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The UncoolTwo50 is over – well, the voting phase is – but the posting continues. These are the final 10 near-misses. 60. PUBLIC ENEMY – “By The Time I Get To Arizona” (1991) I learned too late that this record is NOT in fact a single, despite having an (incendiary) video made for it, it was a B-Side. But that’s OK! Because apparently an album tracks challenge is planned and …

For VGBees, Sean Aitchison opined that Sonic should really pick a direction and stick to it: Sonic games of the last two decades have all had some “bold and new” element shoehorned into 3D Sonic gameplay — which has itself never fully been polished enough to form a solid base to support these new ideas. Sonic is amorphous, no longer bold for experimenting, now just a nebulous concept that is …

An end of week recap “Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.” – Eugène Ionesco For my elevenses today, I shall help myself to a stout slice of chocolate cake in recognition of my 400th wind up for Book Jotter. WUTW #1 appeared on 14th January 2018 and in it I shared a handful of recent reads, gleefully announced my upcoming visit to the Hay Festival and… well, …

Photography of East London with more information about local events and history projects

Detailed review of the Scanner Calligraphy DKL Pro, a light painting photography scanner tool designed to illuminate scenes, models, or create light trails. Disclaimer The Scanner Calligraphy DKL Pro was sent to me by Frodo from Children Of Darklight for an honest review. The links in this review are non-affiliate links. Scanner Calligraphy DKL Pro (English) Scanner Calligraphy DKL Pro (Espanol) Design and Construction The Scanner Calligraphy DKL Pro is …

Saturday 23rd November 2024 Passengers on TfL’s route 358 between Crystal Palace and Orpington finally got to travel on the much anticipated Irizar electric ‘tram style’ buses on Wednesday when seven of the 17 vehicles allocated to the route, operated by Go-Ahead London from its Green Street Green bus garage, hit the road. Readers may recall I wrote about a journey I made exactly two years ago expecting at that …

In The Wall Street Journal last week, I interviewed comedian Ronny Chieng for my House Call column in the Mansion section (go here). Ronny is Comedy Central's Daily Show senior correspondent and co-stars in Interior Chinatown, a new drama-comediy series from Hulu. Ronny's rise is rather amazing. He grew up in Malaysia, came to the US as a 4-year-old when his parents went to college here, returned to Malaysia, went …

I read 12 books in September and October. I enjoyed all of them. Seven of the books were mysteries; five were in other genres.Humor / Cartoon CollectionA Wealth of Pigeons: A Cartoon Collection (2020) by Harry Bliss and Steve MartinIn this book, Steve Martin partnered with the cartoonist Harry Bliss to create a collection of cartoons and comic strips. Steve provided caption and cartoon ideas, and Harry created the artwork. …

A basic compass at $8 from Coghlan's but made for them by a navigation company with over 40 years experience. Good quality at a good price! Read More ... Continue reading Gear review – Coghlan’s Map Compass at PMags.com.

The first intimation I had that maps involved mathematics was when I looked up a map projection and came face to face with the equation that generated it. Math was never my strongest subject, so it’s probably for the best that I never went into cartography. Especially since it turns out that there’s a lot more math hidden behind the maps we use on a daily basis than you might …

From From Peoples into Nations: A History of Eastern Europe, by John Connelly (Princeton University Press, 2020), Kindle pp. 463-464: By 1941, three zones of influence had emerged in Nazi-dominated East Central Europe. The first included areas where Germany destroyed states and left no native administration, itself taking rudimentary control. The second comprised areas where it destroyed states and replaced them with its own political entities, misleadingly called “independent states.” …

Turning the clock back to 2012, when volunteering with CRAMBA I worked with my friend Kristi and developed the Ride Dirt Trails, Not Mud Trails signage. Originally hosted on the CRAMBA page (Internet Archive) this has fallen prey to link rot, so I’m re-posting / re-hosting it here. Back when this was released we very intentionally made it available it under the CC BY-SA 3.0 license along with an Adobe …

My latest post on Now Smell This is a review of three gourmand fragrances: Régime des Fleurs Fleur Éclair (orange blossom and cocoa pastry!), Arquiste Almond Suede (bitter almond marzipan and leather) and Isabelle Larignon Milky Dragon (oolong tea with notes of stone fruits and cream). You can read it here.

A short example of using Grafana, Microsoft SQL Server, and Docker Compose - Tagged: Containers, Grafana, Microsoft SQL Server

Guavas don’t get as big as some other types of fruit trees. And they certainly get bigger in the tropics than they do here. The biggest guava tree I’ve ever seen was on a coffee farm in the Monteverde region of Costa Rica. That said, I have seen some guava trees that are many decades […] The post Old guava trees in Southern California appeared first on Greg Alder's Yard …