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I used to like flying. I suppose I still do but the psychic price that comes with the entire endeavour is just too much for me these days. Airports and flying used to hold a mythical status for me as a child. My father used to travel a...
I'd gladly follow her into any battle with this song in the lead- a beautifully infectious, somewhat quirky, and highly melodic song (with a long convoluted history) as are many in Sinead's repertoire. Her rendition captivating and life...
So, speaking of Red Tornado…a couple of you bought up in the last post‘s comments the Kurt Busiek/Carmine Infantino mini-series that was running concurrently with the Crisis on Infinite Earths event. Now, as I noted in the comments last...
I have a swell pair of Leftuggies™ for you today, starting with this pretty photo of Tomorrowland, circa August, 1958. The sky could hardly be bluer! But it was almost certainly very hot. The Clock of the World is known to all of us, but...
A short post today to share a recent arrival in the form of another poetry pamphlet from the poet laureate, Simon Armitage. I’ve amassed quite a collection of his books and pamphlets, several of them signed, so when I saw that Faber were...
By winter 1996 I’d kind of had enough of Lemmings. DMA Design’s Amiga-born puzzle game, as well as its expansion and first sequel, were some of the biggest and most unavoidable successes in the entire hobby. They were on just about...
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If you happen to remember BBC Ceefax, you’ll know that it had pages of news that you selected and read on your TV set. What you will have no reason to know is there were two sets of these pages, and at midnight the system switched from...
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...