Christina Jones is a Santa Clara purebred: tall and strong and blond-haired and blue-eyed and confident. She had never performed with Bill because of their age difference -- she's now 28 to his 37 -- but of course she knew who he was because he was a legend. In addition...
'. The priest nodded wisely and with sympathy. 'Son,' he said, 'that's the problem with most people, you can't tell the difference between a simple blessing and last rites.' religion joke priest horse race gambling track won blessed blessing elated nag dumbfounded confronting Dislike Like...
Thank you so much for reading. If you managed to read all this way, you are probably—like me—very discouraged. You might—like me—be wondering if anything you do makes any sort of difference in the face of such evil. I’m reminded of King Theoden asking, “What can men do agains...
drinkingbearbartenderscotchbusytiredpauseroughwalks into a bar jokelong faceexhausted DislikeLike Continue Reading The Old Eagle and the Eaglets The eaglets were preparing to leave the nest and fly out into the world when their grandfather happened by. He perched on the side of the nest to wish...
I haven’t updated this Cape Town to Cairo travel blog in 6 years since that fateful day my dad passed away suddenly while I was in rural Ethiopia, and now it’s time to bring closure to the journey with one final entry before going into the bush and out of Africa. I haven’t refl...
Cats are notorious for weird behaviors. Like,squeezing themselves into the weirdest places,sleeping in trees, having mysteriouscat logic, and using it to their advantage. But they’re our hands-down favorite furballs on this planet, and that inherent quirkiness is what makes them even more lova...
Lola was between them like usual and nobody was the wiser. However, Lola got pregnant and everybody thought we were going to have a cute little baby monkey around the house. She didn’t have a monkey. Tricia was born, the child of Tricia’s father and Lola the monkey. When she was...
The training works by computing the loss as a combination of two terms, the mean squared error of the difference between the regenerated image and the input image and Kullback-Leibler divergence between the uniform distribution and the distribution generated by the encoder. The Pytorch code is ...
The biggest difference between men and women is what comes to mind when the word "facial" is used. Me: "Remember when I rubbed you out?" Genie: "Don't say it like that..." Erotic is using a feather; kinky is using the whole chicken. ...
Metaphors don’t necessarily compare because they can state directly what something is, and often but not always use the verb to be. Here are some examples to help you understand the difference between the various forms of metaphor and simile. ...