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For the first time in history, the country in which I live – the Netherlands – has issued a Code Red alert due to the heat. Code red is only issued when the environmental circumstances are such that there is a significant risk of...
Alice Coltrane - WBCN-FM, Boston, Massachusetts, April 2, 1972Always read the footnotes, people! You never know what sweet tidbits are lurking in the back of the book. Case in point, Andy Beta’s recent/recommended Alice Coltrane bio...
"Two is one, and one is none" is a military adage, most famously associated with the Navy SEALs. It simply means you should always have a backup for anything that truly matters. The same principle applies to your privacy tools and...
Jack Fitzgerald, with some very exciting news at Car and Driver: The Honda Element could make a comeback, at least according to a new report by Automotive News. Honda killed the once-popular SUV in 2011 after years of sliding sales, but...
Our Magnolia is very happy. My Mom had a Magnolia and when I see one I think of her.
Goethe (left) and Schiller in Weimar. Photo: Sean Gallup / Getty Images The Public Domain Review has a little article on a bilingual selection from Xenien by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) and Friedrich Schiller (1759–1805)....
California is about to hand out $20 million — half from Google, half from the state — to news organizations, and it is wasting a golden opportunity. Instead of building a new and more competitive landscape of news, instead of creating...
I'm so excited! This reminds me that I need to finish the GTA V campaign before then. 🤣
As a walker I come across these painted rocks (and objects) from time to time. I’m supposed to carry them home, look them up on the web and re-hide them. I guess I’ve found about ten of them over the years but I am not much of a game...
So there's even more excitement and mystery! I was trying to edit the times in the preceding post, and MacOS data detectors kept firing on the time text, inserting that little dotted window around the, with a downward pointing triangle...
A couple of A’ama Crabs, the one much bigger than the other, skitter past each other in the wave-washed shallows. Meanwhile, the Helmet Urchins were going nowhere.
I was quite excited about Raycast for Windows when I got invited to the beta back in July last year. And for a while the experience of using is was really good. But over the last few months it has slowly become incredibly slow and...
Today, I'm taking a break from blogging about college teaching and sharing a mini-lesson I created for elementary school-aged students.I am sharing my activity here because I bet I'm not the only college instructor who has been asked to...
Yesterday was the hottest day of the year, if not the century, and we drove to Southampton for an overnight hotel stay. We are leaving our car here as part of one of these hotel & park deals. The drive down the A43 & A34 wasn't too...
Several years ago I came to the realisation that I really don’t enjoy watching football in pubs. There might be a good atmosphere, but there is every chance there won’t be…especially if the game isn’t going the right way. I’m not a huge...