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Earlier this month I had a slightly unplanned race appear on my radar, the Hateful 8 “Loopy Winter Edition” race. The race is put on by Mad Running Junkies, led by the wonderful Kev. Kevin is a great figure in the local ultra/running community here in Wales, especially in the South. He has participated in races I have run, and he has ran through checkpoints I have volunteered at. He …

Ursula K. Le Guin’s essay collection The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction has a lot of interesting material on language use and politics. Well, it has interesting material on all sorts of things, but this is a blog about language, so I’m being selective. The book was first published in 1979, edited and introduced by Susan Wood; my paperback copy, pictured, is the revised 1989 …

Genocide. What, did you think it would be complicated?

Please support free content by donating! PayPal: PayPal.Me Venmo: @CodyTheFever Introduction Over 2,000 days ago I started training without rest days. This means I am working out every day. Nearly all my workouts have been with weights. Few have been bodyweight only, such as when travelling and without gym access. Nearly all my workouts have been guided by my General Gainz training framework. Few have been outside of that framework. …

Ailish Tynan, Eleanor Dennis, Victoria Nekhaenko, Jerry Louth, ENO’s The Turn of the Screw 2024 © Manuel Harlan The English National Opera’s The Turn of the Screw, is an atmospheric and chilling rendition of Benjamin Britten’s psychological thriller. This production, newly interpreted and staged by Isabella Bywater for the 2024/2025 season delivers a gripping exploration of innocence, repression, and the supernatural, while allowing the opera’s themes of ambiguity and fear …

I needed to do a little housekeeping on mah banks before some upcoming performances, so I strapped a little gimbal camera to my chest and talked my way through it. Come for the rambling, stay for the Clark Kent drinking game.

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This post was originally published in The Free Press on October 14, 2024. Last night, I received two texts from Bari Weiss: Any interest in writing a short piece about that jaw-dropping launch? And why you brought your daughter to see it? The first question is an easy one. I’ve been fascinated by space ever since I gained sentience sometime in the mid-1980s. I had the order of the planets …

Plucked this guy off my shelves at random, it's spooky season, right? The inaugural title in the long-running anthology series launched by specialty press Dark Harvest in November 1984, Night Visions 1 was intended as being a showcase for the best original short stories by the leading figures in both horror fiction and dark fantasy. Charles L. Grant was pretty well-established already as an

Review from: Imperial Theatre, New York; 8th October 2024 Based on Sara Gruen’s novel of the same name, the musical[…] The post ‘Water for Elephants’, book by Rick Elice, Music and Lyrics by PigPen Theatre Co, Directed by Jessica Stone appeared first on The Circus Diaries.

I'm breaking my blogging silence to do two things: Alert readers to the fact I am still writing reviews of architecture books under the title A Weekly Dose of Architecture Books, but over at Substack, not Blogger.Put a new post at the top of this blog so I don't have to look at those photos of me every time I come here to find an old post that I want …

Writing this blog has been full of slap-upside-the-head, "D'oh!" moments over the years. There was the time someone mentioned making a stock from leftover corn cobs. And another time when I discovered how simple it was—not to mention how much more delicious it tastes—to make your own peanut butter. (Got five minutes and a blender?) I'm constantly asking myself: How could it have taken me so long to figure this …

“Fast” enumeration of partial assignments in SAT problems Published 2024-10-15 In my last post on SAT problems I noted that you can remove a single variable from a SAT problem using the technique I outlined. That is, you can build a SAT problem over the remaining variables that is solvable iff there is some assignment of the removed variable that satisfies the original problem. This will only sometimes run in …

For the past week, I've been working on a command-line tool to generate images from css-doodle source code. If you're familiar with command lines, try installing it with npm: npm i -g @css-doodle/cli After that, you'll be able to generate images with one line of command. cssd render code.css -o result.png If the code includes animations, you can also generate a video by using the .webm or .mp4 extension for …

I love waxworks. When they are good they’re very, very good and when they’re bad they’re even better. I’ve been hooked since experiencing the famously terrible Louis Tussaud’s House of Wax in Great Yarmouth, and never miss a waxworks if there’s one to visit.The National Wax Museum Plus in Dublin is a mix of waxworks and Ripley’s Believe It Or Not-type exhibits. Believe it or not, this is footballer and …