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Every moth-er gradually develops an instinctive eye for what “normal” looks like after handling hundreds, if not thousands, of moths each season. An Elephant Hawk-moth should be about this big. A Silver Y about that big. Most individuals...
On the last Friday of each month I curate some of the observations and insights that were shared on social media. I call these Friday’s Finds Shared by my Daughter” “I need privacy, not because my actions are questionable, but because...
I grew up watching Great British Menu with my Dad. Me, in my early twenties and still living at home, him mid-fifties, still working and beating me nightly at chess. The halcyon days of cooking TV; it provided a much needed juxtaposition...
July 31, 2026 It’s the end of July. I’m not quite ready for the end of summer, are you? You may remember our friend who has an upcoming responsibility to be an election observer. This will be – of course – in November. She doesn’t know...
I had enough fun with the beers from Croatia's Garden Brewery recently that I picked up cans of the other two beers of theirs currently in circulation in Dublin.The first is a hazy IPA, and if I hadn't been specifically chasing the...
It's been a while since i worked in front and on a stage. |
I can’t take it anymore!If you wan’t to speak to me, send an email. My contact form is out of service indefinitely.This is actually in lieu of moving my professional services to a yet to be announce limited company. But I can’t let...
Adam Smith surveys overseas trading companies in the last part of his 1784 pamphlet (Part #13). I went over the first five paragraphs of this part of Smith’s 1784 pamphlet in my previous post. The rest of Smith’s pamphlet is devoted to...
Lying on the ground, hearing a faint buzzling and crackling sound, deep underground. The birds singing is slowly disappearing into the leaves, as they disappear into the distant. Ants are taking their leaves and sticks and moving away...
Don’t be alarmed by the title, everything’s fine, I’m not going anywhere. But like I noted yesterday, my initial attempt at my Monday post someway, somehow, caused a glitch in the matrix here. Comments couldn’t be posted on the post, and...
I love a good rando, and I have two of them for you today. Let's begin with this great shot from the parking lot, from sometime in the early 1960s, I believe. We don't get a super good look at any of the cars, though the red convertible...
For some reason, July ended up being a month in which I read a number of chunky books (which I hadn’t necessarily planned…) and so although the total of books read was less than usual, I think the number of pages compensates for that!...
I loathed this game on principle from the moment it existed. My beloved Crystal Chronicles, reduced to this… thing. Some primarily single player RPG revolving around a pre-made cast of characters. The DS’ infinitely weaker hardware...
I sometimes regret posting blog posts which are just "look at this bug I found," but frankly, you should be seeing these bugs. They're crucial bugs. This bug was over an inch long and, according to iNat, is a "figeater beetle": All my...