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Alto Tu Barco! You can almost feel the sea spray on your eyelashes in this one. U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Munro (WMSL 755) crews interdict a vessel suspected of smuggling drugs in international waters of the Eastern Pacific Ocean, October 2024. Munro is the sixth Legend-class national security cutter homeported in Alameda, California. U.S. Coast Guard courtesy photo. U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Munro (WMSL 755) crews interdict a vessel suspected …

Let’s be honest, you could cut the rest of any Thanksgiving meal and serve me a big bowl of mashed potatoes (with gravy), and I’d be set! And The Woks of Life’s simple, comforting Cheesy Mashed Potatoes with Scallions were a highlight of our meal. It’s a classic recipe – russet potatoes, milk, butter, salt, and pepper mashed together with my favorite gigantic spoon, then enhanced with shredded cheddar, grated …

Scouts from the San Francisco, California, area partnered with local food banks to collect donations for families in need during the holiday season. Scouts helped gather donations at the San Francisco-Marin Food Bank warehouse in San Rafael, which serves more than 50,000 households weekly. With the holidays approaching, food banks are seeing increased demand. Last year, Scouts collected more than 28,000 pounds of food across the region, evidence of the …

Familiar themes to sketch this morning. They feel good. In Halifax the temperature seems to trip from “Why does it need to be so hot all the time?” to “I had all these cute sweaters I was going to wear,... Read More ›

Session 270 was played on 10/28/24Morgana, wizard (Rob)Borumar, Triton Thief (Josh)Blotto, Goblin Fighter (Lanse)Nick, Fighter 7 (Me)Koltic, Cleric 7 (NPC)Aroon, Fighter 5 (NPC)Jameth, Fighter 5 (NPC)Lor’Koth, Dwarf 5 (NPC)The party continues their exploration of the sewers, heading to the area the area Morgana marked on the map as “death pits” due to the concentration of ochre jellies in the bottom of it. Borumar checks the room, avoiding the pits themselves, …

2006 Relic Entertainment Platform: Mobile J2ME A short entry for a Java Platform mobile conversion of a classic real-time strategy game that many of us have lost hours to over the years – including myself on PC over multiplayer. It … Continue reading →

This week’s Debrief features the new Soma Bar-Ins, an electronic shifting survey (for or against), a $16,000 gravel bike, a Dinétah story, Concrete Trails woven bar tape, three events to follow live, and more. Find it all here… The post Friday Debrief: Electronic Shifting Survey, Concrete Trails Bar Tape, Soma Bar-Ins, and More… appeared first on BIKEPACKING.com.

Imagine standing on a railway platform watching a trolley go past. A girl on the trolley drops a bright red ball. To her, the ball falls straight down. But from the platform, you see the ball traverse an arc before hitting the trolley floor. The two of you observe the same event, but from different reference frames: one anchored to the trolley and the other to the platform. The idea …

We welcome YOU once again to Mr Ripley's Enchanted Books 15th Annual Children's Book Cover Illustration Competition! This vibrant event showcases and celebrates the incredible talent and creativity of artists from all around the world. As we continue to foster a love for highlighting the unsung heroes/teams of our favourite book covers. Join us on this exciting journey and spread the word

Warm Currency is the duo of MP Hopkins and Mary MacDougall from Eora. Their first album arrived on Horn of Plenty in 2022, with sparse folk compositions and field recordings that would’ve been typical Altered States fare. Their new LP is also coming out in the UK though. Petals is out today, November 22, on the same label and it’s packed with 12 beautiful compositions that’ll no doubt make the …

🍿 Watched Christmas on the Ranch. I like this but he asks her to give up her life in New York and move to his ranch in Ohio before they even kiss. Bold.

I have stumbled into the season of crows. Still silhouettes watch my lethargic bones shuffle through leaf murk into the gloom. Issuing decrees in calls, they summon mist - uncertainty that lingers over my skin, our inevitable destination, dank and decay. I bow, of course. Reverence to the gatekeepers, the ones that wait between here and nowhere. Make peace with their shiny feathers of void, ignore their sharpened talons, their …

I put this on LinkedIn but thought I’d republish it here; I hit my target for the amount of newsletters I planned to send this year early so thought I’d do a bit of a review – especially as I’m not sending any in December. In 2024; 45 newsletters published/sent Subscribers went from 2082 → 2234 (net) target was an increase of 200+ Average open rate was 67% Average click …

Loper Bright is a maddening opinion for statutory interpretation afficionados. The Court killed Chevron based on purported theories of statutory-interpretation separation of powers, but those theories do not actually reflect the Court's usual practice, despite the Court's claims. My new piece in the Harvard Journal of Legislation details this argument. Here's an excerpt: The opinion reads like a statutory-interpretation manifesto—and suggests that Chevron is being overruled for violating its precepts. …

This is the CYOBot V2: a modular, transformable robot that you can program with blocks, C++, and Python. It is powered by a ESP32 microcontroller and has Bluetooth, WiFi connectivity. You can quickly assemble it without any soldering. You can change its configuration in a flash. You get to further customize the robot by 3D printing your own components. You can also connect to external APIs. The mechanical designs for …