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Rain Bombs is some kind of new term for microburst*, etc. The show does a very good job of explaining what they are. Haboobs, derechos, microbursts are all covered and are related to the same phenomenon. There was a microburst while I...
My son’s First Holy Communion.
Every Saturday we round up the best writing about beer from the past week. This time, we’ve got more links than usual with an emphasis on shorter pieces and pubs. First, an update from the Wetherspoon chain which, as Tim Hampson observes...
Surprise videogames; parenting,
Continuing on with my Yamanote line walk series, this time we walked between Osaki and Takanawa Gateway station. Takanawa Gateway is the first new station on the Yamanote line in 49 years, so I had been curious to see what all the fuss...
16 May 2026
I’m a man of simple needs. All I want is: when I’m on Google Meet, I turn on captions. I wanted to click a bookmarklet and save those captions into a local Markdown file. (So that an AI agent can guide me from it.) Hence, Google Meet...
And a third pair of CMON’s Marvel Zombies bystanders in a row – that’s right, I just went on a bit of a run with these as a nice kind of simple palette cleanser models. Today we have the comics version of Ben Urich as well as Jimmy Woo....
Saturday 16th June 2026 Cumberland has seen some interesting developments of expanded timetables and new bus routes over the last few months so I recently spent a couple of days taking a look around this scenic part of the country and...