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I’ve joined a gym. Well, I’ve started a seven-day trial at a gym, and went for my welcome session on Thursday. I’m not convinced I’m a gym person, but I need to force myself to go 2-3 times per week to improve my fitness levels and be a...
Pokeweed flowers opening, Duck Hollow, 26 July 2026 (photo by Kate St. John) 27 July 2026 Yesterday the river was a running high and the birds were subdued when three of us joined up for the Duck Hollow outing. Even so we had some good...
Nik wrote in Make Your Mentors Ageless: Make your mentors ageless, and, at minimum, you’ll gain one awesome new trait: the humility to learn from anyone, no matter their relative position to you in this life. I don’t like the word...
When I first started harvesting green wood for my workshop, I was worried about bringing wood-boring insects into my workshop. It would be like letting loose 1,000 racoons into a Golden Corral restaurant. So I got some advice from fellow...
Happy Monday everybody. Welcome back to the Gridiron Deep Dive, where I know, this is not the QB tier list.I’ve had people asking me where the 2025 QB tier list is, and I promise it’s coming, but with the Hall of Fame game not very far...
It’s no secret that the Hollywood Comet loves musicals. In 2010, I revealed I had seen 400 movie musicals over the course of eight years. Now that number is over 600. To celebrate and share this musical love, here is … Continue reading →
Louise in the "kitchen" of our first camper. I am an amateur photographer. The word "amateur" is derived from the Latin "amare" which means "to love." Since buying a cheap Instamatic camera in 1968 to make pictures of my newborn son, I...
From FT Alphaville: Still, while we’re doodling, it’s worth pondering once more whether the economics of making frontier models and monetising them before free-to-download open-weight versions catch up will really play out. According to...
How Ukraine Built a War Fighting State
How do you stage a possibly unstageable play? For her last show at the Almeida Theatre before moving to the Old Vic with Rupert Goold, Rebecca Frecknall, famed for her illuminations of mid-century playwrights, takes on a far more complex...
TrueNAS Core is dying, long live FreeBSD # I've already explained why I run FreeBSD on my home servers. My NAS, znas, was the one box that didn't fully follow that philosophy: it ran TrueNAS Core, which is FreeBSD under the hood, wrapped...
This week is my last full week of summer. Of course, it's not exactly summer in its no-working glory, the way that some might assume. I'm still teaching 2 online classes for Broward College; a week ago, I'd be turning in grades for the 2...
"Illustrated Police News," June 7, 1879, via Newspapers.comEvil and depravity can have a certain fascination if they are cloaked in a benign or attractive exterior. It is doubtful that true-crime researchers would still be talking about...
In the end,it all comes down to money,how much you havewho you payhow big is your houseand how much do you pay out. The idea of restartingor rebuilding your lifeand the ideaof having to start overor the word “dating” and reopening...
A century ago, a virus swept across the planet with a speed and lethality the modern world had never witnessed, reshaping societies from crowded cities to remote villages in a matter of months. The 1918 influenza pandemic remains one of...