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Brownie and Roach with Rollins. View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize Completely nuts that I haven’t acquired this one earlier. And it’s even more nuts that it’s only my second Brownie title. I have a lovely original of Study in Brown, so looking for the other ones, like Incorporated for example. Very happy to have found this at a local shop a couple of days ago.…
Quite a large turnout today with the Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust to scythe one of my favourite meadows. The quarter acre field at the end of the species rich grassland is kept closed to cattle during the season which allows the corky fruited water drop wort to flourish (among others). Now that the seed has turned, it was a good time to cut the hay while it’s so dry. And rather than just pile the arisings within the field, it was also an opportunity to spread green hay to other parts of the…
Here it is being largely ignored.
Welcome to the weekly Perfume Chat Room, perfumistas! I envision this chat room as a weekly drop-in spot online, where readers may ask questions, suggest fragrances, tell others their SOTD, comment on new releases or old favorites, and respond to each other. The perennial theme is fragrance, but we can interpret that broadly. This is meant […]
Luke Owen from Death Is Not The End has launched into a run of releases reissuing electronic music put out by CRI - Composers Recordings, Inc., originally co-founded by Otto Luening in 1954 and active right up until 2003. This is an obsession close to my heart, having picked up a lot of CRItronica as vinyl over the years, chased down others through the Cal Arts record library, and found still more on the internet. CRI put out an even larger amount of non-electronic music, 20th Century…
I’ve been talking about time-travel stories recently, so here’s another one, this time a book. Time Travel for Beginners, is the latest novel by Sydney based Australian author Jaclyn Moriarty. If you can find a shop called the Time Travel Agency, located somewhere in Sydney, then you too may be able to travel through what some people call the fourth dimension: The guidelines are simple: you can go whenever you wish into the past, and there’s no fear of altering the present. Have tea with Jane…
i'm sick again... for like the third time in the last month. i'm tired of not getting enough sleep and constantly battling illnesses. intern year is going tougher than i expected and pediatrics was supposed to be one of the easier rotations. maybe i will to get used to it, eventually.
Porto at night. View from our Airbnb.
Raoul Vaneigem is one of those thinkers whose thinkige had a massive effect on me for a while - and then dropped away almost completely as other influences came along and my thinking grew more complicated. Having initially believed The Situationists were a rock band, the ultimate subversive rock band (I first came across their name in a Melody Maker profile of Malcolm McLaren), I found Leaving the 20th Century: The Incomplete Work of the Situationist Internationale in Blackwells, the Oxford…
Episode 40 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 40. Click to listen! John Ray joined Atari Inc in 1977 as a hardware engineer, learning the ropes with 1978’s Fire-Truck, arguably the first truly co-op arcade game and a distinctive arcade presence due in no small part to his analogue circuitry audio. Ray was also involved with…
I got another commit merged in Git 2.55 (2026-06-29), yay! The release note reads: "git stash -p" has been optimized by reusing cached index entries in its temporary index, avoiding unnecessary lstat() calls on unchanged files. Here is the story of this change. Patch mode slowness The -p (--patch) option makes git stash interactive. Instead of stashing everything, Git walks you through your uncommitted changes hunk by hunk, asking whether to stash each one, using the same interactive machinery…
View from Cariboo Dam, pre-run: Calm and warm again. Today’s run was mostly a replay of Wednesday’s, with almost every stat and condition being very similar to the last run: Similar temperature and humidity Similar pace and BPM It was marginally better overall (and air quality was much better), but mostly it’s a rounding error. I started out stronger with an initial pace of 6:09/km, but that dropped off after the 2K mark. I detoured to the Nature House and got a drink at the fountain. This…
“A nostalgia é um sentimento permanente. Em outras palavras, sentimos nostalgia mesmo vivendo em nosso próprio país, ao lado das pessoas que mais amamos. Apesar de um lar feliz e de uma família feliz, um homem pode sofrer de nostalgia simplesmente porque sente que sua alma está sendo limitada, que ela não se desenvolve da maneira como deseja. A nostalgia é o sentimento de impotência diante do mundo, a dor de não conseguir transmitir sua espiritualidade aos outros.” Andrei Tarkóvski Se você…
