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Note: May 18th is a big day both in music history and for anyone who lived in the PNW in 1980. I first ran this piece when there were about 6 of us here (and 3 of them lived with me), and it’s become an annual tradition. We don’t have...
The 270-foot Famous (Bear) class USCGC Tahoma (WMEC-908) recently stumbled upon three smuggler vessels off the coast of Colombia, and bagged same. From PAO: Coast Guard Cutter Tahoma’s crew simultaneously interdicted three suspected...
NOAA’s Office of Coast Survey (OCS) is currently utilizing fully uncrewed contract USVs for an offshore hydrographic survey mission along the Florida Gulf Coast. Operated by Woolpert, the mission is being conducted by Chance Maritime’s...
USS Gerald R. Ford and her two companion destroyers, USS Bainbridge (DDG 96) and USS Mahan (DDG 72), left port on 24 June 2025 for six months of scheduled deployment and exercises. They arrived back home last week, some 322 days later....
I can only imagine what it's like learning the skill of programming in this day and age. What does an average college class look like? What is the CS professor teaching? And students, how do you reconcile what you are learning vs the...
2026 is another year of short stories. In this weekly series, I track my short story writing, from idea and draft to submission. This is the weeks of May 4 – 17. Stats Submissions and Responses In the past two weeks I had a single...
Time to get into functions, which ends up mostly being about the weather. Shock.
Kick plates are supposed to protect your door’s paint job from getting…well…kicked. That sticking door that needs an extra nudge to open or the challenge of opening a door with your hand filled with Stanley cups makes the kick plate...
Call me Ishmael. Some years ago – never mind how long precisely – having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world. It is a...
The link. The paragraph: Amid these waves of profound transformation (in Vietnam), the Bia hoi côc (beer glass) has remained unchanged. Cheap and easy to acquire, the glasses continue to be made by hand with recycled glass in small...
Read the full post at - 6+ Favorite Books on Arctic and Northern Exploration (So Far!) A Roundup of My Favorite Books on Arctic and Northern Exploration...so far.
A phone battery experiment: Manu is considering charging his phone once twice a week. He lives in a “quiet place” that, I suspect, makes that possible. Meanwhile, I usually charge my phone once a day, even though the battery is still OK....