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From Max Hubacher, February 9, 1951, “Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn, N.Y.”: That’s the Willamsburg Bank tower in the center, looking lonely. As I’ve discussed before, this was the third-tallest building on the east coast not in Manhattan...
We're finally underway. It seems astonishing that so much dirt came out of one hole. But it was all compacted, and now it's loose soil and stone. A lot of shale. We're planning to use some of it to create a small berm along the driveway...
Summer Next Fest may be over and the steam sale may be upon us, but I’m due to make at least one more post on things featured in Next Fest. The first thing I checked out was something that I was surprised I didn’t check out earlier. You...
The less time spent tweaking a post, the more it seems to resonate. Yesterday, I hit the 600 daily post milestone. The most popular posts were often the ones I spent less time editing. Some were only to avoid breaking the chain. The ones...
This morning has less blogging time, but I have finished my movie review, the first assignment for my TEEM class on Pauline letters. I have done the practice quizzes one more time--I've been doing them over and over in the hopes that...
I’m starting office hours for anyone who is a new or soon-to-be professional in software engineering, product management, or design. If you’re four years or less from starting a full-time job in these fields (e.g., you’re in school and...
It's day 2 of the UK heatwave and I have a few issues on my mind that I need to discuss. In the run up to this I was monitoring the discourse online about it because I am a masochist who wants to combat climate change disinformation. So...
last bottom drawer railI was waiting for the glue to set but stopped that. With three nails, and no stress on the rail, I just kept on installing them.doneAfter a snap of my thumb and forefinger all ten drawer guide rails were done. The...
I’m not back at work full-time, but I am starting back and paging the OpenZFS Mastery manuscript back into my skull’s RAM. Here’s a tidbit. Compression is a key feature of OpenZFS. A computer has four classic bottlenecks: CPU, memory,...
From How to Travel:These problems would seem to be very much of today, a consequence of the tiny phones in our pockets. But they were noticed right at the beginning of the history of photography, when the average camera was the size of a...
The Royal Gorge Aerial Gondolas cross over Colorado’s Royal Gorge. The post Canyon Crossing appeared first on 75CentralPhotography.
From The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine, by Serhii Plokhy (Basic Books, 2017), Kindle pp. 161-164: WHATEVER THE LEGAL and ideological underpinnings of the Pereiaslav agreement, the tsar honored Buturlin’s promise and gave the...
Second heatwave of the year so far and this one's a corker. Humidity is in the 60/70s and up, so it feels bloody awful. I know I shouldn't complain as I usually love summer and it's so nice to not be cold. This is just too much for me...
Read the full post at - How To Read Nature by Tristan Gooley How to Read Nature is the third book in Tristan Gooley’s nature-reading trilogy, alongside The Natural Navigator and How to Read Water. Of the three, I think it’s the...
Yesterday was not what I’d call a good day. It certainly could have been much worse, but at the end of the day I was left completely drained and, as my missus will surely confirm, not exactly in a great mood.So when I woke up this...