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In the Newsletter this weekAnalysis: Passengers can't complain about trains they cannot take because they don't exist: in defence of German railBullshit Meter: European Sleeper & RDC Bruxelles - Malmö Sleeper in 2028Good week:...
Some 85 years ago this week, on 22 August 1941, at the Navy Gun Factory (now the Washington Navy Yard), Mine Recovery School Class No. 1 graduated, minting 10 officers (three of them Coasties), five chiefs, and eight ratings in the art...
Fujifilm X-E5; 16-55mm f/2.8 II lens @ 55mm; 1/160th sec. @ f/11; ISO 320(click to enlarge)We’ve already had a few new camera introductions this year, but my sources tell me that over the upcoming months, particularly from September...
It was Chang-ma who corralled the women of the First Mandarin Baptist Church of Praise into their midweek meetings. “Mother of Prayers group (MOP),” she explained in her first e-mail summons, “will be a place we can share our struggles...
The press was jumping up and down about this one, and you can read about it on European Sleeper's website here. 3 departures a week each way from Bruxelles and Amsterdam to København and Malmö. And - unlike the seemingly ever postponed...
Hey people! Today I thought I would share with you a traditional tune that’s got a bit of a strange history to it. From the title of it, one could easily expect it to be Scottish – Galloway is, after all, a region of Scotland. But it’s...
A while ago I shared cove.town as an experiment with atproto self-hosting. It’s driven by a bunch of little docker composes and contains a PDS, a knot, a spindle and a hold. The PDS owns the accounts, the knot owns the repo itself, the...
I had 4 players this time: Boris, ex- (free?)mason Bennett, extreme sports enthusiast Borg, miner Angela, Reform councillor It's been a week since the first expedition up Mass 2 ended in disaster. Since then security has been tightened...
Sun in the treetops. A doe emerges from the woods to browse the road bank, followed by her two grown fawns already in their unspotted, gray-brown winter coats. Head up, her ears swivel toward a distant crow.
Modern technology is truly a miracle. A hundred years ago, if you wanted to travel from New York City to Chicago, the fastest way was by train, which took a minimum of 20 hours. Whereas today, thanks to technology, you can simply go to...
It feels as if I’ve been writing about our autumn holiday in 2024 for a very long time. As it turns out, I’ve just looked back, and I wrote the first blog post in the series, about Godstow in Oxfordshire, in October of that year. Anyway,...
In my latest Film Data Scientist video, I’m going deep on “The Greatest Movies Ever Made”©®™ to understand what makes a movie great and why that classification may slip over time. I am uploading new video essays every couple of weeks, so...
There's a bright yellow lump of a play structure in Brooklyn built at exactly the height a grandmother can sit on next to her granddaughter, and somewhere in the metaphysical ether, an Indian prince who died in 1966 nods approvingly.Let...
The “frog days” of summer are coming to an end and the first hints of fall — changing leaves, cooler nights, and shorter days — are more and more present. That means it’s time to return to my Friday tradition of quick hits and varia,...
Let’s discuss the big scandal at the center of the novel. What did the L— family’s cancellation expose about the state of race and class in Hollywood? Many of Raj’s thoughts about post-2020 Hollywood are scathing and cynical. Is this...