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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...
Ben Krause, Hamed Mousavi, Joni Teräiväinen, and I have just uploaded to the arXiv our paper Quantitative bounds for sets lacking polynomial progressions with shifted prime difference. The purpose of this paper is to obtain quantative...
“Postcards” from Elm Island Lake, Aitkin Country, Minnesota. Idyllic Beach: Flaming Sunset: Scrollin’ by the Campfire Rustic Bunkhouse:
The poet W.S. Di Piero introduces Montaigne without mentioning his name: “‘Essay’ has embedded in it ‘assay,’ ‘weighing,’ ‘testing,’ ‘proofing,’ ‘trying out,” ‘attempting.’ When writing prose I’m arguing mostly with myself and the...
I have a West Haven in many of my worlds. They are not always the same place. They do not always have the same people, the same history, or even the same rules of magic. But they exist for the same reason.Yet they are there for a common...
I've helped a lot of people identify their transferable skills. In coaching sessions. In 1:1s, back when I was running teams. In the conversations that happen after a reorg, when someone wants to work out what they've actually got.Almost...
If you've been playing long enough to have had a Mel Bay / Hal Leonard part of your musical life, you know these authors used to be lionized. Way back when, Ed Friedland, probably the most famous bass book guy, lived in Austin for a...
When I wrote Liberal Jews and Religious Liberty, my goal was to demonstrate how conservative proponents of expansive religious liberty exemptions would prevent liberal religious claimants from accessing those same protections. For...