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Author's Afterword123: Carmel Harrington (The Stolen Child)Charlie and Carmel Harrington (The Stolen Child) discuss her stunning thriller wherein the reveal is given at the start and we have to find out the how and the why, a boy stolen as a child and now he's found his way home... Please note we mention abuse, kidnapping, and prostitution. Books mentioned by name or extensively: Carmel Harrington: The Stolen Child Carmel Harrington: The Nowhere Girls J R R Tolkien: The Lord Of The Rings Release details: recorded 17th February 2025; published 23rd June 2025 Where to find Carmel...2025-06-2355 min
The CS Primer ShowE25: There is only one Beej JorgensenBrian "Beej Jorgensen" Hall joins Oz and Charlie to dive into the joy and art of learning computer science. It's all here - achieving flow, "How to Solve It" by Polya, self-publishing guides/books on the web, Beej's take on AI and coding, and, of course, the origin of the "Beej Jorgensen" moniker. Shownotes:Beej's website: https://beej.us/Beej's guide to learning computer science: https://beej.us/guide/bglcs/Hacker News post on Charlie's short story about a giant diamond asteroid2025-05-1750 min
CinemaNET+Citizen Boomer 60: Stephen King. Creepshow (1982) y Maximum Overdrive (1986).Citizen Boomer 60: Alejandro Alemán (@elsalonrojo), Charlie Del Río (@charliedelrio) y Antonio Camarillo (@acamaril) presentan un episodio más de CITIZEN BOOMER, el esfuerzo conjunto entre CinemaNET y Filmsteria para comentar un par de películas del pasado para compartirlas con la audiencia.En esta ocasión comentan los siguientes títulos, basados en cuentos de Stephen King.Macabras historias de horror (Creepshow,1982). Dirigida por George A. Romero. Guión de Stephen King. Protagonizan Hal Holbrook, Adrienne Barbeau, Fritz Weaver, Leslie Nielsen, Carrie Nye, E. G. Marshall, Viveca Lindfor...2025-05-171h 55The CS Primer ShowE24: When is binge learning better than consistency?Oz and Charlie vibe-chat their way through respective Mathacademy experiences + reviews, leading to a discussion of "binge learning" vs more-structured, consistent learning / time-tracking. Also, Oz shares that he's currently reading a math textbook with this incredible sentence in its introduction: "I consider the mathematical treatment of these problems to be among the chief glories of Western civilization, and I hope you agree."Shownotes:mathacademy.comcsprimer.com2025-04-0151 minThe CS Primer ShowE23: MathAcademy and the efficient pursuit of masteryThere's something about MathAcademy that just works for learning math (for both kids and adults - ask Reddit!), and we're chatting with Justin Skycak - Chief Quant & Director of Analytics at MathAcademy - to try to figure it out.Shownotes:justinmath.com -- Justin's personal websitemathacademy.com3blue1brownCell biology by the numbersExecuteProgramStar Trek 2009The Math Academy Way -- Math Academy's working draft book, authored by Justin, which answers the following questions: What techniques exist to maximize student learning and talent development, particularly in the context of math? Why are these techniques so impactful, and if...2025-01-2048 minThe CS Primer ShowE22: Building HR software for dying on Mars?Ammar Mian is a software engineer and the co-founder of startup health tech company Malla - and another former student of Oz's and Bradfield School of Computer Science! Many software engineers daydream about starting their own company one day, so we've got Ammar on the show this week to give us the goods. Is it still fun? Can you still get into flow? Are you still coding? Does Oz want to die on Mars? All this and more!Shownotes:MallaThe WigglesThe Six Levels of Interaction with a SystemZone of proximal developmentRed-bellied black snakeReentry [book] - more...2024-11-141h 01The CS Primer ShowE21: Make the easy things harder (with Madison Kanna)Madison Kanna is a lifelong learner and self-taught programmer who learns in public, and Madison joins Oz and Charlie to share tactics for getting things done (with their learning goals) - and the importance of having fun along the way when learning computer science.ShownotesMadison Kanna's siteThe Cost of Forsaking CFlow - Mihaly CsikszentmihalyiRyan Holiday - Don't Talk about Writing a Novel2024-11-0857 minThe CS Primer ShowE20: Jason Benn's path to ML engineeringJason Benn is an ML engineer and truly the epitome of a lifelong learner (Cal Newport even wrote about Jason in one of his books on learning!). Oz and Charlie catch up with Jason on his current self-directed ML sabbatical - which he's corralled into a co-working cohort called mleclub.com (similar to Recurse Center but with an ML / AI focus). We discuss the tactical, strategic, and emotional side to effective self-directed learning, and close out with a new segment tentatively called "Would you read the top article on Hacker News right now?".ShownotesMinerva University [b...2024-10-0454 minThe CS Primer ShowE19: When failure is not an optionDoes your summer roadtrip across America include Saturn V Rockets, self-driving cars, dinosaur bones, and maybe Kittyhawk? Well, then you might be Oz and family! Charlie and Oz catch up on Oz's grand tour of America's inspiring hubs of ambition and technology, with plenty of detouring into the wonderful book genre of video game memoirs.Shownotes[book] Failure Is Not An Option - Gene Kranz[book] Skunkworks - Ben Rich[book] The Wright Brothers - David McCullough[book] Masters of Doom - David Kushner[documentary] Indie Game the Movie[book] Sid Meier's Memoir!: A Life in...2024-08-1343 min
