Back in 2023, I was saying that football should learn from how handball handles playing time. And I still fully stand by that statement and think that it’s the proper way to do it. But I must admit that the rule changes meant to reduce time wasting implemented at this World Cup are working out […]
Since I need a first post of the week and the one about this year’s Dream Trek is only in the form of rough notes and will probably stay that way for a long time while I still have old odds and ends that are properly written and not posted, I’ll make use of it […]
The first three parts of the book consist of rather dry history mainly focused on economic inequality and some related aspects and implications, generally showing that, while the specifics differed, things were always awful. The exception were some elements that reached levels that could justify some hope between 1950 and 1980, but those have started […]
After making and eating mamaliga at night, on the morning of June 14 I kept getting up to pee, at one point spending a few minutes on the computer and at another exchanging a few words with dad and catching the last few minutes of a match. But when I got up again, just after […]
In the early hours of June 5, it was late when I finished making pasta, ending up eating lunch between 1:05 AM and 1:15 AM, and then I selected the handful of usable radish leaves and also used radishes for much of the salad, which also meant picking what little was still usable out of […]