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Even mediocre conditions can make great sessionsI saw a surfer in the water smiling big. Conditions were middling. Closeouts. Pretty choppy. There were some corners to be had, but a lot of fierce paddling by surfers ending in not-ridden...
We all hear voices in our brain, but what if they were coming from your other heads?!? Author John Wiswell’s main character is a multi-headed dragon with a lot of contradicting opinions. Though a dragon, you may find his inner turmoil...
Today is a very special day because we officially adopted Quillomina from the Scottish SPCA! She is an African Pygmy Hedgehog who was relinquished by her previous owner. I’ve always been a bit hedgehog mad but I think you’ll agree she’s...
It was an honor to be back on Media & the Machine, which has grown to be an un-skippable podcast — usually with guests who are much smarter than me.Check it out over on LinkedIn too.Rob Kelly puts a lot of work into these episodes – more...
I’m going to get on my soapbox again and call out Apple once more on the extremely limited HomeKit automation experience–and how they can fix 80% of the gripes I have with it by just cloning a small subset of the Shortcuts user...
ICEBOARD ROBIN BATMAN & ROBIN (KENNER) G’day and welcome to Friday. Here at the end of the week, it’s always important to note that the week is, in fact, ending, and we’ve all made it through another one. Yay us! Rather than just looking...
Another day, another Cirrus SR22T (reg. N16EU) in EKSN.
Our second Galactoscope for July features two back-to-back hits by J.T. McIntosh. This fellow has been writing superlative stuff since the early '50s (maybe before, but I discovered him in 1951 with "Hallucination Orbit"). And now his...
It's turning out to be a bonanza summer for beekeeping. The third heatwave has conveniently coincided with the flowering of acres and acres of Phacelia, and the colonies are furiously piling in the nectar.Actually, that's not quite...
I don’t think people who argue about reductionism are really arguing about reductionism. Reductionism is the idea that the behavior of big, complicated things (people, economies, ecosystems) boils down to the behavior of their smallest...
Would you trust these two men with your investment? Jeff Braun and Will Wright shortly before Maxis’s IPO. This article tells part of the story of Maxis Software. Maxis came into 1994 riding high on the wings of SimCity 2000, the hit of...
I biked yesterday in suffocating heat to capture this Focke-Wulf-Piaggio P149D (reg. D-EHJK), only to discover, to my utter dismay, that it had a cover on. Argh!
Burda is a famous name in the sewing world. For over seventy-five years, the company has published a monthly fashion magazine with sewing patterns included. It was begun by Aenna Burda, wife of a German publishing magnate, in 1950. By...
I've written plenty of times about how I don't much care for Tom Cruise as a person whenever I've read about how he's quite unpleasant, egocentric, and so forth. That said, I will never deny that the man can act. That is quite on display...
I watched Ferris Bueller’s Day Off which was as great as I remember. It has an age rating of PG-13 in the US and 15 in the UK for bad language and some kissing. (There is also lying to parents but apparently that doesn’t count.) This...