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Wo there's a little something for everyone this week, and there's no better place to begin than at the beginning!Saturday night football! The NFL preseason continues with a game between the Pittsburgh Steelers and Chicago Cardinals from...
No matter how well organized your gear is in your lazarettes, it doesn’t help you to hold the lazarette lids open while you dig that gear out. It’s not so bad with small items like a hank of rope or …
Catalina Yachts was a true innovator when they introduced the Catalina 22 back in 1969. Perhaps the most iconic feature was the optional pop top, which gives much-needed headroom inside the cabin. Extended stops and anchoring out...
I’m very grateful for the modest success of the kits that I’ve offered here for more than seven years. Support from skippers all across America has been entirely positive. My biggest regret is that I couldn’t offer them economically to …
Originally written on lamb-releases: Lamb 0.13.0 is a large maintenance and hardening release: importers and a full site export, tighter Micropub handling, faster feeds and listings on big sites, and a broad security and bug-fix sweep....
Album of the Week, August 22, 2026 Sheila Chandra had a career arc: actress on the BBC drama series Grange Hill, lead singer in the band Monsoon, top 20 UK hit with “Ever So Lonely.” Then her label wanted her band to drop its Indian...
I was rooting around in some mystery boxes from the attic and I happened upon this. Like… I have no recollection of one having to have a “photocard” to ride around in London in 1993? But apparently that was a thing? How weird. Did they...
I've written before about using objects as writing prompts (see this blog post for explanation and pictures). Usually I spread objects out on a table and have students pick one. We do a variety of types of writing: description, writing...
This game did not skimp on production values. Warriors and Warlocks - Scenario: Castle Myrhavell CanadaWarriors and Warlocks (developer); 408614 Ontario Ltd. (publisher)Released 1983 for the TRS-80, possibly for Commodore 64 in 1984Date...
Ayumi TanakaWindflower Ayumi Tanaka pianoThomas Morgan double bassThomas Strønen drumsRecorded May 2025, Studios La BuissonneEngineer: Gérard de HaroMixed by Manfred Eicher and Michael Hinreiner (engineer)in Munich, 2026Cover photo:...
This is a short follow-up to my Apple Papercuts piece, wherein I bunched together a few more annoyances that I’ve come across while using my iPad Pro extensively on vacation. If you needed any more proof that Apple doesn’t really do QA...
A few years ago, when we were house hunting, a friend gave me a piece of advice I still use. Better to buy a house that needs work in a good location than a perfect house in a bad one. You can renovate a house. But you can’t move it. The...
Wineberry, Schenley Park, 5 July 2024 (photo by Kate St. John) 23 August 2026 Ticks have been in the news a lot lately, especially on the East Coast where lone star ticks are causing alpha gal syndrome, an unpleasant and potentially...
I tend to grab the odd die-cast from time to time, usually to ID a figure or animal, for future reference, but occasionally I'll buy a figureless one because . . . military or space! They, or their images, have been building in Picasa...