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Here’s what’s happening in the thriving tech scene in Tampa Bay and surrounding areas for the week of Monday, August 31 through Sunday, September 6! This list includes both in-person and online events. Note that each item in the list...
Shady Lady is yet another game by Kaya Miyano I have played this year. This is a very Japanese style game - minimalistic but clever. It has a juicy element of trying to read your opponents and sometimes cunningly misleading them. You...
Sandusky Tool Co. was in business from 1869 to the mid- or late-1920's. I used to think it was named for a person, but it was named for the city in which it was located, Sandusky, OH (about 50 miles west of Cleveland). This rabbet plane...
I’m slowly closing in on a completist collection of Royal standard typewriters. Here’s most of my collection so far. Only a few major must haves left, but also still a few to finish refurbishing. Seven are fully refurbished, though two...
EVERY DAY, ZIONISTS BOTH “LIBERAL” AND “CONSERVATIVE” PUT CORPORATE PROFITS AND MILITARY LETHALITY AHEAD OF JEWISH SAFETY. THEY CLAIM TO DO IT OUT OF A LOVE OF JUDAISM. THIS INCLUDES SITTING POLITICIANS, CANDIDATES, PARTY LEADERS AND...
Last week I introduced you to the terrible middle by showing you Snacks midway through his annual moult. He looked like he'd been awake for 11 consecutive years. It's been about a week and look at him now. His head feathers are coming...
This morning I ran 6km (3.7 miles) for the first time. I didn't even know I had it in me. like legitimately. All my previous runs have been like 3-4km maximum, and I'm always completely dead by the end of them. This morning I tried...
Music Hall Monochrome – New York, New York I’m at the corner of Sixth Avenue and 50th Street, home of the world-famous Radio City Music Hall. I’ve featured the Music Hall on the blog before, but this is the first time I’ve photographed...
This month's book was Against Technoableism by Ashley Shew, which I had suggested. Bookstore Employee didn't initially seem to have the highest opinion of it after having read it, and the most common critique was, "This is very...
“Dual timeline” novels are quite popular these days, but The Lost Book of Elizabeth Barton adds another twist. Jennifer Brown alternates a past-tense narrative set in the 16th century with a present-tense story in which, yes, a historian...
MapQuest made a fun little thing in the wake of the Lake Ontario debacle and you should go play with it. If it looks familiar to you, it's because you probably remember when MapQuest did the same thing during the Gulf of Mexico debacle....
It’s been several weeks since I promised a blog post on time use. Somehow I overcommitted myself with scholarly projects and travel – in fact, I drafted this post at 8 pm British Summer Time, in an airplane over the Hudson Bay. But that...
Many thanks to our friend Jeremy Whiteman, who sends along the photos below showing San Francisco Municipal Railway 162, one of the "iron monsters" preserved by Muni on home rails.The good news is that after many years out of service,...