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Ernest Torrence. She had a warning for leading men: “once Ernie Torrence grabs the baby from under the horse’s heels and cries over it…the handsome leading man had better beat it to the Town Hall and form a union to get back the heavy heroing.” One hundred years ago this month, Grace Kingsley noticed another trend in the movies that annoyed her: leading men weren’t getting to commit enough violence: …

His ability to unveil the truth through humor offers a window into the soul of 19th-century France, Daumier's biting caricatures and poignant paintings, provide a timeless commentary on his era's political and social upheavals.

Hello again, This month I've been plugging away on the project I mentioned in the previous post which involves among other things a PDF generator and now an implementation of ML (as in Standard ML, but also the other one). This is probably the 10th "compiler" I've written in my life, and it's kind of fun to revisit these problems that you've done many times and try out different approaches, …

Hey everyone!This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of January. Summary Of Changes 100r.co, added galley refit, updated lifelines, seamed box cushions, and moisture prevention underliner. Permacomputing, revamped the page. Flappy Bird, released an {Uxn} version of the Flappy Bird game. Grimgrains, released a new basic recipe: Whole Wheat Pancakes. Aliceffekt, Devine wrote some new music. On January 10th the forge …

“Australian farmers mysteriously found space debris scattered across their fields last month. An astrophysicist who examined the junk now believes it was from a SpaceX flight.”https://www.businessinsider.com/space-debris-australia-farmland-likely-spacex-crew-1-astrophysicist-2022-8

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, …

The Full Pint monthly link pour.

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 …