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Yet another unfamiliar word I would like to see revived: gasconade. Dr. Johnson gives a typically terse definition: “a boast; a bravado.” He cites the letter Jonathan Swift wrote to Alexander Pope in which I encountered the word this...
Tact is not lying.That is worth remembering in Jackson, IL, where everyone is keeping secrets, everyone knows more than they are saying, and half the adults in town have perfected the art of saying nothing with a pleasant smile.But for a...
Tuesday 11th August 2026 Readers may recall back in April I featured two bus routes reintroduced by Suffolk County Council funded from its three year £26 million Local Authority Bus Grant (LABG) – the 51 between Stowmarket and Hadleigh...
Today we call them Luddites and gatekeepers. But back then they were just a bunch of d*cks. For me, I listened to music in the '70s and '80s, and then became a teenager and found my own music (the Police). It was fine, but generally, all...
Camera: Fujifilm XT-5 TTArtisan 50mm lens.Location: https://w3w.co/mouse.issued.sling An old CSIRO agricultural research facility (I think), abandoned and no longer identified on Google maps. Now decaying and vandalised. A magnificent...
Dense Discovery #401: Your call is important to us Technology has stopped being the thing that connects us to people and became the thing standing in for them. Nailed it.
Progressives scored a win over establishment Democrats in the Michigan primary election for Senator on Tuesday’s election. Abdul El-Sayed beat Haley Stevens by 1 point, despite many polls predicting that he would win by 7 or more. And...
INcredible Coffee in Koenji is possibly the only coffee store in Japan that comes with its own silver YouTube play button. It seems like the cafe will sometimes transform into DJ space at night, and their YouTube channel uploads...
Today was quite nice. I got to bed earlier than usual last night, so I was able to wake up and make a nice mushroom, egg, and cheese sandwich on an asiago bagel for breakfast. It's been a long time since I got up early enough for...
“I suppose if we couldn’t laugh at things that don’t make sense, we couldn’t react to a lot of life.” –Hobbes, Calvin and Hobbes On a cold, overcast winter day, the students of Chi-Ha Tan attempt to warm up by taking a plunge in the...
Most of the MDF parts in the Petite kit, are layers that make up the hull. It's a simple job, fit the first two, and then add the internal walls. PVA holds everything together, but it's important at this stage, to ensure all the parts...
How I fixed a tiny issue in TinyGo.
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl.The topic for Top Ten Tuesday this week was to go back and list the books I was reading on August 11th in the previous ten years. I used Goodreads to find the books but I...
Bust the new brush free from it’s cardboard confinement, give those straight, crisp bristles a quick welcome-to-your-new-home rinse, plop a fat glob of minty green paste on top, and then get down to business, baby. Yes, it’s time to...
Feeling the Heartbeat of HTT While I’ve been groping around for the tools and language for HTT (the High-Trust Traditional style of play) for as long as I’ve been a gamer, I’ve only blathered about openly since the days of Google Plus,...