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Looking Back At Axie Infinity Part 1: The Beginning

30 Jul 2021 3 minute read 2 comments Vendata

Axie Infinity is arguably one of the best games out there and statistically speaking is the best NFT game within the market, proving to be one of the most profitable games. Over recent weeks Axie Infinity has met unprecedented hype, its user activity...

Week 34: QUEEN (420 to 30: A Music Retrospective)

29 Jul 2021 8 minute read 1 comment jozefkrichards

An era-defining rock band that amassed an impressive number of gigantic hits throughout the 70s and 80s before lead singer Freddie Mercury's death in 1991. Few vocalists could match him, and all four band members were excellent songwriters, making th...

LOTF

28 Jul 2021 4 minute read 0 comments The Archivist

(The Library: Book Review) Lord Of The Flies - War it seems, is as much a part of humanity as imagination is. We have already observed this concept here on this blog. Nineteen Eighty Four reminded us of the dangers posed by a permanent war effort. S...

Week 33: DAVID BOWIE (420 to 30: A Music Retrospective)

27 Jul 2021 6 minute read 0 comments jozefkrichards

An exceptional musician, performer, and artist, David Bowie wasn't just one-of-a-kind, he was 10-or-20-of-a-kind-in-one. Ziggy Stardust, The Thin White Duke, Aladdin Sane... David Bowie was always turning a corner, reinventing himself, and experiment...

Week 32: FRANK SINATRA (420 to 30: A Music Retrospective)

26 Jul 2021 6 minute read 0 comments jozefkrichards

His songs came to be known as the "standards" because they were so popular, and permeated culture to such a degree, for so long, that his music came to be the default thing people thought of when they thought of music. I don't believe there's another...

Fahrenheit 451

25 Jul 2021 6 minute read 7 comments The Archivist

(The Library: Book Review) That temperature, in the title, is the temperature at which book paper catches fire. I was recently reminded of that temperature when building a crypto-miner. I put the motherboard straight on a piece of cardboard and wonde...

Week 31: BARRY WHITE (420 to 30: A Music Retrospective)

25 Jul 2021 3 minute read 0 comments jozefkrichards

The deep, gravelly voice of Barry White is unmistakable and "soul" is a more than appropriate genre label for what he could do behind the microphone. He was a force, of an intimidating size, but a gentle giant and a crooner when it came to his music,...

COPPI AND BARTALI -FRENEMIES-

24 Jul 2021 2 minute read 0 comments Hob

In the collective imagination Coppi and Bartali were enemies and even opposites. United by a catalyst that is the bicycle: one was the North Pole, the other the South Pole.  Bartali was the Catholic, Coppi the communist. One was virtue, the other sin...

Week 30: THE LOVE LANGUAGE (420 to 30: A Music Retrospective)

23 Jul 2021 5 minute read 1 comment jozefkrichards

In 2009, North Carolina native Stuart McLamb took the novel approach of releasing an album first and forming a band second and the result has been a decade-and-counting of top tier indie rock. The Love Language is my favorite band from what I conside...

Week 29: PUBLIC ENEMY (420 to 30: A Music Retrospective)

21 Jul 2021 5 minute read 0 comments jozefkrichards

Public Enemy is an enemy only to ignorance. Their music is more than something enjoyable to listen to, it's an education, and the themes and ideas presented on their albums take excellent mixes and killer deliveries and elevate them to legendary stat...