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July 29, 2026 I’m actually back from Ireland since Friday, but it takes a while to get caught up! I debated about even sharing this wardrobe with you, because it’s just not that fascinating or creative. But I get tired of coordinating...
I continue to enjoy reading my hard copy of The Economist every week. Occasionally, I post examples of insightful graphics presented in articles.Here are some graphics that struck me recently. They are taken from a fascinating article....
Extra mese che però ci voleva per forza: progressive Metal con una voce grunge anni '90, bassone potente e assoli da stoner band? E synth da Nobuo Uematsu in carriola?
Today's weathervane was photographed in Prague, Hungary.This Maltese Cross weathervane was photographed at the Our Lady Beneath the Chain church in the Malá Strana neighborhood of Prague in Hungary. It is very close to the Charles Bridge...
Earlier this month (6-8 July), I had surveyed Part #11 of Adam Smith’s 1784 pamphlet, Additions and Corrections to the First and Second Editions of Dr. Adam Smith’s Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (Smith 1784,...
I wrote a post about our future baby. In a part titled where do I put my baby when it's not latched on my boob?, I wrote this: We decided to get a second-hand bedside crib for the first six month, as well as giving baby extensive floor...
Co. Mayo's Belgian-style brewery, Mescan, has added a new fruit beer to the range. Kriek Silín is, I think, overstating the case with the K-word: I put aside any notions of this being a mixed-fermentation barrel-aged marvel before...
This is one of those exceedingly rare cases where EU legislation has produced an unambiguously good outcome: from February 2027, Logitech’s European wireless devices will ship with hard-pack, user-replaceable batteries, and Logitech will...
Read How Bots Took Over Our Lives by T. M. Brown (The New Yorker). Perhaps that’s what the A.I. apocalypse is really shaping up to be—not the elimination of humanity by an omniscient machine mind but an internet overrun by unthinking,...
Library Loot is a weekly event co-hosted by Claire from The Captive Reader and Sharlene from Real Life Reading that encourages bloggers to share the books they’ve checked out from the library. If you’d like to participate, just write up...
Somebody was awfully impressed with the ornate wrought iron of New Orleans Square, which had presumably opened relatively recently. We all need more wrought iron in our lives! Think about it. They should have had an animatronic Walt open...
As I mentioned in last week’s post about a pair of British Library Crime Classics, I have been very spoiled by publishers recently, and the second press to send some GA crime over has been Galileo Publishers. I’ve covered a number of...
It's been quite a few weeks since I've done any work on the NWNGR replica replacement carriage.A couple of nights ago while half the household were out for the night taking in some of the action at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow I ran...
they discovered that the minerals at this site contain record-breaking concentrations of gold, reaching as high as 1.9 wt% (19,231 ppm). Scientists strike invisible gold in the deep sea—locked inside fool’s gold How long before they are...