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Today’s Top Ten Tuesday theme celebrates flowers, which is another opportunity for me to look at book covers a bit more closely! I’m not a very visual person and often […]
Daily Drawing 863
I’ve always been a car guy, so it’s no surprise that I love motorsport-themed watches. If your watch emulates vintage race-timers, dashboard gauges, or team liveries, I’m interested. Still, the… The post Sunrex 611 appeared first on The...
A look back at the Donkey Kong Country track that defined underwater music.
Hartney, Hathaway, Regent, Elgin and Minto, oh my!
The end is in sight: both for the construction of the Equitable Trust Building at 15 Broad Street in 1926-1928, and for this series of posts. Today’s the last post with exterior photos because, in skyscraper construction, once the facade...
I mean, seriously. Why does an NVMe to USB-C adapter need all these lights. C’mon. And there’s too many screws and stuff. TSK TSK But at least it’s ridiculously slow. Instead of 400MB/s (which is what you’d expect), you get 60MB/s. And...
Reading into chess and other abstract games.
12 May 2026 Yesterday I went birding twice: In the morning to find the Lincoln’s sparrows (yes, I saw two!) and in early afternoon at Bigbee Field with Jeff Cieslak to watch the Downtown peregrines through my scope. Meanwhile far below...
From In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette, by Hampton Sides (Knopf Doubleday, 2014), Kindle pp. 20-21: The “polar problem,” as it was sometimes called in the press, had taken on a quality …...
In my ongoing quest for digital sovereignty, I recently replaced Tailscale with a plain WireGuard setup that I control myself. No third-party control plane, no extra SaaS layer, no mystery glue in the middle. Just WireGuard, config...