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“I’ll just collect the 90s era liveries that you can get on these lovely N gauge models” I naively stated way back at the start of this N scale adventure. Today I’m sharing yet another modified, bashed model requiring extensive reworking...
el mano de diosI never thought that football would accompany me through my important life milestones. El Mano de Dios - Diego - Ronaldinho - Argentina - Brazil. Many years have passed since I was 11 years old, watching the World Cup,...
Most system prompts are personality sketches or compliance checklists. I wanted something operational: how the model researches, disagrees, edits, uses tools, remembers context, and knows when the work is finished. This is the public...
Calling proteins a language is useful only if the analogy is handled carefully. Amino acids are not words with dictionary meanings, and evolution does not compose sentences with an intention. A protein sequence is a physical polymer that...
The Adiyaman Province of Turkey in the south east of the country is not wealthy – it is still classified as a developing rural region. Yet 25 miles from the small town of Kâhta the visitor discovers the remnants of once fabulous wealth....
Where is Downtown? is an interactive map surveying tool designed to crowdsource the boundaries of "downtown" for any city. The process is very simple:Enter the name of a city into the search barDraw your perceived outline of "downtown"...
Each Thursday in the Disquiet Junto music community, a new compositional challenge is set before the group’s members, who then have five days to record and upload a track in response to the project instructions. Membership in the Junto...
Hello RSS reader! This post contains an interactive feature. Please visit the canonical web page for an optimal viewing experience :) When I redesigned my website earlier this year I removed dark mode. I never liked the colours, and the...
[SPOILERS for Concrete: The Human Dilemma and Concrete: Stars over Sand #1…and Insane #2, I suppose.] So over the last few weeks, inspired by the recent release of Concrete: Stars over Sand #1, Paul Chadwick’s newest Concrete thing is...
Good old Main Street USA; under-appreciated by some, but not by anyone who reads this blog! I have admitted that, as a callow youth, I liked Main Street, but did not love it the way I do now. The floral Mickey portrait looks fine here,...
When I was a kid, my father bought a family home computer and placed it in the living room for all to see. When guests came to our house, they would stop by the computer and admire its marvel without even turning it on. While everyone...
The Boxcar Children #12 Houseboat Mystery by Gertrude Chandler Warner, 1967. Mr. Alden takes his grandchildren on a houseboat trip. It’s a peaceful trip at first, but they keep having encounters with someone driving a black car...
I don't exactly remember how I got my original Sony PlayStation, but it was either my 9th or 10th birthday. It was after I had moved from my childhood home outside Bryan, Texas into the city proper but before I lost contact with the...