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Guest Post by: David Tonaszuck A reflection on the Gospel of Matthew 13:24-30 Dear Friends in Christ, There was once a boy, not much older than fourteen, who wandered the dusty back roads near a small farming town at the turn of the...
Hey there ULGers. Summer in the Northern Hemisphere so I’m going cooling yet cuddly. Yes I’m talking about another discontinued gem. Sorry, but also not sorry. It’s nice to reminisce, especially when the waves of new product keep...
We all lead busy lives- so just in case ya didn't catch the art phenomenon of the year... It sold for $1800, if we would have gotten our promised tariff dividend- that would have left the buyer with $200!
Here's a pair from January, 1962. Old Major Pepperidge wasn't around quite yet! BUT SOON. A family in sweaters and coats passes the Crystal Arcade, where one could buy Crystal Light, Crystal Pepsi, and Cristal champagne. I can only...
Would you like to ride the Dangleway for free for 20 years? That's the prize in TfL's latest marketing promotion and it's all to celebrate the cable car carrying its 20 millionth visitor. To be clear you can't ride it for 20 years...
Once again, I didn’t wake up by the sea. Oh well.Nevertheless, good morning. Reply by email
The producerist vision of AI seems to assume an endlessly expanding market for reading. And reading. Well. It is rather more than a market. Warning: this post is a little more sweary than usual. If that bothers you, maybe read something...
The athleticism of cats and big cats is always a marvel. Bateleur Eagle
How is it August already? It’s not that I got nothing done last month, but too much time was absorbed by online meetings, online chats, reading lengthy and often mendacious documents from management and just trying to process what’s...
The colorful Randolph Scott Western COLT .45 (1950) was just released on Blu-ray by the Warner Archive Collection.I reviewed this film in 2010 and really enjoyed returning to it via this beautiful new Blu-ray. It's not one of Scott's...
You may have noticed that Light Railway Stores now offers personalisation and weathering as options on many of the new Rapido models…The first models to arrive since Steve and I introduced this service were the Sirdar. Steve has been...
Pat Walters responded to my post on the OpenADMET initiative and I am responding to his post. As is normal for posts here my responses are italicised in red and enclosed in square brackets. Many thanks, Pat for taking the time to respond...
Depending on how she directs her voice, the same note take up different personalities. Down towards the bottomless well, it runs dark and thick, almost disorienting. Vibrating her entire being. Up towards the tower however, bright and...
This is the latest I’ve ever been on a week in review. It is fully next week. But here’s what happened. First, my game jam scores: Creativity: 3.875 Narrative: 2.625 Enjoyment: 2.625 Artwork: 2.375 Audio: 1.000 (my game had no audio) Not...
So to the other half of 'antiquity', the newer half, although where you place the line is anybody's guess, hidden as it is, in the murk of the Dark Ages . . . is it Arthur and the end of Empire, the rise of the Carolingians, or the fall...