What's Happenin with Carolina ChuckJason Harrington Funeral Director / School board member I first saw Jason giving a speech at my daughter's graduation. A few months later I met him at my Father Inlaw's funeral where he was the director. We had some interesting conversations and connected right away. He's a laid back down to earth guy with a passion for helping others. He'll give very valuable insight to the funeral industry in this podcast.2024-06-1340 minThe CS Primer ShowE18: Do you love programming as much as Thorsten Ball does?Programming is the best! We're chatting with Thorsten Ball (self-published author of Writing an Interpreter in Go and Writing a Compiler in Go) about all of our mutual favorite topics: learning new stuff, great textbooks, writing, and why bugs are actually great (a gift, even!).ShownotesWriting an Interpreter in Go (Thorsten's book): Writing a Compiler in Go (Thorsten's book) The Dragon Book (compilers)Thorsten's newsletter: Thorsten's website Zed.dev Sourcegraph 2024-02-2350 minThe CS Primer ShowE17: 1000 Hours Away From Being ExceptionalZach Latta is the founder of Hack Club (hackclub.com). Zach's a high school dropout who's now helped 30k high school students around the world start their own coding clubs. He also helped build the much-beloved "yo" texting app in 2014. This is a fun conversation about coding in school, being a kid, the importance of friendship in learning, and realizing that you can make awesome stuff with awesome people in this world.Shownotes:Hack Club László Polgár Yo App: Neopets Putting the You in CPU Pizza Hut BOOK-IT Program2024-01-1859 minThe CS Primer ShowE16: What if textbooks were actually fun?Oz and Charlie brainstorm their "Stripe Press for kids" publishing idea! Shownotes:Klutz PressCharlie's blog post about Klutz PressHacker News discussion about Charlie's Klutz Press blogLittle Schemer: https://mitpress.mit.edu/978026256099...Abstract Algebra: A Student Friendly Approach: https://www.amazon.com/Abstract-Algeb...Computer Systems: A Programmer's Perspective: https://www.amazon.com/Computer-Syste...Intel CeleronThe Diamond AgeQuantum CountyExecute Program Mitsumasa AnnoOz's Requests for Collaboration 2024-01-1151 min
Scream and Sugar: True Crime Coffee HourScream and Sugar Ep 5 - The Lawson Family MassacreHappy Holidays to you, fellow caffeinated sleuths! This chilling case revolves around the tragic events of Christmas Eve, 1929, in rural North Carolina, where Charlie Lawson brutally murdered seven members of his own family before taking his own life. Candace dives into the shocking details of this family tragedy, exploring theories and facts with a blend of serious crime analysis with her signature dark humor. Come hang with us as we discuss the loss of our beloved Homage coffee shop, and listen to another bone-chilling true crime (holiday) tale. Show notes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of...2023-12-2241 minThe CS Primer ShowE15: Finding your live wire for motivationBrandon Hendrickson (creator of scienceisweird.com) says no one's ever asked him about the sabertooth tiger skull in his Zoom background - until now! Brandon's a teacher steeped in the ideas of Kieran Egan - a prolific educational theorist who believes the world is FASCINATING and that IMAGINATION is key to how we humans learn. We explore how Egan's approach could work for autodidact software engineers, offer untold book suggestions, and, of course, propose some ways that ChatGPT might be able to help us along the way.Shownotes:Science is WEIRDBrandon's 2023 Astral Codex Ten book review...2023-12-081h 31The CS Primer ShowE14: Brit Cruise and the computer magic showBrit Cruise creates educational videos, learning experiments, and other amazing things that "connect young people with their futures as young as possible." He's worked with Khan Academy, Codecademy, Pixar, Disney, Unity, and more to conjure up magical educational experiences for kids.Shownotes:Brit Cruise's websiteStoryxperientialX in a BoxArt of the ProblemPixar in a BoxKhan Academy James Burke "Connections"2023-11-101h 13
