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Concerts
This weekend, I went to two very different concerts.
Friday night: Joseph Edgar at Cabaret La Basoche in Gatineau (Aylmer). He's an Acadian rock singer-songwriter, performing mainly in French; soul_diaspora was the impetus for going to that one. It was a fun and energetic show; he's at that point of his career where he's getting a bit of airplay, but he's ( Read more... ) -
F&SF Books (mostly by women) Meme
Ones I've read are in bold. If I've read something else by that author, only the author's name is in bold. Ones on my "some day soon" list would be in italics if I had such a list. Ones I've read synopses of and don't want to read would be struck out if there were any. Ones I hadn't heard of before this list are underlined.
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Another reflection!
Reflection for 28-29 May 2016
Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ, Year C
Text: Genesis 14:18-20; 1 Corinthians 11:23-26; Luke 9:11b-17.
As an occasional reflector, there are a quite a few sets of Sunday readings I’ve never preached on. This set, however, keeps coming up for me; apparently I’m going to keep working on this until I get it right.
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For my climbing friends
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Puzzle games collection
You have lots of time before that's due, right? One more game can't hurt...
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Wow.
This smartphone-based $99 3D printer may well be the build technology which takes 3D printing to a large percentage of people; prior systems are an order of magnitude more expensive ( Read more... ) -
Interesting article
Favorite quote: "Next time you are speaking to an automated phone system, try swearing; you’ll be immediately redirected to human operators because they are the ones handling rude clients."
The article also links to Valve's employee handbook, describing how they run a managerless company, which is well worth reading. -
Links du jour
The hard problem of computer Go is being solved. This is a big deal in the AI world.
A real musical machine operating with marbles. Okay, it's not quite Pipe Dream, but it's real! -
Drink recipe
Another unnamed cocktail, created last night, that I want to remember ( Read more... )