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Recently, my attention has been focused on building web apps to suit my very specific needs. The first one was a financial dashboard of sorts, where I took the data from my YNAB account and built out custom reports so help me make sure we're hitting our investment goal and spending according to our values. The second one (I just finished) was a digital recreation of the weekly layout from …

Thanks to Charlie Horse 47 and Killdumpster for their sponsorship of this post, via the magic of Patreon. ***It may have seemed October 1984 was going to be a quiet month for cinema-goers, seeing, as it did, the release of such non-blockbusting fare as Comfort and Joy, Give My Regards to Broad Street and Paris, Texas.But it was not to be so.For, that month also experienced the unleashing of a …

The quantum Zeno effect is that, if you observe a quantum state it won’t change. Is this a real effect? What does it mean and when does it apply? I have answers.

The weather’s getting colder, I’m getting sleepier. The weekdays are, if anything, becoming busier, dense with technical challenges and fraught conversations. I should take some time off; maybe next month. I had one of the top… five?… best burritos of my life for dinner at Club Mexicana on Thursday, followed by waffles & ice cream at Unity Diner. Heavenly. I watched A Quiet Place: Day One. It was alright. It …

I first shared this recipe after mentioning that my Mom’s meatloaf remained my favorite, even after trying Ina’s individual meat loaves. Doesn’t everyone who loves meatloaf think their mom’s is the best? There are no surprising ingredients in this recipe, and that’s what makes it so good! It’s a hearty, satisfying comfort food that I’ve enjoyed for nearly four decades. While it’s delicious when I make it, it’s always better …

Artist: Noxis Album: Violence Inherent in the System Year: 2024 Genre: Death Metal Web: https://noxisdeathmetal.bandcamp.com/ / https://www.facebook.com/Noxisdeathmetal/ Country: United States Quality: 320 Kbps Tracklist: 1. Skullcrushing Defilement 2. Blasphemous Mausoleum for the Wicked 3. Paths of Visceral Fears 4. Abstemious, Pious Writ of Life 5. Torpid Consumption 6. Excursion 7. Horns Echo over Chorazim 8. Violence Inherent in the System 9. Tense and Forlorn 10. Emanations of the Sick 11. …

Ooops! A lack of proper planning saw me on the train to Tranmere with some noisy football fans. To be fair, they were noisy but well behaved. I considered changing my plans and going somewhere else but decided to stick with it. Off the train at Rock Ferry, all the fans dived into the Bedford while I turned the other way. My first intended target was close to the ground …

Spoilers are everywhere these days. In the past I have been spoilered just overhearing a conversation on a bus. They are online, especially in the first few hours after something drops. And I’ve now discovered they are on Wikipedia too whose character breakdowns for this series do not always stop at what has already been shown but go on to explain the ultimate fictional destination of many of the characters. …

Now it is 30 years later, and you are still sending me books, just more expensive ones, and we both are in it together bc you put us there. While I am reading your old letters you write me new letters, again, which are like your old ones, mild-mannered, caring, yours; and I can see that you have forgiven me and I have forgiven you also, but my heart has …

One of the many bugbears I hold in restaurants is the generalisation that the food of India can be broken down to the same ten or so classics that define individual areas by small changes into the same onion sludge. Jalfrezi, a Bengal stir-fry of sorts is now achieved by chucking some onion and peppers into the curry sauce, whilst to make a Rogan Josh – a Persian dish hot …

Whilst watching this intermittently delightful Bollywood werewolf movie, I was under the impression that what I was witnessing here was a precursor to the definitive mode of masala horror film which the Ramsay Brothers would go on to perfect in their work through the ‘80s and early ‘90s. I’ve only subsequently realised however that, in making that assumption, my chronology was actually a bit off. In fact, the Ramsays’ first …

Participants in the second Big Brockwell Park Kite Flight in solidarity with the people of Gaza braved the rain in Brockwell Park yesterday.

I don’t know how long she’s been there when I spot her. A pointed muzzle. Massive, soft ears swiveling in the dusk. Slender legs perched on the rock wall. She’s close to the orchard, but leaving the shelter of the trees. The comet of her dark-tipped tail follows her to the lawn. We’re close, maybe twenty feet from each other. The dogs don’t like it one bit, growling and barking …

The Duke of Bridgewater, Longport, Staffordshire A three-storey Georgian redbrick pub situated close to a bridge over the Trent & Mersey Canal. It has been closed for over a decade and was damaged by fire earlier this year.

Tresor Records have two huge releases for us this month and next. The first is this new 12″ from London-based Tresor resident Imogen. Metanoia is 5-track (plus a digital bonus) EP that came out last Friday and it’s already been occupying my speakers a lot. I was a huge fan of her Voitax release in 2022 and on this one her artistry is blossoming. Metanoia was also the title of …