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In recent years, I’ve been quite pleased with how many of the reasonably-priced products in the personal audio market sound quite good. My most recent favourite for reasonably-priced, high-res audio Bluetooth headphones would be the QCY...
Image was taken with a Fujifilm X-E5 and XF 16-50mm WR lens
Changed a Thinkpad’s battery by holding one switch, the battery detached and the other was clicked into its place. 🥰
To start with, both my wife and I have alerts turned off because when they did a test in 2023 we had a one month old baby and didn't want her to be disturbed. Leaving it off because I assumed this would be abused, as I believe it has in...
August’s Pylon of the Month comes from the Sperrin Mountains in Northern Ireland where I spent a few enjoyable days earlier in the month. After the sustained heat in the south of England, it was almost pleasurable to be rained on and to...
During my time on the omg.lol IRC channel (a place I find inspiration for many posts, it seems!), Skippy shared an interesting website, The Website Specification. Now, I have to admit the site has a certain questionable aesthetic, but...
Body-worn cameras are…used…to present the police to the public in the most favorable way possible. – Christopher Schneider Shame, Shame (#1455) I’ve been skeptical of the notion of body cameras as a police “reform” for well over a...
I don't know how I could have missed this infomation leaflet with the assembly instructions for the assembly of a broken hand car. This is the Woodland Scenics Details Trackside Junk, D202 metal details kit. This was a simple build and...
“Pile of chairs”Closeup of Men Shoveling Chairs (Scupstoel), Circle of Rogier van der Weyden, possibly Vranke van der Stockt (Netherlandish, ca. 1420–1495) While working on Don Weber’s profile for The Stick Chair Journal No. 4, Don told...
The Golden Age of Detective Fiction is generally narrowed to the interwar period, roughly covering the 1920s and '30s, because the World Wars make convenient bookends for the detective story's post-WWI boom period and post-WWII decline –...
I’m not really a religious person. Having said that, I enjoyed and appreciated this episode of For Heaven’s Sake from the Shalom Hartman Institute about being a mensch from a Jewish perspective:
Man Sings the Same Song Over and Over Again for an HourThe thing about being recommended this show (I was recommended this show) is that you go into it with two questions. The first is "what's the song?". And the second of which is: "how...
During the month of August I will be participating in Blaugust, a month long blogging challenge. Today’s TDC says: The Biodiversity Heritage Library is a huge treasure trove for fans of the natural world (not my words, the Guardian told...
This entry is sponsored by fme AG company – and this article aspires to share about interesting HA setup on node01a and node01b VMs. The interesting case here is that the 10.0.0.x/24 is limited in one of the clients – most IP(s) are...
First thing I noticed was the missing pattern on old man Kovsky's headdress in a couple panels. Then there was the panel where mechanical claw attached to the alien's forearm wasn't a claw at all; it was just a normal hand. And Mickie...