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Someone brilliantly replied to my latest "Same Team" post:Resonate with the idea of "us, as a team, vs. 'the problem'", whatever that may be. Also a core part of our relationship.One of the best parts of a relationship is learning more about ourselves and our own limitations. Coming to it with curiosity. Why does the other person come off as not caring or being sensitive enough? What does that say …

Ironically, I watched this a bit into starting a new job… Mike (John Moulder-Brown) is a teenage Londoner who’s chosen to enter the working world instead of continuing on with school. There’s not a heck of a lot he can do, so he ends up as a locker room attendant at a public bathhouse, tidying up the mens’ private changing rooms between visitors and generally doing small jobs. His bored …

By now it’s fairly likely you have either heard about or updated to iOS 18 on iPhone or iPadOS 18 on iPad, and you might be wondering about some of the new features. While there are some major new features along with many small changes and mini features here and there, there are a handful ... Read More

Luce Luce is like a plain girl whose face suddenly transforms when she smiles. Full of blink-and-you’ll-miss-it moments that shuffle so quietly underneath its sweet, minty beeswax skin that you’d be forgiven for writing it off as an amber, this is a scent that rewards close study. My first impression is of sugared aniseed and vinyl set against a dark green backdrop of fir trees, underscored with a touch of …

White sand beaches, turquoise waters, otherworldly rock formations, this is the Cíes Islands. This little slice of paradise is found in Galicia Spain. The Cíes Island archipelago consists of three islands: Monte Agudo (Norte), O Faro (del Medio), and San Martiño (Sur). The islands work as a somewhat natural barrier to protect the Vigo Estuary...

This is the third novel in Alison Weir’s Tudor Rose trilogy, following Elizabeth of York: The Last White Rose and Henry VIII: The Heart and the Crown. You definitely don’t need to have read the previous two books before starting this one, although if you’re not very familiar with Tudor history it would probably be helpful to read them in order. The novel begins in 1525, introducing us to nine-year-old …

Waiting for dinner Cote d’Azur, 2010. Quote of the Day ”The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper. “ Bertrand Russell Thanks to John Seeley for spotting it. Musical alternative to the morning’s radio news Kathleen Ferrier (Contralto) | What is life? | Orfeo ed Euridice | Gluck Link This is a remastering of a 1946 recording of Gluck’s Orpheo that stopped me …

5/5 golden merles Variety’s “Plover” is Texan avantpop rock composed of compelling narrative subversion, sticky melody and tone. The hook is a compacted material derived from descriptions of naturalistic imagery, the conflict of the domesticated and undomesticated in comparison to the authors interpersonal dilemmas. It’s thoughtful and pretty dang fun. I need my streams and mountains tempered by the grim specter of death. Gluck and Johnson, Bly and Ruefle. Some …

In 1973, an author named Alan Lakein published a book titled How to Get Control of Your Time and Your Life. It wasn’t the first book about professional time management — my library contains a first edition of James McCay’s 1959 classic, The Management of Time — but it’s arguably the first book to talk about the topic in a recognizably modern way, with a focus on personalized tools like …

What makes reality TV producers smile? Read on, because this stock image doesn't have the answers (Photo of TV by Kam Idris and inset by Count Chris/Unsplash)

We’ve just released version 2 of Kamal, our deployment tool for running web apps directly on VMs or bare metal servers. Kamal 1.0 was designed with 37signal’s use case in mind — deploying an application across multiple hosts, served with an external load balancer. With Kamal 2.0 we’ve focused on making it simpler to use at any scale, whether you are deploying your app to 50 servers or deploying 5 …

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By Will MoczarskiThe last time I ended my narration on a cliffhanger, promising a grisly death scene - however, that was only half true. But more about that in a while. When we last left the game we were busy collecting items to build a Leyden jar and subsequently conduct the famous Kite/Key experiment in order to get Ben Franklin out of his cozy hot tub. On the surface of …

Sorry, “opposite of more” doesn’t tell me much. The summary provided by man less is “opposite of more”, and the description opens with “…a program similar to more(1), but which allows backward movement in the file…” Not that helpful — especially since more is aliased to less on a lot of modern OSes, including macOS. A better summary: less displays a file in your terminal, page by page — thus, …

source unknown (Record Mirror?)date: spring 1984? Tracie Responds (boom boom)