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I hate to bring good news to the table. It's like a weird superstitious trait that I have. I feel ridiculously threatened when others mention my good news to their close friends and family. As if Im in danger now that it's been...
In addition to the two - quite sensible - rack toys, and the loose figures I used for the first narrative post, there were also some more assorted or generic spacemen and astronauts among the plunder of the first weekend in July, and...
I have trouble sleeping — trouble staying asleep, not trouble falling asleep. I have found that the best way to get back to sleep at three or four in the morning is to listen to a podcast on a 10-minute fadeout timer. But the podcast has...
Stop taking loads of photos of the same thing with your phone. Del wrote a brief note to self recently, about having too many repeated "waste" pictures on his phone. This is my reply, which hopefully helps him see his camera roll in a...
That was a day. We survived the adventure of having new windows installed in our two flat. 18 windows in total between the two units. We actually had the easy part as we moved to the basement while the crew did the hard work. I’m not...
3Zhang, T., Ma, C., Li, Y. et al. Astronomically calibrating early Ediacaran evolution Nature Communications 16, 3049 (2025) https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-57201-1 PDF
Tommy Bahama Street Corner – New York, New York I mentioned the Camp Snap camera yesterday, a $69 plastic toy-like camera originally made for kids. They’ve sold a lot of them, and it has become a phenomenon. Many teenagers and older...
By the mid 90s, the biggest craze in the arcades had become the 3D fighting game, as popularized by Virtua Fighter and Tekken. Soon after, big developer in the arcade industry, as well as a few of the smaller ones, were determined to...
After a couple of days waiting, the wind finally backed to southeast. Not quite as far as we’d like, but as there was nothing better in the horizon, we decided to take this window to get to the Society Islands. Departure from a mooring...
Umarang, or Uma the VRRV, was retrieved from the mechanic shop this afternoon.She went in for frequently occuring OBDII error code P0152. Here's what Google AI said of the error:The Ford E-450 P0152 code indicates that the upstream...
rest in peace sidhu moose wala. reference I was… I am… I… I’m angry. I’m mad at my cousin. I sent a text to a group chat asking if I could speak at my grandpa’s funeral. I sent it this morning. Maybe yesterday evening. She said that I...
Mt Naeba (苗場山, naeba-san) is one of the Hundred Famous Mountains of Japan, located on the border of Nagano and Niigata prefectures. It's particularly famous for its beautiful marshland near the summit. This post is a bit of a throwback,...
Search for apple and get a phone. Read about freedom and get a router upgrade. Language is transactions. Human experience is product features. Click Big Bang theory, get sitcom commentary. The highest output is vomiting feelings about...
Ornamental Women, my debut Gothic Fantasy novel, has been out for just about two months now, so I'd like to offer a little something to everyone who bought a print copy: a silly bookmark drawn by yours truly. (If you bought an ebook...
In my quest to find activities that will hold the interest of children with a five-year age gap, I routinely find myself playing board games that normally wouldn’t register more than a fraction of my attention. Blorp!, for example. What...