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The good folks at Thermal Master have sent me their latest camera to review - and it is a bit different to all the others I've tried. Whereas previous cameras are good for bird watching, or wildlife spotting, or finding leaks at home -...
Welcome to Secret Breakfast / The best place to start reading a newsletter issue that's basically made of random notes about my latest journey across France through Northern SpainHi there! As you may have noticed, I took a longer hiatus...
Yellow jewelweed flower and seed pod (photo from Wikimedia) 26 August 2026 It’s seed-popping time in Schenley Park. On Friday my friend Andrea and I found a large stand of yellow jewelweed (Impatiens pallida) along the Upper Trail with...
Probably the first time in the history of Oklahoma that anyone has attempted to compare Cushing to Rome. Some random quotes and a few stray thoughts on the stupidest trade war imaginable. First off, when it comes to any story that is...
A poor pigeon was wedged next to the bin. I suspect Cowcat (a local Tomcat with Friesian cow markings). I lifted the unfortunate bird into the garden behind a plant pot, and gave it some water to drink.Then I had to do the housework. The...
The scimitar cat (Homotherium latidens) was a wide-ranging species that existed for over 20 million years. Fossil evidence of this species and its evolutionary ancestors dates to 12.5 million years ago, but genetic evidence suggests it...
Via Newspapers.comThe following story goes in that bulging file known as “restless ghosts of murder victims.” The “Ithaca Journal,” August 12, 1922:Painesville, Ohio, Aug. 12--A "ghost" which farmers living near Paines Hollow say has...
Got married! Broke my elbow while bouldering, writing this on sick leave. Added Gemini capsule version of this site. Jojo looked presentable at the wedding 🎀 Wedding and new surname I got married to my wife Marika in August after 15...
The October 1925 issue of Weird Tales includes a full page ad heralding the coming appearance in the unique magazine of three stories by the "great English novelist" H. G. Wells. These are reprints, not new stories, but perhaps "The...
I heard a definition of wisdom from Naval Ravikant that’s stayed with me. Wisdom is knowing the long-term consequences of your actions. It’s a beautiful, analytical way to put it, and I think it captures a real part of what wisdom is....
On August 21 and 22, 2026, the Mahoning Drive-In Theater in Lehighton, PA held their fourth “Wild World of David Lynch” celebration. What started as a biennial event blossomed into a yearly staple lovingly curated by longtime Lynch fan...
By Eric JonesLudibrium GamesOSRLevel 1 Tragedy has befallen the Kingdom of Ambarge—the king is dead; long live the king! Yet strife in the realm has only just begun, for the sole heir is nowhere to be found. The fate of the entire...
Just finished reading: The Ending Writes Itself, by Evelyn Clarke. This novel is advertised as a mystery. "Debut mystery", no less. Well, I am not sure what genre this novel fits in, but I don't quite see this as a mystery. Yes, the...
🚛 Pika blog archive ingestion quickly and successfully completed by the good folk of @goodenough. Thanks 🙏🏼 Time to update and add new pages as I had before.
Brady is my oldest friend. We still keep in touch today, although if you had told me twenty-five years ago that the nerdy, sheltered private school kid I had just met would still be exchanging texts with me about movies and video games...