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Waiting For Godot is a play I love; I studied it for A-level, so I'd buy tickets regardless of the casting, but the combo of Ben Whishaw and Lucian Msamati was definitely an added draw. It is a play that tends to attract starry casts - I've seen productions with...

Around 1.67 million EIGEN tokens belonging to an investor in the popular Ethereum-based EigenLayer project were stolen after the investor was tricked into transferring the tokens into the attacker's wallet. The thief then sold the tokens for around $3.1 million, although the tokens were notionally worth around $5.5 million. Some of the stolen funds were later frozen by centralized exchanges.After the incident, some questioned why the tokens had been sent …

Episode 150 of The Informed Life podcast features a conversation with bestselling author Scott Berkun. Scott has written nine books on design, innovation, remote work, and more. His most recent, Why Design Is Hard, is the second of a pair on why design makes a difference and how designers can best go about it. It’s especially timely. Many designers feel beleaguered amidst layoffs and reduced agency in the business world. …

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It’s so easy, watching on the news, to scream at people who don’t evacuate ahead of oncoming storms. I get it. I scream at them, too. It’s often a fitting reaction.And yet.Evacuation is a process. It’s not “throw a handful of things in an overnight bag and floor it.” You still need to put in the time, money, and effort of preparing your house (or condo, or apartment) for the …

Detail of “Arthropod No. 2”, Phillip KeefeVia https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2024/10/phillip-keefe-wood-furniture/

The Adventures of Tintin (2011) D: Steven Spielberg. S: Jamie Bell, Andy Serkis, Daniel Craig, Nick Frost, Simon Pegg, Daniel Mays, Gad Elmaleh. Precious (rather than exquisite) adaptation of the Hergé comic. It’s CGI on top of motion capture, which apparently causes composite problems. But it’s computers so just fix it. Also, the character designs might be a dealbreaker. Craig’s ineffectual as the villain, Bell gets upstaged by the dog, …

I've completed so many Umbraco migrations over the past year that they've become incredibly easy to execute. Now that I've been doing them for a while, I've created a template that I follow to make the process almost automatic.I'm currently migrating an Umbraco 7 site to Umbraco 14. This is all thanks to the super awesome folks at Jumoo. They're the creators of uSync and other Umbraco migration packages that …

The shortest one asks the tallest one to take a photo. Prompted by a DoA games thread!

Writen by Josh Azouz and directed by Kathryn Hunter, Gigi & Dar is phenomenal work at the Arcola Theatre “Why is there a jar of Nutella on the ground?” Welcome to Roadblock 432. Staffed by two young army conscripts, both counting the days before their service is done and spending their time figuring out who would do what to whom in an orgy with One Direction. We’re in a desert …

Coffee morning In one of my favourite cafés. Quote of the Day ”Before you react, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you criticize, wait. Before you quit, try.” Ernest Hemingway Musical alternative to the morning’s radio news J.S. Bach | Double Violin Concerto in D minor, second Movement, Largo Ma Non Tanto (BWV 1043) Link Driving under time pressure the other day I got caught in an irritating tailback. And …

This book of short stories was published by Lore Segal in 2023 on her 95th birthday. It consists of 16 stories; 10 of them are about the "Ladies' Lunch" group. This group of older women, now in their 90s, have been meeting for lunch for thirty years or more, usually at the home of one of the group. There are five ladies named as the main group (Ruth, Bridget, Farah, …

Ah, September — one of the most beautiful months of the year, and one of the best months to travel. I definitely put this month to good use. This was a busy September for me, beginning with my getaway to South Moravia in the Czech Republic, with a 12-day trip to the Basque Country and La Rioja later in the month. Let’s take a look at September 2024! Enjoying the …

The film is a dark comedic fantasy based on stories that Boorman used to tell his children.

I personally love glycolic acid and I frequently recommend it my patients and to people who’s looking for a chemical exfoliant to. As someone who deals with textured skin, discoloration, comedones and the occasional hormonal acne, glycolic acid is one of my favorite skincare ingredients. Speaking of glycolic acid, the first product that comes to […]