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Happy Saturday, everyone! Here on Global Nerdy, Saturday means that it’s time for another “picdump” — the weekly assortment of amusing or interesting pictures, comics, and memes I found over the past week. Share and enjoy! Screenshot...
Tom Alison, “head of Facebook”, made some noise today by announcing a forthcoming change to the platform that seems to, in effect, turn it into TikTok: So later this year, we’ll begin testing a reimagined experience that puts a subset of...
This morning, my daughter and I headed out for errands. Too early, it turned out. I had a package waiting at the post office, but while the general store it’s in opens at 9, the post office itself turns out to open at 9:30. I could have...
Thanks to Bill Wall, who passes along word that SEPTA 2104, the last Philadelphia PCC remaining at the Middletown & Hummelstown, was shipped to the scrapyard yesterday.Car 2104 was a standard Philly postwar car built in 1948, overhauled...
I've already shown you the inside of Albi Cathedral, also known as the Cathedral of Saint Cecilia, as well as glimpses of the outside and neighboring streets and buildings. Today, let me show you the outside in more detail.Although it's...
This is the second potted garden tour. When I walked you through a week ago it was a silent tour so you could take it in a bit. Today you're going to find out what has gone wrong, right and sideways. This is all an accidental experiment....
On a recent weekend we found ourselves back in Kuramae to check out another of its many coffee stores - Coffee Counter Nishiya. This one came at the recommendation of a barista from another coffee store we had visited, so we were sure it...
upcoming DGP cover collageAs we crest the midpoint of summer submissions entering the inbox in consideration for next years series of books, I've been thinking a little gain about what makes a book stand out in the queue and what gets...
nsfw post warningggg having another one of those days where I kinda wish I could be like 'unsolicited nudes are welcome' I like people, and I'm in a kinda lewd chatty mood. You know how it is. One of the upsides of not having a gender...
The day I learned of my naturalization was four days after it had actually happened. (I suspect sloth on the part of the Bureau of Legal Affairs guy in charge of my case. I could be wrong.) It was also two days before I was scheduled to...
Gah. I was going to write about ennui and so on, and the urge to tell your deepest thoughts to strangers on the internet because it feels safer than opening up to your real friends, although the strangers never respond so your desire to...
First solo gig back after a year was tonight. About two-thirds covers—mostly ’90s college rock, some ’80s, and some originals. The first four or five songs were rough. I tried to do way too much. I probably should’ve just been a guy with...
Roland at Leica – New York, New York This is Roland Ling. He works at the Leica Store Meatpacking, aka Leica Store New York, and this is the second time I met him. I was taking pictures inside the Leica Store with the Leica M 246 and...