Saturday 5 July 1662

Jul. 5th, 2025 11:00 pm
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Posted by Samuel Pepys

To my office all the morning, to get things ready against our sitting, and by and by we sat and did business all the morning, and at noon had Sir W. Pen, who I hate with all my heart for his base treacherous tricks, but yet I think it not policy to declare it yet, and his son William, to my house to dinner, where was also Mr. Creed and my cozen Harry Alcocke. I having some venison given me a day or two ago, and so I had a shoulder roasted, another baked, and the umbles baked in a pie, and all very well done. We were merry as I could be in that company, and the more because I would not seem otherwise to Sir W. Pen, he being within a day or two to go for Ireland.

After dinner he and his son went away, and Mr. Creed would, with all his rhetoric, have persuaded me to have gone to a play; and in good earnest I find my nature desirous to have gone, notwithstanding my promise and my business, to which I have lately kept myself so close, but I did refuse it, and I hope shall ever do so, and above all things it is considerable that my mind was never in my life in so good a condition of quiet as it has been since I have followed my business and seen myself to get greater and greater fitness in my employment, and honour every day more than other. So at my office all the afternoon, and then my mathematiques at night with Mr. Cooper, and so to supper and to bed.

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looking for a link/website

Jul. 5th, 2025 02:43 pm
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Sometime in the last couple of months, someone posted a link to a site that had interesting looking shirts made of linen, for lower prices than most places charge. I forgot to bookmark it. Can anyone point me to it? or to something else that fits that description, even if you didn't see it here?


Edited to add: A the shirts were less expensive than I expected, which is a large part of why I'm interested. Those may have been sale prices, I don't remember.

Also, the were made of either linen or a linen blend, not "line".

Wild Cards checklist

Jul. 5th, 2025 09:35 am
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This is much easier for Martin's New Voices series....

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Four works new to me. One is SF, two fantasy, and the magazine (which I have not yet looked inside) likely both. Two of the novels are series novels, one does not seem to me.

Books Received, June 28 — July 4



Poll #33326 Books Received, June 28 — July 4
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Which of these look interesting?

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FIYAH No. 35: Black Isekai published by FIYAH Literary Magazine (July 2025)
16 (51.6%)

Aces Full edited by George R. R. Martin (November 2025)
2 (6.5%)

Only Spell Deep by Ava Morgyn (March 2026)
5 (16.1%)

The Damned by Harper L. Woods (October 2025)
2 (6.5%)

Some other option (see comments)
0 (0.0%)

Cats!
25 (80.6%)

No web-footed friends

Jul. 5th, 2025 07:00 am
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Air temperature 63 F, wind west about 7 mph, partly cloudy. Dew point 53 F, so the humidity hasn't kicked back up. Yet. Tomorrow is supposed to revert to hazy hot and humid. We live in the frozen north to avoid that shit . . .

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Jul. 5th, 2025 05:08 am
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Face-on spiral galaxy NGC 6946 and open star cluster NGC 6939 share Face-on spiral galaxy NGC 6946 and open star cluster NGC 6939 share


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Jul. 4th, 2025 10:21 pm
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Be kind to your web-footed friends.

Friday 4 July 1662

Jul. 4th, 2025 11:00 pm
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Posted by Samuel Pepys

Up by five o’clock, and after my journall put in order, to my office about my business, which I am resolved to follow, for every day I see what ground I get by it. By and by comes Mr. Cooper, mate of the Royall Charles, of whom I intend to learn mathematiques, and do begin with him to-day, he being a very able man, and no great matter, I suppose, will content him. After an hour’s being with him at arithmetique (my first attempt being to learn the multiplication-table); then we parted till to-morrow. And so to my business at my office again till noon, about which time Sir W. Warren did come to me about business, and did begin to instruct me in the nature of fine timber and deals, telling me the nature of every sort; and from that we fell to discourse of Sir W. Batten’s corruption and the people that he employs, and from one discourse to another of the kind. I was much pleased with his company, and so staid talking with him all alone at my office till 4 in the afternoon, without eating or drinking all day, and then parted, and I home to eat a bit, and so back again to my office; and toward the evening came Mr. Sheply, who is to go out of town to-morrow, and so he and I with much ado settled his accounts with my Lord, which, though they be true and honest, yet so obscure, that it vexes me to see in what manner they are kept. He being gone, and leave taken of him as of a man likely not to come to London again a great while, I eat a bit of bread and butter, and so to bed. This day I sent my brother Tom, at his request, my father’s old Bass Viall which he and I have kept so long, but I fear Tom will do little good at it.

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hi! here's what i'm trying to achieve: i want my journal's main page to display one entry (the most recent one), and i want that entry to be vertically centered, so that the distance from the top of the entry to the navstrip is the same as the distance from the bottom of the entry to the bottom of the page. here is a quick mockup of what i have in mind:


click here for fullsize

i've tried using margin: auto for this, but it didn't work; googling around leads me to believe that that's because the entry container is an inline element and thus doesn't have a specified height, which you need for that to work. i thought about using a flexbox inside the entry with three elements arranged in a column, with the middle element holding the actual contents of the entry and the top and bottom elements growing/shrinking to provide padding, to achieve something visually similar, but i don't think that would work either for the same reason (no specified height).

is there any way to do this? the theme i'm currently using is blanket, but i'm not married to it, so if there is a different theme that allows me to do this, i will happily switch.

thank you!

