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In 1916 a newly arrived New Yorker named Adolph “Eddie” Brandstatter and a partner opened a café in Los Angeles. Modeling it on an unnamed New York City restaurant, they named it Victor Hugo and designed it to introduce fine French cuisine and continental service to the cafeteria-loving city. Four years after opening the Victor Hugo, Brandstatter turned his attention to a Santa Monica project, the Sunset Inn, buying it …

Lab rotations are a regular feature of work in my research groups. Students join the lab and figure out a project they want to work on themselves. While this typically results in at least a serviceable final report and good learning outcomes for the student, occassionally the work done lends itself to wider dissemination. If a student feels motivated and we can support them, we may try to move towards …

Alexander Palace is a well-known sports and entertainment venue which sits within the 200 acre Alexandra Park in North London and is nestled between the areas of Wood Green and Muswell Hill. The land on which they sit was once part of Tottenham Wood, which itself was part of the Great Forest of Middlesex. From the 13th century the Great Forest became subject to deforestation, mostly due to the land …

This trip was pencilled in months ago, when the cup draw was made. I knew Harrogate to be a good drinking town, having visited on a Blackpool CAMRA trip around 14 years ago. And Harrogate was a new ground – Blackpool previously played there during the COVID season but this was the first time fans had the opportunity to tick it off. I could therefore continue my quest for the …

Me, on stage. Last month I spoke at React Brussels and gave a talk “Supercharge Web UX with View Transitions” ~ Table of Contents The Talk Slides Recording/Video Thanks! ~ # The Talk The talk I gave is a full-length talk of a little over 30 minutes. Tired of disjointed web apps? View Transitions are the game-changer you’ve been waiting for. Whether your app is single or multi-page, this powerful …

October was a month of pelts in prams, reflectors on jackets, low sun, pumpkins and gourds, rustling leaves, blue light, piles of apples,…

In my first post about this strange lash-up I saw in Stratford, I shared some photos of the CN crew bringing a short string of cars into Stratford's rail yard. The crew did a little switching, which was perfect for someone like me who never gets to see freight trains. My time in Stratford earlier this summer was quite prolific from a railfanning perspective. Not only did I get shots …

In 2015 I made a keyboard guide to help people find the keys on their muddled-up keyboards. At the time I used Apple computers myself so without really thinking too much I made it as an Apple keyboard, however a few people complained that as PC users this diagram was confusing and bewildering to them. Now, almost ten years later I am releasing an updated PC version. You can order …

Prime accompanist goes solo. [row-start] [half] [/half] [half] Personnel Norman Simmons (piano), Victor Sproles (bass), Vernel Fornier (drums) Recorded in 1956 in Chicago Released as Argo 607 in 1956 Track listing Side A: Capacity In Blues/Stella By Starlight/Jan/My Funny Valentine/Peppe Side B: Chili Bowl/Moonlight In Vermont/You Do Something To Me/Love Is Eternal/They Can’t Take That Away From Me/Tranquility [/half] [row-end] This gets you through the night. Good bounce, sassy Carribean …

Lily – Rose Tremain Chance find in Belmont Library. A less rosy view of the life of young girl / woman abandoned at birth and taken into the care of Thomas Coram’s Foundling Hospital. Victorian gothic? Author page: Lily – Rose Tremain

The sequel is co-directed and co-written by Samoan-American filmmaker Dana Ledoux Miller, who is co-founder and board chair of the Pasifika Entertainment Advancement Komiti, or PEAK, a nonprofit organization working to promote innovative storytelling that honors the richness and diversity of the Pacific Islands.

Book Review by George S: David Garnett was one of the younger members of the Bloomsbury set. His father was Edward Garnett, the critic and publisher, and his mother was Constance Garnett, the translator of Tolstoy, Chekhov and Dostoyevsky. Born in 1892, David Garnett had been a conscientious objector during the Great War, working on a fruit farm in East Anglia. This short novel was published pseudonymously in 1919 by …

This 1984 debut record by The Cult (after they changed their name from Death Cult) addressed lead singer Ian Astbury's interest with Native American cultures and themes that would continue throughout most of the The Cult's career. Guitarist Billy Duffy hadn't quite found his signature guitar sound yet (that would happen on subsequent album Love covered here), but you can get a sense of where he was heading with it. …

The Beano and Dandy Comic Libraries were digest-sized spin-offs of the two full-size comics, which were published at the rate of four per month (two Beanos and two Dandys) from 1982 to 1997. Each one was 64 pages long and told a single, long-form story starring one or more of D. C. Thomson's main characters, often pairing them up in unusual crossovers. In 1997 the Comic Libraries were supplanted by …

Summary of previous episodes (CH32v3):1- Reallocate shadow ram to have 128k of RAM2- In flash, put a basic harmless loop3- Tweak the linker script to put everything in ram4- Load the code (to ram), change the PC to the code in ram5- You now upload much faster with infinite software breakpointsVscodeYou can use the cortexm extension with riscv, it works fine with one caveat : you cannot "attach"You can only …