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In high school, most days began and ended with AIM.This was before everyone had text messages (or cell phones). Everything from class projects to entire relationships took place in an AIM window. Needless to say, I have some nostalgia...
We've got the pedal to the metal on our review of LEGO® Icons set 11381 Jaguar E-Type, but first we're taking a quick detour to look at the parts included.We're going green – British racing green – or rather, the closest LEGO®...
It's been a bit more than a year since I started strength training 3 times a week. Nothing fancy, just an amateur grinding stats like an Orc preparing for war. During my sessions, I take note of my performances using the old-school pen...
Every day, our real world's lore becomes more and more grimdark. If you read it on any fantasy series, you'd think the plot is unbelievable and cheap.Once monarchy was succesfully removed from europe, capitalism was unhindered to reach...
This was a good week for eating Okinawan food and for achieving several huge paperwork wins. I’ve unlocked a whole new world of being fiscally responsible. Received a few nice voice notes via my sister who bumped into my high-school...
Significantly cooler this week. Not in London, which continues to push the boundaries of fitness for human habitation, but in Iceland where I spent five nights on holiday. Zero gyms, but lots of stomping around on mud and rocks, so...
I started working on a very simple TUI for WordPress this weekend. By “I started working” I mean I used Claude Code and Compound Engineering to build out a prototype. So far it can create new posts and pages, add images, and use most of...
I’ve never seen evidence of good men in national politics. The best are only good in relation to the swine roaming DC hallways. Truly good men are only ever known personally and are invisible to every form of worldly power.
In this snapshot of the Bloomington calendar you can see that events are neatly categorized. This was an intractable problem a dozen years ago. Should the county fair land in community / social or family/kids? It’s not a critical choice,...
Lindsey Graham. I anticipate the online conspiracy industry to be posting theories regarding Russia, Ukraine, Iran and Democrats at any moment. Probably already have. You only have one life to live. How will Graham be remembered? What...
At a family vacation I took a variety of games … (the vacation was mostly adults, the next generation had an 18th birthday during the trip and two younger children). Catan was played a few times (mostly by my direct family). Flicken...
Sundry Sunday is our weekly feature of fun gaming culture finds and videos, from across the years and even decades. It’s another Legend of Zelda related video. The subtitle (in Japanese) of the Famicom game was “The Hyrule Fantasy,” and...
When I was birding at the Detroit River International Wildlife Refuge in Trenton, Michigan this weekend, I discovered they were participating in this year’s Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA) Inside|Out program. Launched in 2010, the...
School is finished. Daniel is home. All Elizabeth’s termly activities have come to an end and I’m basking in the peace and slowness that have returned after such an eventful June. We took advantage of nothing happening this weekend to...
These may be due to a lack of digging on my part, and it may be that the ‘not knowing’ adds to my joy of exploring. Nevertheless, I’ve been asked the first question below and since I’ve just learned about #bearcats and am a huge...