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Sunny Sugar Loaf with Phil. Sunday Lunch at Gwatkin Red Cow. Gardening: My Viking name is Mary Longloppers. To the gym for PT on a lovely day Tuesday morning, blue skies overhead. Speedy turnaround back home then to Lock’s in the Kia to pump the tyres up and then to Hereford (Belmont) for Tesco’s and Library. Back home I collected windfalls (not so many now – phew), lopped the smaller …

Darkly Bright Press is open for pre-ordering their limited hardcover edition of Arthur Machen's The Terror. This "New Critical Edition of the Mythopoeic Classic"includes the original Daily News serial of the text ("The Great Terror" October 1916), that of the first hardcover edition of the novel (Duckworth, February 1917), and the condensed version for the American periodical The Century

Two Karloffs, one great film In the late eighteenth-century, twin sons are born to a noble house. What would normally be a joyful occasion is marred by an ancient prophecy claiming the birth of twins will end with the younger sibling killing the elder in the Black Room of the castle. The new father shuts up the Black Room, hoping to thwart fate. Once they reach manhood, the brothers (both …

The model release train continues, with Mistral’s multimodal Pixtral 12B, OpenAI’s o1 models, and Roblox’s model for building 3D scenes. We also have another important AI-enabled programming tool: Cursor is an alternative to GitHub Copilot that’s getting rave reviews. Security will never cease to be a problem, but this month seems particularly problematic. The Mirai botnet is infecting a widely used surveillance camera that is unpatchable; the only known mitigation …

In the late nineties, this was my summer fragrance, a staple I packed for family trips to our holiday home in Ireland. Wearing it felt like a tether to the buzzing New York Metropolitan area I’d left behind, which, to an eighteen-year-old, seemed important. Back then, the formula was crafted by Lauder's Aramis division for Tommy Hilfiger, but by the 2000s, fragrance trends shifted from

Cooler weather is incoming, and Spier & Mackay is dropping new clothes left and right in their typical, drip-drip-drip fashion. The New Arrivals page shows all the latest goods, while their Fall Previews page shows things coming very soon. There’s always something new on both pages, so you’ve got to keep up with the updates on those pages to see when new stuff drops. This season I’m as interested as …

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As a teen, I wanted to be like the popular girls — specifically to have certain things figured out. I struggled as an autistic teen growing up to figure things out myself, and neglectful parents only increased my struggles. I wanted to be one of those girls who smell good when they walk past and leave that kind of impression. Now, I like smelling good or like nothing — especially …

Cedar Rapids traffic is rarely congested, but there's a steady supply of it,even during Week Without DrivingWeek Without Driving is being observed for the first time this year in Cedar Rapids. Begun in 2021 in Vancouver, Washington, it has gotten bigger each year since. Founder Anna Zivarts of Disability Rights Washington has also published a book in 2024, When Driving Isn't an Option: Steering Away from Car Dependency (Island, 2024).Week …

Welcome to October, sandwich fans! As always, a new month brings 3 new sandwiches for the Tribunal to investigate, and there are some good ones coming! But first, as ever, we must review what we learned in September. September’s Tribunal sandwiches included the Mulita, a Mexican melt from Tijuana involving 2 handmade corn tortillas, plenty of Oaxacan cheese, meats like carne asada or carnitas, and a thin Tijuana style guacamole …

The Batrachomyomachia (“Battle of the Frogs and Mice”) is a comic epic parody of the Iliad and a good source of names for your pet mice. Like Artepibulus, “he who lies in wait for bread”. Greek etymology rabbithole also led us to troglodyte, which ultimately means, “hole, I get into”: From Latin trōglodyta (“cave dwelling people”), from Ancient Greek τρωγλοδύτης (trōglodútēs, “one who dwells in holes”), from τρώγλη (trṓglē, “hole”) …

Hello team! I turned 45! It happens every year (not the same age, but the same feeling, of time marching forward, with me along with it) so no big surprise. This weekend was the Great Race, also every year, but I unsubscribed from their e-mail list at some point months ago because they seem to operate this list under the misconception that subscribers want to think about Great Race 24/7 …

Those who follow my blog have heard of Travis Tygart, the guy with the ridiculous hair-style whose unique desire is to see Russia disappear from the international sports arena. He is the head of the US Anti-Doping Agency and a great expert in condemning Russia (and, on occasion, China) while explaining and justifying his acquitting decisions when it comes to american athletes. If you don't remember what I am talking …

The White MollFrank L. PackardNew York: Doubleday, Doran, 1931306 pagesWalt Disney failed to interest NBC in Jimmie Dale, Alias the Gray Seal. His biographers haven't made much of this, but evidence suggests it irked. He'd first read Jimmie Dale's adventures in adolescence, and would act them out with childhood chum Walt Pieffer. What roles they'd played are unknown. I like to think one of the Walts played Marie Lasalle, the …