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Three days gone, three to go and we hadn't even seen a pike, the water was still well above the +1.4 we needed - and the frogs and toads had started spawning - pike spawn around the same time. The difficult pike mission was getting even harder - but you've got to be in it to win it... Day 4 / Saturday / Water level +2.1 - We were joined …

When I saw that someone had announced a shift in technological influence from Star Trek to Hitchhiker’s Guide, I was all set to spend a day cheerleading the mainstreaming of an observation I wish I could have made so succinctly. Then I actually read the announcement, and realised that this was being proposed as a positive development—a “graduation”, no less. by Olga Shvartsur I have said before that I find …

Did you know that there are five Thursdays this February? FIVE!! I thought I was done for the month today – but I am not. It’s leapday Thursday next week. This will be only the third one in my lifetime, now in my 61st year having lived through this experience in 1968 and 1996. The fifth since the 1800s. The responsibilities for next week’s update have suddenly loomed ominously. Am …

Meta-blogging, lectures sur Gemini et conquête spatiale Meta-blogging Pluralistic, le blog de Cory Doctorow, fête ses quatre ans. Pluralistic: Pluralistic is four; The Bezzle excerpt (Part III) (20 Feb 2024) (pluralistic.net) Cory est une énorme source d’inspiration pour moi. Il poste presque tous les jours, appliquant une méthode qu’il intitule Memex. Je le lis depuis son tout premier billet, je me demande comment il tient un tel rythme. Et je …

On the Ramblings today I’m happy to be kicking off a blog tour for a favourite indie publisher – Melville House. Their books have featured on the Ramblings many times, most recently last July, when I covered the very entertaining “Relentless Melt“. So when they approached and asked if I’d like to be involved in a new series they’re launching, I jumped at the chance. The series is called FUTURES …

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Each Thursday in the Disquiet Junto music community, a new compositional challenge is set before the group’s members, who then have five days to record and upload a track in response to the project instructions. Membership in the Junto is open: just join and participate. (A SoundCloud account is helpful but not required.) There’s no pressure to do every project. The Junto is weekly so that you know it’s there, …

Round Table Books, based in Brixton Village, is one of 77 independent bookshops selected as a finalist in independent bookshop of the year category for the The British Book Awards 2024 The award, sponsored by book wholesaler Gardners, celebrates shops that are at the centre of local communities. “This year’s cohort is one of the […]

The remains of San Geminiano, the “vanished church” that moved around Piazza San Marco in Venice for centuries before its final destruction in 1807, have been discovered under the iconic main square. So far archaeologists have discovered pieces of the medieval pavements and walls and a brick tomb containing the skeletal remains of seven people. The tomb dates to the 7th or 8th century, predating construction of Piazza San Marco …

Lunar New Year lantern viewing at Lan Su Chinese Garden. We enjoyed the tea tasting in the newly reopened teahouse.

This post assumes some knowledge of view transitions. If you're looking for a from-scratch intro to the feature, see this article. When folks ask me for help with view transition animations that "don't quite look right", it's usually because the content changes aspect ratio. Here's how to handle it: Unintentional aspect ratio changes It's pretty common for these aspect ratio changes to be unintentional. For example, here's some CSS: .simple-text …

I help run the IF Archive. I have for, oh, about 25 years now. It's not a demanding job. Mostly the server just runs itself. We have a cadre of volunteers who file the games and write up the descriptions. (Thank them!) Occasionally we change out some of the underlying server configuration, like when we started using a CDN for load balancing. But that's, like, once every few years. Low …

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Interesting article from Peace News, 20 December 1963 in which Richard Mabey writes of his visit to the Cavern Club in Liverpool and reflects on its then newly famous sons, The Beatles. Mabey of course is now well-known as a writer on nature. You can read the full article here.Twist and Shout'[...] In the Cavern Club, the heart of the Liverpool beat music scene, the first and inescapable impression is …

Another ESNG meeting tonight, but in the mean time, here are some more random internet finds…. A bit of culture, as John Betjeman goes by train from King’s Lynn to Hunstanton. Some lovely modelling ideas here, at this link. Some random Jago Hazzard. At the moment, he’s taking a well earned break from these fun and instructive videos. Making a very small layout (in Japanese). And to finish, some more …