Automated Archives for April, 15th 2024
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Chess For the Day
Record: 6-0-8
Net Elo Change: -10
Games Played
- i_got_scholared - LOSS
- AlexPlaymaker - WIN
- machineworks - LOSS
- ghellen - LOSS
- machineworks - WIN
- Chilledwine - LOSS
- Judleyuu - WIN
- leandro20233 - LOSS
- beerhauer - WIN
- harma1 - WIN
- zakareya-omran - LOSS
- mfrg1962 - WIN
- nitramon - LOSS
- Jordiboc - LOSS
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- 1 year ago (1 post)
April 14th, 2024
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Wallabag Additions
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Chess For the Day
Record: 1-0-3
Net Elo Change: +13
Games Played
Sunday Baking
Pineapple Banana Bread, fresh from the oven. Letting them cool some before removing from the pans.
PS - I discovered this morning that Good Eats is streaming on Max.
April 13th, 2024
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Wallabag Additions
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Chess For the Day
Record: 4-0-9
Net Elo Change: -29
Games Played
- django1963 - LOSS
- Muhammad55 - LOSS
- tareq1 - WIN
- Yapana_Rayata - LOSS
- boryo84 - LOSS
- V-Deek - WIN
- KANYANTAM - WIN
- VeryChessNewbie - LOSS
- VeryChessNewbie - LOSS
- VeryChessNewbie - WIN
- sqipe765 - LOSS
- Mongezi - LOSS
- fsonaglioni - LOSS
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- 1 year ago (1 post)
"Old CSS, new CSS"
Oh this blog entry could have been written by me. I also learned to make webpages in the 90's before CSS. So much nostalgia and memories of our version of "walking up hill in the snow both ways."
Let’s say you wanted all your [h1]s to be red, across your entire site. You had to do this:
<H1><FONT COLOR=red>...</FONT></H1>…every single goddamn time. Hope you never decide to switch to blue!
Oh, and everyone wrote HTML tags in all caps. I don’t remember why we all thought that was a good idea. Maybe this was before syntax highlighting in text editors was very common (read: I was 12 and using Notepad), and uppercase tags were easier to distinguish from body text.
Keeping your site consistent was thus something of a nightmare. One solution was to simply not style anything, which a lot of folks did. This was nice, in some ways, since browsers let you change those defaults, so you could read the Web how you wanted.
A clever alternate solution, which I remember showing up in a lot of Geocities sites, was to simply give every page a completely different visual style. Fuck it, right? Just do whatever you want on each new page.
That trend was quite possibly the height of web design.
Poem from Shogun, Ep. 8
This is the poem or waka from Shogun's episode 8. I immediately fell in love with it and began researching it to understand if it was a series of haikus or what.
The sound of rain on the leaves can be heard.
Still more fragile is the dew of tears on my sleeves even in springtime.
Waiting, the pine tree never withers in winter.
If I could use words like scattering flowers and falling leaves
what a bonfire my poems would make.
As I googled though, I discovered that the writers seem to have borrowed that last line from another poem, 'If I could write words' by Spike Milligan:
If I could write words
Like leaves on an autumn forest floor,
What a bonfire my letters would make.
If I could speak words of water,
You would drown when I said
"I love you."
I found it posted here. Now, maybe they had stolen it from Shogun and quickly put it up? But no, that is almost definitely not the case. Archive.org has the page from 2021, and the credited author passed away in 2022. And indeed, googling the poem name shows it online in 2010, and digging further I believe it comes from Milligan's 1974 published book, "Small Dreams of a Scorpion." So, certainly not new.
I don't begrudge the writers, it is a truly beautiful sentiment and poem. Just found it notable that the poem was inspired by the works of another.
I think I may move the automated evening posts into a separate thing. I go in spurts on this blog. And I don't particularly enjoy seeing a string of automated posts and I know it's not ideal for my blog readers (the three of you there are.)
I'm not sure the solution yet. I'm at the "Identify problem" phase of it. We'll see where I land.
Both because it's true and also to test if this Bluesky embed code works.
April 12th, 2024
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Chess For the Day
Record: 3-1-4
Net Elo Change: -11
Games Played
- Joltya - LOSS
- amicable - LOSS
- Aleksander1306 - DRAW
- Stiemser - LOSS
- shaharido - WIN
- Dmalekseev67 - LOSS
- Schppuggo - WIN
- Whiplash775 - WIN
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- 1 year ago (1 post)
April 11th, 2024
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Chess For the Day
Record: 5-0-3
Net Elo Change: +6
Games Played
- ThUla34 - WIN
- egunerhan - LOSS
- egunerhan - WIN
- alexaelektrik - LOSS
- IvanVigo - WIN
- g_shool - WIN
- Schizophr - LOSS
- tra555 - WIN
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- 1 year ago (1 post)
Conan on Hot Ones
Truly a remarkable episode. I always appreciate Conan's insanity.
