Anyway, today, listening to Gaiman, I learnt that he had had a lisp. He says he used to take elocution lessons when he was a boy (and remembers a lovely line from his teacher, who said to him "Neil, dear, before you can be eccentric, you need to know where the circle is"). Which reminded me of Stephen King's novella If It Bleeds, where the outworldly antagonist also used to have a lisp, but then corrected it and, as an overcompensation, developed a slight delay before the s's.
Anyway, today, listening to Gaiman, I learnt that he had had a lisp. He says he used to take elocution lessons when he was a boy (and remembers a lovely line from his teacher, who said to him "Neil, dear, before you can be eccentric, you need to know where the circle is"). Which reminded me of Stephen King's novella If It Bleeds, where the outworldly antagonist also used to have a lisp, but then corrected it and, as an overcompensation, developed a slight delay before the s's.
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Bret talks to Peter McCormack — a British journalist focusing mostly on Bitcoin — about his conversation with Pierre Kory and his convictions about…
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New Dell Precision models ending in 60 (5560, 5760, 7560, 7760) have just been released; and yes, they come with an option of pre-installed Ubuntu. I…
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Unbelievable! At the same time, Google is all like, don't use localStorage, its api is synchronous and therefore blocking; use indexedDB instead:
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