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Finally checked out an NTW show this weekend in Taoyuan with one of my buddies. My first live wrestling show of 2026! What a show! Lots of solid matches and gimmicks, and even a little warmth when one of the wrestlers shouted out his...
Back to the Bluebell for a the little trains. But first a brief report on the ESNG meeting on July 1. I missed part of the meeting to visit the dentist, and also watched the England game on my laptop. We had a very respectable eight...
Canada’s big wooden automobile safety head reminds us about safe driving on the July 4th weekend. If you drive the speed limit (or slightly below to save gas) and avoid tailgating (the most stupid thing drivers do) your chances of...
There’s been a lot of bad news lately, from Rockstar trying to push the cost-of-a-game envelope even further, to Bandcamp firing most of their engineers only a few months after pledging to ban any and all music that even so much as hints...
We had missed them in Shetland and Norway, they kept eluding Capsula on the water, and here they were just there, at touching distance, seemingly unbothered by all these humans taking pictures of them. as if nothing happens Just as we...
finding a cool project only to open github and see claude as main contributor ):
I’m impressed by Iris, an elegant and clever Mac app that does a bunch of delightful things. I have an array of photos sources: Two Photos libraries from different eras of Mac and pre-Mac computers; more than a decade of flat file...
I got an email from a blogger taking part in JulyReply, explaining that he's new to blogging. He wrote that this event might just be the inspiration needed for what's been postponed for ages: to actually start blogging. It made me so...
My childhood was spent in Long Beach, Indiana, on the south shore of Lake Michigan. In the summer months, we occupied our time at the baseball field in the morning and the beach in the afternoon. Our home was on the beachfront. I had a...
New Post for the New Month It’s heatwave summer in the city. There’s at least one song mashup to pursue in that statement but unless it offers reprieve from the current state of things, I can’t see how it’s worth the effort. As we near...
"Show Us Your Shelf: Library Special," Antigone (June, 2026).
Nota bene: This is the next installment of my multi-part review of Adam Smith’s 1784 pamphlet Additions and Corrections to the First and Second Editions of Dr. Adam Smith’s Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations....
There’s a story I wrote years ago. I called it Dragon Hoard, although in my heart I’m pretty sure I spelled it Horde the first dozen times, because spelling is a competition I will always lose. It is, no contest, the best thing I have...
Here is a thing about me that I have made peace with: when you give me enough pain medication, I sing show tunes. Not quietly. Not to myself. I perform. This is not a choice I make. This is a thing that happens to me, the way weather...
Douglas A. Irwin offers a brisk overview of a great American tradition–specifically, “America’s been arguing over trade for more than 250 years” (Peterson Institute for International Economics, July 1, 2026). I won’t rehearse the...