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I was returning home from lunch on an otherwise uneventful Friday last week. Unlike most of the days, I wasn’t listening to music or texting someone while walking. Not habits I’m proud of, or would write about in my autobiography. As I...
I like it when people reach out to me about weird little video game-related mysteries that have been bugging them for years.I really like it when I’m asked the question and I realize I have no idea what the answer is.And I especially...
I’ve been all kinds (well, 2) of ill recently and it’s rubbish. Last weekend I had (I think) COVID - something along those lines anyway. Then on Wednesday or Thursday my wife and six-year-old both had some sort of norovirus. Lots of...
I have been alerted by a reader to an odd etymology: the word aspic, in the words of the OED “A savoury jelly made with meat stock; a cold dish consisting of such a jelly set in a mould and containing pieces of meat, seafood, or...
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I can’t say for certain that this will be my last AI post for a bit, but last night just before bed Stella asked me to ask the AIs about boba tea. I decided to indulge her and was surprised to see that, after doing such a horrible job on...
[In this case, the internet is a series of tubes to nowhere.] Adak Island is 1,200 miles from Anchorage, and all but deserted since its naval base closed in 1997. Nevertheless, it receives government-subsidized internet service at a cost...
4-star hikes • 2 to 5 mile options • Moderate | Gain 530 to 1,780 feet • Wallingford, VT | Southern Region . White Rocks Cliffs, best viewed from Ice Beds Trail. The striking quartzite talus slopes of the White Rocks Cliffs are a...
Yerba Mate isn’t one flavour. It’s a spectrum as wide as wine or whisky, shaped by country, cut, smoke, age, and the temperature of the water you pour. A shade-grown chimarrão from Paraná tastes nothing like a barbacuá from Corrientes. A...
About five years ago I made a mental decision to document all of the songs that get stuck in my head. This might be hard for some people to understand, but when I get something in my head, it usually takes a couple of days for it to wash...
In Bede’s Ecclesiastical History book 3 chapter 29, he quotes a letter from Pope Vitalian to the Anglo-Saxon King Oswiu, encouraging him to adopt the new simpler Roman calculation of the date of Easter instead of the Irish method using...
Buses are a write-off for most Melburnians travelling after dark. After 7pm bus frequency is typically down to every 40 minutes and service has often finished by 9:30pm. Trains are a bit more frequent, run longer hours but are frequently...
I've just recorded an hour's chat with the esteemed Dan Hill about the development of the BT Tower. It's on YouTube as part of my ongoing fascination with the tower, and it's development.And I've realised, it really is my happy place....