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A light pole on the Jefferson Boulevard Viaduct, Dallas, Texas. The post Bent Pole appeared first on 75CentralPhotography.
Clearing out the family home, and there's a box of cigarette cards. One set is of "Britain's Endangered Wildlife", from sometime in the 1980s. It tells me that the Dormouse isn't a mouse: Dormouse Dormouse facts Rather than take all my...
Neoliberalism as an overarching ideology for UK government died with the Brexit referendum in 2016, just as it did in the US with Trump’s election that year. Its last hurrah in the UK was austerity, although whether squeezing the state...
I remember the good times, when I had a single password for all (the two?) services I used. Then came a phase of managing passwords on sticky notes stuck below the keyboard (much more secure than stuck to the monitor!), until I migrated...
Hardest hitting question first: Sheetz or Wawa? Defend yourself accordingly! You weren’t kidding, this is a hard hitting question! As a born and raised Pennsylvanian, I do not take this question lightly. While I do love me some Sheetz...
Today’s TDC asks us to Since we know 1 taped banana can be sold for lots of US $, let’s make some money by making our own masterpieces. Ron tapes some bananas to his wall and takes a pic of it for us. I was just about to pack my...
We met at a designated street corner in Roppongi. The driver approached me first to give me an update on the itinerary. The Gentleman emerged from the back of the SUV. He looked normal; down to earth; casually dressed (I had bought some...
I’ve already announced my new company half a dozen times by now. I figured it was about time I gave real details, so here’s the name and logo!Ta-da.Valley Fold is my new home for professional services… once I’ve finished the website. I’m...
Chekhov and Yellowbird gave me this cool egg rack last Christmas. Typically, I use it to hold regular “large” size eggs (and put the extra-large and jumbo ones in the basket at the bottom). But right from the start I realized that it...
Back in 2024, I posted "Locked and Loaded, Part 5: A Selection of Short Impossible Crime and Locked Room Mystery Stories," a series of reviews of randomly selected short stories, which included the misidentified, non-impossible crime...
The Artsy Reader Girl's assignment topic for August 11th is the books we were reading on this day over the last ten years. This was a really fun exercise! I started keeping a reading log in 2001 (although I did not get as much reading...
tarot project ideas: write up a solo playthrough of tarot-telling for two pathworking the entirety of the thoth deck make another tarot deck from this nature book i found (what could i supplement with if it's not enough?) let the cards...
The past two weeks has flown by. So much so that this draft for one week is now a two week update. A whirlwind of work and familial obligations means we just haven’t had that much time to spare. We did find some time the other evening to...
Another week1 has passed and that means it is once again time for Engagement Farming, our ongoing playthrough of Fire Emblem Engage. Last week we made landfall in the evil kingdom; this week we push through to the evil castle! Let's...
This mosaic in Assisi, Italy, photographed May 28, depicts St. Clare of Assisi holding a palm frond, a symbol of her entering religious life. (CNS photo/Octavio Duran) August the 11th is the day the church remembers with thanksgiving the...