Jim And Bill Podcast "It's Another Day"It’s Another Day with Jim and Bill-Episode 442-Today’s program is one you won’t want to miss-Douglas Macgregor tells us what is really happening in the Ukraine and much more-join usWelcome to the Monday edition of “It’s Another Day with Jim and Bill”. Today’s program is one you won’t want to miss. Colonel Douglas Macgregor gives us the complete backstory on the war in the Ukraine. It’s the stuff you’re not hearing from our government and other pundits. It’s information he’s culled from his military friends and other sources in the know. And Hillary is at it again. She’s trying to convince whoever will listen that the Russians are going to use their influence in the 2024 elections. Forget the fact that it’s been proven tha...2023-09-251h 05The CS Primer ShowE13: Why some people learn much faster than othersCharlie wants to talk about the latest Paul Graham essay "How to Do Great Work" and Oz wants to talk about jiu-jitsu (again).Show notes:How to Do Great Work - Paul Graham You and Your Research - Richard Hamming"Jozef Chen On Rapid Learning From Jiu-Jitsu Instructionals & Technique Tinkering"Jozef Chen recent competition victoryMikey Musumeci on Joe Rogan"There's no speed limit" - Derek SiversTeach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy LessonsOz's article about how his 3 year old learned to readLaura Deming on The Good Time Show#computerscience #learning #education #jiujitsu #startup #technology2023-09-211h 05The CS Primer ShowE12: Two self-taught engineers building large scale data systemsWe're joined by the co-founders of Warpstream Labs, Richie Artoul and Ryan Worl, to talk about how exploring your curiosity as a software engineer can lead to all sorts of interesting avenues and opportunities, like going from a coding bootcamp grad to building Warpstream - a Kafka-compatible data streaming platform.You may remember Richie from our previous podcast Escaping Web! Richie is one of Oz's students at Bradfield, and he's always up to something interesting and computer science-y.Shownotes:Warpstream Labs Kafka is Dead, Long Live Kafka (Warpstream blog)Richie's "Escaping Web" episodeIntroducing Husky (D...2023-09-0755 minThe CS Primer ShowE11: Helping kids fall in love with computersLinda Liukas (author and illustrator of HELLO RUBY - "the world's most whimsical way to learn about computers, technology and programming") joins Oz and Charlie to discuss how and why we love our computers, lessons learned from teaching kids about computer science using paper and scissors and glue, and Linda's latest project - designing an outside playground in Helsinki as a computer you can play in.Shownotes:Linda's websiteHello Ruby (Linda's book series) Love Letters for Computers (Linda's video series)2023-08-171h 03The CS Primer ShowE10: The magic of Bell LabsWe're joined by Jon Gertner (author of THE IDEA FACTORY: BELL LABS AND THE GREAT AGE OF AMERICAN INNOVATION) and Jimmy Soni (author of A MIND AT PLAY: HOW CLAUDE SHANNON INVENTED THE INFORMATION AGE) to discuss our favorite "house of magic" - Bell Labs! Can Bell Labs ever be recreated? What would Claude Shannon think of ChatGPT? What can we learn about "doing great things" from Bell Labs?Shownotes:Bell Labs - Wikipedia pageClaude Shannon - Wikipedia pageGet Back (Beatles documentary)The Idea Factory - Jon's book about Bell LabsA Mind At Play...2023-08-101h 07The CS Primer ShowE9: What makes programming fun? With Steve Krouse of val.townSteve Krouse is the founder of val.town, a social network where you write and run - and maybe poke - code? Steve's a fellow computer science education and developer tools enthusiast. We explore what makes programming fun - and how tools like val.town might just be able to recapture that joy we've all felt with computers before.Shownotes:val.townSteve Krouse Seymour PapertMindstorms by Seymour Papert (book)ZachtronicsCaveman Chemistry (book)Primitive Technology (book)Hack Club 2023-07-2158 minThe CS Primer ShowE8: Should we stop doing this podcast?Are we creating evil in the world with this podcast? Should Charlie feel guilty about playing Zelda? Do any Oz-approved video games exist? What's going on with Charlie's book? Can we use GPT-4 as an effective personal tutor? And should we stop doing this podcast?Shownotes:Khanmigo (Khan Academy)Silicon ZeroesShenzhen I/OHuman Resource Machine2023-05-3023 minThe CS Primer ShowE7: How Jesse Farmer designed the first coding bootcamp curriculumIt's time for instructional design and ed-tech history with Jesse Farmer! Jesse is the co-founder, Chief Product Officer, and academics lead of Dev Bootcamp - one of the earliest, most influential, and successful coding bootcamps - the bootcamp that started it all!Shownotes:Dev BootcampHipcampJesse Farmer's Mastodon account2023-05-111h 00The CS Primer ShowE6: Can you develop an engineer's mindset?Charlie wants to know if he can learn how to "think like an engineer", just like the Matt Damon/Mark Watney character in THE MARTIAN -- and Oz has some good suggestions, as per usual.Shownotes:Von Neumann probes We Are Legion (We Are Bob) - Dennis E. TaylorNibbles - Charlie's short story about von Neumann probes The Martian - Andy Weir: Shimmer - Charlie's short story about mining a giant diamond asteroidIan Hubert's YouTube channelThis week's XKCD referencePrimer (movie)Farcaster social media protocol Charlie's "fling" experiment on Farcaster 2023-05-0530 minThe CS Primer ShowE5: Omar the High-Octane Learning MachineOmar Rayward attended one of the first ever coding bootcamp cohorts, now he's a Senior Staff Software Engineer. Oz and Charlie connect with Omar about his study habits, motivation, and whatever else it takes to keep up his consistent learning habits.Shownotes:How to be consistent (Oz's recent article, featuring Omar!)2023-04-211h 03The CS Primer ShowE4: Packet losersCharlie's unexpected packet loss devolves into a live Oz networking lesson.