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I love trolling through old magazines, not so much in search of treasure as to gauge the values of our forebears. What did writers and editors, and presumably readers, find interesting and important? Taste is notoriously transient. Most of it is rooted in fashion and peer pressure, what other folks like.The July 14, 1956, issue of The Saturday Review, published seventy years ago, opens with the “Trade Winds” column of Bennett Cerf (1898-1971). As a kid, I knew him as a...
Once upon a commit, someone looked at GitHub’s little green squares and thought: what if writers had that?That someone was me! And the app is called Kerouac.For the last year, I’ve been building a writing studio that takes publishing seriously. If you write online, you already know the pain: your work is everywhere. A Substack from your current era, a Ghost blog from the one before that, a Medium publication, a personal site you keep meaning to revive, maybe even a YouTube...
Mary Dodd, Dorie’s recipe tester and right-hand lady, has brilliantly taken a plate of chocolate chip pancakes with a side of bacon and a river of maple syrup and turned it into a cookie. Her Maple-Bacon Chocolate Chip cookies remind me of being in high school and grabbing a booth at IHOP with my friends. I don’t eat pork, so I used (gasp) turkey bacon for the bacon bits. I had to replace the bacon fat in the dough with extra butter, since turkey bacon doesn’t really...
Tuesday 14th July 2026 Signal boxes are becoming something of an endangered species on the railway, not least on the London Underground, with modern technology enabling trains to be controlled from a computer screen many miles away from the tracks and in-cab displays for drivers rather than what is now regarded as old fashioned track side signals managed by staff from stand-alone signal cabins. Despite the gradual phased roll out of Computer Based Train Control (CBTC) on...
This was back in 2011. I had gone to India for a friend’s wedding and spent time in Japan. Kyoto was so beautiful and unique. Loved it. Kyoto Japan so long ago it seems
Nine barbel found the net - taking my season total up to 21. But the water is starting to warm up - best leave them alone for a while. Probably try and stalk a carp out of The Puddle (nowhere near a pub).
Newish on my workbench, are some AK paint pens. I'm a big fan of the MiG oilbrusher, it's a really handy device to have around for quick touch-ups, and these pens might be even better.First impressions are good. The paint flows well, and seems pretty opaque. Basically, painting with no cleanup at the end. The pointy tip isn't going to work for really fine work, but for a lot of jobs, it's OK. One job I have found them perfect for, is painting moulded on handrails. My only...
Today I learned that my dad lobbied to have my name be Octavio when I was a baby. He was overruled and my name became Raiden… When I heard Octavio something in me unlocked. It’s a powerful name. I kind of want to go by it. I like my name Raiden, but it is a softer name. A softer person. Perhaps when I channel my defiance, my disagreeableness, my fury, I can be Octavio. Use it as a character. A more confident me. A more fiery me. Something about it just feels right. An...
Tags: #moods · *duration:8hI do love a good sunset. It’s the colors, you see. Sunsets have the best colors. Sun go down.We’ve had a couple of days of great sunsets. Unfortunately it came with a side of major humidity and high temperatures. Monsoonal moisture, so says the weather guy. I dunno, some great sunsets might be worth the price. 😁
Nope, no awkward, pants-around-the-ankles hopping here. AWESOME! Want a new awesome thing every day? Sign-up here: Photo from: here The post #638 When the amount of toilet paper left on the roll is the exact amount you need appeared first on 1000 Awesome Things.
And some final bits and pieces. When railway cast iron signs were an art form! A fortune in nameplates? I assume that they are all real?? Note the Lynton and Barnstable Railway nameplates, Lew, Yeo and Lyn. Mechanical horse, LMS and BR style. This one needed a real horse. A different world? That’s it for now, folks!
LUZ is a trick-taking game. The twist here is you can’t see your own cards. You don’t know exactly what cards you have, but you can see everyone else’s cards. However you know the suits of your cards, because the cards have different coloured backs following their suits. At the start of a round, based on knowing everyone else’s cards and the suits of your own, you must predict
I ended last week with a short post I'm still thinking about. That post was about bookmarking, and a bygone era of the internet in which bookmarking played a big and perhaps vital role. I think about things like bookmarking a lot because I think about the internet a lot. I've thought about the internet a lot since at least the early 1990s. Back then I was messing around on bulletin board systems and trying to find other likeminded folks to talk about computers with. Back...
