On October 19, 1876, wedding bells rang in Wabash county, Indiana, for William Madison McClure (1849-1887) and his bride, Margaret Jane Larimer (1859-1913). They were my husband's great-grandparents. Redoing my newspaper research, I found that the weekday wedding was reported in the Goshen Times (Indiana) newspaper with this short item:Mr. Wm M. McClure, late of Wabash, Ind., and Miss Maggie [Margaret] Larimer, of Millersburg, this county [Elkhart], were married at the latter place on Thursday…

New and revised entries at online philosophy resources, new reviews of philosophy books, new podcast episodes, recently published open access philosophy books, and more… . (If we missed something, let us know.) Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy New: Academic Freedom by Jacob T. Levy. Epistemology of Artificial Intelligence by Claus Beisbart. Revised: Feminist Social Epistemology by Heidi Grasswick. Feminist Perspectives on Rape by Rebecca Whisnant. Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius by John…

We have been in a stretch of perfect autumnal weather: chilly nights, clear days, before the time change so we still have plenty of time to enjoy this perfect October time. As I drove down the Cumberland Highway on Saturday, I was struck by how many small towns had piled pumpkins around the "Welcome to ______ " signs. Pumpkins and hay bales and perhaps a scarecrow that wouldn't scare a soul.It's not the perfect leaf viewing season, however. Yesterday I stood on the back deck and stared up at…

The less said about the week leading up to the weekend, the better. Things did massively improve once Saturday was around. A lot of good company, food and drink, what more does one need? (Maybe a coffee. I just got up. And that’s why this one is very short.) Reply by email

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Week notes, week 1342 / 2026-10-11 Immediately after complaining that my room and mental is a mess in the last week notes, per long-standing tradition of this blog, I proceeded to clean up the whole room and some of the house 😁 Mental is still a bit of a mess, though; feeling overwhelmed, which I'd say calls for a day off next week. Had a really nice video game session with a friend on the weekend; just sitting next to each other while I was escaping the Skyblock:Zero Abyss and he was building…

One of the things I like about this video essay from Deep Dive Dance is that the list you will see below is not definitive and there is even acknowledgement that perhaps there are some dancers who have been overlooked. So, don’t worry too much if your favourite male ballet dancer does not make it into this video – there is still plenty of time! Another reason for including this video on Kuriositas is that we get extensive clips of each of the featured dancers, so we can compare and contrast as…

It’s been years since I last read anything by Philippa Gregory, so I decided to try her latest novel, Royal Witch. It’s the story of Eleanor Cobham, Duchess of Gloucester, a woman who has appeared as a secondary character in other books I’ve read (including Gregory’s own The Lady of the Rivers), although this is the first one I’ve read that focuses on her specifically. We first meet Eleanor in 1421 as a young woman of twenty arriving at Westminster Palace to become a lady-in-waiting to…

An unwelcome cold and wet week here in athens, schools and ferries were closed on wednesday for the storm. I spent that evening bailing out and mopping up a friends flooded basement, all the apartment block denizens pitched in and after a few hours we got it dry. The temperature dropping as low as 14ºC forced me on to vinted to buy a raincoat and jumper, actions that have spurred the weather to return to a v pleasant 21ºC and sunny for the foreseeable. Thus apart from the mopping I spent pretty…

tags: [film] commentary: this actually occurred to me because I just rewatched Hereditary "and thought "Ari Aster, what happened to you?"" but Midsommar is also good so I don't think he actually scores that high Here's a fun game to play: which director maximizes the ratio of "quality of feature film directorial debut" to "quality of the rest of their feature film oeuvre"? I think Darren Aronofsky is the one to beat here. Pi is quite good; it's got just enough science fiction to feel exciting…

