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By Fida TK. The worst part was that he had asked me, easy, without any sort of pressure or anything like that. He said, can I take it all with me, and I said yes, a little stupidly maybe, and so he got my toes and my spleen and my soul in his arms and walked out of my room, and there I was on the bed, a rough-cut blob …

MegalomaniaCame out of Megalopolis feeling a lot of things but what I did not feel was disappointed-- not a bad thing but not necessarily a good thing either. I run hot and cold on Francis Ford Coppola. Thought his first two Godfather films were classically well-written if visually conventional, too-carefully curated portraits of a corrupt American family, thought Apocalypse Now was a vividly directed Vietnam war movie that had little …

In a fast-paced industry like tech, it can be hard to deal with the fear of missing out on important news. But, as many of us know, there’s an absolutely huge amount of information coming in daily, and finding the right time and balance to keep up can be difficult, if not stressful. A classic piece of technology like an RSS feed is a delightful way of taking back ownership …

We clipped some things from the Tulsa game to look at the 3-4 defense and what North Texas is doing. Tulsa ran the stuff Tech did — counter, inside zone, and did play-action off of it. There is good and some less-than-good. Here is the youtube if you prefer that.

More on Allen’s case against the US Copyright Office here.

The BBC have produced a number of programmes in the past to help us understand how to engage and think about abstract painting. Here are some Youtube links to two series, Rules of Abstraction and Abstract Artists In Their Own Words. Rules of Abstraction (Approx 6 x15 mins): Abstract Artists In Their Own Words (approx 4×15 mins): I’ve also uploaded three learning resources to this website relating to the theme …

Bonus Post. Zebra and back half of a zebra man? Original snapshot c. 1930ish? Collection Jim Linderman / Dull Tool Dim Bulb

This hearty minestrone Milanese is a super nutritious Italian vegetable soup from Lombardy. It is thicker than most minestrone soups and full of healthy seasonal vegetables, protein-rich beans, and aromatic herbs. Add rice or pasta, and serve it the Italian way with grated Parmigiano and a dash of extra virgin olive oil. What is minestrone? Minestrone... The post Minestrone Milanese appeared first on The Pasta Project.

I disappeared again – I’m sorry. I’m trying to decide whether I’m done with this whole blogging malarky – there are aspects I miss – but I get overwhelmed with the effort it takes me now. So, if I do stick around, I might need to change the kinds of posts I publish and focus less on the long review posts I used to write, and would prefer to write …

Today I have another 3d Print – this time it’s a replacement for the simple “prison tower” tile from the standalone Prison Outbreak expansion. As with the Black Plague Trapdoors from the other day, this one was a free STL that I found online – this time on Cults3D. Painting was pretty straightforward. I wanted the whole thing to be an overall dull grey, no red brick or tiles, no …

"Will Nikon introduce a global shutter camera?Yes.The only real question is "when?" I've been following Nikon patents for three decades now, particularly ones pertaining to digital imaging. Nikon has quite a few patents in the global shutter arena, with one of the most interesting one being a hybrid global/rolling shutter patent (just resurfaced by Asobinet in Japan). In that updated patent, the original of which is now eight years old, …

We just closed down Relay’s 2024 St. Jude campaign. Thanks to your generosity, we were able to raise $1,078,348 to further St. Jude’s mission of finding cures and saving children. From the bottom of our hearts, thank you. This is an incredible achievement that we share as a community.

Science had always predicted that it had no intersection whatsoever with faith. In the end, the one was the bridge to the other — at least up to a point. As our knowledge peeled back layer after layer of reality, digging ever deeper into the fundamental truths of the universe, the beauty and strange inevitability of its workings seemed to show that spirituality was just wishful thinking; ignorance dressed in …

I have finally managed to finish my 15mm (1:100) Weimar Republic Schupo Sonderwagen of 1921. At least one of these armoured cars was still trundling around Berlin when the Soviets took the city in 1945.The STLs are available at https://www.wargaming3d.com/product/daimler-schupo-sonderwagen-1921/Later on...Unditching rampsI've added a separate STL for the wooden unditching ramps that could be carried over the port rear wheel.However, due to the limitations of the STL format's floating point …

A few days ago a New Jersey indiepop fan shared with me his discovery of a little known band from the UK: The Bed Bugs. At first I thought they were The Bedbugs, who I wrote about time ago. But no, these were different. Not only their name was different, with a space between bed and bugs, but they hailed from somewhere else in the UK, York. The Bed Bugs …