Now, the same lengthy Pomeranian piece could’ve been blooped out by a bot in 1 0 seconds flat. Impossible to tell if any effort went into writing it. This ease makes it hard to connect with others over shared interests, and harder still to convince people to change their mind about an issue. A . I. is making it easier than ever for people to put the ir t hough ts into writ i ng. A nd tha t’s a problem. In this document , I will review the l atest ways in which people are...
Источник: Gesetzliches Unrecht und übergesetzliches Recht // Süddeutsche Juristen-Zeitung. 1946. Jd. 1. Nr. 5. (105—108). С помощью двух принципов: «Приказ есть приказ» и «Закон есть закон», национал-социализм ухитрился привязать к себе своих последователей, солдат и юристов. Первый принцип всегда был ограничен в своей применимости: солдаты не были обязаны подчиняться приказам, служащим преступным целям. «Закон есть закон», с другой стороны, не знал никаких ограничений....
Julia Roberts? She was in that one movie with that guy, and the other one with the other guy, and like 100 more. Whatever. But she’s old news. Like all the other celebrity names I actually recognize, which isn’t a lot, but is some. Just a minute ago a headline floated by: Person A is doing Thing with Person B, what will Person C think? I have no idea: Who the people are, their relationship or lack thereof, their various claims to fame. I do not possess any crumbs of...
In 2013, the former Meltdown Comics shop in Los Angeles, California, held an art exhibition celebrating Mark Frost and David Lynch’s iconic television series Twin Peaks from June 8-21. Titled “Damn Fine Coffee,” this exhibition was curated by Nico Colaleo and featured 40 artists from around the entertainment industry. One artist from the show named Gina... The post Art Peaks – “Special Agent” by Gina Gress for Damn Fine Coffee at Meltdown Comics appeared first on TWIN...
Pira Feed Generator v0.9.something (2026/07/14) Added three merely cosmetic options: Icon, Logo (most readers display them next to your site) and also CSS (only for people checking the .xml file directly, probably no one ever, but you can make it look pretty anyway). Check it here.
Today was another hot one, with the temperatures reaching at least 34C/93F. I don’t know what the humidex was, but the humidity levels reached 80% at one point. For all the fans and the AC going, much of the house felt like being in a sauna. … and now tomorrow is also expected to reach … Continue reading Our 2026 Garden, and the heat continues
Motion Blur Taxis with Steam – New York, New York Here is a quintessential scene on the streets of Manhattan. You see the blur of fast-moving taxis, with what looks like smoke venting from underground. Things can be deceiving, however. I shot this at 1/15s, so the taxis don’t have to be traveling that fast to see them blurred like this. More interesting is the smoke rising from the temporarily set-up orange-and-white chimney. First of all, this is not smoke but stream. So...
NASA’s Perseverance rover, which has been exploring the Jezero crater on Mars since 2021 has just logged 26 miles of total travel, the equivalent of a marathon. This crater was chosen as the destination for the rover, with its advanced sensing instruments, because at one end there is a clear river delta and the crater itself was at one time believed to be under water. And indeed, as the rover has explored the terrain, it continues to gather more and more evidence that the...
It's not the only time of year that I visit them but I especially like them in summer because they tend to be heavily shaded and become a nice reprieve in the summer sun. I found myself in a few the last several days. It's been hot and humid but overcast so bearable. Like all places in Virginia my home area is full of Civil War history. It's not uncommon to find grave stones in many places around here. But it was nice to find a few graveyards just walking around and...
When it comes to cleansing oils, my go-to has been from Japanese brands. I’ve tried a few from different Korean brands but I just keep coming back to Japanese cleansing oils. And one of those is the one from Hada Labo, which I’ve been using since 2019. And anytime I go back to Japan or […]
Humans have always wanted to cheat death. But while ancient kings searched for magical plants and survivors of the Great Flood, today’s “longevity maxxers” are turning to biology, strict protocols, and billion-dollar technology to push the human lifespan past 120 years. From Bryan Johnson’s extreme “Blueprint” protocol to Peter Attia’s focus on healthspan, the quest for immortality has shifted from mythology to medicine.Covering:The Gilgamesh Complex: Why the oldest story...
Hi bloggers happy monday. Work keeps dropping hints that something Good is going to happen to me eventually. I got assigned as the lead PM to a very big project that's supposed to wrap up its main phase in April (past my contract) and be totally done in December. My boss' boss on the call today straight up said that they would be looking to extend me again but the clincher is if they were to bring me back as a contractor I would have to get furloughed for 3 months which...