These large apples, oblate and wide, wear a striped red blush over the usual green-inflected yellow. On some examples the green is more pronounced than on others. ¶ The blush includes saturated streaks, and lenticels that are more tactile than visual: tiny raised bumps.

Trey Stone has entered the microbrand arena with Experience ($1,399), an attractive, Swiss-made automatic designed to be your ideal everyday companion. Go anywhere, do anything (GADA) watches are highly prized… The post Trey Stone Experience appeared first on The Time Bum.

Y'know... ...maybe the bride shouldn't have ordered a whole wheat wedding cake. Thanks to Sasha M., for helping us remember the first year is always the harvest hardest.************* Update From Jen: I see your stalks of wheat, Sharyn, and raise you... THIS. Thanks to Robert V. for making like a tree, and swaying in high winds.(I'd ask you readers who won, but considering these were both wedding cakes, I guess we already know who lost. Heh.)*********Update from john (the hubby of Jen) Ooh, ooh!…

In our world too, a Stable once had something inside it that was bigger than our whole world. C.S. Lewis, The Last Battle (Queen Lucy), 1956 Colossians 2:9 says that in Christ the whole fullness of deity dwells bodily. Wholly man, wholly God, Holy King of Heaven and Earth. As the seasons change and Winter comes, remember that in the Stable rested a King.

On the fifth anniversary of publishing Ghost Signs: A London Story, I’m excited to announce that the book is back in print as London’s Ghost Signs. Roy Reed and I have updated some of the 250+ entries, but otherwise the content in its new compact format is identical to the earlier volume, and very reasonably priced at £15.99.Buy the BookLondon’s Ghost Signs (ISBN 9781902910857) is published by Metro Publications. There’s more about the Take Courage sign from the cover in this post.London’s Lost…

What a whirlwind October was. Dami kong ganap! Though I'll focus on: my first time to Bali, my 1kyu kendo grade exam, and my first kendo competition.

I declared the blogwagon for player advice but I was not sure what advice I could bestow since I have never considered myself a particularly good player when I am not in the seat of the referee. To toot my own horn, I am a damn fine referee, and it is that aspect of the hobby that keeps me coming back. But as a player, I always felt I am either stealing the spotlight or too easily distracted and fidgety when I’m not stealing the spotlight. So how could I, a mediocre player, deign to give out…

Five years ago, Andrew Shen created a browser extension, SEP+, that improved the experience of using the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy in various ways. He has now released an update, SEP+ v2, which does even more. The old version moved each article’s navigation outline to the side of the page, offered the option of “dark mode”, added keyboard shortcuts for search, removed irrelevant sections when printing, and improved the typography. The new version does all that but also includes…

About being a so-called unicorn and its value.

The capability of considering a problem a way to generate wealth from is not new. Since the origins of wealth we are trying to attribute value to objects. SKUs as a way to define and categorize items make our life easier, day by day, but also there are a lot of implicit rules out there that rule us all. These days, I’m starting to believe the prize of being “there” might not be the best nor the most accurate outcome, except you are the one trying to rule us all. Photo by Joseph Akbrud on…

Soon, when you share your file or photo or whatever from Apple's iCloud to "anyone with the link", Apple will check for "harmful content." Apple will, essentially, treat any sharing to "anyone with the link" as the same as sharing to everyone on the internet. In other words, Apple is hosting your file or photo or whatever publicly, and the company decided it will not host anything that is "harmful." Apple will not tell us what it considers "harmful," probably to protect itself. The consequences…

There was a time when connecting one computer to another was not something that happened automatically in the background. You decided to make the connection, launched communications software, told a modem what number to dial, listened to the call go through, and waited to see whether the machine at the other end answered. If everything worked, the result might be a BBS, an online service, a university computer, a corporate system, or some other remote host. If it did not, you might get a busy…

I built a MacOS menubar app called Overhear that lets you filter the audio on your computer so it sounds like it’s playing in a more nostalgic, ambient location. I was inspired by two things: this YouTube video of Toto’s Africa playing “in an empty shopping centre” and this quote by Witold Gombrowicz: To me, art almost always speaks more forcefully when it appears in an imperfect, accidental, and fragmentary way, somehow just signaling its presence, allowing one to feel it through the…

📷 292/365 - Animal farm

I knew that making this a weekly thing would be difficult. Well, at least I warned you!If you're not sure what I'm talking about, it's probably because you missed this post:Introducing the "Neo-Luddite (sort of) Weekly"!The Neo-Luddite Weekly, issue one. October 18, 2026. (Name is subject to change.)So, yeah, it took almost three weeks for the second issue of a series that was supposed to be weekly. Oh well.Beyond the usual excuse, I only have three links to share with you today. However, two…

by Gertrud U. Rey Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly transforming the life sciences, helping researchers analyze genetic data, predict protein structures, and accelerate drug discovery. Scientists have now reached another major milestone: using AI to design novel viruses. A new study from Stanford University and the Arc Institute demonstrates that genome language models can generate […]

I know.Time has a way of clearing the blurred vision of my past. And again, I agree that I see things differently.I feel things differently too.I swear, it’s like my Old Man used to tell me.“You’ll understand when you get older.” Well, I am older now.At the same time, I relate to a quote I saw the other day.“Apparently, I am not old enough to know better.”ah, the morning.The fogginess and the clouds are strange this morning.I sipped my coffee on the train ride to work and thought about the…

