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Among the many RSS feeds that I subscribe to there are a few that contain posts that share other people’s writing. I find the posts valuable because they provide me links to articles to read that I may not otherwise find and tend to be...
Camper Van Beethoven Telephone Free Landslide VictoryGet It At Discogs Camper Van Beethoven were one of the great, pioneering indie rock bands. When Spinart released the Cigarettes & Carrot Juice box in 2002, legions of Camper fans...
No. 1 son Michael has been on holiday and started in York, of course including the railway museum. A key exhibit is Mallard – officially the fastest steam locomotive, but there are rumours that a Bulleid rebuilt Merchant Navy class beat...
Kev Walker, 1991: Kev Walker, 1997: Kev Walker, 2000: Kev Walker, 2001: (This is the sequel to the 1997 series above.) Kev Walker. 2023: So many styles, all good.
Verdict: underperforming relative to potential, long way to go to fulfill the creed. _ Reply via email
"Did you buy this rug because the neighbours are coming?" A nervy couple (Olivia Wilde, Seth Rogen) invite their cool but intense neighbours (Edward Norton, Penelope Cruz) over to dinner. What fun it is to watch a film where the entire...
I have been to Europe a handful of times in my life, but I've actually never been anywhere in Europe during the summer. So I was genuinely surprised to learn that many countries in Europe have extremely little air conditioning. I'd never...
When OpenAI announced they were sunsetting Pulse, I used their recommended prompt to schedule a daily update. Two days in, I think it’s actually better than Pulse was. No pretty pictures, but both yesterday and today were more relevant,...
Sail off anchor 6:20 on a clear, beautiful morning. Can hear the surf breaking on the beach on the other side of the banks. A flood tide running west to east, light southwest wind. Making 0.5 against the tide, then 0.9 with better wind....
For our first July 4th together outside of Texas, we are doing the most Texas thing available: smoking a brisket. This is how it looked last night before it went on the smoker. (Don’t worry, the foil did not go with it.)
for a while i wrote in a purple notebook. nothing interesting, just a diary. highlight of the day, what happened, weekend plans, etcetera. i kept it up five months and then fell out of practice.. at first accidentally and then...
I’m not washing them that way for the fun of it; that is literally what the washing instructions demand.
Can a novel written in 1880 perfectly capture the messy, conflicting depths of modern human psychology? Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov does exactly that, pitting fierce faith against razor-sharp atheism. The Brothers Karamazov, a...
When the plague rolled around, everyone who could afford to do so went far, far away from the crowded towns and smelly throngs of people. However, even though medieval people suspected that the disease could be passed from human to human...