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  Went to the hardware store for paint colour swatches – I'm designing a new kitchen to replace the many-decades-old one that is now only worthy as a ruin of chipboard and mold and needs to be scrapped. Came back with about a dozen swatches even though I know the two I will almost certainly settle on. Discovered that the lighter of the chosen two shades precisely matches the off-white fur of my friend's cat's ruff, at his neck. (I can't re-think that one, any more...

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  After untold numbers of errors and mouse-clicks, I did, finally, get to the end of the payment process for a pair of Steam Controllers: twenty seven minutes after they went up for sale on Valve's Steam Store. From what I'm seeing: I was one of the very, very few, very lucky buyers. #SteamController

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  Congratulations, Marta Kostyuk, on your win and thank you for your words, afterwards. My heart bleeds for you and for the Ukraine – know that your face and presence on court is seen and your choice to strike to the core of the matter and raise your voice to plead for your people, during your post-match speech, is bold, brave and infinitely worthy of respect. Keep playing, keep standing up and speaking out, and being a paragon for the plight of your people. Unilateral violations of sovereign te...

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  Thoughts on the #SteamMachine … 1. It is too expensive; it could not be sold for less given today's component shortages … 2. … and the proven voracious appetites of "resellers" – if Valve chose to either lower the price or raise the spec-level, chances are: regular consumers would only be more likely to be scalped because Valve couldn't buy the parts in quantity to match higher demand! 3. That's 8GB of true-blooded GDDR6: not some low-powered "...