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If you play guitar or have ever shopped for one somewhat thoroughly, you know that there’s a huge market for cosmetically aged guitars. That is, you can go to the guitar store and buy one that looks like it’s from the ‘60s. That looks...
Saturday 8th August 2026 Readers may recall a blog last November featuring a grassroots campaign in Glastonbury calling for a dedicated direct bus route linking the Somerset town to and from Castle Cary railway station to alleviate the...
I'm not sure why I haven't seen a locomotive point of view trip around Bekonscot's extensive Gauge 1 railway system before, but here we go.
A couple of hours wandering around The Puddle - and two carp stalked off the top on floating crust. Including double #17 - a (very nearly) leather carp at 10lb 15oz. Wonder what else is in there?
It's 11:15 p.m. and I'm just starting to write this weekly summary that publishes at midnight so sit tight and get ready to read some of the best words put together you've ever seen. A Tale of Two Tails There was not one but two poodle...
The annoying thing about studying the Black Death (besides having to read about lots of horrific things of course) is that new discoveries are being made all the time.Thanks to new scientific possibilities and archaeological finds much...
Problem Statement: Classic Traveller players are always breaking the goddamn law. '77 Traveller is pretty vague about how to handle planetary justice systems.1 I know that later versions do flesh it out, but I like tinkering, so I have...
The retroflex L is uniquely Indian but still missing from Standard HindiThe sound ळ is a retroflex L/ल. Garhwali has this sound Haryanvi has it Punjabi has it Rajasthani dialects have it Marathi has it Tamil has it, in fact, it is the...
Happy Saturday, everyone! Here on Global Nerdy, Saturday means that it’s time for another “picdump” — the weekly assortment of amusing or interesting pictures, comics, memes, and even videos — I found over the past week. Share and enjoy!...
I've got a milestone coming up and I'm low key excited about it for reasons including but not limited to that I like knowing the specific date something happened, or, as it pertains to the thing I am specifically talking about, the...
Some years ago, the inimitable channel Technology Collections posted a 17-minute video about the peculiar design quirk of ceiling and room fans – they usually order their options Off → High → Medium → Low rather than the more natural Off...
A huge thank you goes out to contributor Daniel, who emailed to notify me of this Facebook post from about a year ago. The unusual thing about the car in the photo is that I took it off the PNAERC list two years ago because I assumed it...
look at mom reaching for that fig! (right side) she decided it wasn’t ripe enough Highlight of the week: we were eating lunch when this family of raccoons — one adult and two little kits — came to look for figs (none looked ripe to me...
Watched on Friday August 7, 2026.
Several weeks ago I missed my 25 year high school reunion. Actually, missed is the wrong word. I skipped it. I avoided it. The event was held less than ten miles from my house, and I went out of my way not to go. To be honest, this was...