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Recommended Reading 0
Edmund Crispin’s Gervase Fen mysteries.
They are extraordinarily fanciful and so extraordinarily well-written that suspension of disbelief comes easily.
In an interesting contrast, the novels are long and rambling and full of side trips and digressions and peopled with quirky characters, whereas the short stories, with a few exceptions, are short and quite bare-boned.
A warning, though: The author takes no prisoners. The stories are replete with classical and literary allusions, so have a dictionary and encyclopedia, real or electronic, at hand. Not looking them up does not interfere with the story itself, but looking them makes it richer.
Twits on Twitter 0
Jason330 makes a valid point:
Follow the link for his reasoning.
The Cycle of Strife 0
(Syntax error fixed and that was a new one for me. If you use carets even surrounded by quotation marks in the alt-text for an image, they can still affect the markup.)
All That Was Old Is New Again, Horse and Sparrow Dept. 0
Thom points out the there’s nothing new about trickle-on economics.
Gut Instincts 0
Carl Hiaasen takes inventory.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Exercise courtesy whilst employing your personal motorized conveyance.
The driver of the other car said he was traveling east on Floral Street, approaching Perry Street, when he saw Kibler’s vehicle driving in the wrong direction towards him. He also reported hearing gunshots and seeing gunfire coming from the suspect’s car.
The victim said Kibler suddenly veered into the other lane, striking the front left fender of his car. The victim told investigators the suspect continued driving westbound on Floral Street and then turned north.
According to arrest documents, investigators found gun shell casings at the site of the hit and run that matched casings found in Kibler’s car.
Down at the Farm 0
Earlier this evening, I got the dreaded “Error connecting to database” error.
I logged into my account at my most excellent hosting provider, navigated to my VPS, went to cpanel, opened phpMyAdmin, and ran a check, repair, and optimize on my MySQL database, and all was well again (at least until the next time}.
Electrons are troublesome things.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Treat your neighbors with politeness.
Authorities said Murphy was standing on the front porch of his neighbor’s house when a juvenile at the house accidentally fired a shot through the closed front door.
Make TWUUG Your LUG 0
Learn about the wonderful world of free and open source. Use computers to do what you want, not what someone else wants you to do. Learn how to use GNU/Linux and its plethora of free and open source software to get stuff done with computers.
It’s not hard; it’s just different.
When: Monthly TWUUG meeting at 7:30 p. m. on the first Thursday of the month (December 6, 2018). Pre-meeting dinner at Chicago Uno, JANAF shopping center, 6:00 p. m. (map)
Who: Everyone in TideWater/Hampton Roads with interest in any/all flavors of Unix/Linux. There are no dues or signup requirements. All are welcome.
Where: Lake Taylor Transitional Care Hospital in Norfolk Training Room (map). (Wireless and wired internet connection available.) Turn right upon entering, then left at the last corridor and look for the open meeting room.
The Summit of Trumpling 0
David tries to make sense out of Donald Trump’s behavior at the G20 Summit.