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Empress Augusta leaves New York (Kaiserin Augusta verlässt Newyork), Carl Saltzmann, chromolithograph. Link is to image page on Wikipedia. The available hi-res image is much larger than my crops. Carl Saltzmann, who was active in the...
Previously …. in which our hero babysat a Trillionaire … in Space! T2.1 — After thinking about it, I decide to stop at the Nysa Family Lagrange point so that I can prospect both Hertha and Chaucer. (That doesn’t make it right, though....
Believe that what you know is enough, and the vast gulf of what you don't know will cease to scare you. With the barrier of fear demolished, the unknown will become accessible to you. When you are refereeing a ttrpg, it's important to...
Have you lived somewhere other than your birthplace? How many languages can you converse in? How do you think you’d fare in political prison? Do you have a hard time in airports with the way you look? What’s a place you’ve not been to...
I think I have eaten something that my body disagreed. I have been unwell for nearly 24 hours. The abdominal pain has been annoying. Instead of lying down on bed, I decide to keep working by going through simple paperwork. It serve as a...
I’m writing this entry while listening to my OPM rock playlist. I thought of writing about music because of an incident that happened last Saturday. While I was folding our clothes, I was listening to Tyla’s “She did it again.” My...
Secret Weapons (1972, David Cronenberg) In a 1977 future during the North American civil war, a drug company has taken over the country and “the holy police are experts in psychic attack.” Weird Jazz on the soundtrack, my favorite genre...
by Nathaniel R It's nearly September which means we're about to be flooded with the official submissions for Best International Feature Film for the upcoming Academy Awards. Within the new system, which allows prize winners at a handful...
I think a root cause for why I have been struggling so much with everything in life is that I am desperately fearful and unhappy, and I don’t know what to do about it. Our civilizational crisis makes me feel more anger, sadness, grief,...
Perfume PosseVanille des Rois by FOMOWA Paris As I write this review, preparations are underway for our failing, hundred-year-old plumbing to be replaced. Fortunately, most of the work is happening under the house. Unfortunately, the...
The purpose of this post is clear from the title so I'll just get right into it. Start working out regularlyI started going to the gym regularly around 3 years ago, but I actually did workout occasionally before then. I am very lucky...
Fremantle2026 August 25 (Tuesday), 8:20AM· DDD Perth · conferences · The DDD Perth programme is out now: https://dddperth.com/agenda I'd forgotten that I bought a ticket actually, but now I'm looking forward to going. I've not been to a...
I'm always checking out new music and seeing what's trending. Sometimes I agree that an artist/song sounds good and am pleased when they start taking off and I hear their music on the radio (Dominic Fike has continued to grow on me)....
The Lego bricks of the web, HTML, are now available on your happy Pika (Pro) blog! You can insert custom hypertext markups in posts and pages, including your default blog home page, via the small text editor field in settings. Nice! So...
“Spending 4 hours writing a post that goes nowhere.” That’s the opening line of a rant I found on LinkedIn yesterday. I get it! What spend hours on something nobody sees? The algorithm always favors trending topics and big names. That...