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Josh Ginter, in his excellent Sunday Edition from mid-July: We spent five days camping in a one-bar-of-LTE-but-still-won’t-work area last weekend, so this is the first installment of the Sunday Edition in a few weeks. The days off were a...
I am appalled that it’s taken us this long to feature the incredible Melanie Lynskey
I love loathe seeing breaking news and big statements on Substack Notes with massive engagement without a link to a source. “Senator grows horns and spiked tail!” 2.4K likes “AP reports plastic in newborn eyeballs!” 5.3K likes “Studies...
Part 4 of my investigation into "Hobbits have a Roadside Picnic." Part 1 is here. Part 2 is here. Part 3 is here.Dragon gold We must away ere break of dayTo seek the pale enchanted gold.One of the primary reasons burglars brave the...
I recently revisited one of my favourite towns in the Midlands where there are 5 pubs listed in the 2026 Good Beer Guide within its attractive and fairly compact town centre, making it an ideal spot for a leisurely Saturday afternoon...
We are back home after our two-week trip, and having a little trouble with re-entry. Part of it is that we are dropping right into the middle of so many more things than are usually going on: 1. One of the cats (it’s one of the younger...
Please help if you can: I am working with some students who are studying programmers’ beliefs about software engineering folklore. If you can spare a few minutes to answer the question in https://survey.bth.se/survey/2545, we would be...
At RealClear Markets, Peter Grossman of the National Center for Energy Analytics considers President Trump's recent tirades against "unrealistic" gasoline prices and what an authoritarian ignoramus like him might do about them. Along the...
How we waged war on laundry, phone boxes, and Mr Vincent’s car in 1960s SwanseaWe weren’t bad kids in the Port Tennant end of Swansea in the early 1960s. We were curious, bored, and occasionally criminal. Most of what we got up to would...
Not quite sure why I'm being targeted by AliExpress with special offers on dental teaching models(?). I did have a slight contretemps with my ex-dentist a few weeks ago when I decided to "seek a second opinion" and, as a result, left...
Tidy religion is pure fantasy. When I think back on my Catholic upbringing, I picture clouds over Lake Erie like bruises. Wet blacktop and palm ash. Ozone and frankincense. You can break away from the Catholic Church, but you can't tear...
I want to be mindful. I want to be grateful. I want to be reverent.But for the most part, I can’t seem to find where to direct that reverence.I’m talking about what I ate today.Let’s do a quick rundown.Breakfast: blueberries from Nova...
John Saxon in Moonshine County Express (1977) Vitals John Saxon as J.B. Johnson, race car driver and occasional moonshine runner Jackson County, Kentucky, Fall 1976 Film: Moonshine County Express Release Date: June 1, 1977 Director: Gus...
What if cakes were the last lines in really bad poems?Come, my friends. LET US DREAM TOGETHER. Work anniversaryHead of the classA lousy coffee cup?? You'll get no bars hereNo cells in this parkSo let's give a cheer: Not sure how it works...