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We see a great shot of a Montgomery-class cruiser (USS Montgomery C-9, Detroit C-10, or Marblehead C-11) conducting an “arm and away” landing party boat drill in Hampton Roads circa 1901. Note the five whale boats are carrying about 100~...
Ayami Suzuki & Rob Noyes - Classic Fevers and ChillsRecorded and released in limited quantities a few years back, this excellent collab between vocalist Ayami Suzu and guitarist Rob Noyes recently got a vinyl edition via Feeding Tube...
While the big S-boots (E boats in Allied parlance) were a crown jewel of the Kriegsmarine during WWII (and with other countries well after), a class that sort of slipped through the historical cracks was the Leichte Schnellboote (LS)...
How about these great RAF images from Ford Island at Pearl during last month’s RIMPAC? U.S. Navy and partner nation ships dock at Ford Island and Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii, during Exercise Rim of the Pacific 2026, July 3,...
A smattering of boat names found in NOAA's Marine Cadastre data set. Source: NOAA. Visualization: Jon Keegan/Beautiful Public Data.In the vast ocean of government datasets that I trawl through, I am always on the lookout for moments...
All this week on NBC's You Don't Say!, it's the battle of the doctors, as Dr. Joyce Brothers takes on Dr. Frank Baxter. Who is Dr. Frank Baxter? Well, in 1965 you would have recognized him. According to the always-reliable Wikipedia,...
Here's a quick data snapshot that a friend was kind enough to share. The friend manages a smaller progressive sender email list, and he brought this out when we happened to be chatting about the new APRF feedback standard. Right now,...
2026 is another year of short stories. In this weekly series, I track my short story writing, from idea and draft to submission. This is the week of Aug 2 – Aug 9. Stats Stories Finished: 3 Submissions Currently Out: 10 Submissions...
Glory and Ruin’s People then ended their foray into new lands. Following river back to the Mountain they carried their dead on wains. Child god greeted them with sorrow and praise. Both sides were equally shown. The People regaled Glory...
An Australian budget airline is coming under fire after offering its customers a new way to make flying less stressful.That new way?Paying for overhead storage:Jetstar says the decision followed feedback from both passengers and airline...
I have published two videos demonstrating a soundfont created with the wave samples of the Ensoniq Soundscape S-2000, a sound card also sold under the names Reveal SoundFX Wave 32 (SC600) and V7 Spea MediaFX. I think the Soundscape has...
One of the harder truths to internalize is that there’s very little correlation between a problem being difficult and a problem being valuable. It is easy to fall into the trap of assuming the two travel together. If something is taking...
If you haven't had Belvita breakfast cookies, you have probably had Biscoff cookies, which are similar. These are a classic airline snack. You've probably had one along with a Coke with ice in a plastic cup, and thought to yourself,...
We had a really good day at church yesterday at Faith Lutheran in Bristol, Tennessee. I say this with some sense of wonder because I arrived in a grumpy mood: we left ten minutes later than I had requested, which meant I felt frazzled.I...