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Gladiator, Jr.(WARNING: plot of Gladiator 2 discussed in close and explicit detail!)Coming out of the multiplex after a screening of Gladiator ll: A: What do you think?N: Wasn't a fan of the first Gladiator. Not a fan of anything Scott since Blade Runner.A: That's over forty years ago. N: I'm trying to figure out why Scott's films look so ugly now. His first film The Duellists seem inspired by Hogarth …

Griping about after 7pm public transport is a very Melbourne thing. We have the population of a big city but provincial-style train timetables that concentrate service in peak times with 30 minute gaps following after dark. Sydney has around twice our evening service levels while taking public transport at night is less mainstream amongst the residents of our less populous capitals. But there was one brief time nearly two decades …

Strangolapreti are delicious Italian spinach and bread gnocchi (dumplings) traditional in Eastern Lombardy and Trentino-Alto Adige. Made with bread, spinach, eggs and cheese or flour, strangolapreti are usually served in a simple sage and butter sauce. So tasty and comforting, these dumplings are a super way to use up leftover stale bread and even cooked spinach.... The post Strangolapreti (spinach and bread gnocchi) appeared first on The Pasta Project.

The film is adapted from Irish writer Maggie O'Farrell's 2020 New York Times bestselling novel of the same name, which won a National Book Critics Circle Award and the Women’s Prize for Fiction. "Hamnet" has sold 2 million copies in the U.K. and U.S. and has been translated in to 40 languages.

I’ve finally gotten around to getting accounts set up across a range of social media networks beyond Mastodon. Here’s the complete set of links: Follow me: on Bluesky on Mastodon on Threads Follow the blog: on Bluesky on Mastodon on Threads I’m trying not to cross-post much outside of work announcements on my personal accounts, but I honestly don’t know these things all fit together, and I’m not sure all …

Between the Temples (Nathan Silver, 2024).On a cold day in Rhinebeck, New York, Ben Gottlieb, the cantor of the local synagogue, walks into a Catholic church. Anxious, and recently widowed, Ben has come to talk about the afterlife. “Yeah, we don’t have Heaven or Hell,” he explains to the priest, pausing sheepishly, “we just have, you know, Upstate New York.” Ben is wondering whether, if he starts believing in heaven, …

To be a botanist today is to choose your words carefully. In her new book, The Light Eaters, Zoe Schlanger details the caution with which botanists ascribe intelligence to plants. Some only dare say plants can “sense”—they are like machines receiving stimuli and outputting an appropriate response. Other botanists take a small risk in the eyes of their peers to ascribe plants with “behavior.” There are fewer still who are …

Web excursions brought to you in partnership with CleanShot X, the absolute, hands-down best app for Mac screenshots. Get one of my all-time favorite apps here. fermyon/spin Spin is the open source developer tool for building and running serverless applications powered by WebAssembly Once again, the only way forward is the Mac The App Store era must end and the solution is already here. Mints: a multifunction utility Mints is …

Review by Frances S: Violet Trefusis, (1894-1972), was the daughter of Alice Keppel, wife of George Keppel, a son of the 7th Earl of Albemarle. When Violet was four years old, her mother became the favourite mistress of the then Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII). Violet grew up as a cosmopolitan socialite and became a writer, part of the notoriously avant-garde ‘Bloomsbury Set’. She was fluent in French …

Here are the best and most interesting articles, blog posts, videos, podcasts, and GitHub repositories I’ve run into over the last week (November 18, 2024 - November 25, 2024). Enjoy! Microsoft / Dotnet / Azure - Other Software Dev - Tech and Science - Leadership - Project Management / Agile - Social Media - Non-Tech / Random - Videos - GitHub Repos Here are some posts I’ve written in the …

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All Insights | Strategy How To Build A Robust Retirement Portfolio: A Data-Driven Approach Larry Swedroe Last Updated: November 25, 2024 Share: Larry Swedroe Last Updated: November 25, 2024 Share: Introduction to Monte Carlo simulations for Retirement Planning Retirement is a time when financial planning becomes critical—there’s less room for error once you’re no longer earning a paycheck.While mistakes during your working years can often be addressed with higher savings, …

A Conversation by Todd Craig and LeBrandon Smith Happy Hip Hop History Month! Last week writer, educator and DJ Todd Craig and cultural curator and social impact leader LeBrandon Smith kicked off their three part series parsing out this past spring’s beef between Kendrick Lamar and Drake, Hip Hop history in the making. We left off in the breath-holding moment just after Kendrick released “Euphoria” and “6:16 in LA” after …

On a recent parabolic flight, ESA project astronaut Sławosz Uznański tested a novel robotic gripper that could grapple space debris or gently grasp a living plant.

I’ve been blogging longer than I’ve been on social media. While posts here go back to 2008, I started writing online around 1997 and it took me a while to realize I could migrate between platforms rather than start over. Other than this blog I’ve ran a few others on specific topics. Blogging is the one medium where I feel like I can be myself, online or off and for …