I seemed to do quite well in the racing-car department, at Sandown, I rarely go to Sandown with anything like a shopping list, it's a question of what's there (and cheap) on the day! And, a month or so ago, it was racing cars, apparently?Rather highfalutin instructions, and blurb, bigging-up a basic mechanism in this Maserati, which had been known to aficionados of balsa flying machines for
Two days ago, I was at home and ordered food online. I went to pre-approve the delivery on the apartment's app, and saw an ad selling an old MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2014, 16 GB RAM, 120 GB SSD) for only ₹12,000 (~$130) from another resident. I inquired immediately and went there to take a look at it. The laptop seemed in good condition, I used it for a bit, checked random stuff, and then was ready to buy. I was ready to pay the listed price, but then just asked if they could lower the…
The vast majority of national-level Democrat politicians are what we call “AIPAC Democrats”. Not because they have Israeli citizenship, or are Jewish, or religious, or concerned with Israeli or Jewish safety, but because they are charisma-challenged, bad at their job, and unable to win their elections without the massive election interference, financial help, and smear campaigns that AIPAC provides. Of course none of this has helped win the AIPAC Dems much in the way of political power, but at…
While waiting Hopp - Estimated time 07 minutes then 14 minutes I am not sure if you know this game: played back home when I was little. All I had to do was look to the mirror until not recognizing me anymore. The fun of this game was being caught surprised by what was to look human. So I was the form made of a funny jelly, but still solid consistency, with a smooth surface - skin - and holes on each extremity of this thing called the HEAD. There were also holes in the thing called the NOSE, and…
Shane Hickey wrote in the Guardian back in May, quote marks added: Criminals use a variety of tactics to convince people that they are from McAfee and are becoming more sophisticated with advances in “artificial intelligence”, according to the company. There’s a broader discussion about the necessity of such AV tools, and McAfee’s own… shall we say, history! If you have a spare half an hour on your Sunday, do check out the history of the company and its eccentric former CEO; they read more like…
Yesterday :: Saturday, 20th June 2026
Lady-Birdby Fabrice Sapolsky, Dawn J. StarrGenres: Fantasy, Graphic Novels Pages: 120 Rating: Synopsis: Two young women, Vega and Mina, living 100 years apart share the same strange abilities. They hold the genetic key to saving the world from all known viruses and diseases, but they've been captured and taken advantage of by people more interested by power and money than anything else. In 1909, Vega is trapped. Forced to be a warrior when all she wants is love. In the present, Mina has…
Beach roses only bloom for a few weeks around the start of spring, and I love them as a marker of the start of the beautiful Maine summer. I somehow didn't notice the bug in this one until I processed the shot. On the same photo walk, my 9 year old son shot with his mini instax camera, and came up with some lovely ones. He also art-directed this shot of a bloom he plucked and put in this littlle puddle:
About a year ago, I had a terrible, horrible, awful very bad morning, at the end of a week that included successive days of excessive heat, being physically assaulted by a program participant, crossing swords with several people in quick succession… and at the end of that week, it’s fair to say, I lost my filter. (I posted about it here.) My pre-frontal cortex went off-line. I ranted, I demanded, I insisted, and I generally went on a verbal rampage that the people on the receiving end of my…
Mirror your phone's camera to your computer with scrcpy, and record it with OBS.
troubled life. #EmmaTheDiva
If you need some fun reading, I have a book in the Escape From 2026 bundle. Fourteen ebooks, DRM-free, all about time travel, alternate worlds, and generally mucking with history. My book, Tiny Time Wars? It’s exclusive to this bundle. As in, when this bundle goes away, so does this book. It will never be reissued. I’ve also done an interview about time travel, my take on time travel, and what it’s like to be an orc. Unlike my book, that interview will probably–probably–stay up a while after…
The first recording today starts with the end of The Professionals. Then it’s another episode of Magic’s Biggest Secrets Finally Revealed. The first illusion is how to vanish a motorcycle and rider in mid-air. He produces a chosen card from a hat with a rope. Pushing Pencils through a balloon. A woman rotates in a box while shackled. He reproduces a Spirit Medium trick. A levitation with no wires. He makes a bulb light up in his hand. He makes a big jeep appear in an empty car park. Media…
Sailboat at Nyhavn – Copenhagen, Denmark – Fujifilm GFX100RF – Vivid Velvia This is Part 1 of what will be a five-part series exploring Fujifilm Recipes for each generation of cameras. We will begin with the latest models, and work our way back towards the older cameras. For each article, I will suggest seven Recipes to try on your Fujifilm camera. This is intended for those new to the whole Recipe thing, who haven’t tried them before (or perhaps only a few Recipes so far). The intention is to…
Shortly after hitting publish on my post wondering what happened to her, I looked outside and spotted Miss Calico hanging out in my campsite. It made me wonder if she knew she was being talked about. She hung around for a few days. Then she disappeared for a couple of days. And tonight, she’s back to sleeping on my deck. This seems to be her regular thing… staying a while, leaving without notice, and re-appearing as if nothing out of the ordinary happened. I’ll just have to let her live her…
Revisited one of the greatest battle-of-the-sexes 1960s-flashback non-musical comedies with K and her mom. Really a two-person show, with good supporting parts for Ewan’s boss Niles (who should’ve been in more movies) and Renee’s agent Sarah Paulson (unfortunately best known as the psychologist in Glass).
