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Whew,temperatures might reach 100 here today. It’s even too hot for the ol’swimmin’ hole. It will keep me inside and I’m not happy having to stay inside. Trends indicate I might have to get used to it. Original Anonymous Snapshot, circa...
Ben R. Rich worked in Lockheed’s secret projects division, the Skunk Works, for nearly forty years in total, leading it for about fifteen years. During his career, Rich participated in the development of the top-secret U-2 and SR-71 spy...
Out early to catch the coolness, such as it is. Sunlight filtered by atmospheric murk. A breeze riffling the walnut leaves. Ovenbirds, towhees and red-eyed vireos once again making their small claims.
Wassup, Traipser! Dakota here with Traipsing About, my AI-free newsletter exploring living an intentional life while reclaiming creativity as an adult. I spice things up with experiences and photos from full-time travel, plus daily...
Yes, of course, we should all move on and away from those who have done us harm or with whom we’ve realised longer relationships won’t work out. But sometimes there’s no substitute for fucking someone who knows you really well – your...
Me watching The Devil Wears Prada 2 with my wife after reading Om Malik’s interview with Brunello Cucinelli.RIP, Om.
I get why popular restaurants don’t want to take reservations. Case in point, the very popular Chubby Fish restaurant in Charleston, S.C. According to this piece: Chubby Fish doesn’t accept reservations because London (James London,...
Angine de Poitrine in May 2026 at the Great Escape by Pauil Hudson. (Via WikiMedia — License: CC BY 4.0) This morning I installed a music player that I am unfamiliar with, and decided that the first thing I should listen to is Angine de...
Jim writes how blogging can feel like being the child in The Emperor’s New Clothes, a feeling I often encounter myself: You feel like someone gone mad: “Is anyone else seeing the same thing I’m seeing? And we’re just ok with this?” Very...
While the Royal Danish Navy was tasked with policing and defending the far-flung colony of Iceland, and, generally, a station ship or patrol boat of some sort was on location since 1859, the locals knew the score. Denmark was 1,300 miles...
Exercise Valiant Shield 2026 (VS26) concluded on 1 July, stretching across the Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, Japan, and at sea around the Mariana Islands Range Complex. It was an impressive assemblage of vessels, built around the GW...
Ukraine’s ground war with Russia is a charnel house that requires something like 30,000 new/returning recruits every month to keep the trenches semi-full. It is a war that has always been a numbers game. An innovative method that the...
It’s been a long time since I read Isaac Asimov’s Foundation. My cousin Oscar and I were at school, we recently met Edgar and he presented us Santos, a senior at our school. Santos brought with him Isaac Asimov’s The Naked Sun, in...
007 First Light reviewed by Luke Reilly on PlayStation 5. Also available on Xbox Series X S and PC. “While it’s impossible to argue that 007 First Light shares the seismic importance of 1997’s GoldenEye 007, it is nonetheless the best...
Over the years, I have documented some (but not all) of my experiments. Every experiment may not have been a success, but every experiment was exciting at first. It was something new I was doing. It was something out of the ordinary,...