On February 1964, Walt Disney's The Wonderful World of Color aired the first of their three-part series titled "The Scarecrow of Romney Marsh" based on the story of Dr. Syn (Patrick MacGoohan), the English pastor who masqueraded as the fearsome Scarecrow at night to lead a band of smugglers and, like Robin Hood, share his spoils with the poor people of his parish. You can read our write-up on this great historical-adventure series here, but for this post we are featuring the thrilling theme…

Local Wikipedia: The Encyclopedia For Local People Limit Wikipedia to your immediate area. Such a great idea and well executed here!

Orginal post: 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks Noah B. Crouch, probably son of Charles and Rebecca (Attaway) Crouch, was born in Muhlenberg County, Kentucky about 18251 and died probably in Jackson Township, Sullivan County, Missouri 10 August 1870.2 He was buried in Sullivan County.3 He married in Moultrie County, Illinois 26 January 1849, Meneme "Winnie" Waggoner,4 daughter of Isaac and Nancy (Smith) Waggoner. She was born in Shelby (now Moultrie) County, Illinois about 10 March 1831 and died of…

I think it was Karl Marx who said history repeats itself: first as tragedy, then as farce. Or maybe it was Pauly Shore, but the point is still valid. While details change, the basic fact of human stupidity does not. And since I have been reporting on that topic for a long time now, it shouldn’t be surprising that this is not the first time we’ve discussed a case in which some idiot stole a bird from the Flamingo Hotel in Las Vegas. That first time was indeed tragic, although to be honest the…

DC has posted several preview pages from next week’s issue of The Flash, and you can see them at Adventures In Poor Taste. The preview features Wally and Superman dealing with an unexpected catastrophe, and now they’ve got to pick up the pieces and help the people caught in the emergency. Check it out at the link! THE FLASH #38 Written by RYAN NORTH Art and cover by GAVIN GUIDRY Variant covers by CARLO PAGULAYAN and RAUL ALLEN $3.99 US | 32 Pages | Variant $4.99 US (card stock) ON SALE 10/28/26…

Have had Codie's on my "to try" list for some time nowWent to check it out on Friday, since I had some time on my hands The shop is tiny, seating only about 12?!Burgers are cooked to order so be prepared to waitLuckily, Kat was first to order...Avocado cheeseburger with fries and an oolong tea...2013 yen (tax included)This made up for that junk one I had the other weekThe patty was juicy AND

Since the show starts at 7:00 PM, you will be sitting in the dark for almost the entire concert, meaning that 50°F will feel closer to 40°F (or lower if the foothill winds pick up). At 6,450 feet of elevation, once the sun sets, the temperature drops rapidly, and the massive stone monolithic structures turn into a giant refrigerator. You should plan your evening around this timeline and dress specifically for a sustained chill. Suggested Timeline & Layering Strategy • 5:30 PM – 6:00 PM (Doors…

WAYS COFFEE STAND is a specialty coffee store in Morioka, in a rather central location right next to its castle ruins and shrine. We came up to Morioka recently for a weekend hiking trip and had the opportunity to try just one coffee spot before we went home. Either Morioka has amazingly good coffee, or we managed to happen upon the best pour-over coffee in Morioka on the first try because the pour-over here was on point! At first glance they seem to be just running a takeaway shop down an…

Nota bene: This is part 5 of my multi-part series on Adam Smith’s day-to-day duties as a member of the Board of Customs of Scotland. (Here are parts 1 (intro), 2 (Letter #109), 3 (Letter #112), and 4 (Letter #118).) Works cited are below the fold. Next up is Letter #119. This letter is dated 1 November 1784 and is signed by same three customs commissioners who signed Letter #118 (also dated 1 Nov. 1784): Adam Smith (top signature), Basil Cochrane (middle), and David Reid (bottom). Letter #119…

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a cat is crying outside it almost sounds like a child begging for love i go out to try and find it its midnight i follow her cries as close to the source as i can i wonder if someone has abandoned her i wonder if she is lost and scared it seems to be coming from the neighbours house i didn't know they had a cat i wonder if they've left her outside and just forgotten about her that's the best explanation i have so far as the cries are only coming from their house her cries are oh so very sad…

Reminder: Supporting the comics aggregator takes time, effort, and money. If you would like to see it continue to exist, please subscribe. GoComics has tightened its anti-scraping protections, presumably to defend against AI slop factories. As a result I am currently unable to retrieve comics reliably from GoComics. I may be able to figure out how to circumvent the new protections and/or find other sources for some of these comics, but in the meantime, they are either working intermittently or…

— Friends, today’s post is a writing prompt, which is to riff on: Your work is…..— There is a piece I read ages ago (2014 to be exact), on the magazine Brevity, by A. Papatya Bucak. It begins: “My work is to write this sentence and revise it into that sentence. To take this word and replace it with that word.My work is a novel I wrote from five to seven a.m. for more than two years and that will never be published.My work is to be the person you trust to tell the truth, even though I am a known…

