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It seems like it wasn’t that long ago that the fifth edition of the Music City Grand Prix (MCGP) last ran. If you look at the calendar, you realize that it has not yet been a year. For the past two seasons, the MCGP served as the season...
Read Aurochs and Auks by John Burnside ★★★★★ Finally (and this seems less fanciful with each passing day) our inner spaces are being placed in jeopardy, as the providers of social media colonise and denature what use to be called the...
"Hmmm, probably an 8. On the other hand, why wouldn't I give it a 9? It's among the top 3 movies I've watched this year." -- Robert, struggling to rate. Robert wrote a post about rating movies and how hard it is to rate a movie on a...
When the Lincoln Highway Association rerouted the Lincoln Highway between Fort Wayne and Valparaiso in Indiana in 1928, they simply moved it to US 30. This isn’t the US 30 that exists today. That US 30 is a four-lane expressway across...
CD1: The Original Soundtrack Album 1-1 Steppenwolf– The Pusher 5:511-2 Steppenwolf– Born To Be Wild 3:391-3 Smith – The Weight 4:361-4 The Byrds– Wasn't Born To Follow 2:051-5 The Holy Modal Rounders– If You Want To Be A Bird 2:401-6 The...
Last week Andrew gave some great recommendations for summer reading. At the risk of self-promotion let me add another recommendation. Sometimes it’s good to get away from it all. Life gets busy and it feels like everything is crowding...
Nathaniel has been sent home from daycare again, with suspected hand foot and mouth disease (aka coxsackie). As you may recall, he had this back in January. As you may also recall, I also had this back in January, with much more severe...
I don't know why. I just thought having random emojis appear in my website's footer seemed appropriate. I actually didn't think of this myself. It was the random emoji of my favourite designer/artist's website that inspired me to do this...
A few hours ago, I completed my first edition of the Zwem4daagse, which is a yearly even here in The Netherlands where you swim a certain distance for four days. After swimming 500 meters four days, I am now a proud owner of a cute...
Hey, if your reading this I hope you are well. Wherever you are in the world and whatever device you are reading this on right this second, I hope you are doing OK fellow internet person. I mean it. I'm tired. This week has been a lot of...
Google is playing the EU game much better than Apple, but the EU still doesn’t seem to understand how privacy and security work in modern platforms. Letting people swap the onboard agent is being treated much like the ancient argument...
Some pub names just sound "right" to me. Others are obviously invented by outsiders, whether foreigners or just people not steeped in the culture. Here's a guide to the good ones.
2001 5000 Feet / Climax Platform: Sony PlayStation 2 Army Men: Sarge’s Heroes 3 was in development at 5000 Feet and Climax for the PlayStation 2, but was ultimately never released. Very little has surfaced from the project over the...
Today we have a rather strongly themed monthly round-up for June’s models. Yep! Every one of June’s completed models are from a single faction in a single game. Not that I didn’t also work on a bunch of other random things, but the...