* Matt's (my) traceroute* How Verizon and a BGP Optimizer Knocked Large Parts of the Internet Offline Today* Border Gateway Protocol* Christmas Day Bug on ARPANET (grep for Christmas in 1973 section)* Great horned owl2023-04-0556 minThe CS Primer ShowE3: Return to the quantum computing cave with Felix Tripier of IonQOz and Charlie catch up with Felix Tripier - now a Senior Staff Software Engineer at quantum computing company IonQ - for the first time in three years! Felix was our first guest on Escaping Web - a double high school and college dropout who become a self-taught web developer and is now a quantum computing engineer - so it only made sense for him to be our first guest on The CS Primer Show.We discuss Felix's path to staff engineer, the engineering manager vs. staff engineer career choices, staff engineering archetypes, building software for and...2023-04-021h 13The CS Primer ShowE2: Don't let a GPT have all the fun!Is there a benefit to figuring things out the hard way? Why learn to read disassembly if you can just ask Chat GPT. We talk about this, as well as somehow the Piet programming language and much more.Piet programming language2023-04-021h 02The CS Primer ShowE1: Doing meaningful workWe kick off The CS Primer Show with a conversation prompted by our mutual love of "You and Your Research" by Richard Hamming. This is an essay that Oz frequently recommends to software engineers who would like to increase their impact. Be sure to watch the talk or read the transcript of Hamming's talk!- You and Your Research (transcript) - You and Your Research (video) - Unix: A History and a Memoir- CS Primer - Bloom's 2 sigma problem- Hoel on aristocratic tutoring- Auren on insiders vs outsiders2023-04-021h 10
Fahrenheit 52Everything You Ever Wanted
Bruce Flanagan knew better than to open a story with his main character looking at themselves in the mirror. A classic cliché: our worn-down, unlikely hero no longer able to recognize their own face after performing morally-questionable deeds and derring-do. A terrible trope: with our meek, bespectacled high schooler longing for a prom invite, if only someone could look past their double-thicc glasses and see the absolute hottie within.
Bruce was no hero. But he did think he was kind of okay-looking, in a nerdy, I'll fix your wifi sort-of way. Someone once told him that he h...2022-12-2804 minFahrenheit 52Offboarding
By the time Delian Whitlock woke up, the sun was already at its peak. Dust motes drifted in a window-shaped sun patch on his bedroom floor. Delian thought he could sense the patch creeping along the floor, the way you can sometimes see the Earth turning ever-so-slightly along the ocean horizon. An idea struck him. He grabbed the pocket-sized yellow Buddha figurine from his bedside table and leaned down from his bed to place the chubby deity on the edge of the patch. As long as Sidd remained in His transcendental repose, Delian would be able to track the...2022-12-2204 minFahrenheit 52Turing's Penpal
"Hi! Annnny chance you would be up for the Attics show in April? The tickets are crazy but there's a lotto and we gotta try!!!"
Your contact Roan Lind has passed away. We at Eagle express our condolences.
Prior to their passing, Roan consented to upload their phone's secure enclave metadata to the EagleWing Large Language Model (LLM). Would you like to resume your EagleMessage with the Roan Lind EagleWing LLM?
"What the fuck..."
Invalid response. Please respond "yes" to enable ongoing interaction with your existing contact Roan Lind, "no" to...2022-12-1403 minFahrenheit 52What Did Ya Get?
The bells on the glass door jingled as Will nudged it open with his shoulder and hip, his hands otherwise occupied. He stood for a moment, working on something, then took a sip of his Stewart's Key Lime soda with great enthusiasm, chucking its bottle cap on top of the overflowing trash bin. With no shade in the Welsh Farms parking lot, Will could already feel the sweat beating on his forehead and lower back. The blacktop was singing its heat.
Will's soda bottle was losing its frost fast, so he kept chugging it. Key Lime was...2022-12-0702 minFahrenheit 52The Last of the Knights Terrapin
Raft stepped into the sunbeam and instinctively paused his crawl. He unwrinkled his aching neck. As the turtle's body temperature rose, Raft felt a strange tickle of hunger. He could almost hear his stomach... tapping...
Taptaptaptap!
Then, oddly, his stomach shouted at him.
"Hohurr! Aye!"
Someone was underneath Raft!
Raft moved aside as a wriggling pink snout appeared in the dirt, quickly followed by the rest of a scrubby-looking mole.
"You'm found moi best sittin' spot, aye."
