One of those really big grey TVs that took up an entire corner of your living room. You have to admit - that would change your life. Not for the better, but... And that's an interesting point. What if the video you receive for winning this 'competition' is like something out of ...
Edison continued to experiment. As such, the failure to resolve a problem or create code that performs its defined task does not mean that the project or overall goal will fail. It means only that the specific tool or approach did not...
That feeble flame you see in the corner of the dish is all that would ignite. . Oh well, it was lucky that the dessert came out as well as it did. We hadn’t intended to serve crêpes at this dinner at all. Two weeks previously, I’d made a dish of savory ham crêpes just ...
Introverts will usually open up – and maybe even talk at great length – depending upon how others approach them. Want to get one to talk… Rachel Puryear September 14, 2023 Empathic/HSP People Vichy Springs in Ukiah, CA By Rachel Puryear In the heavily forested Mendocino County in ...
O’Quillen more than the approach of St. Patrick’s Day. Her classroom was bedecked in green. Irish maps all over the walls. “You must be Irish.” She said to me once. “Those green eyes!” She ordered us to wear something green on St. Paddy’s Day and was angry when I didn...
Last year I wrote a post introducing clean architecture and attempted to explain how its layered approach and separation of concerns can help overcome some common software design pitfalls enabling us to create testable [...] continue reading ...
Designing an “educational toy” is a mistake. Sneak in the educational part inside the fun; we always start with fun. It’s the trojan horse approach! Our most recent one with Thames & Kosmos is the Candy Claw Machine. It’s a candy machine, but you’re learning about hydraulics and ...
That is not the approach in XS. This makes the book hard going for the general reader. But as a reference work, its organisation presents its own challenges. If you are a busy auctioneer and want to find what XS has to say about a specific pastel, it requires considerable effort to ...
Richard Swiviller considered it advisable to hear no more, but taking advantage of a pause in the dancing, and the approach of Mr Cheggs to pay his court to the old lady, swaggered with an extremely careful assumption of extreme carelessness toward the door, passing on the way Miss Jane ...
The child withdrew into a dark corner, and saw him pass close to her. He had a stick in his hand, and, when he had got clear of the shadow of the gateway, he leant upon it, looked back — directly, as it seemed, towards where she stood — and beckoned. To her? oh no, thank...