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It has been nearly 6 years since I last made any significant changes to my video call and conference setup. Back then I ditched the Logitech Brio (which sometimes showed odd behavior on macOS) and got an HDMI-USB adapter and a Canon DLSR...
Nau maiYesterday we played in the Puritan colony of New Haven, Connecticut. This is the new sport. ...
Ghosts all over our buildings, selling us soap
The ghost of an ancestor leads a boy to find a hidden treasure and resolve an old feud with another family. Children's book.
If you’re in the USA chances are you’ve heard of AAA – the American Automobile Association. It’s a $60 or AAA left me stranded by Paul E King first appeared on Pocketables.
Last week, Cuba’s Prime Minister Manuel Marrero announced a package of free market reforms, including the legalization of private businesses in agriculture and tourism, that “significantly expand the private sector six decades after...
A quiz about which blogger archetype I am? Count me in.
At this point, you basically know what you’re getting from Japanese post-rock heroes MONO. Unlike some of their peers, they haven’t executed any dramatic reinventions (relative within the parameters of the genre, at least) but instead...
We have long “known” that kids from homes which contain more books tend to be better at reading — but we couldn’t be sure that that wasn’t because of encouragement from parents, who by buying books, might appear to have valued reading...
Michael H. Keller, Eli Murray, Danielle Ivory, and Irineo Cabreros, New York Times (gift link): The surge in pedestrian deaths has baffled researchers. Most other wealthy countries haven’t seen similar increases, suggesting that possible...
It’s 10 years tonight that this station recorded over 60mm of rain in 24 hours. It remains the largest daily fall at this station since records began in 1960. Rainfall rates touched over 60mm/hr during the early hours of June 23rd. The...