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It’s the one at my hotel, and it doesn’t look like it’s been used the entire summer long. Which kinda makes sense, this is an airport hotel, after all, and thus, I expect, not a hotbed of competitive traveling beach sports. I still give...
I am helpless to resist an engagement-bait game on social media, so I was an easy mark once I started seeing posts in response to the prompt “Describe Your Favorite Movie As Boring As Possible.” The problem is that once I started, I...
I don’t want the World Cup to be over. At least I still have a week of the Tour de France to ease me out of the great summer sporting events.
Today’s Music Monday is an etymological road trip from Paul Simon’s 1983 album Hearts and Bones. The album was a commercial failure relative to his other works, but it happens to be one of my favourites. This cheeky song is mixed in with...
Sometimes it's okay to be the only one that's okay. And sometimes those around you will stress you out about mundane things. Their mood may be what stresses you out. Or their behavior when they are around you. and I'm saying this to say...
Click here to book At least once each Summer, I direct my steps eastwards from Spitalfields along the Mile End Rd towards Bow Cemetery, one of the “Magnificent Seven” created by act of Parliament in 1832 as the growing population of...
A few years ago I bought CAST A DARK SHADOW (1955), available on Blu-ray from Kino Lorber and Cohen Film Collection, when I spotted it in a sale. The impetus for my purchase was the chance to see another film starring the marvelous...
A lot of people are under the impression that nothing ever changes. They feel they live their same life over and over again. That doesn’t seem to be the case for me. For the last five months I was certain I knew what I was going to do....
First, the garden stuff, then the updates… I was out before things got too hot, giving the garden a solid watering. I was able to work on some weeding as well, particularly in one of the beds in the East yard. I need to work on the...
Day three, check. ✅ We blew out of Elk City, Oklahoma at 6AM and arrived in Gallup, New Mexico, at 3:15PM local time. We covered 563 miles or 862 kilometers. Tomorrow is another long drive. More in the morning.
I am sitting at Starbucks in the Ottawa airport, listening to cheers from the restaurant nearby as Spain looks set to win.We came to Ottawa for the weekend -- an unusual choice, but we haven't been here in years, and the winter and...
Base two numerals can be awkward to compute with, and Roman numerals are even more awkward. But awkward is not the same as bad. Today I’ll tell you about a truly awful numeral system—possibly the very worst ever proposed as a way of...
I was sharing a LEMON BOY song on a Discord server the other day and a pal asked me, "how do you find this stuff?" which . . . fair question, actually! Despite the proliferation of music streaming services1, in the year of our Luigi two...
sufficientlylargen:sufficientlylargen:millionsknives:millionsknives:can you curry anything else or is it just favortimSo “currying” a furry animal means grooming or brushing it with a currycomb, which in turn comes from the Old French...
Been reading: Apple in China by Patrick McGee by Patrick McGee 📚. Surprisingly informative. In a way, it’s like reading some of the history of Apple and how they became this successful. It’s not too critical of Apple, at least not yet.