17 years ago I led one of my first residential singing weekends. The theme was the Beach Boys. Beach Boys singing weekend, September 2009, Farncombe Estate The other weekend, I was in Derbyshire leading another of my (rare) Beach Boys weekends. It got me thinking about all the things that have happened since 2009. Three of the singers who came in 2009 also came to my recent weekend. Apart from the obvious — we all looked 17 years older! — what else has changed? Here are seven things that came…

It’s a Monday Pressing Concerns! We’ve got new albums from Bliss?, Jacob T. Simons, and The Knickerbocker5, plus a reissue from Sea Scouts. Check ’em out below. If you’re looking for more new music, you can visit the site directory to see what else we’ve written about lately. If you’d like to support Rosy Overdrive, you can share this (or another) post, or donate here. Bliss? – The Freezing Light Release date: October 16thRecord label: Psychic SpiceGenre: Power pop, art rock, college rock,…

I always have a good time using my Olympus XA, but this time I wasn’t fully happy with the scans I got back from my lab. The colors all looked subdued, and contrast was low. This lab normally sends me scans with color and contrast that can be used as is. I had some trouble making these look as I wanted them to in Photoshop and I didn’t always succeed. But here are some that turned out at least okay. These are on Fujicolor 200, by the way, and I made these shots either at Holliday Park or…

Carbonel by Barbara Sleigh published 1955 On a recent post, blogfriend Jan W put this in the comments: The first book I bought for myself (by Book Token) was Carbonel by Barbara Sleigh. Rosemary and her mother live in a boarding house , the latter is a seamstress who goes to peoples’ houses, sides to middling sheets and other dull sewing, but she gets a tray of the same food as her employer to eat in the sewing room. The Browns lives are transformed when the leader of a theatrical troupe…

From afar, the R train subway entrance at the northwest corner 77th Street and Fourth Avenue in Bay Ridge doesn’t warrant a second glance. It looks like any other street-level entryway, with the Helvetica signage, the concrete staircase, and the no-slip step tread at the top of the stairs. But look closer, and some unique details emerge—like the unusually thick cast iron sides of the entrance. On those slightly rusty cast-iron sides, you can see strange design motifs. One appears to be a cross,…

The MisconceptionThe popular fear goes like this - a machine arrives, learns your job, and politely shows you the door. Replacement. Obsolescence. A tasteful farewell cake. It is a satisfying story because it has an ending, and people like endings. The actual story is worse because it never ends. Most jobs are not being taken. They are being refinanced. You still show up, you still do the work, you are often faster and better than before. The only thing that changed is that the sharpest part of…

(Work in progress – comments welcome but I will probably edit this later!) The AI summer has arrived, on blast for a long while now, and potential financial crashes/civilisational collapses aside, the next AI winter doesn’t seem to be around the corner. But still, life goes on post-AI. In fact, just using the phrase “post-AI” gives us agency over what comes next, giving us permission to set our own narrative. As I’ve said elsewhere, LLMs are like alcohol, as quick, easy solutions to problems.…

Thank you to everyone who made the 1944 Club such a success! As always, it’s wonderful to see the range of titles that come in – I have a lotttt of reviews to read, and it turns out that my week was very busy, but I loved it. And I’m reading one 1949 title that I didn’t make much headway in, but I’m really enjoying, so watch out for that. We are moving to the 1970s for our next club – here’s your six-month warning for the 1973 Club!

After we finished Frozen, I encouraged R to have a little tactical nap on the sofa so we could stay up for Bonfire. Like all the local towns, Hastings DOES bonfire. It times it around the 1066 celebrations (Come for the Costumes; Stay for the [checks notes] Costumes!). It was our first at any of them. We saw the Rookies parade first, and joined the members in front of a small bonfire setup in the shadow of the big one. R loved that. We then ambled down to America Grounds (via Maker + Baker) to…

Empty and showing its age, it might be the creepiest house ever photographed in New York. For roughly 50 years, this fortress of a mansion was the lone occupant of a thickly wooded island off the Bronx’s Oak Point, now known as Hunts Point, where the East River intersects with Long Island Sound. With more than 100 rooms, five stories, and a double-pitched mansard roof, the unsettling house had none of the elegance of the other estate homes owned by elite families that dotted the bucolic…

A nice day but wind a bit cool. Did the office and the outside T. Cut a good bit of wood for the incin. Cleaned both jets and teps T.* Brushed up round bins. (*Just guessing what this says. Could be TEP5 7 but that doesn’t make much sense either.)