Holiday

Jul. 4th, 2025 10:54 am
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We will grill burgers and corn for dinner. I'm making potato salad right now and an apple pie later. Fireworks have been going off in my neighborhood for the last two weeks, tonight will just be more and louder. I don't feel like pretty colors and sparkles are the vibe right now, personally. I'm keeping my big feelings in check with the usual suspects: SF/F fandom, K-pop fandom, Chinese costume dramas, games on my Switch, music from around the world, trips to the ocean, dreaming of future travel.

I highly recommend K-pop Demon Hunters on Netflix to any of my friends who like animated movies and have been subjected to my ravings of the past three years. It's really fun, is full of Korean mythology, has catchy music, and you might find yourself recognizing some of the details of being a K-pop fan...or a demon hunter, I don't know all your secrets.

John brought up a box of fanzines I've been keeping since the 80s and I don't recognize the top half of them. I am not sure if they're unusual and therefore something to put out on a fan table somewhere as freebies, I assume not, but I'm not throwing them out. It's just one box. I was expecting to feel nostalgia, but instead I just feel distanced from my own history. Huh. Well, maybe down at the bottom I'll see stuff from my friends. I have no idea why I collected these.

For those at BayCon this weekend I hope you have a great time!

Horsetail Falls

Jul. 4th, 2025 11:57 am
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Our last stop on the Historic 30 route was Horsetail Falls. If you look at the next photo you can see people sitting on the log stretching out into the pool for scale. .Read more... )

July 4th

Jul. 4th, 2025 11:55 am
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Jay Kuo takes a break from chronicling the regime's crimes to share some honest hope for today, and the days and months ahead:

https://statuskuo.substack.com/p/celebrating-independence

Friday floral report

Jul. 4th, 2025 11:49 am
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White sweet clover, rabbits'-foot clover, and rambling roses now blooming. Definitely both yarrow and Queen Anne's lace. Cattails and sumac flower spikes up but not open yet. Almost all the lupines have gone to seed.

No roadkill identified, not even a squirrel. Several blotches on the asphalt, but the cleanup crew has been active.

Got out on the bike, upriver and then back through the bog. Paving project on hold for the weekend, but they have advanced and may get done in a week or two. Did not die. Ride takes me over 200 miles for the year, half of what I would like to have done by this point.

15.59 miles, 1:31:35
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Posted by Leticia Roncero

Time for another weekly roundup of some of the awesome images shared to the Flickr Social group in this week’s installment of Weekly Snapshot with Flickr Social. Join us over on Flickr Social and share your own unique captures for a chance to be featured.

Independence Day Reflections (2025) Sony a7iv

Independence Day Reflections (2025) by Daniel Freeman
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Diagonal by Amiya Gupta

Blue Hour Staithes

Blue Hour Staithes by Michael Atkinson

Artsy Fartsy Flowers

Artsy Fartsy Flowers by Shane Gilbert

Little Blue Heron with a Soft Shell Turtle

Little Blue Heron with a Soft Shell Turtle by Kenzo Pan

In the Blue…

In the Blue… by Sylvia Furrer

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Untitled by Bruno

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Play It Again, Donkey!

Jul. 4th, 2025 01:00 pm
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Posted by Jen

Today's Wreck is so unrecognizable I figured I better give you as many clues as possible before showing it to you.

Clue #1: He's big, green, and lives in a swamp.

Clue #2: He's a cartoon ogre.

Clue #3: His name is Shrek.

Clue #4: He looks like this:

 

Ok, have you guessed who it is yet?

'Cuz here comes the Wreck!

(Choo choo!)

AAAAAUUUGGGHHH!!!


Ahem.

Ok, so it's shiny, toothy, and has a homicidal glint in its dead, dead eyes.

On the other hand, now we know what would happen if the Incredible Hulk and Sloth from the Goonies ever had a love child. Right, Michelle Y.?

*****

P.S. What do you get when you combine a twenty year old movie with a ten year old saying?
Pure punny gold, that's what:

Check Yourself Before You Shrek Yourself Shirt

That'll do, Donkey. That'll do.

(Also comes in purple and gray!)

******

And from my other blog, Epbot:

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Ninety years after her grandmother's family was stalked by a witch, international student Minerva Contrera's studies land her in a similar position.


The Bewitching by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Squirrel sabotage

Jul. 4th, 2025 08:05 am
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Power out for about an hour this morning, after a boom up the street. Back on now. Found a corpse in the sidewalk on my local survey.

Air temperature 64 F, wind northwest gusting to 21 mph, partly cloudy. Should be able to get a bike ride in.

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Jul. 4th, 2025 04:48 am
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If you know where to look, you can see a thermonuclear explosion from a white dwarf star. If you know where to look, you can see a thermonuclear explosion from a white dwarf star.


Every time I run something

Jul. 3rd, 2025 10:34 pm
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I embrace new tools. In Fabula Ultima, for example, the order in which characters go in combat varies. I found it hard to keep track of who'd gone, so I went out and got poker chips and little round labels. Now, I can just toss the chips representing characters into a bowl once they've gone. Order!

OK, except it turns out I can't tell blue from green under the ceiling light in the room where I DM and the names on the labels need to be bigger.