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Classic Film and TV Café, , more info
The Eiger Sanction Is a Tough Climb The Eiger Sanction (1975). This action thriller, directed by and starring Clint Eastwood, follows a former assassin who is coerced into one last mission. There is some talk about recovering a germ warfare formula, but the mission is really about revenge. Two bad agents kill one of ours, so a shadowy U.S. agency wants them sanctioned--which is apparently code for eliminated. Eastwood's ex-killer now teaches art at a college (!) …
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London Historians' Blog, , more info
2024: Our Year This year we enjoyed around 40 events, including monthly pub meet-ups at the Wheatsheaf in Fitzrovia. There were our hardy annuals such as the Big Pub Quiz, Annual Lecture, Picnic and Life Members’ Lunch; among the rest, highlights have to be our visit to Berry Bros & Rudd, the Gas Lamp workshop, the Kennel Club […]
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Cool Links Vol. 6: December, 2024 If anything looks wrong, read on the site! Happy Holidays! I have four new links to read while you recharge your batteries from dealing with end-of-year stress or recovering from overeating. They’re either introspective or retrospective, as is the theme this time of year. Care Doesn’t Scale, by Steven Scrawls This is such a good article that resonated very deeply with me. As someone who wished could do more to …
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Interesting Things on the Internet: December 30th 2024 Edition You Can't Rebrand a Class War. This is about America, but the Labour Party seem intent on telling everyone the system has failed over the past decades that it's not possible for it to improve, and will then be shocked when the populist fascists get more votes for their lies that they will improve things; just as happened with Brexit. When the current situation is broken and one party is …
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nyanpasu64's blog | Home, , more info
How I helped fix sleep-wake hangs on Linux with AMD GPUs I dual-boot my desktop between Windows and Linux. Over the past few years, Linux would often crash when I tried to sleep my computer with high RAM usage. Upon waking it would show a black screen with moving cursor, or enter a "vegetative" state with no image on-screen, only responding to magic SysRq or a hard reset. I traced this behavior to an amdgpu driver power/memory management bug, which took …
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The Nordic Kitchen, , more info
Goodbyes and new beginnings It’s always a special feeling to say good bye to a year and welcome a new one. When you look back, you realize how fast a year passes by, but also how much you’ve done and been through. For us, New Year’s Eve 2024 will be extra special. Not only are we saying good bye to the year 2024, we are also saying good bye to our apartment which we …
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The Magic Item Collection and Generator is now live for sale So this is the thing that I made. What's it good for? The Collection contains 30 magic items that I wrote up, more or less original. Some are weapons, some are clothes. Most are weird. Some are almost definitely cursed. The items in the Collection are grouped into five categories. When you need to quickly and randomly give your players some unfamiliar magic loot, roll a d6 a couple times, …
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Rev Stan's theatre blog, , more info
Interview: 5 questions with theatre director Madelaine Moore Madelaine Moore is a freelance theatre director and artistic director of female-focused theatre company The Thelmas with Guleraana Mir. Here, she answers five questions about their new production, Santi & Naz at the Soho Theatre, gender equality in theatre, what she likes to watch and what making theatre is like...
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The Homepage of Dave Rupert - daverupert.com, , more info
Twenty Twenty-Four For last year’s check-in, I foreshadowed a year of changes for ol’ Dave Rupert and boy was I not kidding. New job, new car, new pets. But before we get into all that – for accountability’s sake – let’s check in on my resolutions from last year and see how I did… Activate an active lifestyle - Nope. Write more shitty sci-fi - Nope. Draw more - Nope. Write for …
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The Picky Glutton, , more info
Uzbek Corner review: a taste of Uzbekistan in Bayswater The ‘exotic’ yet homely Central Asian restaurant hidden in Queensway Market Although it’s not quite as common as it used to be, there’s a hoary old cliche found on restaurant menus across the land: ‘home cooked’. It’s obviously meant to evoke warm, fuzzy feelings of maternal coddling, but distilled onto a plate. Yet, at the risk of sounding unnecessarily ornery, contrarian or fuelling speculation about my dysfunctional parents, I don’t …
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Wandering Around The Family Tree, , more info
Robert Call and Charlotte Joslin I've started editing/re-editing some family photos. Figure I'll post the images here as groups, and add to the posts as I get photos edited.These will be photographs related to Robert Call and Charlotte Joslin. Shared December 2024 I believe this is a Christmas card sent to my grandmother Evelyn Clara (Call) Hankins by her cousin Rosalind Daniels in 1941. She included photographs of two crayon drawings of their grandparents Robert …
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[Review] The Year in Books 2024 – James McLoughlin 'Once again, reading kept me going this year. I started the year recovering from an operation and seeking somewhere new to live. I was then made redundant in February and spent a good few months searching for work. Professional losses and personal losses have combined to make the year something of a tumult, and reading has been an anchor. Except when I read something I hated.'
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Tips for Choosing the Right Training Class for Your Dog Training classes can be an excellent opportunity for your dog to learn new skills, build duration and resistance to distraction, become proficient in working through various levels of difficulty and distraction, burn energy, gain confidence, and build your relationship. When looking into finding a class, the first question to ask is: What are you looking to accomplish? Are you looking to build new obedience skills? Give your dog an extra …
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hidde.blog | Blog, , more info
What I got up to in 2024 It's only a few days until 2025. That means one thing: it is time for my yearly tradition of reviewing… some of my year. I'll cover work, conferences, reading, writing and music. This will inevitably sound cheesy, but I am once again genuinely grateful for the opportunities I got… there were fun projects at work, I got to see some of my dearest artists live and I got to share …
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The Daily | Current | The Criterion Collection, , more info
A Year’s Worth of Essential Reading As we approach the end of 2024, we’re looking back at our past year in publishing and the articles we’ve shared with you—including essays on the pleasures of ensemble acting, the golden age of giallo filmmaking, and the history of Times Square as a cinematic setting, as well as in-depth conversations with pioneering directors Lizzie Borden and Ayoka Chenzira. Enjoy this selection of twelve highlights, and be sure to check …