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I’m writing this now bc I don’t ever want to go a week without blogging even if -like now- I’m fighting off a depression that makes me feel more than slightly worthless. You can usually tell when I’m in a depression because I...
It’s about time to get caught up on currently inked! Sailor Que Será Erasable Gel Ink Pen Review (via Pen Addict). I find Sailor’s efforts to get into the erasable pen game fascinating, even if I don’t really have any great desire to use...
Happy World Population Day to all who celebrate. I’m writing about this topic because demographics are an essential tool in the futurist’s toolkit. We now have a lot of data on population, between government efforts, professional...
A pod of Spinner Dolphins swims by. This week’s Sunday Stills challenge theme is ‘Groups.’ See more responses here. I’m going under the water for this. Captions on the photos. A school of Hawaiian Silversides. Yellowfin Goatfishes drift...
(Post written while electricity was still out) Upon waking up for work on Saturday evening, or, as many will remember it, the worst 4th of July ever, I shoved myself out of bed to the sound of rain pounding the windows and my air...
You ask for text. Just a few words. They don't sell text. Text is free. So they sell the wrapper. You get HTML, CSS, and two megabytes of JavaScript. Fifty million lines just to render your banana cake recipe. Then the platform. The...
The Town Square Gazette is pleased to report that the cartographers have completed their retraining and can now, in most cases, identify a road. Readers may remember the previous map edition, in which every connection between towns was...
The first TownSquare map drew a line between two towns when their owners linked them together. It did the job, but it also looked exactly like what it was: a graph laid over a map. If you would prefer the in-universe version, The Town...
by Fiona Moore Here in the UK it seems to be Boat Month, as we have managed to accidentally sink the submarine HMS Artemis, thanks to crew failing to batten the hatches during refueling (all managed to escape, thankfully), and a few days...
With only a couple days left in the cruise, we awoke this morning having sailed into Passau and therefore our final country of Germany. And it was very quickly evident we were in Germany as we started the walking tour of Passau. Because...
Part OneQuoteA long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason....
We found a pub quiz in town, went, and came second. A nice Tuesday activity, we won a couple of mini bottles of wine. Charlotte smashed the music round, 20/20. After a fairly hot week we decided to take half of Thursday and all of Friday...
Passage Hafnafjörður → Hafnafjörður Distance 375 nm (10 nm under engine) Duration 74 h (2 h of engine) Wind B0 B2 B4 B6 B8 B10 Calm Storm Comfort ☁️ 💨 😊 😩 😤 ☀️ 😞 Four days at sea and we're back. Same marina. Same pontoon. Same berth. We...
C has really got the hang of empathy appeals lately. The other day, when we’d run out of bagels so I couldn’t give him one for breakfast he said “How would you like it mum, if I ruined your birthday?” and I said “mate, it’s not ya...
Thanks to Charlie Horse 47 and Killdumpster for their sponsorship of this post, via the magic of Patreon. ***You know what I was doing on this date in 1986?I've no idea but let's pretend I was reading these comics.Thor's found Balder,...