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In their day, Beatties didn't just sell British model trains, they were a supplier of the foreign stuff too. In those days, modelling anything beyond these shores was seen as weird; it still is in a small way today. Still, you could go...
This is David, your adjacent possible guide in the search for signal among noise. You're reading the Weekly Filet, the newsletter for curious minds who love when something makes them go «Huh, I never thought of it this way!». As every...
There’s an intersection along a neighborhood greenway near me that I thought might be a cool place to paint an intersection mural. (Not that I have any experience with large scale painting lol) I wrote up a loose proposal for our...
But all new images, a bit of a reprise for the Torgano Wild West demi-rondes I got at last year's Plastic Warrior show, from Adrian Little, to remind those with a bit of spare time this Saturday, that if they get their arses to Whittton...
It’s my last photo Friday from the Mediterranean and most of the photos are from a quick trip to the Argive Heraion, Nafplio, and the pyramid at Elleniko. It’s impossible not to take a cool landscape photo from the Argive Heraion. Most...
Playing the game with the WizTerm client. There are apparently even more advanced client applications. Multi-User Dungeon AKA "MUD1," "British Legends" United KingdomIndependently developedWritten in 1978 for a DEC PDP-10 at the...
After last week's announcement that the next book from Bear Alley will be THE SHRINKER I have very little news. The proof arrived, looked good, I made a couple of minor changes and I'll be ordering a second proof. After that I'll be...
Back at college, I remember walking up to my friend Mike’s house on Halloween and seeing him frantically painting bright, red briefs onto a pair of nice blue jeans. He was really going at it, too — slapping the wet brush all over the...
Here’s what’s happening in the thriving tech scene in Tampa Bay and surrounding areas for the week of Monday, July 6 through Sunday, July 12! This list includes both in-person and online events. Note that each item in the list includes:...
"To be cringe is to be free." My friend said this today while we were speeding away to a mystery destination that I assumed was near the IKEA she and I patronize when we want to eat, catch up, and walk around a bit but what was actually...
I came to Bear ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ by chance. I was looking for a home for some writing, radio transcripts, and a small profile online displaying some of my published fiction. Because I have no social media presence and I regularly submit work to...
Today turned out to be a bad pain day, so I didn’t get much accomplished. I did my morning rounds, as usual, but as the day wore on, things just kept getting worse – and I was mostly just sitting at my computer, crocheting some new items...
Just like publishing a book and going to print, passing your Gerber files to a PCB assembly house usually results in days and days of checking everything is correct, pushing the button, and immediately finding an error somewhere when it...
You've probably heard that boiling water kills weeds. It's one of those tips that floats around-usually mentioned right after vinegar and just before something involving Dawn dish soap. But does it actually work? Sort of. On some weeds....
You've probably heard that boiling water kills weeds. It's one of those tips that floats around-usually mentioned right after vinegar and just before something involving Dawn dish soap. But does it actually work? Sort of. On some weeds....