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With the current waiver of the Jones Act set to expire on August 16 and copious data indicating its repeal would be a boon to the U.S. economy, one might wonder why there isn't significant momentum behind repealing it once and for...
I picked up A Clue to the Copper: The Complete Cases of Silver Skull by Richard Howells Watkins, published by Steeger Books as part of its Argosy Library series. This volume collects a short, three-story series featuring the adventures...
Recently we posted a link to an excellent video that took a look at every software product (Bandai-)Namco has made that had the temerity, the utter gall to call itself “Namco Museum.” Since then however, its creator Mythic Resonance...
We were on our way to Alaska! (Or so we thought.) Our first leg was to get just south of the border with Canada. We drove our coach 206 miles, about four hours of driving, from our home base near Shelton to Lynden / Bellingham KOA in...
SuperDuper has been an incredible tool for backing up your Mac for a long time, but like most apps that last 22 years, things change. Developer David Nanian has launched a new version that is ready for the next 22 years. He writes: Back...
When I post on Bluesky, upload photos to Grain, finish reading a book on BookHive, listen to an album with Rocksky or rate a film on Popfeed, within a minute this activity also appears on my website. None of these services know my...
An early train ride later, i felt forlorn. There is so much to do, and i can't manage to focus on one task. Small errors find their way into things, and set of avalanches that force us back to the drawing board. Tasks are being done...
Several weeks ago I commented favorably on Texas's new K-12 reading curriculum. Here is a similar comment by a well-informed commentator on the subject.History Unfolding
I could flee, but where would I go?I've spent a lot of time helping others flee, and even left the US for a minute with my family during a particularly harrowing moment under this regime. I certainly don't have any judgement for those...
Screenshot of the visualizer, as deployed onto CodePen TIL: MDN exposes up-to-date page view data through https://popularities.mdn.mozilla.net/current.csv. To visualize the data, I had Google AI Studio generate me a visualizer, which I...
I’m somewhat a connoisseur of cozy slop games. Ever since I played Harvest Moon (since renamed to Story of Seasons—don’t play games with me, kid) and Rune Factory via emulator in middle school, I’ve been trying to recapture the high of...
When I post on Bluesky, upload photos to Grain, finish reading a book on BookHive, listen to an album with Rocksky or rate a film on Popfeed, within a minute this activity also appears on my website. None of these services know my...
I got my signed copy of Difficult People. Great comedy on physical media won’t solve waves hands, but it sure helps.
Billy Crudup has built a career on unexpected and unusual character roles, challenging the notion
Also, about that last post, could you monotheists please let the rank and file know this is a complicated question, please? The Christians around here think anything that isn’t fundamentalist Christianity is straight up demons. If we’re...