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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...
My social media account have been sitting dead in the water for a while. And to be honest I love it. But then my life did a backflip (yes, it's a breakup. no, I will not write details about it) and I ended up on a downwards spiral of...
Some shows are difficult to review because the performance in the room is not quite the performance that was intended. Unfortunately, audience disruption significantly affected the opening of TITCLOWN: daddy’s little girl, breaking the...
For the last two decades, contemporary theatre has become increasingly fascinated by intimacy. Companies such as Complicité helped pioneer forms that blurred the boundaries between audience and performer, while works like The Encounter...
OTD in 1867, Train Caldwell McClure (1843-1934) married Gulia Swain (1847-1920). Train was my husband's great-grand uncle.Train was 23 at the time of his marriage, 159 years ago today. He was a veteran of the US Civil War, having fought...