If you’ve ever told a good story—one that has your friends or family on the floor laughing, or else on the edge of their seat asking, “What happened next?!”—then you know that youcan’tget to the point of the story too quickly. Notice how the em dashes separate a phrase with...
The hunger for more compute and storage capacity and for more bandwidth to shuffle and shuttle ever-increasing amounts of data is not insatiable among the hyperscalers and large cloud builders of the world. But their appetite for is certainly always rising and occasionally voracious – even when ...
2pm-9pm. Please visit if you're ever in Taiwan, and donations are welcome to support this very important cultural work. Music, Movies, and Books I favor watching foreign, indie, and art films over mainstream ones, but I only dabble. Some of my favorites are The Science of Sleep, ...
Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the oftener and more steadily we reflect on them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me. —Immanuel Kant 291 The meaning of life is pretty clear: Living things strive to pass their genes into the...
C) They may commit more errors than ever before. D) They may experience a lot of emotional stress. 50. What is said about those working with or under overachieving people? A) They put a lot of effort into their work. C) They are under increasing pressure. ...
“shaking the spear” of his pen. This play of royal history contains a mirror image of the hunchbacked Cecil, an allegorical portrait of him as an evil monster, and a shockingly obvious attack on him that the secretary cannot, will not, ever forgive. He will bide his time, keeping a ...
Today, I found myself between the Scylla of “how can I afford to open my heart to this suffering” …and the Charybdis of “how can I enjoy anything, ever again?” During lunch, I flipped through the news and read an update about the genocide ofRohingya Muslims in Burma.It made me...
While I completely support Chaudhry's call forPakistanto make peace with India, I do wonder why India'sHindu SupremacistPrime Minister NarendraModiwould even seriously entertain such a thought if "India is relevant to the world" and Pakistan is not? And if Modi does agree to talks, what kind...
they form dense and thorny hedges and do a good job of keeping livestock in fields and people out of them. Sloes are not something you would ever want to eat; they are highly astringent. But… someone, at some point in the distant past, decided to soak them in gin and discovered that...
The benefit is that I finally learned how I could be a better mate and now I love my husband more than ever, and it only took 20 years. My parents really had nothing to do with my choice but my youth pastor and the examples I saw in the people around me were very helpful. ...