Compare Here and Below If You Can Stand It ...'Tis Another Spook Season --- Part OneHere’s Where We Spot AI From a Mile Away --- To collect lobby cards, you often make do. Pinholes, scuff marks, even paint dabs can be fixed. Fading cannot. Cards sat often in the sun, displayed outdoors to damaging rays. It didn’t take long for Old Sol to do his harm. I got this group scene from Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and tried to kid myself it was OK, self-deception collectors often engage, but no, it…

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Latest shiny links from a week on the web. For even more, try last weeks set found here or the weekly r/OSR blogroll or check the RPG Blog Carnival. Bloggie-nominated. Originally inspired by weaver.skepti.ch, delinked by request. Dice Exploder shares Transcript: Thri-Kreen (Dark Sun) with Zedeck Siew Throne of Salt writes Power Word Kill is a first-level spell Nordic Larp shares Steering for Survival Roseline gives us Decoding skills in TTRPGs with the 5 Node Interface Model Prismatic Wasteland…

Ridgeline subscribers — Oh, hello. I made a notebook: ⬤. You can buy it here. I didn’t mean to make a notebook but, you see, I had no choice. A couple of years ago the Japanese edition of Kissa by Kissa came out. While iterating over materials and size, a handful of blank so-called “dummy books” were made. They were sitting around my studio. Earlier this year I used one as a notebook. Goddamn, I thought, this is a nice notebook. Not perfect, but almost. When I used up the first dummy I grabbed…

9718/21637I love a good mystery as much as anyone and the crazy straws that some mystery hunters grab at. Occasionally the crazy straws prove to be correct, like when Richard III was found buried in a car park with an R painted above where he lay (though Turi King who was on that dig told me that that bit isn't true). Hey, it's great if someone finally solves something in that way and I remain excited by that whole tale.

There are 89,603 registered dogs in New York City. Dog owners are required to obtain a license for their pets, registering details including the dog's name, breed and birth year, along with the owner's ZIP code.Every Dog in New York is an interactive map that puts this canine census on the map, revealing which breeds dominate individual neighborhoods, where particular dog names are most popular, and how the city's dog population has changed over time.Using the map you can search for a breed, a…

Whew! Another club reading week has flashed past, and what fun it’s been! I’ve so enjoyed reading books from what turned out to be a stellar year, despite a couple of slight misses for me. It’s also been wonderful to hear about what everyone else has been reading, and thanks for all your support for the club and for sharing your reads. I’m still catching up with reading your posts and linking to them, so please do leave a comment on the 1949 page if I’ve missed you – a kind of ‘flu-like bug…

198? Clockwize Platform: Amstrad CPC A short entry for an early Tennis game that was in development at Clockwize for the Amstrad CPC, and preserved thanks to Dean Hickingbottom. Unfortunately, it didn’t get very far at all – but we have a very early glimpse for you to take a look at. The prototype just has a simple scrolling tennis court, with two players either end – the first of which can be moved around, but you cannot really hit the ball or anything, but you can make it move by pressing…

It’s not every day that you get to see model railways built my people you truly admire, so I was excited to see Gordon and Maggie Gravett’s wonderful Port de Crozon…I have admired their projects from afar for many years and was lucky enough to see the previous French layout at a show a few years ago… I may have seen Arun Key in the flesh too but certainly if I did it wasn’t up close… despite this until this weekend I had never met them both!Stood in front of Port de Crozon yesterday Gordon…