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An hour past sunrise, one last, brief shower before it clears—or so I hope. A deer walks out of the woods and up the driveway, followed by a fawn whose spots are just beginning to fade.
An experience doesn’t have to be the greatest of all time for you to enjoy it. It’s easy to fall into the comparison trap. You can compare this place to the last one, this beach to that one from 2 years ago, and so on. Doing so simply...
I like to take pictures of decay sometimes, like the natural wear and tear of existence on things. Anything old, dirty, rusted, etc, and particularly if it has some real texture to it. Before we get to those, enjoy a plant growing out of...
One of the first satisfying things I did this morning was dumping a white envelope in a red mailbox. I hope to receive a response in a week or two. Or three. Does it make a difference? The contrast between my awkward habit of F5-ing the...
"Kitsap Sun," February 18, 1997, via Newspapers.comEvery suicide is a tragedy, of course. However, among the most poignant ones are where the person remains unidentified. Did they leave behind loved ones who suffered the agony of never...
The final thing I always do for a project is make the favicon and open graph image but finding a site not riddled with ads to generate these has always been a bit of a challenge. I've mostly been happy with RealFaviconGenerator although...
By Arman BohnDistropilis GoodsOSELevels 1-3 A town, overrun with rabbits and on the brink of starvation, offers its only clue to the source of its suffering: a book known as the Tome of Tog. Locals claim the titular mage has been a...
Why does Monday come so quickly?? 😭
A reader pointed out that in my second assignment, I sort of waved off the question of “What does validation look like?” My protagonist was, to be fair, quite snarky in telling the professor what validation would look like. Thus, I am...
Also Available on PatreonThe RCA Studio 2 was a system I knew mostly because it would turn up in discussions of failed video game consoles. It came from RCA in 1977, played games in black and white, and used a pair of number pads built...
A leisurely autumn afternoon in the Hudson Valley turned into a medical panic for local tourist Orin Chard, who became convinced he had accidentally ingested a produce sticker after eating an apple directly off a tree.Chard was enjoying...
Most teenagers are excited to get their driver’s license. I wasn’t. As far as I could tell, a license was simply the first step in an elaborate trap. A license meant driving, driving meant gas and insurance, and gas and insurance meant...
This is pretty far afield for me, but it concerns the built environment, so close enough. Another old photo, from a snowy, icy day in 2019: That’s the side of the front facade of Albany City Hall (the front facade is on the left), with a...
The history of science — and of progress — is a series of benefits that are direct results of new tools. A large part of our current longevity is due to the invention of the microscope. This new way of seeing opened up the microscopic...
It doesn't look like much, but that's actually an extremely rare station sign. The Milan Metro has two types of entrance; in the main, they're voids in the street, stairs and escalators and lifts disappearing beneath the pavement. In...