I realize that I didn't review the three previous Masters of the Universe Origins playsets I own (Snake Mountain, Eternia, and the Fright Zone) and I didn't preorder/ crowdfund the Snake Lair, but I definitely wanted to check out the Slime Pit. Excuse me, I mean the Fright Pit. Yes, the 1986 vintage toy was called the Slime Pit because it used Mattel's own Slime (which they created and introduced to the toy market in 1976), but over the years Nickelodeon has somehow ended up with a trademark…
Here are some more (mediocre) photos from various things I've experienced recently around LA, including my experience in the secret tunnel, an experience attending a live Pokemon Go event that I haven't yet written up, and some other random shit I've done lately. I stand by my often-reiterated claim that if anyone living in LA is ever bored, they are simply stupid. It is impossible to be bored in this city if you ever leave your house. Half the fun shit you can do here is free, even!! Here is…
— I’ve been thinking about the dead a lot lately. Trying to count them up, in a way. You get older and you have more of the dead around you than the living most days. You know them better and you keep knowing them, the dead, even though they don’t know you back. Sometimes I forget who’s gone, and my writer friends, I talk to them in their books where they live on. — Last week I talked about reading Franz Wright’s last book which was published posthumously. Nick Cave’s book of interviews. This…
Like postcards of a beloved place and time. These screenshots from the late 90s bring back fond memories. This was the design we were all trying to immitate. I've spent hours nesting <table> tags, adjusting border and width properties. Source: Remembering the pre-Google web, when search was an experiment
Ever since I moved out from my parents house I’ve been living on my own. I never had room mates, or shared a space with anyone in any sort of capacity. That is until I moved in with the missus and her son a little over a year and a half ago in the apartment they were living in then, which we eventually upgraded to our current house.After having spent quite a few years (15 or so, I’m not going to do the math) living on my own then suddenly sharing a space with two people was, as I’m sure you can…
Today, another little experiment. Usually, the Icebreaker of the Week is a secondary item in the newsletter. But what if it stood on its own? Would readers (like you) be more likely to actually answer in the comments? Would that be fun?There’s only one way to find out . . . Noticing is about other people, too. The Icebreaker series aims to help with that. There’s a central collection spot for all the icebreakers to date, here.Today’s icebreaker comes from TAoN favorite Judi K.What is something…
Internet commenting and interactions are pretty rough to moderate, so I didn’t want to have open comments on all my posts. Mostly, those end up being places where bots just add random stuff, so I decided to allow replying to my posts by email. For any post you see, you can reply to it by tapping the "reply by email" link. I also now have a guestbook on my blog, so if you’d like to leave a general message or a cute illustration, feel free to do that!
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14:23 I woke up fresh in the middle of the night. As if I had slept for hours. I hadn’t. It happens rarely. But it does. 22:04 A lot is happening. A lot is getting done. A lot is yet to be. Busy times. Yet fun times. Reply to this post
A few weeks ago, the phrase "old faithful" came to me. I thought "that would be a good name for a ship!" This evening, I decided to do something with the name. I had an idea for a direction, but the story went in a completely different direction than I thought. I ended up writing a story in a version of Scots (that at least makes sense to me).In writing this story, I realised I could hear the story but didn't necessarily know how to write it down. I'm not certain on my spelling in some places,…
Toni Schneider, Automattic’s founding CEO, board member, and now CEO of Bluesky, has a great conversation with Nilay Patel on The Verge’s Decoder podcast (YouTube, Pocket Casts). Automattic invested in Bluesky back in 2023, and I’m very excited to see what they figure out in open social protocols.
Day: 1Show: 3Title: Sound and Noise and BodiesCategory: Clowning / Comedy / Drama / Improv / Original Music / Solo Show / Spoken Word / Storytelling / Audience participation / Historical contentBy: Octoberdandy ProductionsCreated by: Jen ScottLocation: Theatre in the RoundSummary: A very personal solo show by #TCTheater artist and improvisor Jen Scott that covers some big topics with humor and charm.Highlights: In this quirky genre-bending show (directed by Levi Weinhagen), Jen shares stories…
As a natural melancholic, the idea of being drawn to the sea — to drown one’s regrets, whether figuratively or bodily — makes me glad there isn’t a significant body of water within six hundred miles. It isn’t that suicide holds appeal for its own sake. Rather, it’s a fire door in the back, rigged with an alarm but duly located in case of an emergency. Sometimes, when an elderly person goes missing in the mountains, I wonder if they disappeared because of forgetfulness, as the silver alerts…