"Indeed, I have, molefriend," said Raft. He chuckled...2022-12-0106 minFahrenheit 52Shimmer
BPM 37093-E arced past Venus on March 4, 2038 at 13:06 UST. The Dodge Durango-sized asteroid cruised through the Solar System roughly 159 million miles from Earth, a bit too close for comfort, but somehow our dear leaders resisted the impulse to send a bunch of Armageddon-style oil-riggers up into outer space to blast the sucker back to Centaurus. In fact, a few outfits actually tried to do the opposite - get the dang thing closer to Earth. Why? Because BPM 37093-E (better known as Lucille) was entirely made of crystallized carbon.
AKA diamond.
That's right. Lucille's a giant-ass...2022-11-2507 minFahrenheit 52Susan, She Who Does Wonders
When a climber slips from the crags of a Himalayan mountain, they do so quietly. Blink, and you'd miss it: the silent puff of a well-insulated body swallowed by the forever snow. There's no cartoon dust cloud, no coyote hovering above the cliff-top.
But when a person falls
DOWN
through the ice floor of a half-frozen river, there's usually a thunderclap: a snap, a crackle, a splash. Basically, there's a somewhat better chance that someone notices the calamity.
Susan Oakes didn't speak for two whole days after Chhaya Mehta plucked her...2022-11-1907 minFahrenheit 52A Whole Pear
Winnie ate a whole pear. All of it, from stem to stern, seeds and all. She thought was delicious and she wanted another. Maybe two. One was better than none, and two was even more fun. She had two hands, after all.
"Why did you give her the whole thing?"
"I didn't think she was going to eat the whole thing."
"Jesus - what if she choked?"
"She didn't. She's fine."
"Uhhh, no. It's probably not good to eat that stuff in the middle."
Something was wrong...2022-11-0801 minFahrenheit 52The Regular
Max Gribley wiped down the countertop of the bar in wide, swooping circles.
The troublesome smudge near the corner seat caught his eye.
Max applied some focused elbow grease to the spot, and then, in a brilliant stroke of desperation, grabbed the bottle of Barkeeper's Friend from under the sink. Nothing could survive this elixir. Max liberally applied the magical goop onto the splot and scrubbed until his fingers throbbed.
But the smudge wouldn't budge.
"Whatever," said Max. "I'm sure Old Sparky won't mind."
Old Sparky was a regular...2022-11-0304 minFahrenheit 52The Hive
This whole thing began with pigs. Of course we all turned into swine.
Eagletron began nobly: a novel brain interface, invisibly implanted, for controlling computers. Then, the inevitable turn: wouldn't it be great if?
Must we always wake the sleeping dog?
I'm getting philosophical again, but I always do before a raid.
Around me, my unit prepares the beach. I watch Zig team (Dose, O'Grady, and IceCreamSandwich) dig a secondary trench near the water's edge. They move like clockwork in this textbook operation, almost like they can read each other's... no...2022-10-2506 minFahrenheit 52A Ladder in the Attic
Will knew his house was haunted. Why wouldn't it be?
After all, the house was already a hundred years old at the time his parents bought it, and that was way before Will was even born. Sometimes, if you dug in the backyard, in the right place, you'd find an old horseshoe. You see, Will's house used to be on a farm. A big farm, Will's dad said. One that took up nearly half the town. When a house is as old as Will's, they just seem to gather up ghosts along the way.
Luckily...2022-10-1805 minFahrenheit 52V.R. as Gods
Hey everyone! What's good, M@nticL3? Nice to see you again, 55alc0n. Welcome to the stream, L0VRR.
Honestly, it's pretty weird to be back in Layer 1 right now, so, fair warning, I probably sound weird or whatever. That can happen when you haven't talked or even thought your own thoughts for two straight weeks. But, wow, I feel... I don't know.
Hi, B33-P. Looks like this is your first time catching the stream. Okay, how `bout I give a quick background-slash-refresher? Sound good? Good.
My name's Br1ckNtehW@11. Duh. I...2022-10-1305 minFahrenheit 52Nibbles
"They would have eaten our whole house and probably the whole cul-de-sac if we didn't find those jelly beans."
"You're not telling it right!"
"I'm holding the golden stick," said Eko. "That means it's my turn."
Arp made a move for the craggly, gold spray-painted branch, but Eko whipped it into her other hand.
"Stupid stick," grumbled Arp.
"Just let her tell it," said Shad.
"Fine," said Arp. "But it's gonna be the dumb version."
Eko grinned as she prodded a smouldering log with the...2022-10-0708 minFahrenheit 52Tide Pool
"Dad, why is there high tide and low tide?"
"The Moon, bud."
"What do you mean? How does the Moon do it?"
"How do you think the Moon does it?"
"Well, I think the Moon gets lonely during the daytime, so it tries to splash us with waves, so that we remember to look up at it."
"I like that."
"Is that what happens?"
