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Spent another sleepless night which translated into me rolling out of the rack a little before 0700. Got no AM shop time because I had to get ready to go to the West Roxbury VA. Got there at 1020 for my 1100 appointment.The news is I...
Nick Cave on the worst thing about becoming a really old rockstar. Which, it turns out, is just one variation on the worst thing about anything that goes on a while. Nicely written though.
Great Eastern Railway 1899 4 Wheel Brake Third 853 (BRONZE)The exterior of the vehicle has now been completed with final lettering and varnish applied. We are now on the home straight with polishing of the brass work and interior deep...
It’s Saturday again so it’s time for another update of activity at the Open Journal of Astrophysics. Since the last update we have published a further three papers, bringing the number in Volume 9 (2026) to 129 and the total so far...
Review by Sandre the Giant Released: 17th April 2026 The debut from Swedish/now Portugal-based death/doom act Resumption, ‘The Respite’, is an album that channels old fashioned death doom from the early 90s, not necessarily the glacial,...
Stating the obvious is surprisingly useful. Most of your knowledge lives below the threshold of conscious awareness, so it’s possible for a piece of writing to remind you of what you already know. It’s common to know you don’t like...
A sailboat sits anchored in the harbour at Montego Bay, Jamaica. The post Montego Sailboat appeared first on 75CentralPhotography.
In the thirteenth century, what is now the Polish city of Toruń was controlled by the Teutonic Order, a German-speaking Catholic religious order founded a century before in Acre which by the 1200s had evolved into a military power in the...
Screenshot of the default view of a new website on Neocities Note that it helps a newbie visualize a website as a set of files. Note that it includes a link to download the entire site. This came up because I’m listening in on a session...
What caught my eye this week. Weekend Reading – featuring the week’s best money and investing articles from around the web – can be read by any logged-in Monevator member. Alternatively please subscribe to our free email newsletter to...
Jack of Trades allows player characters to attempt a throw as if they had -0 in a skill. Their Jack of Trades levels confers a bonus to the roll as appropriate to the skill being tested: Jack of Trades-2 would give a +2 bonus to a Pilot...
So far on my beach trip I've done: Nothing Nap Read Watch the sunrise What a good time.
Art is stealing. Stealing means blending your sources into something new: an artistic smoothie. Not that I consider my writing “art,” but here are 7 writers I’ve stolen from: #1. James Altucher. He’s the writer who has inspired me the...
Eggnob's been progressing pretty slowly over the last few weeks; between trips away and the scorching heat I've been too tired to do much level design, but I have sorted out all gameflow / UI stuff to the point where there's a "game",...
From The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine, by Serhii Plokhy (Basic Books, 2017), Kindle pp. 204-205: The Treaty of Kuchuk Kainarjae, signed in 1774, looked like a setback for Russian aspirations in the Black Sea region. Imperial...