On the Russia-Ukraine war, which the president has repeatedly said he could end in one day, Trump said: “I have another half a day. We want to get it done.” And he said Kim Jong Un, the supreme leader of North Korea, an American foe, “will be ha...
Usually when I make a scramble I just add some of this and some of that until it turns out just the way I want it. I don’t really have a recipe with measurements figured out. This morning, I wanted that to change, so we decided to have ourselves a little homemade tofu scramble t...
Like TST the south, Yau Ma Tei is one of the better choices for where to stay in Hong Kong for finding budget accommodation. Lacking anything as infamous as Chungking Mansions, the neighbourhood doesn’t beg me to offer up any kind of restrictive advice on where youshouldn’tstay here. Th...
and an absolute must for my Newfoundland trip, required a permit which I purchased the day before. The weather had been deteriorating quickly as I hit the steep incline up the mountain, where many signs had warned me to turn back in bad weather – the weather in this part of Newfoundland...
From the research that is being done in this area, we distill five practices that researchers use to deal with sparseness and indirectness of evidence. These are (i) making assumptions explicit (“Making Assumptions Explicit” section), (ii) making alternative theories explicit (“Making Alternative...
I was trying to get out a book on robots in warfare for a project I am working on, but had grabbed the book next to it by mistake- Radley Balko’s The Rise of the Warrior Cop As Balko explains much of what we now take as normal police functions would have likely been viewed by ...
locked eyes. “Kids and their temper tantrums…” Matters groaned and rolled her eyes. She picked up her clipboard and waved it in the air in front of her, turning it into a glowing purple shield. “I’ll herd up the parents, you check on the damage and get the kiddos to ...
Pierre Schöller’s political thriller focuses on a cabinet minister (Olivier Gourmet) in charge of national transportation who believes himself to be a man of the people. He wants both to be and do good, but in order to get anything done he must, given the exigencies of compromise, cajo...
Murex pecten – Venus Comb with grungy background done in Photoshop In my newbie status with AI art imagining what I ask for is not always what I get. Perhaps AI has not been properly trained to recognize what a Venus Comb or Murex pecten seashell is. Or perhaps it needs words different...
Pierre Schöller’s political thriller focuses on a cabinet minister (Olivier Gourmet) in charge of national transportation who believes himself to be a man of the people. He wants both to be and do good, but in order to get anything done he must, given the exigencies of compromise, cajo...