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I enjoy a simple story, well told. As such Alone fits into that category perfectly. Set aboard a future spacecraft, it tells the story of a robot given the lonely job of cleaning, polishing and maintaining everything while the humans on...
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This blog is a bit behind real-time; we are actually in Canada at present, on our way to Alaska. Just 46 miles into the Alcan after Dawson Creek, leaving a fuel stop in Fort St John, the front frame of our truck failed, and the tow base...
It’s June 6th, which means online shops are giving crazy amounts of discounts, because it’s 6.6. Whenever the month and the day have the same number, all shops, online or physical, know it’s the best day to be generous with vouchers....
It’s June 6th, which means online shops are giving crazy amounts of discounts, because it’s 6.6. Whenever the month and the day have the same number, all shops, online or physical, know it’s the best day to be generous with vouchers....
October 2016 feels like so many worlds away at this point. When I think of all the paths we diverged from, I mean just Of all the paths we didn’t take, one world I don’t miss is the one where Swedish mid-tier minimalist brand COS got any...
By Jessica Holmes First things first: it’s pronounced: DAY-mons. Second things second, we’re entering into the final story of this year’s Doctor Who run, but the good news is that it’s a good’un. Something terrible is lurking beneath the...
A display of neck pillows at the airport in Kailua Kona.
3 photos.
Challenges with memory management in Zig
tag(s): #failures #yell-at-cloud CVS is a chain of pharmacies. I would love to use the town's family-owned pharmacy, but they said they don't carry one of our family's prescriptions and sent us to CVS themselves. A month later, we just...
It's been 107 days since my house flooded and it's almost time for repair work to start! But first, I've got some repair work of my own to do: to a desk that needs moving and to a laptop that's misbehaving.
It’s a bit of a stormy day here. Let’s see what’s going on elsewhere. The “K”-shaped economy comes for laptops: There’s been a trade show this week called Computex (there seems to be a big event in the tech field every other week or so),...
I am still fascinated that several of my Snoqualmie Falls postcards are more than 120 years old (granted, I also think 20 years ago is the 1970s). A sacred site to the Snoqualmie Tribe, this 268-foot waterfall in the town of Snoqualmie...