Always enlightening to see your own culture through the eyes of an outsider. USian artist James A Reeves is currently tooling round That Septic Isle, and so reminding me of familiarities which I am for the most part glad to have left behind, but seen askance as unfamiliarities. It helps that he has a fine…

As previously discussed. 650 days is a pretty good run, but Clozemaster looks like it’s far better suited to my needs going forward.

Have just noticed that Duolingo have mothballed their entire discussion forums at some point over the last few weeks, and have even gone so far as to nuke their announcement and explanation of their doing so. This explains with hindsight the increasingly terse and obfuscatory (not to mention diminishing) input to said forums from their…

I do not recall how I came to find Eleanor Janega’s Going Medieval blog, but I know damn well why I still have it in the ol’ feedreader: it’s because it’s good to have someone on hand to 1a) correct widespread misconceptions about the medieval, to which I am definitely party as much as anyone…