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In late June, I was told by a friend that CN was using two Iowa Northern-painted geeps as power for local operations. Naturally, with so little to see in Ottawa from a freight train perspective, I was excited. Even better, CN's weekly...
I’ve been reading a few concerning things about tech education recently. Namely: Cassie Evans took down her site Salma (whitep4nth3r) stopped streaming, and it’s going dark too The state of affairs for tech education is bleak. Even...
A sneaky crew of thieves sets out to reclaim Sly Cooper's family tome—The Thievius Raccoonus. Slink and steal your way across the globe against a colorful cast of animal characters in this captivating 3D platformer. You ain't ever heard...
I’m en route back to Grand Forks (aka Grand Borks) and have a few thoughts about travel this year. First, travel is karmic. My flight home from Cyprus last year was an epic clusterfuck which involved two overnights and late flights. This...
A motley collection of pieces I’ve shared on social media. Since I’ve spent more time on books and less time online, there’s only a few left…unless things switch up again. We’ll see. , Whenever I get a new tool, I start with the (super...
We had the family over for barbecuing on the Fourth of July and we watched some fireworks on tv. Them Buffy and I went to watch USA loose to Brazil in the World Cup last night. We watched stage 3 of the tour at our table too. It was a...
Cover version of the month #122The Rolling Stones cover The TemptationsI stumbled across The Rolling Stones 1978 album called Some Girls in a lovely bar in the old town section of Malia while on holiday with my wife (then girlfriend)...
“It’s all waiting there for you” In classic me timing, I first listened to Harry’s House (and very quickly became a fan) on the anniversary of its release, as part of Music May 2023 – which didn’t quite give me enough time to get to a...
Dear Dr. Tavris: I saw in a recent issue of the Times Literary Supplement that you have been critical of the “chambermaid” study which purported to show that people were losing weight without changing their diet or exercise. I agree that...
Welcome to this week's edition of Top Ten Tuesday which is hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. This week the theme is Book Titles That Include the Word (add the word of your choice – and I chose) Summer:Deep Summer by Gwen Bristow (1937)....
The Gamify Your Life Players Handbook is a wonderful way to help you manage your planner, journal, and even your life in a fun and functional way. I had the pleasure of taking Ana Reinert’s class at the St. Louis Pen Show where she...
"Hi, I'd like to order a birthday cake, but I want the lettering to be big. Can you do that? "No, I mean really big." "Hmm, ever done anything bigger?" "Wowza. On second thought, how are you with smaller stuff? "Not bad, not bad - but...
The more significant the change, the longer it takes. Seems obvious, doesn’t it? But it’s not. All change tends to get lumped together in “today’s rapid pace of change …” In our case, the path to After Capitalism is likely to be a long...
It's the weirdest thing. I needed to do something using macOS yesterday and the whole time I just wanted to get back to my Linux desktop. This isn't the first time I felt this way, but it happened sooner and the feeling was stronger this...
Hi, welcome to this write-up for the Urban Symphony challenge from Bellingcat. Here you can see my thought processes and what steps I took to get to the answer, but of course there are many different ways of reaching the same results....