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This has been some week for hardware and appliance problems in my household. Thursday, I had a silent hard drive crash. It could have happened before then, but I didn't notice it until Thursday. The drive was there last week, but Windows...
It’s Sunday, and it’s time for another “picdump!” Here are the memes, pictures, and cartoons floating around the internet that I found interesting or relevant this week. Share and enjoy! “Ooooh…!! Now I get it! When we talked about lower...
The Joys of Model Railway Publishing Phil Parker is the editor of Garden Rail magazine and a features writer for BRM (British Railway Modelling) magazine and website. Phil shares his experiences of these roles and of the UK modelling...
I only knew about the movie Buddy from the Dead Meat channel, so all I knew going in was that it was a horror movie about a Barney-style children’s show, written and directed by Casper Kelly, who made the “Too Many Cooks” short for Adult...
We've seen them before, but it was eight or so years ago; https://smallscaleworld.blogspot.com/2018/01/s-is-for-shelfies-2-imperial-walmart.html And they are both carded, and several pages down the Tag results, so we'll look at these...
For Canada, the choice came down to either severe but temporary economic instability or binding itself to a pseudo-democratic fiscal basketcase of a nation… — Stephen Marche in The Times. I also loved this: A gray banker, and not just...
We just read Harlan Ellison's story "Night Vigil," which debuted in a fanzine but was reprinted (with a new title) not long after in one of the most famous of SF magazines, Amazing. That issue of Amazing, May 1957, has an intriguing...
2012 was a weird time for iPad fans. That spring, the 3rd-generation iPad debuted with a Retina display. It was slightly heavier and thicker than the iPad 2 before it, but it looked the screen looked amazing. Sadly, the performance of...
Mere hours before our most recent trip, my new Unifi Travel Router arrived. Neither myself nor my broader household travel all that regularly, but when we do we’re likely to have some combination of multiple phones, multiple iPads, maybe...
Links Posted to Thoughts The Week of 08-23-2026 There were 5 links posted this week. 08/28/2026 @20:00 With the backlash to data centers, Flock and AI glasses, a mass opposition to big tech is underway. Silicon Valley is in denial.Back...
Calling it now: “quietly” is Word of the Year 2026. What AI sired, mindless zeitgeist reverberators now rear.
Miscellaneous bits of news and fun stuff from around the Internet......There are more classic Blu-ray releases coming from Universal, including the charming THIRTY DAY PRINCESS (1936) with Sylvia Sidney and Cary Grant; IF I HAD MY WAY...
The Roaring Twenties! The time of jazz, flappers, Art Deco! And Weird Tales! We here at MPorcius Fiction Log have seen fit to defy poor eyesight, bad memory, and the indifference of an uncaring universe to shoulder a monumental task--the...
The historic North Bend Theatre in downtown North Bend, Washington celebrated the 34th Anniversary of the North American premiere of David Lynch’s Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me from August 13-16, 2026. This “We Live Inside a Dream”...
When i am sad or down, sharing on blogs is probably not high on my agenda list. If you notice the periods when I am writing less, it's probably because I am low-spirited. The same is probably happening to many other people you follow on...