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Mars low-society underdog ascends.By Pierce BrownRating: 4 / 5.If George Saunders was right that a story is “a continual system of escalation,” then this was a masterful one. I won’t ruin anything for someone that wants to go for a ride...
Three days before my first 10K in years, I caught a cold. The day before, I nearly phoned in sick from work, then thought better of bragging about a race I'd skipped the Friday before it. I ran it anyway, nearly gave up on a hill nobody...
I’m still rooting through old boxes and I found this. And.. Awww. Awwwww. (Raw magazine #8 was never published.)
Instead of one Twitter where everybody hates each other, we now have three twitters, each hating on the other. Well done, future.
An interesting mechanism in YouTube I just learned of. If you right click once, you get their context menu: If you right click again, you get the native browser menu: This is clunky and not discoverable, but I can see YouTube team’s bind...
Orginal post: 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks Arnold Henrich Kortenkamp was born about 1771 and died in Greffen 28 April 1837.1 He was a kötter (cotter), a farmer who typically owned a cottage and small plot of land but had to supplement their...
I think that about sums it up.
From Empire of the Winds: The Global Role of Asia’s Great Archipelago, by Philip Bowring (I.B. Tauris, 2018), Kindle pp. 29-31: Language is also a divide between maritime and mainland. The island and peninsula people all speak very...
The Shaker chair is a truly remarkable example of historic furniture design, rooted in a philosophy that valued utility, order and restraint. As an admirer of Shaker furniture, I have often been surprised by how little its qualities are...
Brian's third visit this year, was to Hobby Lobby (similar to our Hobbycraft, but ours carries less of the kind of stuff we're about to look at here), where he found some useful sets of classic rack-toys, which seem to tick all the...
While some folks want art to exist outside of politics, it’s often enmeshed in the discipline. From Picasso’s haunting painting Guernica, to Lady Liberty Leading the People, art has been used to portray political ideals and aspirations...
I don’t think I’ve ever seen a paint job like the one I saw on this car parked in Kailua Kona. Also never seen one where the rear hubcaps were still spinning, while the wheels were stationary. It’s a vehicle intended to catch the eye and...
Therefore man was created single in the world to teach that for anybody who destroys a single life it is counted as if he destroyed an entire world, and for anybody who preserves a single life it is counted as if he preserved an entire...
I’m delighted to announce that Flint Country has won the Ellingworth Prize 2026 presented by Kett’s Books in Wymondham, Norfolk. The judges said: “Developing a story that goes across history, the book returns to Norfolk to include each...