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Having initially made a beeline for the pubs in the shadow of the cathedral, I set out to discover what was along the southern bit of the High Street - the flatness of which is welcome after a few treks up and down Steep Hill.There are a...
It's easy to find yourself getting into invisible patterns. The mindless autopilot after doing something over and over again. The narrow rut already running deep before you even notice it. The wagon wheel doesn't need to see the groove...
In something I never expected to have to clarify, this is a hot dog recipe but it is not a recipe for hot dogs. I know that I have a history of making foods from scratch that most sane people do not feel the need to — cream cheese, fig...
Behold the Hovering Sky Baby Medical specialists — pediatricians and proctologists — probably believe themselves to occupy a higher plane than general physicians. Their extra training feels like a badge of specialness. They're the...
🇨🇦 Happy Canada day everyone. Taking a bit of a breather today and just doing some much needed spring cleaning ahead of our move in a month - destination, unknown.
It was a flying visit to Ayureki today. This is Iceland's fifth biggest conurbation with the country's second biggest hospital. Ayureki is on the northern coast of Iceland which makes it a 5 hours drive to the capital. There's seasonal...
FreeBSD 15.1-RELEASE was announced on June 16, 2026. If you’re running 15.0-RELEASE, you have a well-defined upgrade path - but the exact steps depend on how your base system is managed. The first question isn’t “which tool should I...
Finished reading: Deep by Kylie Scott 📚
I’m so glad that my local library in Plymouth, Michigan has a free print newspaper that I can support and have mailed to my house. It has lots of local news, along with other fun bits like teenagers reviewing media they enjoy. Living in...
...by Bill Bryson. I'm about 20 years late here: in the mid-aughts Bryson was recommended to me often enough that I made some sort of resolution to read at least one of his books. I just now got around to it. Maybe I'm in fact 30 years...
Instagram A friend was recently invited to a pre-wedding event in the dining room of a local country club. The invitation included an extensive dress code, something I had never heard of before. Here it is in its boldfaced entirety:...
I wasn’t sure if I should bring up Travis Knight’s MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE on these pages but hey, the movie features some awesome looking monsters (Beast Man!, Moss Man!, Mer Man! Etc.) so I say it’s all kinds of welcome here. Who...
I’m ashamed to admit that I wasted my time reading this book. Let’s hope I can find something insightful to say about the experience. I confess I have a lifelong addiction to fiction. Even though years of studying consciousness,...
Not sure why I didn’t notice before, but I’ve just realized that my key ask re cultural drift, namely let’s try to save cherished parts of our culture from being discarded by successor civs, violates key modern taboos! While it is okay...
For the past few weeks i’ve been frustrated by a minor issue I couldn’t track down. If I attempted to purchase an app on the Apple App Store, or buy anything via Apple Pay in Safari, I ended up with a box to pay that had no buttons to...