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This quote by Viktor Frankl is so apt for all great leaders. Do you agree? If yes, why? If not, why not?

This Mai Tai riff from Nathan Robinson was a delicious twist on an old favorite. It’s especially nice if you’re looking for something else to use with Cherry Heering liqueur. I love the combination of blended Demerara rum and a bit of Rhum Agricole from Martinique. Delicious, give it a try. My only gripe is the name. Shouldn’t it be “Cherry Pai Tai”? Cherry Pie Tai by Nathan Robinson¾ oz …

Thursday 22nd February 2024 I’m counting down Britain’s (aka London’s) top ten busiest railway stations according to the Office of Rail and Road (ORR), and after last month’s entry, taking a look at Euston (at No 10), it’s the turn of Farringdon. The station has stormed into the top ten thanks to the Elizabeth line boosting the number of passengers after it began operating through the station in May 2022 …

Unboxed Designer: Jordan Sorenson Publisher: Wizkids Players: 1+ Age:12+ Time: about 10 minutes per dig, 10 digs in the box Played with review copy provided by publisher Affiliate link: https://amzn.to/429F8uJ In Unboxed, you and your friends take on the role … Continue reading →

Perhaps I should be more emotional about this, but this will be my last blog post on Airbag. The time has come to make this domain more useful than where I share my thoughts and feelings about things and stuff. It has been a wonderful stage to practice writing in the English language (still needs a lot of work) and engaging with hundreds of people here on this site and …

Groucho Marx? David Bellamy? Max Miller? Monty Python? George Little? Barney Horrigan? Anonymous? Picture of Auguste Rodin’s 1882 sculpture “The Kiss” Question for Quote Investigator: In 1979 the Bellamy Brothers released a popular country music song with a humorous title: If I said you had a beautiful body would you hold it against me? This line has been attributed to the famous comedian Groucho Marx, but I have not been …

A gem of an educational show from Japan about design.

Quite possibly the dumbest meme in the bitcoin calendar is coming around again — so we’ve written it up. [Amy Castor] To understand the “halvening,” you need to know about two things: The practical problems for bitcoin miners when half their income suddenly vanishes; A whole mythology of inane gibberish. Your subscriptions keep this site going. Sign up today!

Success! I've been using Helix on my Chromebook for almost a year and I was finally able to get editor themes working correctly. Helix has a great selection of themes but I was never able to get them working on this little machine. I had to install from source, which was a little dicey given how small the hard drive is and how low-power mid-range Chromebooks are in general. The …

I didn't go to school at MIT, but I've played in the MIT Mystery Hunt. So I've sent in some thank-you money, and thus landed on their alumni fundraising mailing list. They just sent me a postcard about their upcoming 24-Hour Challenge fundraiser; the postcard got my attention because it had a crossword, albeit a sparse "vocabulary" crossword emphasizing MIT trivia. I didn't go to school at MIT, but I've …

July 2023 Although this walk was to be almost entirely on roads, the road on the east shore of Loch Fyne are more minor than the busy A83 I had to follow for much of the west shore, so I am hoping today’s walk will be quieter and I can focus more on the scenery and surroundings than the traffic. The downside of being on quieter roads is there tends …

Previous: First Amend This! An IDOC Newsletter, Jan. ’23 Welcome to the February issue of First Amend This! This publication provides an insider look at issues affecting the Idaho Department of Correction community. If you wish to assist this effort, share the link, copy and paste, or print and send this issue to another. Loved ones … Continue reading "First Amend This! An IDOC Newsletter, Feb. ’24" The post First …

Another luminary of mid-twentieth-century conservatism, Russell Kirk, said, “Until human beings are tied together by some common faith, and share certain moral principles, they prey upon one another.” To which three responses are required. First, religion can be socially useful without being true. Second, human beings can share many ethical principles without sharing the same faith, or having any faith. Third, people who share a faith or moral principles frequently …

This is a very brief example to spice up the measures of central tendency lecture.There is a game show in Germany, and one of the rounds of the game show is performing a perfect median split on food. OF COURSE, IT IS A BAVARIAN HOT PRETZEL.The "splitting championship" game is part of a larger video game. Here is the YouTube version and here is the Reddit version, with more deets …

"The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has ruled that laws requiring crippled encryption and extensive data retention violate the European Convention on Human Rights." This renders some of the EU's own proposed legislation illegal. More importantly, client-side scanning and backdoors become illegal in themselves, making it harder for vendors from anywhere to include those features, lest they fall foul of the law with EU users. #Technology [Link]