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A few from the golden age of steam – the decades either side of 1900. So many elegant locomotive designs. The Brighton line and the LSWR…. The SECR… Midland elegance…. The Great Northern. And the North Eastern. Next time, we’ll come a...
Its so weird to me that so many in software development have so much disdain for software development. I’m definitely a “means to an end” guy when it comes to coding, but in the same way that I cook because I want to eat delicious food....
Someone logged into my seldom-used AirBnB account from Mexico. I’m not in Mexico. You might want to check your account.
Sitting out on the towpath with some folk from Australia, who keep bees near Melbourne and took a keen interest in the size and variety of the bumble bees that were busy along the hedge, I recalled this episode from Gilbert White’s...
From Swindon to, anywhere but the GWR! Malcolm Holland’s Tidewater & Teslin railroad might live in Great Western territory, but this model is about as far removed as you can get from anything Brunel built. On the workbench: log carriers,...
This does not begin to express how hot it was — but I did get many thousands of words of a short story out of the experience
The Nacelle Company, Oni Press, and Rebellion are proud to announce a historic partnership, which officially begins with the announcement of JUDGE DREDD /BIKER MICE FROM MARS #1 – launching the wreckage-strewn collision of the 22nd...
Has long left turn lane got you down? Are you backed up past where the lane even begins? Is there an 18-wheeler in front of you pulling a massive wraparound turn at the speed of sloth? Did the guy in the intersection hit the brakes when...
I kept= my post short yesterday because I wanted to work on the second chapter of something that I hope ends up at novella length before the end of the year. Here's a bit of it: The first time it happened, Kenny thought it was an...
After a rough night, at sunrise we hoisted the anchor. Overnight the wind did a 200 degree shift that turned our of anchorage to a shitty one with a lee shore uncomfortably close. But that is life on the atolls. You have never good...
How to make homemade mayonnaise with an egg, oil, lemon juice, salt, & dijon. This is really good mayo and if you have an immersion blender you can make it in about 2 minutes. Skip right to the recipe. Yes you really can make homemade...
Window Repair – New York, New York This is one of those “a day in the life of a big city” type pictures. I was walking by and saw this crew repairing the store window, or at least temporarily patching it with plywood. I don’t know how it...
I have a uConsole computer and a new NVMe adapter for it. I’m not going to walk around with a terabyte of unencrypted data. That wasn’t an option. I found several good HOWTOs for booting a uConsole off an encrypted NVMe drive, yet none...
Photo taken with Apple iPhone 17 Pro Max Camera: Apple iPhone 17 Pro Max Lens: iPhone 17 Pro Max back triple camera 6.765mm f/1.78 Settings: f/1.8 • 1/12800 • ISO 64 • 6.764999866370901 mm
Boomerang: Australia works very much like 7 Wonders and Sushi Go. You start with a hand of cards. You pick one and pass the rest left. You keep doing this, and eventually all the cards will be claimed, and you score points based on your...