• 3-star hike • 1 mile loop • Easy | Gain 80 feet • Newburyport, MA | Northeast Region . Among the tall white pine trees of Moseley Woods. Moseley Woods is a town park on the south bank of the Merrimack River that is most popular with locals looking for a casual walk or a place to exercise their dogs. We discovered the park when looking for a place to start a hike into neighboring Maudslay State Park while avoiding an exorbitant out-of-state parking fee. We found Moseley Woods to be a pleasant…

From The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914, by Christopher Clark (Harper, 2013), pp. 287-290: For Austria-Hungary, the Balkan Wars changed everything. Above all, they revealed how isolated Vienna was and how little understanding there was at the foreign chancelleries for its view of Balkan events. St Petersburg’s hostility to the empire and its utter disregard for Vienna’s interests in the region could be taken for granted. More worrying was the indifference of the other powers. The…

It’s a beautiful morning here in Utah. The very definition of cold and bright.

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I have gone looking for more info about the astonishing results in the South. I wanted to see how votes had shifted according to race in South Carolina, Mississippi, and Texas to bring about these astonishing results. Unfortunately, damn it, there were no 2024 exit polls in SC or MS--I'm sure CNN thought, why bother? So I'm left with Texas. The distribution of the electorate hardly changed at all. The 2024 poll showed 55 percent whites, 26 percent Latino, 11 percent black, 4 percent Asian; the…

It was my first avocado tree’s first winter when a couple leaves started getting yellow veins. Oh no, what disease is this? I thought. I took a picture and sent it to a seasoned avocado grower. He wrote back, “This is leaf senescence. The leaf is just dying naturally.” With this post, I hope to […] The post Reading avocado leaves appeared first on Greg Alder's Yard Posts: Southern California food gardening.

A moment in time, in between breaths, a world is opening up, a different world, different rules. Where the warrior can rest, where the worrier can relax. Where she can stop, for a second. Not seeing the world of mountains behind the next breath. In here, there is rest, if she only lets go.

screenshots from Barry’s video The latest video from Barry Ferns is another of his clever and well-researched explanations of psychological phenomena, this time about how the media peddle “experts'” dumbed-down, oversimplified opinions to us as click-bait. Those using the media have learned the formula for maximizing our attention and hence exploiting us for clicks and profits. Helping us to actually understand a complex issue, and challenging what we believe, has no place in this formula.…

📨 I love my unlimited email aliases and catch-all feature, as a way to protect my real email adres. But other people are not really used to it. “Wait, so your email is “myshop” at your custom domain?”

There have been such a lot of ports of various games to newer/older hardware, so many that I don’t even bother linking them all, and the number has proliferated with the arrival of generative-AI-based ports, which lay entirely outside my sphere of interest. There are a couple of interesting remakes of the Playstation game Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, which may be the most popular game in the series, and one of them, by Kaffeeware is for the Super Nintendo. (18 minutes). The PSX is a…

Post physical therapy, I've been using my shiny cane a little less. But if I plan to be on my feet for several hours at a time, I bring it along. The hip does get tired and the limp becomes more pronounced, noticeable enough for strangers to point it out.Day Two of a local arts festival had me already limping around: not only did I already do a once-over, but parking was pretty far. So I wasn't surprised when I made eye contact with a small lady who asked to pray over me. Not because of my…

Do you run a small home server or NAS holding your precious photos and sensitive documents? If so, I suppose the drives are encrypted, right? But then… can you reboot the machine without manually entering a passphrase before being able to access your files again? If you answered yes to the questions above—which is common for convenience—that implies the encryption keys live in the machine which… kinda defeats the purpose of disk encryption, doesn’t it? A thief can break into your house, lift…

Visigothic King Wamba ruled from 672 to 680, when something happened to him. There are different stories about how he ended his reign. The main one is that he fell ill, took up monastic vows to save his soul while on his supposed deathbed, then recovered, but could not renounce the vows and had to abdicate.Two centuries later a history says he was poisoned, but had to step down after recovering. Another version is that he slept (possibly being given a sleeping potion), whereupon Erwig shaved…

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Album of the Week, November 7, 2026 We’ve seen saxophonist Joe Henderson a few times in our jazz record reviews, as a sideman for Alice Coltrane, Ron Carter, Freddie Hubbard, Miroslav Vitouš, and Herbie Hancock. But before any of these recordings were the classic albums the Lima, Ohio-born Henderson made as a leader, starting with a string of recordings for Blue Note Records that reflected both a more conventional hard bop and a broader, more original compositional palette that was informed by…

We are ready for the 2026 Things 4 Good Candle Fundraiser! We made a record setting 415 candles this year. Plus two new scents. The six Golden Ticket candles for Makers Night get a special spot! All proceeds supporting four great organizations.

Being calm is a superpower. We all know it. We all want it. Yet few of us know how to get there. How do you rein in the emotions storming inside your head? How do you stop them from spilling out of your mouth? How do you keep what you feel from showing on your face? It happens in two phases. The first is understanding why you aren't calm. You need to identify the emotions that dominate you. Then you either address them, or find a way to handle them without acting on impulse. Most people are…

There's a new Haudoo! How to stop drinking by Neil Williams. It's a wonderful, practical, thoughtful little book.Here's Neil talking about it:

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We recently finished up our watch through of Buffy the Vampire Slayer which I thoroughly enjoyed. It's definitely a show that has its ups and downs, and there are definitely aspects of where the story goes that I would have loved to be different but ultimately, I walked away a huge fan. So much so that I was eager to jump into this pseudo-sequel series. Obviously, the big draw here is the returning cast. You've got Spike and Giles and a whole host of other returning actors which lends a great…

Don’t Look Back Vesturbæjarlaug Spoke at length with ‘Charlie’ from Brooklyn while lounging in the big hot pot today, speaking of music and food deserts and life here and elsewhere. All good things must end, and as I was walking back to the changing room I realized that this would probably be the last time I would trod these frigid tiles. They didn’t seem so cold then. Inside, the last shower,

Agree to Disagree is a regular feature on LADBible. This series pairs up two celebrities who are typically on a promotional tour for a new movie or show. The interviewer gives them a series of questions, and they need to use a Likert-type scale printed on a table and glasses (sometimes containing booze) to make their response.For example, here is an Agree to Disagree segment featuring Keira Knightley and Ben Whishshaw, who are promoting the second season of Black Doves on Netflix. PS: I LOVED…

The Last of the Mohicans; A narrative of 1757 by James Fenimore Cooper | Project GutenbergIt was published in 1826 so I thought we could revisit this classic.

More than what I see and even more that what you think or assume, and beyond what either of us think or feel or believe about the reflection I see in the mirror, there is an ongoing truth concerning the difference between facts and opinion.There are certain facts which go beyond our approval and denial. One of these facts are I am me and you are you and despite faults and flaws or similarities and differences; we both live and breathe. Then again, living and breathing are left up to…

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*With apologies to Tom Francis. Written with His Majesty the Worm in mind. For all spells, you cannot bring another creature, but your gear and what you are holding travels alongside you. Rhoumin's Slithering RushComponent: A rotting snakeskin, emblazoned with geometric patterns that almost look like script. Pick a room on the map (in the Crawl Phase) or zone in view (in the Challenge Phase). You go there so long as there is no physical obstacle (like a door, wall, or sheet of ice) blocking…