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Like persistent weeds in a flowerbed, thoughts of a return trip to Iceland (#11) have sprouted. An idle search for airfares and lodging revealed some real bargains, along with some caveats. One aspect of my fall sojourns to Reykjavík...
At the beginning of his 1947 lecture on Shakespeare’s Troilus and Cressida – a play he judges “not wholly successful” -- W.H. Auden discusses “the difference between a major and a minor writer—which is not necessarily the difference...
Saturday 11th July 2026 Back in April 2024 there was much joy at the return of a “vital” bus service linking North Yorkshire villages with the Ribble Valley and Clitheroe over in neighbouring Lancashire. The Lancashire Guardian at the...
These days, Sam Bisbee is an Emmy-winning, Oscar-nominated producer of film and television, but at the turn of the century, he was trying his hand at being a musician, releasing a few alt-rock albums that I thought were pretty good, even...
I found this video because one of these cars popped up on eBay for not much more than Sinclair C5 money. It is probably a good job I don't have the garage space...
I wanted to share a long-overdue health update about what has happened this year and why I can finally talk about it. I recently had my second Camzyos cardiology echo and doctor’s visit of the year. I normally go every six months, and......
For the past 6 months, I’ve typed almost zero lines of code by hand. So do I still call myself a coder? Kinda. If your role is purely to code, you have to admit the job today is drastically different from 5 years ago. Here’s what I think...
For ages now I've been having guilt about not blogging "enough". I know there's no such thing as enough, but I still feel it, and I'm kind of tired of it. I posted about what fun I had making my Neocities page, and it dawned on me that I...
I solved the puzzle ‘Friday Crossword’ in 36:02 with 1 friend using @crossmate.inqk.net
When I say stuff like "the internet used to be great," I'm talking about an experience of the web in which bookmarking was important. Because, like, bookmarking was important. It still is. Bookmarking is about agency, choice, discovery,...
“are you serious?” sulking with your arms crossed and eyes rolled wearing a diy name bracelet
Yes, I finally went through my photos! June 27: Pitt River.Female blackbird on a lily pad.Pitt River.Scenery along the DeBoville Slough.Blue damselfly.Scenery.A farm along the Alouette River.American Robin in a tree.A Tiger Swallowtail...
Downtown Austin – Austin, TX – Fujifilm X-E5 – Classic Retro This Classic Retro Recipe began as an accident. The Fujifilm X-E5 has a Film Dial, but Classic Negative was excluded as a default option; however, you can set it (or any other...
Remember when I wrote about the approximately 14,000 decisions involved in choosing a picket fence? Well. The fence is finished, the decisions have been made and there's no changing anything now. This is the day the brick columns were...
Joseph Cox, 404 Media, last month: ShinyHunters published the [Madison Square Garden] data on Tuesday. The full file download is nearly 45GB. A spokesperson of the group sent 404 Media a smaller sample of the data. One file includes what...