April 10th, 2024
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Wallabag Additions
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Chess For the Day
Record: 7-1-13
Net Elo Change: -27
Games Played
- KyPOChKA - LOSS
- nischal_solti - WIN
- Edi124 - LOSS
- dukova-galina - LOSS
- Juggernaut61 - LOSS
- jouLe19bd - LOSS
- FXR23 - LOSS
- ahmad_2505 - WIN
- LulamaN - WIN
- niko70 - WIN
- gabrielelsheakh - LOSS
- Max52bis - WIN
- Max52bis - LOSS
- Max52bis - WIN
- thmlima - LOSS
- sad9 - LOSS
- Mijql - LOSS
- galdan - WIN
- giumowarwi - LOSS
- Debabrata4734 - LOSS
- vo233bm - DRAW
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- 1 year ago (1 post)
April 9th, 2024
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- Shaun Of The Dead’s Doppelgänger Scene: An Oral History
- Rebirth of a Legend: Reviving an 800-Year-Old Tea Farm
Chess For the Day
Record: 5-0-2
Net Elo Change: +12
Games Played
- leoncik - WIN
- bemes - WIN
- degaullema - LOSS
- Speed-51-King - WIN
- trofymen - LOSS
- stefan021 - WIN
- Easystar - WIN
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- 1 year ago (1 post)
Inject tonight's D&D session into my veins. So much fun, intrigue, confusion, and anxiety given to my players... chefs kiss
So, given the eclipse, I've seen it brought up again how we are, as far as we know, the only planet in the galaxy which experiences total solar eclipses. It's an astronomical anomaly that our moon perfectly covers the sun.
I have zero proof, but I have been wondering if this isn't simply coincidence, but is instead one of the multitude of variables which was needed to enable our life to exist. Not only does a planet need to be in the Goldilocks zone with water available, but it also needs a moon of proper size to drive the tides similar to ours.
Probably not, but I can't shake the thought.
April 8th, 2024
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- Rebirth of a Legend: Reviving an 800-Year-Old Tea Farm
- Monument Valley at 10: the story of the most meticulous puzzle game ever created
Chess For the Day
Record: 12-0-8
Net Elo Change: +19
Games Played
- c_maciel - WIN
- mr_froloff - LOSS
- mr_froloff - WIN
- sculieryk - LOSS
- meikipramadida - WIN
- VishieAcharya - WIN
- zeylik - LOSS
- Tusharjonwal - WIN
- kingjayski - WIN
- Gafur1957 - WIN
- gershomchileshe - WIN
- hfarrokh - WIN
- mamad2048 - WIN
- behdarbizh - LOSS
- AndriusA - WIN
- Danileo65 - LOSS
- Ba58 - LOSS
- torre5c - WIN
- AnandMahajan - LOSS
- none123456 - LOSS
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- 1 year ago (1 post)
How rare is the total eclipse from 2024?
@zaza_clips333 How Rare Is the 2024 Solar Eclipse #science #solareclipse #fyp #tiktok
♬ Stargazing (Slowed + Reverb) - Marcelo De Carvalho
I don't think this is the originator of this video, but I haven't found the true source yet. I found this breakdown of the eclipse frequency fascinating.
April 7th, 2024
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Chess For the Day
Record: 2-2-7
Net Elo Change: -29
Games Played
- Hishannth-123 - LOSS
- mazaboom - LOSS
- caporal_chef - DRAW
- Zombie1510 - LOSS
- JumpingDolphin - LOSS
- Naufal08 - LOSS
- j_jat-14 - DRAW
- PicaciU - WIN
- PLZ - WIN
- mehran4836 - LOSS
- Halaszle1985 - LOSS
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- 1 year ago (1 post)
April 6th, 2024
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Chess For the Day
Record: 2-0-5
Net Elo Change: -15
Games Played
- daemon785 - LOSS
- agahtiz - LOSS
- anandek99 - LOSS
- Battogtokh1962 - WIN
- antonioreoyan - WIN
- Ibrahim830 - LOSS
- TPM_KSC - LOSS
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- 1 year ago (3 posts)
April 5th, 2024
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Chess For the Day
Record: 3-0-4
Net Elo Change: -7
Games Played
- Vagram57 - LOSS
- BebenBene - WIN
- ViktorU1950 - WIN
- Eqo88 - WIN
- Vakurat - LOSS
- rust123 - LOSS
- ilidiomartins2 - LOSS
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- 1 year ago (1 post)