Today’s recording starts with the end of Animals at Work. If this weren’t John Barrowman, would this be a hate crime? There’s a trail for Big Fab Fridays. Then it’s Deadly 60 – Namibia 2. Steve’s looking for big cats. He wants to demonstrate the importance of camouflage so he puts on some camo and stalks his film crew. But they spot him. While looking for a leopard, Steve finds a porcupine. He gets a close look at a leopard. He also finds some lions. A night, they’re also stalked by lions. They…

Every distributed database gets a label: Cassandra is AP, HBase is CP, and PostgreSQL is CA. The letters are supposed to tell you what it gives up when the network breaks: AP keeps answering but may serve stale data, CP stays correct but may stop answering, CA assumes the network never breaks. And people repeat them like facts. Most of those labels are wrong, or at least too sloppy to be useful. People call MongoDB and Redis both CP, and both shipped default configurations that lost committed…

Some models stubbornly stick to wrong solutions. Drew Breunig calls this context inertia.

Couple meets at a wedding and chase each other around giggling, then have a nice time nude in a crypt. When they return to the surface, the cemetery is closed and deserted and their attempts to leave end up in loops, until he gets shitty, starts slapping her around and trashing graves. They make up, and get busy on a pile of bones. I still don’t love these vibes-only Rollin movies but don’t mind rollin’ with one every couple of years. The actress would go on to almost produce a Tara Reid movie,…

How much capital will the AI boom vacuum up in 2027? Matt Dines points out Meta’s CapEx exceeding its operating cash flow, raising the prospect of new share issuance and a potential Tesla-SpaceX merger could open another financing route.

I can already tell that my paddling adventure is going to much more than a way to get out on the water—admittedly my personal happy place. After only two outings, it's challenging my ability to absorb new information, move in new and sometimes daunting ways and—at 71 years of age—to accept some of the limitations that come with being an older person.* It's also teaching me about the waterways that are such a critically important part of our life here in the Pacific Northwest. Kayaking trip? You…

What would a competency test for a politician look like? I was wondering that a few mornings ago. I've been through demonstrated competency evaluations. The ones relating to Self Contained Breathing Apparatus come to mind because they mattered. The assumption is that the air outside the mask has too little oxygen, or too much of something bad, like methane or chlorine. You can bet that I and the other people involved paid attention. The most intense one happened going on site for a big gas…

I’m an Australian father of four, living in the US. Something of a corner case. Nevertheless, getting my kids Australian citizenship by descent, and then Australian passports so we can fly home legally, has kicked off a carnival of errors with a very dark side. Australia is generally thought of as a developed western liberal country with relatively high state capacity. And I have generally found that at least state government services, now administered through centralized offices, have become…

A beautiful paragraph opening one of the chapters from The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett:One of the strange things about living in the world is that it is only now and then one is quite sure one is going to live forever and ever and ever. One knows it sometimes when one gets up at the tender solemn dawn-time and goes out and stands alone and throws one's head far back and looks up and up and watches the pale sky slowly changing and flushing and marvelous unknown things happening…

Brooklyn Bridge from Above – New York, NY – Fujifilm X-T5 – KinaColor 26 One of my favorite in-camera tools for Film Simulation Recipes is Clarity. This feature goes a long way towards emulating a soft negative film aesthetic or a crisp slide film look seemingly captured through a lens with great micro contrast. But if Clarity is set to anything other than 0 (a.k.a. Off), it causes a brief storing pause. This pause, which is about the same amount of time as advancing to the next frame on a film…

Click here to book for The Gentle Author’s Tours East End Riverside As you will have realised by now, I am a night bird. In the mornings, I stumble around in a bleary-eyed stupor of incomprehension and in the afternoons I wince at the sun. But as darkness falls my brain begins to focus and, by the time others are heading to their beds, then I am growing alert and settling down to write. Once I used to go on night rambles – to the railway stations to watch them loading the mail, to the markets…

The website was down from Wednesday to Friday (week beginning the 18th of October 2026) due to the PHP2Shell exploit. I was too busy being at university to fix it, so I took the server down. Apologies for the downtime. The server also keeps crashing randomly needing a manual physical restart. I have tried everything, watchdogs, etc. Checked the logs as well to find the culprit. I have no idea so far. So that’s why it goes down at times. Unfortunately, fediverse.observer is down now as well,…

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I like Bukowsky's work. I find a recognition in the way he expresses himself. A kind of - I don't give a damn air about his poetry. It's something raw, unpolished, and even coarse at times. I miss this in modern times. There is so much online and on mainstream news and media that is so over-polished, pretentious and soul-lacking. Bukowski's words shake my soul a little. His words are holding sweet pain in him. I can identify with his soul torment, with his agony, and with the poignancy of the…

Actor Tom Skerritt died on October 21, 2026, at the age of 93. He appeared in such movies as MASH (1970), Alien (1979), Steel Magnolias (1989), and A River Runs Through It (1992). On television, he starred on the show Picket Fences and guest starred on shows from Gunsmoke to Chicago Hope.Tom Skerritt was born on August 25, 1933 in Detroit, Michigan. He graduated from Mackenzie High School in Detroit, then enlisted in the United States Air Force where he served as a classifications specialist.…