In the New Yorker‘s 6/15/26 issue, a “Talk of the Town” piece “The Boards: Like Willy Wonka” by Zach Helfand on the theatre director Michael Arden experiencing indoor skydiving at a facility in Queens (in preparation for his latest show, “The Lost Boys”, which includes actors in intricate flying sequences). Then: In his acceptance speech for his first Tony, in 2023, Arden recounted being a bullied queer theatre kid in Texas, and then said, “All I can say is that now I’m a faggot with a Tony.”…
For some of us, our Roman Empire actually is the Roman Empire. As far as pre-modern states go, the Roman Empire was incredibly powerful, culturally influential, and well documented. Rome’s expansion shaped Europe, and Europe’s shaped the world. So when did the Romans stop being a thing? Definitions are as always tough, but they kind of never did. Even though the Roman state stopped functioning over 1500 years ago (or 500 years for all you Constantinople fans), the Roman identity never entirely…
Don't mean to get heavy but watching your second, adoptive home fall to fascism and no one seems interested in any meaningful action to stop it is hard. Not only because it's the second time but also because I had, and still have, hope for here. In a way I never had for the States
💡Read The Nonsense Machine now!Have you spent any time in a small business or tech repair shop like Benny’s?I remember going to them as a kid with my parents, and each one was chaotically stuffed like a moving van, or closet when a new partner is coming over. The counters and workbenches were always full of tools, pieces of machines, and parts, and yet, the shopkeeper always seemed to know exactly where everything was. This story started as my tribute to those people and places, in an era where…
Bukowski said, What matters most is how well you walk through the fire, and what we didn’t realize is that it’s all fire, all the time, and how we walk through it is how we live, how we keep living… This is it Linked within: In which poetry saves my soul I asked God if it was okay to be melodramatic and she said yes I asked her if it was okay to be short and she said it sure is I asked her if I could wear nail polish or not wear nail polish and she said honey she calls me that sometimes she…
"‘Loaded them up like convicts’: The wife of a man seized in a massive Penza enlistment raid on how he was sent to war against his will." “The cops, together with the enlistment office,” are driving around towns in minibuses, “stopping everyone and taking them away,” people warn one another on social media. #RussoUkrainianWar #RussiaIsATerroristState #PressGangs
Episode 39 of the Ted Dabney Experience podcast is available now for your listening pleasure! If you enjoy reading ArcadeBlogger.com, you’ll love the other project I’m involved with: The Ted Dabney Experience Episode 39. Click to listen! Rob Quinn joined Stern just as the company was branching out from it’s core pinball business to explore the brave new world of videogames. Rob talks about his involvement with the company’s early hit, Berzerk, his experiments with laser disc technology and his…
My wife started a fish tank a few weeks ago. It has come along well. We have some nice pets you can’t pet. Started with a small tank before moving to a big one.
We contain multitudes and we are also finite. Top that. 🤙 #teenwitch
Next tickets available 18th July for The Gentle Author’s Tour of Spitalfields In the grove of sacred hawthorn One Midsummer, Photographer Colin O’Brien & I joined the celebrants of the Loose Association of Druids on Primrose Hill for the solstice festival hosted by Jay the Tailor, Druid of Wormwood Scrubs. As the most prominent geological feature in the Lower Thames Valley, it seems likely that this elevated site has been a location for rituals since before history began. Yet this particular…
I’ve been on a kick lately identifying several iconic set decorations from Mark Frost and David Lynch’s Twin Peaks. I love finding these background art pieces after seeing them during multiple rewatches for more than three decades. Today, I’m returning to the Hayward house where a beautiful illustration of roses by Pierre-Josephe Redouté created in 1821.... The post Twin Peaks Set Decoration – Rosa Gallica Aurelianensis by Pierre-Josephe Redouté at the Hayward House appeared first on TWIN PEAKS…
On the weaponization of political discourse—and the necessity of enforcing values.
At one of the supermarkets I go to, I found these ice cream bars, what the Japanese, especially Kansai (west Japan) people call, "ice candy"These are made by Kubota Ice, a company in KochiWhat I like about these is that there aren't many ingredients in these, just milk, sugar and the fruit or "flavor"Back in March I tried this strawberry & milk bar and recently this matcha barSo
