I heard him come around to the back of the van and open it. For a long time, I felt him staring at me. Then I heard a small "pop" and around the edges of my blindfold I saw a flash of light. He was taking pictures of me spread open, tied and helpless in his van. Then I...
To see the previous entry in this series, please click here. We are now entering the portions of footballing history that I was old enough to experience myself properly, and I have a hell of a lot of memories of France ’98. Amid the great play of the Netherlands, that England/Argentin...
With my greedy hat on (and aside from addressing the chord pad technicalities mentioned above), I can think of a couple of additional features that I’d love to see. First, full amplifier ADSR options for both the Piano and Texture layers could be really useful. Second, with my music‑...
When we first moved back to America in the fall of 2014, we were in a state of limbo. We were in our corporate apartment while house hunting for several months, The Cuties were getting settled in two new schools and The Husband was figuring out what he was going to do exactly back at...
If you do want point dropping, but you still want the tiles to be denser than -zg thinks they should be, use -B to set a basezoom lower than the maxzoom.If some of your tiles are coming out too big in spite of the settings above, you will often want to use --drop-densest-as...
None of this has been at the expense of my family and the attention that I devote to them. We have traveled more in 2015 as a family and as a couple than ever before. I still walk my daughter to school right down the street, we still take the time to enjoy the sunsets, and I ...
"Welcome to my house of mayhem," she said, referring to the title of her just-released sixth studio album, which played out in a dark fairytale split into four distinct acts and a finale, backdropped by a two-story "opera house in the desert." Act I, "Of Velvet and V...
Heartfelt Pride Banner: How to Make a Vibrant, Weather-Resistant, Outdoor Cutout Banner With Corrugated Plastic: For this year's LGBQTIA+ Pride month, I wanted to bring vibrant colors outdoors and create something truly eye-catching. My aim was to design
a job and ended up with some speckling. Don't make my mistake. Repeat the water and salt mix with the other dye pack and pour into a tub big enough for the Ergo. Starting with the straps (which I unbuckled), dip into the concentrated dye bath and lower down until you get to the ...
“I wanted to try my luck in the big city,,,he said. He hadworked as a guard, roadside peddler, and porter, but never had a stable job. Street performingwas his main income, even after he married and became a father three years ago.Wang and Liu are still uncertain where their fame...