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We’re back again for another exciting installment in what Google Analytics tells me is at least four peoples’ favorite “how to” blog series, Cliché Classics! It’s where I explore some oft-visited photography tropes and see if they can somehow re-ignite the flickering pilot light of the rust-filled water-heater that is my photographic creativity. On tap for this edition, smoke photography! What You Need Incense SticksTo get started with this project …

For the first time in five years, it’s time to add a new entry to my comprehensive Mission: Impossible review series. Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning, the seventh film in the series, was released in theaters and home video with a Part One subtitle, as it and the upcoming eighth film are a 2-part story shot back to back, but its recent streaming release on Paramount+ dropped the Part One …

I responded to something Peter said this morning on Bluesky: Pete’s post on Bluesky. No, I haven’t found the link button yet, maybe they haven’t built one. I responded that, yes, I have been thinking about this too. And, as I’ve found useful over time, seeing the problem for individual and collective perspectives helps. Zoom in, zoom out, repeat. The problem is magnified in the macro; as much as you …

My goal was to preserve some never-before-heard recordings of an incredible Dixieland jazz band made up of mostly Disney employees, the Firehouse Five Plus Two. But along the way, I accidentally discovered an incredible lost song that was cut from Walt Disney’s Cinderella. And you’re about to hear it too. Let’s go. Firehouse Five Plus Who? photo via D23 Here’s the backstory. In the early 1940’s, a bunch of talented …

The clipboard is an easy way to transfer data into the command line from other tools. Use your system’s “paste from clipboard” command to pipe data into other commands for processing. (See also my “copy to clipboard” post.) On macOS, use pbpaste: $ pbpaste | <command> On Windows with PowerShell, use Get-Clipboard: $ Get-Clipboard | <command> If don’t use PowerShell, you can invoke it to run Get-Clipboard: $ powershell.exe -noprofile …

In my previous post, in which I announced the separation from my husband and likely impending doom of trying to buy him out of the mortgage, I joked that I might have to do Project £20k again. I probably shouldn’t have tempted fate, because as it turns out that this is the number that Gaz has floated in terms of equity buyout, and my rapid expansion and therefore short term …

As promised, we’re back with an update on the last couple of issues of Adventure 3. Dungeons & Dragons Adventurer The post Dungeons & Dragons Adventurer Issues 31-34 Contents Confirmed appeared first on FauxHammer.

And then she asked an interesting question: Is it art if it wasn’t your idea? I was glad to answer “yes,” and explain to her why — that all art is a copy of something — though I wish I’d had the presence of mind to ask her a question beforehand, like, “If I drew a picture of you, would it be art?” My explanation was that all art is …

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Since I conveniently missed my “decade of gainful employment as a web developer” post last year, I’ll make it up with a “oh wow, this blog is a decade old” post. There’s not much to say, considering my output was sorely lacking over the past 3 years. BUT, I still dutifully renewed my domain name over the past ten years, and kept the dependencies on the site up-to-date, with an …

If you truly love something, let he, she, they or it know. Now, in this instance, I am talking about silent film, and it is the season for wearing your heart on your sleeve, so here’s an opportunity to do just that. Coincidentally, if you are the sort of person who has considered giving up … Continue reading Your silent cinema Valentine →

I've recently built a Remote Control for the Hy-Gain AR-500X Antenna Rotator which works nicely but requires me to look up the desired heading for a specific station in Cloudlog, go to the remote control web application, determine the best memory channel and then click it to move the rotator. Determined to streamline this process, I embarked on a journey to automate antenna control with the help of Cloudlog and …

It made headlines around the world: The young man was doing pull-ups at the top of a skyscraper and let go. “Let go” might not be the right word: it implies intention. “Fell,” however, implies total accident. His arms gave out. He’d reached his limit. I don’t know, because I watched the video until that moment neared, and then couldn’t go on. It was snuff, I thought. To witness that …

A recipe for making carob bars that are not chocolate but resemble it somewhat