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I don’t know if you’ve noticed but our world isn’t doing so well. Even as there still is endless denial by fossil-fuel corporations and the politicians they’ve bought climate change has started to wreak havoc. In addition, in many places...
Last time, I discussed the first sound/color Zorro movie, The Bold Caballero from 1936. The next Zorro screen production was just a year later, Republic’s 1937 serial Zorro Rides Again—no relation to the 1931 Johnston McCulley novel of...
What is a weekend? #DowntonAbbey
What an odd feeling, to see familiar hands filling pages after pages with events and feelings you could no longer find within you, not even vaguely.
Got up at 9.30am,. Not a very nice day. Did some more digging on borders. The gang came for dinner. Went home 7pm. Never went out. Watched telly.
Disasters are certainly not natural: hazards are natural. Disasters come as a result of how we live, how we build structures, how we plan and organise our environments— Horace Glaze, operations manager, Red Cross, Jamaica quoted in...
Where better to spend a rainy Saturday on the Eastern Shore than the Ghost Museum in Berlin, MD? The creepy mask was used in Odd Fellow rituals in the 1950s and, having their building right next door to our place in DC, I am at the same...
As Lisa relates here, we had the joy of encountering a Royal Delft Peacock Symphony cup in Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport this week, a cup significant because it was the subject of a print that Lisa carved and printed last year and...
I’m trying to record a demo video of all of Signboard’s features, including those that will ship in version 1.5 (coming soon), and I’m just failing miserably. I’ll do it another day. So many great features in this app.
Walk round Ardinning this afternoon. Cuckoos calling. Willow warblers & ravens heard. Corn bunting & stonechats seen & heard. Warm & breezy plenty of butterflies, mostly Orange Tips & Green-Veined whites, a Painted Lady. A few small red...
Not long ago, my online presence was served variously by Heroku, Fly, AWS, GCP, and GitHub Pages. This evolved organically, over a decade, and became a recipe for unpredictable, expensive sadness. Meanwhile, the world marched on. My home...
At the moon´s gloaming I like to lookAt the grey metropolis, crumbling ruinsWhich serve as a measure of its greatnessOn which humans learn to measure themselves.–Christian Friedrich Hebbel There are artists who continually reinvent...