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If you cast your mind back to when this interminable voyage round Milan began, I decided to do the five lines in numerical order, because I'm boring and a bit predictable. With the M1 and the M2 largely done, my spreadsheet was clear for...
If you’re a fan of the web, you probably want to know that voting is now open for that lovely initiative that is the Tiny Awards, running for the 4th consecutive year. I got asked to be a judge this time around, and my votes helped shape...
We need to stop talking about “climate change” as though we are discussing a slightly inconvenient change in the weather. Climate change is too soft, too neutral. Climate change makes it sound as though something simply happened to us,...
A friend asked me last week how long it takes to get a recipe right. I told him the only answer I know: As long as it takes. I’d like to be someone who could “adjust my expectations,” make peace with “close enough,” or have the slightest...
“I make a point to appreciate all the little things in my life. I go out and smell the air after a good, hard rain. These small actions help remind me that there are so many great, glorious pieces of good in the world.” - Dolly...
FDR has always been one of my favorite presidents, second maybe to Lincoln. Both were men the establishment assumed were one of them until, to their horror, they governed like they weren't. Both could trash the opposition in one breath...
3 April 1945. Original Caption: “Dragon teeth on the Siegfried Line presented an obstacle to tanks of U. S. Seventh Army in the Wissembourg area, France. Note teeth extend to mountains which raise a natural barrier.” Signal Corps Photo...
Some 110 years ago this month. Imperial Russian Army pilots and observers training in Kiev, Ukraine, August 1916, with American-made Colt 1895 pattern “potato digger” machine guns, likely made by Marlin-Rockwell. Contrary to the common...
In the Newsletter this weekAnalysis: Passengers can't complain about trains they cannot take because they don't exist: in defence of German railBullshit Meter: European Sleeper & RDC Bruxelles - Malmö Sleeper in 2028Good week:...
Some 85 years ago this week, on 22 August 1941, at the Navy Gun Factory (now the Washington Navy Yard), Mine Recovery School Class No. 1 graduated, minting 10 officers (three of them Coasties), five chiefs, and eight ratings in the art...
It was Chang-ma who corralled the women of the First Mandarin Baptist Church of Praise into their midweek meetings. “Mother of Prayers group (MOP),” she explained in her first e-mail summons, “will be a place we can share our struggles...
Fujifilm X-E5; 16-55mm f/2.8 II lens @ 55mm; 1/160th sec. @ f/11; ISO 320(click to enlarge)We’ve already had a few new camera introductions this year, but my sources tell me that over the upcoming months, particularly from September...
The press was jumping up and down about this one, and you can read about it on European Sleeper's website here. 3 departures a week each way from Bruxelles and Amsterdam to København and Malmö. And - unlike the seemingly ever postponed...
Hey people! Today I thought I would share with you a traditional tune that’s got a bit of a strange history to it. From the title of it, one could easily expect it to be Scottish – Galloway is, after all, a region of Scotland. But it’s...
A while ago I shared cove.town as an experiment with atproto self-hosting. It’s driven by a bunch of little docker composes and contains a PDS, a knot, a spindle and a hold. The PDS owns the accounts, the knot owns the repo itself, the...