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After watching our chancellor at the NATO summit and during the last session in parliament, we can conclude that he has completely lost contact with reality. At least to the reality that the people he is supposed to govern inhabit. We...
On this day in 1863, my husband's 1c3r answered the call to enlist in the Indiana "minute men" Infantry and prepare to defend against attack from Confederate forces during the US Civil War.Wilson Caldwell (1845-1921) was just 18 and...
The Lincoln Highway was routed in 1913 to great fanfare. It was among the first roads where motorists could just follow the signs and drive from the Atlantic to the Pacific. It’s hard to overstate how big of a deal this was. Hundreds of...
What’s going on, Internet? Mānawatia a Matariki, Happy Māori New Year! Today is a time for remembrance, celebrating the present, and looking to the future. In Māori culture, Matariki is the Pleiades star cluster and a celebration of its...
We've been picking off small sub-tasks of the Billion Row Challenge, which asks us to summarise a large amount of data as quickly as we can. This time we complete the whole challenge, but in a slow way, to make sure we understand it. In...
Yesterday was a reminder that you need not only a different mindset but different fingers (same hands) to play bass guitar. Long strides instead of tiptoes. Needs a couple of days of immersion!
The morning had started off well. I was helping one of my fishermen attach a new leader to his fly line, and before the drone of the departing floatplane had drifted away, the other had hooked a bright salmon. “I’m almost into my...
Plucked fresh from the duty free in Berlin airport. A nice batch of chocolate treats. In this weather keep them in the fridge to avoid spoiling.Also, the aftermath of the successful tree felling exercise. All done quite cleanly but with...
There are several ‘holidays’ to celebrate today. It’s National Kitten Day, Nikola Tesla’s birthday, National French Fry Day, and World Kabab Day among others. So much to choose from. I do enjoy wacky, weird holidays; the more obscure,...
1990 Titus Platforms: Commodore Amiga, Atari ST, Commodore 64 Ninjanimal was one of the more curious titles listed in Titus’ 1990 release schedules. Planned for the Commodore 64 on tape and disk, the game never surfaced on any platform...
Posted on July 10, 2026 Tags: madeof:atoms, FreeSoftWear, craft:sewing Earlier this year, I made myself a new hat (it will be blogged), and I wanted to put a nice cockade on it. So, I looked for suitable ribbons, and couldn’t find any. I...
2022 romantic fantasy short stories, more scenes set after the events of Eclipse.
"The Last Question" is a 1956 science fiction short story by Isaac Asimov. It is about a super computer that is asked a question about the end of the universe - and the very, very long time it takes to come up with an answer. Non-Spoiler...
This first ran September 24, 2015; since then I have stopped going to that coffeeshop and no longer see Larry and John, its chief scientists, and in fact I hardly remember what they looked like and the coffeeshop moved anyway. Time is an...