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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...
Codes and Ciphers by Robert C. S. Adey. Originally published in The Mystery Lover’s Newsletter, 1969. Vol II No. 6, pp. 10/11: Like so many other things, Mr. Edgar Allan Poe started it all, though this time the illustrious forerunner was not the much-cited “The Murders in the Rue Morgue”, but instead that equally fine quintessence of its form, “The Gold-Bug.” Published in 1843 and yet, today, still as readable as ever, it is the first detective story where the major...
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
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...
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...
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...
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Keith Miller got two parking fines from a camera in Miramar, and the only way out was to prove his own innocence. Miller, a former Wētā VFX supervisor, shopped at the New World in Miramar in December and went back in January. Smart Compliance Management runs the number plate cameras in that car park. They sent him a breach notice showing his car arriving and his car leaving, and billed him for one long overstay. Two separate trips. The camera had missed one of the...
When the Portuguese charted the island of Taiwan, they named it Ilha Formosa, “beautiful island.” That’s the background behind the board game Formosa Formosa, which — and I’m not sure designer Kirk Beiser is aware of this — translates to “beautiful beautiful.” Kind of like when somebody calls a monster a were-person, which just means man-person, except “beautiful beautiful” is even more duplicative. Appropriately, Formosa Formosa doubles down on its namesake. Designed by...