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Heatwave No. 5. A funeral. Storage Battery installed. Longtown Show. Project Fill Skip. A sunny afternoon at Longtown & District Show Gym on Tuesday then into Hereford for a hot, hot shop at Tesco’s and Lidl. And to pop into Belmont...
If you have attended the Setouchi Triennale before, or simply visited Naoshima, there is a good chance that you arrived on the shores of the Seto Inland Sea via Uno Station in Tamano City.If so, you will probably be familiar with Esther...
[!NOTE] This was supposed to be one post, but it grew so long that I had to split it up. Here are/will be the others. The Jewish Museum’s exhibition that I discussed in my previous post took me around an hour to get through. With plenty...
Exciting news here at casa secretGeek. You're excited, Mrs secretGeek is excited, the little secretGeek kids are excited too. For the first time in a long time, I've released a new game! I've put a free demo online at...
Guest Post by: David Tonaszuck A reflection on the Gospel of Matthew 13:24-30 Dear Friends in Christ, There was once a boy, not much older than fourteen, who wandered the dusty back roads near a small farming town at the turn of the...
In reply to daringfireball.netJohn Gruber writes about the difficult birth of Siri AI: Last winter Apple sent an entire team, including engineers, to Brussels to present a proposal for the TSA (maybe that’s another acronym that needs...
Some mornings just call for a hearty, comforting skillet of potatoes — the kind that brown beautifully, smell amazing, and make you feel like you’re starting the day on the right foot. This small‑batch Potatoes O’Brien is perfect for one...
It’s a given, isn’t it, that pubs are a good thing and deserve protection? Well, it turns out that many people disagree. At the weekend the UK Government announced new planning rules that make it harder to turn pubs into homes or...
The old Luggage Store Gallery on Market Street in San Francisco is long gone, and along with it the great hallway entrance that was festooned with graffiti. I walked up and, later, down that staircase many times to attend concerts. I...
A few days ago, I posted about M’s speech to Bond in GoldenEye. Go watch that again: at a certain point, she quickly presses some buttons to reveal a TV and a ….PowerPoint (?) about General Orumov.This is what I call “spy briefing room...
The first of my 1:144 Albatros D-III flight is done, now that decals have arrived so I don't have to go mad painting the markings.The decals came from Miscellaneous Miniatures, and their service was very good. I got WW1 British, French...
At the center of the screen is an acute triangle with a rounded bottom. Its shape resembles the pattern left by wipers on a dirty windshield, inverted. Before the device is activated it’s a gray blank and reminded me of the opening...
Sometimes subtlety is overrated, and the direct approach is needed.One must have tact. There is a time for patience and for choosing one’s words with care, for the sake of hidden meanings or to let another arrive at the truth in his own...
In the great pantheon of Austin clubs, live music bars, dives, and dumps, Hole in the Wall on Guadalupe Street looms large. Probably top five. It’s been a thing since the early ’70s, and plenty of people have come out of there and played...