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For years, I’ve had the notion of chicken-fried catfish on my mind. While typically, I eat my fried catfish dredged in a cornmeal coating, I wondered if treating the fish... Source

motel-babilonia:Chewing Gum Meanwhile, just imagine The Banana Splits filling the gumball machines with nickels wholesale, just trying to use such up as there doesn’t seem to be much of anything worth a nickel anymore.

In October 2023 Patently Apple posted an IP report titled "Apple won Patents for a Virtual Online Store Experience with 'Vision Pro,' followed by a report in November 2023 titled "Apple wins a Patent for possible Future online AR Guided Consumer presentations with Apple Specialists." Today the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office officially published a patent application from Apple that relates to users being able to interact with a computer-generated …

Acorn 7.4.4 is out, and it's a free update for anyone with an Acorn 7 license. As previously mentioned, I'm not incrementing Acorn past the 7.4 number ('74 was a good year for me). But that doesn't mean I'm not adding new features, and this release has some. Here are some highlights straight from the release notes: Super Resolution ML resizing. This new option in the Image ▸ Resize Image… …

This is a video from the cabin of Ixonia, Wisconsin Amazon driver Alexander Evans’s truck when an Amtrak train cuts the vehicle in half right behind Alexander’s seat after crossing the tracks. This is why I always look both ways at train crossings, then turn around and go back home. Then Alexander just has to sit there with a speeding train passing a few feet behind his head and wait …

Infrasonic Audio let us know that a limited run of Warp Core - a stereo/dual-output complex oscillator for Eurorack - is now available.… Read More Warp Core Stereo Phase Distortion Oscillator Is Down With The Thiccness

Autumn Market at Les Halles, Marie-François Firmin-Girard; oil on canvas, roughly 33 x 46″ (83 x 117 cm). Link is to page on Wikimedia Commons, with access to high-res file. Original is in a private collection. 19th century French painter Marie-François Firmin-Girard (alternately, François-Marie Firmin-Girard) worked in a naturalistic, often highly detailed manner that carried forward traditional values and resisted the influence of the Impressionists that eventually swayed many of …

When nineteenth-century German painter Carl Rottmann produced this dusk view of Hoher Göll, a mountain in the Berchtesgaden Alps bordering Germany and Austria, he included two subtle atmospheric optical effects. The first is a diffuse brightness around the crescent Moon. This is a corona, caused by the diffraction of light around tiny cloud particles – perhaps ice crystals in the high layer cloud Cirrostratus or water droplets in the very …

JUNGLE JIM (1948) – Decades before Raiders of the Lost Ark, “Jungle Jim” Bradley, mercenary jungle guide and adventurer, was fighting Nazis, Communist Spies and other menaces while finding lost cities & ancient artifacts, all while romancing lovely ladies. Throw in the occasional dinosaur, giant spider or huge, man-eating eel and enjoy! A modern Jungle Jim franchise could combine the best elements of Indiana Jones, Crocodile Dundee and Allan Quatermain. …

It’s been a whirlwind ever since Fujifilm announced the X100VI, the much-anticipated successor to the much-desired-but-hard-to-find X100V. According to Fujirumors, the X100VI has had the most preorders of any other Fujifilm camera ever. According to Sonyalpharumors, the new Fujifilm camera has 50 times more preorders than the Sony A7cII and Sony A7cR combined. Amateur Photographer states that the “Fujifilm X100VI breaks all records as sales are off the charts.” There …

Okay, Color Spaces Fantastic interactive explanation of how color spaces work by Eric Portis. Via Lea Verou

As we start to sense the possibility of Spring, plans for future walks start to take on a new tone of intent. One such plan is to pick up the trail of this enlightening walk exploring a dramatic stretch of the River Medway in Kent from Gillingham to Rainham with the brilliant Professor Kate Spencer. Last summer, we started at Strand Leisure Park, then passed Horrid Hill, Bloors Wharf, Eastcourt …

Economic growth slightly below trend. CFNAI-MA3 is -0.02, so slightly below trend in January — but still above the -0.07 threshold for contraction. WEI y/y growth is 1.87% for week ending 2/17.

Hez Parfums Café Beignet transports us to NOLA's Café Du Monde that has been serving classic beignets and café au lait since 1862. The post Hez Parfums Café Beignet (Hez Binkowitz) 2023+ Café Du Monde giveaway appeared first on ÇaFleureBon Perfume Blog.

Full casting has been announced for the upcoming one-night only concert performance of coming-of-age rock musical Bare at the London Palladium in April. As previously announced Jordan Luke Gage (Bonnie and Clyde, Arts Theatre/Garrick Theatre, & Juliet, Shaftesbury Theatre) will play Jason opposite Laurie Kynaston (Spring Awakening, Almeida Theatre, Mates In Chelsea, Royal Court) as Peter. They will be joined by Cassidy Janson (& Juliet, Shaftesbury Theatre, Beautiful: The Carole …