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I've been trying to get back to school for more than a year now. Actually, before I even left my former school, I was researching apprenticeship or scholarship opportunities. How many attempts did I even make to this point? Ok, let's add...
A Christian once described Unitarian Universalism to me as church for atheists. There was one where I grew up. It was known among gay people as the church you could go to if you were gay. Though to be honest I didn't know much about it's...
I was unaware of this. Some interesting info in it. Anything with Harpy Eagles is good anyways. The usual AI slop imagery now. It will be interesting to see how this goes.
A summer anecdote: when on holidays in France, on a sunny August day, we visited a castle garden in rural Normandy. When buying the tickets, we got the usual: “Your postcode or country of origin?” We said “Germany,” and suddenly the face...
With the exceptionally hot weather of late, getting outside with the children during daylight hours has felt somewhat of an impossibility, none of us cope well in the heat! So, it was a welcome relief to be able to join our mum, (Julie),...
Not last Winter, the one before, we took a slap and a buffet from sequential named storms. Darragh [Dec'24] felled a bunch of trees to the East while Éowyn [Jan'25] laid them out S⇒N. I developed some upper body strength sawing the wood...
David Mindell is an eminent American academic and entrepreneur, and in The New Lunar Society he draws on the group of (mostly) men who forged the industrial revolution in 18th century Britain to try to write about the next industrial...
DrillerDB Underground is very different from a conventional map, which presents the Earth's surface as a flat 2D view from directly above. Instead, it offers a striking oblique 3D view where the surface of the earth has been sliced open...
Another reason for the disappearance from memory of the Bishopsgate Goods Yard disaster may be the disturbingly anti-Semitic content of the contemporary press accounts. These almost uniformly identified ‘aliens’ – generally understood to...
I now play Big Walk once a week. I like playing it this slowly! I find that every time we pick it up, we see an incredibly dense selection of wild stuff. Having that concentrated to one day a week isn't bad. Today we experienced an...
Still More Stories from Grandma’s Attic by Arleta Richardson, 1980, 2011. The Grandma’s Attic series by Arleta Richardson is based on her grandmother’s reminiscences about life growing up on a farm in Michigan during the 1800s. This is...
Some observations on Basque transport (could be Spain-wide, could be Basque-wide, could be one-offs) Main roads » A lot of Basque main roads carve through a hilly landscape at great height, the concrete viaducts arguably despoiling the...
Yesterday it was getting progressively more humid as the day went on. The morning showers basically missed us, and the radar was not looking all that promising until later in the afternoon when a cluster of storms started to slowly...
If you’re cooking for one or two, you know how hard it can be to find breakfast recipes that don’t leave you with more than you need. This Bacon, Egg & Cheese Bake for Two is wonderfully sized, quick to pull together, and packed with...
I suspect every photographer has a piece of equipment that changed everything for them. Not always expected, rarely expensive. But the one that unlocked something for them. Sigma 10-20mm Mine was the Sigma 10-20mm. I bought two decades...