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From late April to early May 2026, I spent a lot of time talking to Wizard, aka th3w1zard1, an acquaintance in the Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic (KotOR) modding community via Discord DMs, and he turned out to be one of the most...
Twenty Years Ago on FITK One third success. Two-thirds disaster.The New Guthrie Theater complex is complete. My Weekend of Culture™ continued with a tour and preview of the facility that is located on the banks of the Mississippi River...
How pleasing to learn that friends, seemingly unknown to each other -- compartmentalized as friendships often are -- intersected before we knew either of them. Sixteen years ago today, the late D.G. Myers published on his Commonplace...
William the Conqueror, 1066 – played on the Saxons cruel tricks. I don’t know if you are old enough to remember the first lines of a poem I was forced to learn at school which detailed several important historical dates, beginning with...
We need more foggy mornings on Long Island ! Image was taken with an iPhone 17 Pro.
So this is the point I want to make here: we take for granted the world and how it has been constructed for us through language and experience and then how we have constructed it through narrative. Yet sometimes language and those...
A few from the golden age of steam – the decades either side of 1900. So many elegant locomotive designs. The Brighton line and the LSWR…. The SECR… Midland elegance…. The Great Northern. And the North Eastern. Next time, we’ll come a...
I had an acoustic live set epiphany this morning. Obviously it’s going to be me and an acoustic guitar, because it’s being billed as an acoustic set by me. I have the Fender Highway dreadnought, and I love it. The battery-powered preamp...
Its so weird to me that so many in software development have so much disdain for software development. I’m definitely a “means to an end” guy when it comes to coding, but in the same way that I cook because I want to eat delicious food....
Someone logged into my seldom-used AirBnB account from Mexico. I’m not in Mexico. You might want to check your account.
Sitting out on the towpath with some folk from Australia, who keep bees near Melbourne and took a keen interest in the size and variety of the bumble bees that were busy along the hedge, I recalled this episode from Gilbert White’s...
From Swindon to, anywhere but the GWR! Malcolm Holland’s Tidewater & Teslin railroad might live in Great Western territory, but this model is about as far removed as you can get from anything Brunel built. On the workbench: log carriers,...
This does not begin to express how hot it was — but I did get many thousands of words of a short story out of the experience
The Nacelle Company, Oni Press, and Rebellion are proud to announce a historic partnership, which officially begins with the announcement of JUDGE DREDD /BIKER MICE FROM MARS #1 – launching the wreckage-strewn collision of the 22nd...
Has long left turn lane got you down? Are you backed up past where the lane even begins? Is there an 18-wheeler in front of you pulling a massive wraparound turn at the speed of sloth? Did the guy in the intersection hit the brakes when...