I often hear Americans & rich brits justify buying oversized, polluting vehicles by claiming they need them because they live in the "countryside".
I call bullshit, Ladies and Gentlemen, allow me to introduce, the Citroen C15
I’ve been Sigmund’s great-grandchild since 1962 and, through that bloodline, I had little to show for it. But through a long chain of gratitude, kindness, friendship (and lust), a small green and purple plant has rooted me in the topsoil of my past. In the end, it was friends and strangers who allowed me to let go of an inherited distance from my past relatives and introduced me to my strange and guarded family.
My cutting has just propagated its first new shoot. I will pass it on with love.
This is the tale of what for me was a rather remarkable adventure. It was assembled on the basis of my personal recollection and experience, emails, GPS logs and some official documents. It represents solely the perspective and opinions of myself, in my more lucid moments. It is in no way intended to represent the position of the Riverside Mountain Rescue Unit, nor any other agency mentioned. Further, my usual writing style tends to be somewhat lighthearted and flippant, which would be somewhat at odds with the serious and tragic nature of the incident being reported. I have attempted to remain sensitive to the underlying events, yet retain a certain level of casual narrative that some might find entertaining. And if not entertaining, then at least informative.
Occlupanids are generally found as parasitoids on bagged pastries in supermarkets, hardware stores, and other large commercial establishments. Their fascinating and complex life cycle is unfortunately severely under-researched. What is known is that they take nourishment from the plastic sacs that surround the bagged product, not the product itself, as was previously thought. Notable exceptions to this habit are those living off rubber bands and on analog watch hands.
Living on this planet for quite a few decades, I have learned that it rarely works to grab things if you don’t actually touch them
Inigo Quilez is een tovenaar.
Sea Peoples, Bronze Age Collapse, and Eric Cline are the focus of today's deep-dive podcast. Tristan Hughes is joined by world-renowned archaeologist and author Eric Cline to interrogate the enigmatic groups that allegedly brought the "G8 of the ancient world" to its knees. We explore the primary Egyptian inscriptions of Merneptah and Ramesses III, the haunting letters from the burning city of Ugarit, and why the Sea Peoples might have been victims of a "perfect storm" rather than just bloodthirsty invaders.
In this episode, we break down the nine distinct groups that formed this confederation, including the Peleset (Philistines) and the Shardana. Professor Cline discusses groundbreaking new DNA evidence from Ashkelon that hints at the European origins of these migrants. From the naval battles in the Nile Delta to the climate-driven migrations that mirror modern crises, this is a comprehensive look at the mystery of 1177 BC.
Rich and Mike talk about Star Trek Deep Space Nine! Finally! But it's season one you say? You're right! Rarely are the first seasons of shows outright exceptional (with some outright exceptions) most times they're good enough to pass muster, until they find stable footing. Deep Space Nine is no different! Light years ahead of the awkward first season of TNG, DS9 slides right into it's groove early on. While there are lots of isolated TNG-esque one-off story lines and some early character developing episodes, DS9 season one is a solid layer of quality "paste" as Rich Evans so eloquently puts it. Rich and Mark talk briefly about each episode, pausing to pick favorites along these way. Watch them two old, confused, boring, elderly, genXer scumbags wax nostalgic for quaint old television before the time of woke nightmare sauce spilling out of every eyeball. Before shows made it based on viewership ratings and not streaming service fodder for animal troughs of marketable IP's and stock market shareholder data portfolios for investors.
Interfaces aren’t visual. They’re grammatical.
From command lines to GUIs to AI prompts, computing keeps swinging between verbs and nouns. This video traces how language shaped interaction design, and why AI is reviving the command line in probabilistic form.
Francine du Plessix Gray on what it was like for Renée-Pélagie de Sade to be married to the world’s most infamous libertine, and on the spouses’ increasingly different views on morality and religion.
