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The beginning of our Adventure After months of planning, arranging, and decision-making, our Interrail adventure was beginning. When my eldest son finished his GCSEs, we went on a big family holiday to Japan. When my youngest did the...
ScreenWall (beta) ScreenWall is browser-based software for old phones, tablets, monitors, and spare displays. Use it to build clocks, status boards, ambient screens, signage, and shared walls from the hardware you already have, without...
blessing the timeline with Walton Goggins rocking with The Strokes in Going Shopping
Eiffel Tower, Disneyland, Vulture Capitalism and heat waves. I've just got back from a big family holiday in France. 18 of us drove down in convey from Swansea, crossing from Folkestone to Coquelles on the Eurotunnel to visit Paris and...
What you are seeing here is a protuberance extruding from the venter of Quenstedtoceras cf. leachi (Sowerby). It is a pathology in the shell from hosting immature bivalves that shared the seas with these Middle Jurassic, Upper Callovian,...
I drink tea every day. I love the ritual of it: boil the water, cover the leaves, the enforced wait of steeping time, remove the leaves or the tea bag, and another wait until it's cool enough to drink.The last time I saw my parents in...
Sundry Sunday is our weekly feature of fun gaming culture finds and videos, from across the years and even decades. This week it’s simple. It’s easy. I won’t say it’s pure, I won’t insult your intelligence by going that far, but I will...
Rockin' In A Wooden ShackAnn Brewer and the Flames Century Recording Corporation of Dodge City, KansasMaster Leasing Division Audtion CopyCopyright 1965Discography:22409 Side 1 - Walkin Down The Street 22409 Side 2 – Rockin’ In A Wooden...
I wrote before about a sliver of gender euphoria I experienced. A small moment in a store where trying on femme clothes did not feel weird, where the store clerk treated me as normal and I felt like I was allowed to be there This is a...
Seventeen years ago I was writing short sketches on local history for a Londonderry website. I submitted the stories each month, and learned that I was part of something called a community "blog". It was easy to do, and I thought "I can...
This 1911 L’ODYSSEA is pretty good from a spectacle viewpoint. It’s from that naive period of cinema where the intertitles tell you want you’re ABOUT to see, relieving the images of the burden of telling the story. It’s a bit like a very...
Photo of Temper City taken from “Self Aware” video Late July is generally the hottest time of year for many locations in the Northern Hemisphere, and that’s definitely true for my part of the world in the Southwestern U.S. desert, where...
But I, bearing in mind my limitations, give my work off-hand, without premeditation, and indeed almost in rustic fashion, the caption of Attic Nights, derived merely from the time and place of my winter vigils; I thus fall short of all...
Trump administration admits grants for clean energy were canceled based on politics: The administration has acknowledged in court documents that it canceled $7.6 billion in grants for hundreds of clean energy projects “based solely on...
Since the launch of the Google Maps API back in 2005, two fictional journeys have been mapped over and over again: Phileas Fogg’s global circumnavigation in Around the World in Eighty Days, and Odysseus’ long voyage home in the...