Diane Duane's Blog: Out of Ambit, page 6
September 13, 2020
Greek mythology, feminist reclamation of lost/ancient tradition, and an interface issue: or, The Thing I Got So Cranky About The Other Day
(The other day being April 2, 2014. This post is ported in from Tumblr — I’m in the process of moving some longer posts from there to here, where they…
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August 18, 2020
Changes coming at YoungWizards.com: your opinion(s) solicited
(waving at the online Young Wizards fandom) Folks, it’s time to look at some changes that are coming to the YW online presence, and discuss at least one of them…
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July 25, 2020
Outlining: one writer’s approach
A note as we begin: Mostly this blog (per its name) is a place I talk about just about everything but writing. Over time, though, people have started asking me…
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July 20, 2020
A project in progress: translating “La Patissière des Petits Menages”
Those of you who follow me on Twitter or Tumblr, or who dip in here from time to time, will know that cooking and cookbooks are issues of interest in…
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May 26, 2020
Pulling The Lever
This post is as much a marker for me as anything else; the sign of a lot of (sometimes deeply annoying) work finished, and a return to more normal operations…
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April 9, 2020
Weird bread
Well, a little weird. Ireland is on COVID-19 lockdown (and will be for the next couple/few weeks, it looks like), and our next grocery delivery isn’t until nearly the middle…
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April 4, 2020
Peter’s Isolation Goulasch
(Appearing here because his own site is down for restructuring at the moment.) Himself says: This is a “what was available in the house” reduction from my main goulash recipe,…
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April 3, 2020
Business As (un)Usual
With the COVID-19 pandemic spreading itself about, it seemed like a good idea to give people a local status report of what’s going on with us over here. The short…
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March 16, 2020
Business As Unusual
Some links worth looking at, and recommending to others if necessary: Coronavirus reality check: myths about social distancing At the technical end: Features, Evaluation and Treatment Coronavirus (COVID-19)
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March 13, 2020
Not Really Hungarian Pork Chops
Every now and then, in the work surrounding the slow retooling of the EuropeanCuisines.com website, I wind up doing some casual detective work to try to find the source of…
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