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A Woman Under the Influence (1974)Gina Rowlands plays Mabel Longhetti, a nice woman who's married to Nick (Peter Falk). According to the movie, she has a serious drinking problem, but it looks like more of a mental issue, as she's off-kilter whether she's been drinking or not. When she's been drinking, though, she's available for being picked up at a bar. Nick is about as nuts. He brings all

Random increases in attributes for no discernible reason were characteristic of this oddly "blessed" session--at least for a while. Aamanz the Caveman didn't get very far. I overestimated the strength of the caveman's stomach, and he died of poison after eating a rotting kobold corpse. But I did pretty well with the next character, Aanzim the Archaeologist (god: Quetzalcoatl). The archaeologist is modeled on Indiana Jones, starting each life with …

Yes, this is a clickbait title, but it’s also (mostly) true. If you’re not familiar with Tailwind (bless your heart), it’s a “utility-first CSS framework.” I’ve written about my disdain for Tailwind before, but today I wanted to share an article from someone else that I think make my points better than I did. I also want to share what I think is a better path forward. Let’s dig in! …

I got a cheap used copy of the book A Programmer's Guide to COMMON LISP by Deborah G. Tatar, Digital Press, 1987. Why did I read such an old book, published a few years after CLtL1 and well before ANSI finalized the Common Lisp standard? I'm always looking for good Lisp books. Since Medley is my primary Lisp environment, I'm particularly interested in books published when the system was originally …

Drew was smiling for the camera tonight while I was trying to figure out how to use it . The post Smiles appeared first on @Kevuhnn.

It is showtime for the commercial Odysseus Moon lander, ready to attempt later today a touchdown on the lunar terrain. Following lunar orbit insertion on February 21st, Intuitive Machines notes its lander is in excellent shape for Odysseus’ “hardest challenge yet” – an expected 1630 Central Standard Time (5:30 […]

Sometime near 1948 Fiore Cerra took an aerial photograph of Carbondale, Pennsylvania that captured how very different a place it was just 75 years ago or so. I live near Carbondale and the moment I saw Cerra’s aerial I knew I wanted to try to recreate it. Well, in early 2023 I did and I uploaded a quick comparison of the two images to Instagram at the time. Recently, however, …

Sometimes people ask me why I’m now doing science news. It’s so that you can fully appreciate the drama of scientific discovery, in which one result contradicts a previous one and the next one finds a flaw in this other one. I think the entertainment-value of science is greatly underappreciated. And quantum computing is without doubt one of the most dramatic areas at the moment. One the one

If there was a kind of set that was expressed as a function, we could possibly pipeline operations, reducing memory impact. Is that possible, and is it a good idea? So far, maybe not.

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From In For The Long Haul: First Fleet Voyage & Colonial Australia: The Convicts’ Perspective, by Annegret Hall (ESH Publication, 2018), Kindle pp. 186-187: In July, the convicts Henry and Susannah Kable launched the first civil action in the settlement. They sued the Master of the Alexander, Duncan Sinclair, for the loss of personal items in his charge during the voyage. These articles had been purchased in England from donations …

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Prejudice against conservative Christians is a real thing. But so is the tendency to see prejudice where it isn’t. That is Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito’s special talent.I explain in a new column at The Hill.

The book manufacturing plant Sheridan Madison, once upon a time Webcrafters, is closing, and 116 people will be losing their jobs between now and the end of July. Printing Impressions bears the tale. The ostensible reason for the closing hardly assorts with the bouncily cheerful assessments (also here) I gave recently of prospects for the year ahead. “CJK Group and Sheridan indicated ‘the decision comes as a result of the …