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My friend Eric is celebrating: Trackside Treasure just published its thousandth post! Congratulations. That’s one. Nine hundred and ninety-nine thank yous on the blog roll, nine hundred and ninety-nine thank yous to Eric for it all! I’m...
Ukraine’s president did an odd thing recently. See “Zelensky’s decision to name military unit after WWII-era Ukrainian Insurgent Army sparks outrage in Poland” (The Kyiv Independent) It came up on today’s edition of the podcast Ukraine...
Vonnegut never provided an etymology for granfalloon, but it’s not too hard to follow his logic. “Proud”? That’s the gran-. “Meaningless”? Possibly the -loon. This splendidly useful word is so puffed up, so grandiose, so silly — compare...
I enjoyed a recent documentary on YouTube called “Chicago In WW2: The City That Fueled America’s War Machine” (55 min.), although one odd detail led me to comment. Well done and enjoyable, but I do have one bone to pick. A casualty...
The first recording today is Pokemon: Battle Frontier – New Plot, Odd Lot. The gang have come to Mulberry City so that May can compete in her fifth tournament and win her fifth badge. But she has a visitor – Harley – who shows off his...
This is a ludicrous amount of money for a website - but I’m more outraged this wasn’t spent within the Wellington region. Its time for our local councils to focus more on spending locally. www.rnz.co.nz/news/regi…
Craig Bratley’s sophomore album has been a little while coming. Titled “Return To Bass”, sonically it, largely, takes his lead from the 2021 single “No In Between”. A magnetic marriage of digi-dub and bluesy sleaze produced in...
It’s been a while since I’ve done one of these, and what I think is interesting about my current list of apps I use is how…frankly boring I’ve become. Between Subscription Fatigue and just finding that sometimes its easier to just go...
Anchor got up slightly after planned departure time, but it came up easily. The pearl floats make hoisting anchor by hand lighter. Then we started motoring to the other side of the atoll. We needed to keep a extremely vigilant lookout,...