"Kinda. The Moon tugs on the water, with gravity, and that causes the tides."
"Like Isaac Newton's apple?"
2022-09-2902 minFahrenheit 52It's the Smell
When they finally figured out smell, everything changed.
I mean, think about your best memories. Before all of this started. The sour milk on the shagged rug of your childhood bedroom where you first read The Hobbit in front of a box-fan. The giant-eater pinecone you found in the woods behind your cousin's house on the day after Thanksgiving. The tangy sweat you slowly licked from the shoulders of your once-great love. Okay, fair enough, those are my best memories, but I'm just going to assume you're here on this odorous journey with me.
I...2022-09-2304 minFahrenheit 52Will and the Turtle
The driveway was once filled with stones. Will remembered. Now it was blacktop. Better for chalk and playing basketball. Easier to shovel in the winter. Hot and sticky in the summer, with gooey tar patches that smelled like the seats in Will's school bus. Cracks created rivulets that caught the suds from Will's dad's Sunday morning car washes, turning the driveway into a river delta.
Best of all, Will liked the depression by the front window that caused a perennial puddle after every rainshower. Will's mom had a little garden right there. Last year, she let Will...2022-09-1603 min
Jim And Bill Podcast "It's Another Day"Its Another Day-BONUS ALERT-Report of 50+ RAIDS on MAGA supporters by FBI-PLUS FULL 17 MINUTE TOMAS KLINGENSTEIN SPEECHThis is a special "Its Another Day" BONUS ALERT-It's been reported that there have been raids on the homes of 50+ MAGA supporters, by the FBI. Attorney Harmeet Dillon was on Tucker Carlson's program Friday evening and she said that several of her clients were part of that group. She noted that the warrants were vague and of broad scope. Steve Bannon told Charlie Kirk, on his program, that he knows of at least 35 who were raided by the FBI. At the end of our ALERT, we play the full 17 minutes of the amazing speech by the CEO of The C...2022-09-1037 minFahrenheit 52The Seminar
I arrive eleven minutes early.
I claim my intended seat, third from the entrance, conveniently next to the chalkboard.
I arrange my fully-charged Apple MacBook Air M2 Midnight Blue laptop, my black leather Moleskine notebook, my Studio Neat Mark One orange limited-edition retractable pen, and my plastic Dasani water bottle (with the labeled removed, obviously) on the table.
I lift my pen and click it several times.
I return my laptop to my purple Jansport backpack.
I enscribe today's date and then "First Class Session", underlined twice, in my...2022-09-1003 minFahrenheit 52Buddy
I DO NOT UNDERSTAND WHAT YOU WANT BUT I WILL TRY MY BEST
"Buddy -- it's pretty simple. I think I seriously broke my tooth trying to bite through that crab claw, like a dummy."
I SEE, SAM. WHEN WOULD YOU LIKE TO HAVE A DENTIST APPOINTMENT?
"You know my calendar better than me. That's why I wrote that module for you. How about Thursday?"
LET ME CHECK WITH DR. MALKEN'S OFFICE. ONE MOMENT.
"Thanks, Buddy. In the meantime, can you pull up the weather for this weekend? Ah...2022-09-0102 minFahrenheit 52Evil Eyeball
The eyes were everywhere. Blue, lidless, creepy.
Ben Dawson wiped his forehead with the bottom of his t-shirt. He trailed his parents down a narrow marble sidewalk brimming with tourists. In spite of the unforgiving heat and crowd, his parents had stopped at every trinket shop along the way to the restaurant, oogling the eye-themed jewelry of the island. Truly, every single one.
"Isn't this cute, honey?"
Ben's mom Rhea picked up a gold bracelet from the open window display. Like nearly everything else in the store, it had a single painted circular...2022-08-2511 minFahrenheit 52Thesaurus Green and the Case of the Walk-off Strikeout (Part 2)
Kal knew when his friend Thesaurus was onto something: closed eyes, mmhmm humming, tapping toes. But what, exactly, was she thinking, he wondered. Could she have really figured out how Tommy struck out and hit a double?
“Yeah, Thesaurus, the Seagulls-Jellyfish game was still going when ours ended.”
Sam scoffed at Kal. “I mean, just barely. It was a complete blowout, start to finish. I already told everyone. The Jellies got clobbered.”
“Crushed, decimated, obliterated, eradicated, slammed… slam… grand-slam… home run!” said Thesaurus half to herself. She opened her eyes. “Hey — does anyone have the box score?”2022-08-1805 min
FinTech Focus TV – Powered by Harrington StarrWhat to do with all that Uncertainty | The Recruitment Round-Up with Nadia and RobOn this episode of The Recruitment Round-Up, Nadia and Rob address the increasing uncertainty affecting not only our industry, but that which is having a global impact.With a recession now on the horizon, many people are jumping to panic stations and trying to predict the sometimes unpredictable. But Nadia and Rob unpack exactly what a recession means for financial services, reflecting on previous experiences and grounding our understanding of whats to come.Given this, the pair remind us how important it is to not be derailed and continue to practice excellence, not allowing yourself...2022-08-1420 minFahrenheit 52Thesaurus Green and the Case of the Walk-off Strikeout (Part 1)
Mr. and Mrs. Green had two children: Samuel and Penelope. They called them Sam and Penny, respectively, and so did their teachers. Sam was fine with this arrangement, but not so much Penny.
