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In my mandatory annual fire safety training class the other day, they had us run through the same simulation exercise they always do. There was a big box with LEDs that simulate a fire, a fake fire extinguisher with which we "put out"...
Recorded at The Elias J. Halling Recital Hall Minnesota way back when on October 20th, 2012.Where we find ourselves trapped inside a seething throng of the Proletariat (aww Bless 'em).Confused stares abound, this sounds like the kind of...
When the Swedish dance band Arvingarna got together, the founder told one of his friends to play the drums. When he explained that he didn’t know how to play the drums, his friend replied: “How do you know that?” It’s a funny story, but...
Thunderbird is an extremely configurable email client. There are also different levels of configurability: some settings are global to the entire application, some are per account, some are per mail folder, etc. These distinctions are...
Your humble author in 2009, with his last even vaguely cool car, a 2000 Volkswagen GTI. I sold the GTI and left the United States that same summer. I wouldn’t own another car for ten years. Looking back from the vantage point of today,...
I’ve been having fun researching a Civil War letter written by my great-great-great grandfather on my dad’s side. Also, in preparation for a possible road trip, I’ve been researching my mom’s family’s migration from Kentucky to Indiana....
"Untitled" is the best I can think of, given the subject. There wasn't another title that really fit the best, for me. Will this deter people from clicking through? Maybe. But that's the gist of this post, too. Ever since Robb announced...
Moon-Flashby Patricia A. McKillipGenres: Fantasy, Science Fiction Pages: 150 Series: Kyreol Duology #1 Rating: Synopsis: Kyreol's small world begins at the Face, a high rock cliff, and ends at Fourteen Falls, a series of rapids. Each...
No laptop My bag felt light yesterday morning. I didn’t think much of it until I got to the station and realised why: my laptop was still at home. For a moment, I considered going back. Twenty minutes home, a couple of minutes to grab...
My daughter collected her GCSEs yesterday and, having successfully achieved the requisite grades for her choice of course, is going to college* in September. This isn’t really my news to share, so I don’t want to get into the nitty...
I'm currently reviewing a KONKR Pocket Advance. In orange. Just look at it: Since this thing looks like a Game Boy Advance and plays like a Game Boy Advance, I decided to mostly play Pokémon(-adjacent) games on it. And that's how I...
Oof, I should not be so far behind writing Fantasia reviews that I've got nothing to link to about something opening here. That would be Hot Spot, a sci-fi piece from director Agnieszka Smoczynska that may not be quite so out-there as...
Syriana from 2005 is my favorite kind of movie: it has lots of plot threads that overlap and come together in different ways. I learned that this style has name: hyperlink cinema.Unfortunately, a side effect of this style is that the...
Fascinating story from the National Library of Scotland about the Second Land Utilization Survey of Great Britain (ca. 1958-1974), told from the perspective of two women who participated in it as schoolchildren sixty years ago,… More