts to come alive and grow even if the weather can be severe and the days are still short. In February something is definitely happening. There is a thrill in the …

Each month, the CMBA profiles a classic movie blog written by one of our members. This month, we are featuring Jay Jacobson, who writes at Jay's Classic Movie Blog. 1. Why do you blog?That’s simple.To share, enlighten, and hopefully excite people about classic films. I grew up loving movies and eventually earned a university degree in film directing. In addition to production, I studied film theory and history, and worked …

What a great, I mean a great, beginning to The Lady Pays Off. Linda Darnell is about to receive a teacher-of-the-year award. Darnell, a teacher? Anyway, she’s sitting at a formal dinner, ignoring a dull speech praising her education theories—that teaching should apparently combine pedagogy, motherhood, and best-friendship—while gazing into an aspic dessert. Inside this round blobby stuff appears a round blobby face. It’s a memory of a former beau, …

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Back in my university days, I used to haunt several bars and cafés near the university buildings with a few mates, students of literature and philosophy. We would typically choose a place to have lunch there at first, but often we ended up staying there all afternoon if we didn’t have other classes to attend. We would order more tea or coffee, study, compare notes, and so on. But the …

Congress is using kids to hold Big Tech accountable. Kids will get hurt in the process. In a few minutes, the Senate Judiciary will start a hearing focused on “Big Tech and the Online Child Exploitation Crisis.” Like most such hearings, this will almost certainly go off the rails in a wide variety of directions that I can’t even predict. But almost certainly, given the committee, it will include references …

Monday 8th January I had a walk from the office this lunch time. Grey Skies , Northerly wind coming straight in over the North Sea , pretty depressing weather really , I had to drive to Newcastle and back on Sunday the North Moors looked cold bleak and desolate , Standing water everywhere on back roads mud everywhere after it has washed out of the fields . The Weather was …

Final Approach charts the turbulent flightpath between a jetsetting father and a planespotting son. Final Approach is a long way from being the type of book I would normally read and enjoy. I do not share Mark Blackburn’s twin obsessions of gas-guzzling cars and aeroplanes, nor is his background of a well-heeled family and public school education anything like my own. However, I found Final Approach a riveting read and …

31 January 2024 Writing this down because I can never remember. This seems to be how to publish on LinkedIn to get better engagement, comments, views etc. Your org writes a Linkedin article because the reach will be longer term, the content google indexable, and no content length limits compared to posts. Obviously the content should be good. But the algorithm prefers it if it’s not just you showing off …

Part of the fun in building these Confrontation gangs is converting or adding in models that fit the look of the original sculpts. Today's pair of Dogskins includes a gang champion that hopefully fits that bill (as well as a standard Dogskin ganger to fill out the ranks!).Read more »

12 new history books identified over Jan 2024. A fairly ecclectic mix but with some familar historical themes such as modern Russia and the British Empire. A few top picks highlighted below! Click the book covers to see a zoomed in image and links to Amazon if you like to buy your books there. ✕ book cover [title] [by author] [publish date] Our Review Amazon UK Amazon US A couple …