Instead, she preferred everyone on Orcas Island to call her Thesaurus.
A thesaurus is a book that lists words in groups of synonyms and related concepts. I know what you're thinking: what happens if you look up thesaurus in a thesaurus? Well, I just did, Clever Reader, and I found words like lexicon and onomasticon. And, if you don't know what these...2022-08-0904 minFahrenheit 52Twang
Everything was going according to plan.
Greg flew to school on the back of a giant robin. Once they touched down in the quad, Greg leapt off his mount and ruffled the bird's blue-tinged neck-feathers.
"Thank you, Sebastian."
Greg fed the bird acorns from the pouch where he kept his laptop and soccer cleats. Sebastian bounced away, pecking the lawn, until he dug up a giant earthworm wearing a little green cap with a red feather in it.
Oh, Chi-chi! There you are!
Greg waved at his friends and...2022-08-0303 min
FinTech Focus TV – Powered by Harrington StarrIs this 'Boom Time' Going to Last? | The Recruitment Round-Up with Toby and RobWelcome back to another episode of the Recruitment Round-Up. This week, Toby is joined by our COO, Rob Grant, while Nadia enjoys a well-deserved week off!It's been an exciting week for Harrington Starr as we released our highly-anticipated magazine, The Financial Technologist, on Monday. Named "FinTech Pathways", we wanted to equip our readers with the knowledge and ideas of other financial technologists through insightful surveys and articles from pioneers in the space.This is our most extensive survey yet and provides an eye-opening snapshot of people's mindset within the Financial Technology sector. Rob specifically...2022-07-3125 minFahrenheit 52Pirate House
Reza waited on the sidewalk, smushed up with the rest of the neighborhood, in front of the yellow Victorian house. They spilled out into the street, and a few parents played sheep dog, herding the children back into the scrum on the sidewalk.
Why was so much of life about waiting? It made zero sense, Reza thought. He was always waiting: waiting for dinner, waiting for his mom to get home, waiting for his birthday. His parents didn’t seem to mind waiting at all. No, they reveled in it. Waiting was their favorite. Da loved telling Re...2022-07-3006 minFahrenheit 52The Outer Beach
Last night, Penny spent a full hour alone on Tern Island. She knew it because she set a timer on her forest green and brown Timex Indiglo™ wrist-watch. She also knew she wasn't technically alone -- seals, birds (terns, hopefully, if the island's name was worth its salt), all sorts of crabs, and even more sorts of bugs were her invisible, snoozing companions.
The hour passed in a heartbeat and when she closed the round metal door knob of the bunk room in the cool dark basement of Gram's house, Penny could still see the summer Moon on...2022-07-2409 minFahrenheit 52We Built a Blimp
“...and we’re flying it to the Empire State Building!”
Penny glanced at her viewers count and grimaced before catching herself.
“So, uh, that’s right, tell everybody you know. Everybody! I mean it. Right now. Cause we’re live, on the air — in the air — headed to New York City in our homemade dirigible. Dir-ig-ible… isn’t that a neat word? I think so, cause it sounds a lot like durable, which our blimp sure is. That's the thing about blimps, they're always...”
Something over Penny’s right shoulder buzzed.
“Penny - hey! Dex’s alarm...2022-07-2309 minFahrenheit 52El Código de los Estados Unidos
The door burst open with a kick and a shove. Two tactically-armored soldiers entered the apartment. Jo Anne sipped at her peppermint tea, holding the antique porcelain saucer under its matching cup. The soldiers swept through her cluttered living room, laser-guns pointed nervously in every-which direction.
When Alfred appeared, they nearly sent the ancient cat to Oblivion.
“Stand down. It’s just a tabby,” said a suit at the doorway. The figure turned to Jo Anne’s floral armchair. “Good morning, Madam President-Elect Hazelwood.”
“You could have knocked.”
The cup and saucer tinked as...2022-07-1608 minFahrenheit 52Phony Tree
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The St. Anne’s cafeteria was a chameleon.
Among its transformations (aside from its obvious lunchtime duties) were the annual Christmas Bazaar, monthly post-Mass ”Donut Sunday”, and King Arthur’s court. Move a few chairs, get rid of some tables, lay down colored tablecloths, add in the 6th grade class dressed as Friar Tuck, Guinnevere, Uther Pendragon, and Sir Gawain - and boom, medieval Britain. The cafeteria also hosted bingo night for the old folks at the old folks home across the street. Unlike the other events, bingo seemed to follow no set schedule, but Will and the othe...2022-07-0906 minFahrenheit 52Writer's Blockchain
"Halfway through," said Charlie, staring at the largely blank Markdown file for week 26 of his 52 week short story writing challenge. "I wonder if I've written a good one yet?"