The 2008 global financial crash was prompted by the deregulation of the financial services and banking industry. The deregulation led to a lot of very questionable financial decisions being made (home loans being dished out like Halloween candy to people unable to afford the repayments) that inevitably caused the whole system to crash. Huge firms that were considered being "too big to fail" actually really totally and utterly failed. People's savings and pensions were wiped out. Some UK banks…

With the days growing shorter and work being what it is, I find that once again I don’t even leave the apartment — and when I do, it’s usually for a short errand like grocery shopping or returning something to Amazon at the local Staples. Work fills up my time, especially now with less daylight, but that’s only half the story. My energy is drained more regularly and thoroughly as I spend more of my spoons there. Fortunately, I believe that at this point in time the downward spiral has slowed…

★★★☆: Some of the language is dated but it has good bones. Fun seeing them put everything together, even if most of it was just drunken shenanigans. Thoughts, questions, comments? Reply to this review.Note that my reviews are scored out of 4. And thanks for subscribing to my RSS feed and supporting the indie web!

STORE-BOUGHT IS FINE RECIPE REVIEW Garlic Mashed Potatoes · Simply Ina, page 151 ★★★★ 3.9/5 Flavor | 4/5 Effort | Easy Ingredient availability | Easy to find Make again? | Only in a pinch Make It Ahead | YesBest for | Weeknights Season | Fall / Winter Dietary fit | Vegetarian / Gluten-free / Nut-free Tips: If confiting the garlic makes the outside of the cloves a little tough, you may need to finely chop them with a knife rather than simply mashing them with a fork. In Simply Ina, Ina gives her…

[1981]Back then they were just a fucking cool rock band we weren't putting them into categories, wasn't it all just new-wave. I was only ten years old though but shit I mean I guess it's all sorta post-punk power pop with jangly elements. They were just an exciting energetic rock band on the radio. My older brother's mate who'd moved to our dusty town in the sticks from Sydney brought the album around to the house one day and that was that: They became legendary from then on. From the debut…

Once again I find myself having to write a blog post, as a memory aid, for the installation and setup of XC=BASIC on macOS. I hope this is the last time and I don't delete this one! First of all a quick intro on XC=BASIC if you don't know what it is. XC=BASIC is a cross compiled, modern BASIC programming language for 8-bit Commodore computers. I use this specifically for the Commodore 64 but it can be used for any of the Commodore family, PET, VIC, 16 etc. It compiles BASIC source code to fast…

Read the full post at - Snow by Orhan Pamuk If you’re coming to Snow because you loved A Strangeness in My Mind – and that’s exactly why I picked it up – adjust your expectations. Same author, but it’s a very different book. I’d tell you that Snow is better read alongside The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid than alongside anything else in Pamuk’s own catalog. Which is not a complaint. I thoroughly enjoyed it. But it’s a different book. The novel is set in Kars, a remote, snowed-in town…

That pink room. Phoenix 2026.

Here at LSOZI, we take a break every Wednesday to explore the old steam/diesel navies from 1833 to 1954, profiling a different ship each week. These ships have a life, a tale all their own, which sometimes takes them to the strangest places.- Christopher Eger. If you enjoy my always ad-free Warship Wednesday content, you can support it by buying me a cup of joe at https://buymeacoffee.com/lsozi As Henk says: “Warship Coffee – no sugar, just a pinch of salt!” Warship Wednesday 4 November 2026:…

Being a sheriff has always been a dangerous job and several were killed in my hometown’s history. Once I began “Love of My Days” with the killing of Sheriff Flower, there was so much to explain. I had to write about working an entire life with nothing to show for it, about the way a man loves the horses he has trained, and tracks in the snow. Around the middle of the story, when Karlet says she knows how the wayfarer in her kitchen likes his eggs cooked, I saw it all – the murderer’s marked…

Google is ending support for the functionality that allowed users to "Send As" some other, non-Gmail account using the Gmail web interface. Word of this has been circulating on Reddit and elsewhere, and Google has published a support page and FAQ with details. Starting in January 2027, Gmail will no longer support "Send as" for third-party accounts. That's the feature that let you send email from an address like @hotmail.com or @yahoo.com through your primary Gmail account, using the Gmail web…

In many disasters sheltering in place can make a lot of sense, but what about fire? As someone who lives in one of the densest municipalities in the country, with 3-story wooden buildings packed close together, is fire likely enough to rule out any kind of "stay put" approach? After having Claude do some rough calculations I think probably not. Very few houses are lost to fire anymore, but this is mostly downstream from putting a lot of effort into suppression. From when a fire is reported…

In my reading group, I’ve been reading about religion and spirituality. So far, we’ve read Albert Einstein’s ‘Science and Religion’, Haroon Moghul’s ‘The Wrong Imam’, and Thich Nhat Hanh’s ‘The Miracle of Mindfulness’. While watching ‘Walk With Me’, a film about Thich Nhat Hanh’s monastery in France, I saw visitors to the monastery moved to tears while listening to the monks singing in harmony. I immediately thought of how worshippers in Christian churches cry while singing and praising God…