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I was just remembering about how blogging used to be about what you were up to and not about blogging, or anything like that, mainly because we knew nothing different. This being busy and being stressed thing at work really seems to make...
Fifty-one years ago I was working as a clerk in Kay’s Books in downtown Cleveland, perhaps the best job I ever had though my six-day-a-week paycheck never topped the double digits. One of the stockrooms in the basement was situated under...
Today is Pride.I am proud of Jackson, West Haven, Yog, and Advanced Witches & Warlocks. But for this prompt, Pride means something more specific.With Jackson and Carbon Vale I draw heavily on Monsterhearts. Not so much the mechanics as...
The usual odd collections of photos…. First, a couple of modelling challenges… This would make a good diorama. Only in Japan…. Caravans being shunted in Great Yarmouth. An interested US track formation. And buses as they should be….
Sunday 30th August 2026 I’m now in the final stretch of my relentless journey north through Britain sampling all 25 bus routes numbered 99 and it’s time for the second open-top bus ride of the series (the first being Ensignbus’s...
Welcome to another Sunday weave. When I was a kid, I rode my bike up to RadioShack, bought some little mixer, then would get a cassette deck and a record and mix those together. And I'll be damned if what I'm doing now doesn't feel like...
HackerRank open sourced its ATS. My resume scored 90/100. Oh wait 74/100. No — 88/100. Actually 83/100. UE, da oggi vietato distruggere i vestiti invenduti: cosa cambia – today was July 19th, the translated title is “EU bans destroying...
Nazi bar as defined by Wiktionary: (Internet slang) A space in which bigots or extremists have come to dominate due to a lack of moderation or by moderators wishing to remain neutral or avoid conflict. Justin M. Keyes (justinmk) on the...
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...