He thought about checking his Cloudflare web analytics, but stopped himself. Nothing good could be found there. Besides, he was supposed to be writing. He'd gotten a bit of traction with a few sci-fi-ish stories on Hacker News, which gave him a decent bump in page views -- readers, he corrected himself -- but nothing to write home about. Not yet, at least. Ray Bradbury did say it...2022-06-3014 minFahrenheit 52Voyager 3
When the phone rang, Felix was already awake. He ignored its cries and instead rubbed his eyes until the glowing blue phosphenes came back. The rings faded into static. His wife, Abby, called to him. If he could only focus on the glowing shapes, then he might able to see her.
Bugg nipped his toes.
"Fine, you little pest."
The three-year-old Newfoundland whined and licked Felix's big toe, broken ages ago in a whiffle ball game and never quite the same.
"What?" growled Felix into the cell phone.
"Sir...2022-06-1005 minFahrenheit 52The Minus World
Moving to England from Old New Jersey wasn't the worst thing in the world for Tom Rhodes. He was in the fourth grade, about to be in dreaded fifth, and he wasn't exactly Mr. Popular amongst his classmates. He thought that they thought he was a weirdo - and what was wrong with that? Everything, apparently. More likely, they just never thought about him at all. England could be a fresh start for Tom.
His brother and sisters did not agree.
"I hate it here already!" said Elle, the youngest sibling at six years old.2022-06-0209 minFahrenheit 52Cuttyhunk
The little girl was reading the biggest book the cousins had ever seen.
“Quick! Hand me those.”
Cole ripped the binoculars off his younger brother Gabriel's face, not realizing (or caring) that the strap was still wrapped around his neck. Gabriel shoved Cole away until he lifted the strap over his buzz-cut and then handed over the binoculars.
“Yep," said Cole, clucking thoughtfully. "That’s definitely it.”
“Really? You mean it, Cole?” asked Alice, Will's little sister.
"Not possible. It's not supposed to come out 'til the fall," said Maddie. "My li...2022-05-2410 minFahrenheit 52The Correctives
It really was quite the spider. Twenty-some-odd feet tall, a half-dozen blue onyx eyes the size of bowling balls, and fangs that looked like they could crush a Buick.
Pallas walked right into its gnashing mouth and fired a Tracer Bullet into its brain.
“Is it... dead yet?”
“No, Mr. Banthem,” said Pallas. “I’m still working.”
“Well, hurry up!”
They always wanted you to hurry. Never enough time to marvel at an AUGUR's handiwork, even if it was from a disgraced one. Oogling just wasn’t in the job description of a...2022-05-1609 minFahrenheit 52Plastic Man on the Moon
APOLLO 11 LOG : 20220509-1045
Neil Armstrong's a liar.
52 years, 9 months, 19 days. That's how long I've been stranded here on the Moon.
Oh, it's not all bad. Sure, it's as cold as a skinny dip in a snowstorm, but I don't feel a thing. Sunlight's a bit of a hoot. My thumb melted and fused to my hand my second day here - I had to hack a new one out of my wrist using a sliver of moon shale. Gristly business. But I've mostly got the place to myself. And I've been busy. We'll...2022-05-0904 minFahrenheit 52Marooned at Mile Rocks
-.-. --.- -.. / -.-. --.- -.. / -.-. --.- -.. / -.. . / ... -.... / -.-
CQD CQD CQD DE S6 K
All stations distress from station S6. Over to anyone.
... -.... / -.. . / ... .---- ----- ----. / -.- -.
S6 DE S109 KN
To Station S6 from Station S109. Over to you only.
...2022-05-0512 minFahrenheit 52Christmastime at Grant's Tomb
Cliff accepted the Doubler with a confidence that surprised him.
The task and time frame seemed easy enough, especially after reviewing the in-app map directions. Three hours to get uptown from Union Square to Grant's Tomb, where it looked like he only needed to... Take photo of sarcophagi and upload. Weird, but doable. He made another promise to himself that this one would be his last Doubler on his current Streak. Things were getting out of hand.
He'd spent the last hour in the Barnes and Noble on the north side of the park, rifling...2022-04-2809 min
FinTech Focus TV – Powered by Harrington StarrAttracting, Nurturing and Investing in Talent | The Recruitment Round-upOn this week's episode of the Recruitment Round-up, Toby and Nadia discuss the importance of attracting, nurturing and investing in the best talent. When you hear the word talent what do you think about?The pair reveal what themselves and the team at Harrington Starr are doing to walk the talk and encourage great talent to stay within our industry.Bringing recent success stories and learns to the show, Toby and Nadia share why we need to create and grow our own talent with a focus on many different processes. We al...2022-04-2440 min