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I miss video stores a lot. I dream about them more often than I probably should. Sometimes it is Blockbuster, and other times it is some strange combination of every video store I ever visited, with endless aisles of VHS tapes and DVDs...
From a December late afternoon in 2019, a cruise ship heading down the Hudson: A side comment: the fog makes the Jersey City skyline almost romantic. Supposedly I’m blogging about the built environment, and occasionally people have asked...
Here comes the rain again. An unusual sight travelling into London on Thursday: the landscape in misty precipitation. The rains returned with a vengeance, in Hitchin at least. Nothing to speak of in London but when I returned that...
In my last post I tried to express my disillusionment with sharing photos online in the Enslopocene (the period in history where soulless tech bros have taught their fancy autocomplete to create slop). The trouble is, that sounded quite...
first oneLast night after dinner I went back to the shop and put on the first coat of shellac on the shelves, the top, and the drawer. Doing the tops of them first followed by the bottoms. I hate this part of a project. I don't enjoy...
I found this in a box in the cellar, so unfortunately it’s absorbed some moist cellar air over the years. But! Let’s have a look at it anyway — I think it’s a mildly interesting artefact (if you’re into 4AD). So it’s a catalogue from 4AD...
I wrote here the other day that as much as I liked documenting thoughts here on the blog, as well as the shorter thoughts and stupid things that pop into my head that get posted on Mastodon, I wanted to start a journal just for more...
The rising sun silhouettes the evergreen forest near the summit of Colorado’s Flagstaff Mountain. The post Morning in the Mountain Forest appeared first on 75CentralPhotography.
Hello all, How are you? I sincerely hope you’re all doing well, loving the hobby, loving life and smiling and/or laughing each day. I hope you have love in your life and feel appreciated for who you are and all that you do. Eleven years...
There’s now a tutorial for writing your first post with #Lamb, my micro blog.
No, the blog does not now have public conveniences. But it does have an added convenience. This is just a brief post to direct readers to a new feature added to my blog, which I've only been able to add as Vincent, the developer of the...
During the month of August I will be participating in Blaugust, a month long blogging challenge. Today’s TDC says: I love numbers, so today I learned that 106 is a centred pentagonal number! If you draw a star made of five equal...
On 16 January 1928, Mary Butts recorded in her journal that her mind was full of ‘the worst book ever written on a superb theme, [John] Buchan’s The Dancing Floor, but as if it was illustrated, in a kind of lovely light.’ By contrast, a...
Moonlit dawn. A screech owl quavers, prompting a barred owl to hoot. As light builds in the east, a whippoorwill begins to shriek.