Cover version of the month #126 The McCoys cover The VibrationsI was planning to feature Hang On Sloopy by The McCoys in my regular Trust Me feature ... then I found out that it is a cover version! This classic song was written by Bert Russell and Wes Farrell, and originally performed and released as My Girl Sloopy by The Vibrations in 1964, reaching number 26 on the Billboard charts.The Vibrations original live recording still has the same riff and groove that The McCoys would amplify, speed…

1986 SF/horror, dir. David Cronenberg, Jeff Goldblum, Geena Davis: IMDb. Seth Brundle has an invention that will change the world, but…

KP-1 (Figure Debut) Star Wars Droid Factory Item No.: ??? Manufacturer: Disney Number: n/a Includes: Card, RX arm Action Feature: Comes apart Retail: $19.99 Availability: October 2026 Appearances: Obi-Wan Kenobi Bio: KP-1 was a masculine K-series astromech droid associated with the Hidden Path. In 9 BBY, the droid was found on the planet Jabiim. (Taken from the figure's trading card. This is literally the exact same bio on Wookieepedia. Coincidence?) Image: Adam's photo lab. Availability: Click…

Biko loves her donut toy. And I love when she holds it like this . The post Donut appeared first on @Kevuhnn / 📸 / 📚 / 🇨🇦.

Frost this morning again. Not bad later. Car washing. H.Doc.B1. making 166 to date. Bert tested X former. It’s gone ok. Cleared all lab bins. Jean leaves to night.

While everyone was still asleep, I went for an early morning run in the Harz. Mystic scenery.

Today is the first true chilly winter day; three degrees, feeling like zero. As much as I feel a helm is needed during rush hour, biking in the cold without warmth is painful. Instead, I wear my earmuffs; soft, foldable, adjustable, the colour of happiness. Because of them, I do not use my earbuds, they hurt me as the earmuffs press them to my ears. It was a musical commute. The birds, the wind, the bikers and pedestrians just waking up. Inspiring, the sea opened, the sun rose higher, the…

How the illiberals were defeated, until the next time * It is November 1932 and there has been a general election in Germany. Christopher Isherwood was to write: “On November 7th the election results were out. The Nazis had lost two million votes. The communists had gained eleven seats. They had a majority of over 100,000 in Berlin. “‘You see,’ I told Frl. Schroeder, ‘it’s all your doing.’ We had persuaded her to go down to the beer-shop at the corner and vote, for the first time in her life.…

Well, that was exciting and perhaps the beginning of a whole new era. The results are in and the happy winners will be taking their seats after Monday’s vote. Monday? Yes, of course. The municipal elections in Prince Edward Island were Monday… what you talking about? Oh, that. Sure. Fine. Well, yes it was fun. Halloween was fun, too. Got dressed up in orange and black and sat out on the front step. Just to be clear, that is a Mandavilla still alive outside with two months left to go in the…

Less Than Angels by Barbara Pym published 1955 [excerpt] As they got out of the bus and walked along the road, they heard a number of explosions, some in the distance, others startlingly near, and once the night sky was illuminated by a rocket which broke in a shower of green and golden stars. There was a smell of gunpowder in the cool frosty air. ‘Why, it’s Guy Fawkes night,’ said Miss Clovis, ‘what fun!’ …They ventured further into the garden, then stopped in the middle of the lawn to gasp at…

Each Thursday in the Disquiet Junto music community, a new compositional challenge is set before the group’s members, who then have five days to record and upload a track in response to the project instructions. Membership in the Junto is open: just join and participate. (A SoundCloud account is helpful but not required.) There’s no pressure to do every project. The Junto is weekly so that you know it’s there, every Thursday through Monday, when your time and interest align. Tracks are added to…

Let Us Not Forget- Thanks To Donald J. Trump, The US Is Respected Again!

Here are two more scans from a small lot that I am confident in dating to 1955 (based on details seen in some of the other slides). I'm always happy to get a good look at the Tahitian Lanai, located right on the banks of the Rivers of the World. The Tahitians built their peak-roofed structure with some interesting gingerbread architecture on the opposite side, as was the custom. The sloped bank at the bottom of the photo is pretty barren, but somebody has planted a few flowering plants so that…

as a beginner at the gym, lifting is one of my favorite activities, but sometimes i feel so demotivated because i keep getting injuries here and there and i always have to modify my program and take breaks. i don't even know what caused most of them to begin with. like one day i was doing shoulder presses and my elbow started feeling funny (i swear my elbows were not flared out). i've also had problems with my shoulders for a while too when i increase my lat pulldown weight. i've been stuck at…

The Wizard (1989)

German Literature Month is always a great opportunity to catch up with old friends, and one writer I usually try to make time for in November is the King of GLM himself, Thomas Bernhard. Having posted on fourteen of his books previously, I’m starting to hunt around for some of his slighter, or earlier, works, and this time around, I’m looking at a short book from very early in his career. Let’s take another trip to Austria, then, to spend some time with two brothers getting away from it all –…

Curves and archesIn the next couple of posts I’m looking back to my summer visit to York, with its magnificent railway station. I’m an admirer of the great train sheds of large Victorian stations. Their scale, and the elegant engineering that makes this possible, still inspire awe a century and a half or more after they were built. But there’s something especially admirable about York station – it’s built over a line that curves. Some 795 feet in length, the platforms are spanned by ribs that…

On our walk this morning towards Ladronka though hardly abrading its border in the end, I stepped in psí hovno. Well, I assume it was psí hovno. It could well have been lidské hovno, but I suspect not, as most people clean up after their pet humans when they leave waste product on the sidewalk. After stepping in said psí hovno, I spent many minutes shuffling along the gutters of our street (since the event happened close to our home on the way back from hardly abrading the border of Ladronka)…

Things can be good!!! Damn!!! Wow!!!! I "partied" decently hard last night. I then immediately had an appointment today which put me face to face with the reality that ICE is still around doing shit. It's been a rollercoaster. I am trying very hard to remind myself that things are capable of being good!! It's crazy right now that the one thing I can do to raise my mood ????? is to go on Bluesky, of all places - a platform I have forsaken thanks to the ways in which it is like, inescapably…

One thing about me that always surprises people is that I'm not active on social media. And it surprises me too that people get surprised by this. In today's world dominated by reels, likes and endless content, being offline feels liberating. I often get asked, "Have you seen X's post on FB?" Or "Have you watched Y's video about Z?" I'd simply answer, "My account is deactivated." Naturally, I would get looks of confusion and questions in return. But eventually, I would just shrug and say…

Post a cover that’s done in a different style than the original version. I do love a cover version and finding songs that re-interpret the original is always a joy. Johnny Cash covering Hurt by Nine Inch Nails could be considered a recent benchmark, but cover versions have been going on since recording music began. Finding songs in a different style is twice as much fun so while Lulu’s Shout is a classic cover, it’s not all that different. Liamne La Havas covered Weird Fishes by Radiohead and…

I have spent a significant portion of my career focused on helping folks securely manufacture, deploy, and manage the lifecycle of connected devices. I don’t think it would be an overstatement to say that my professional mission in life is to dramatically improve the status quo of device security. I recently changed jobs in service of that mission. While there is a fair amount of essential complexity in Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), which underpins many of the components of a secure device,…

Andy Warhol photographed by Oliviero Toscani, 1975

Good Sex, Battersea Arts Centre. Photo by Ste Murray Actors who have not rehearsed or seen the script and are being fed lines through an earpiece isn’t something new to stage performance, but in the context of Good Sex at the Battersea Arts Centre it feels fresh and different. An intimacy co-ordinator played by Liv O’Donoghue guides two actors through a story that involves ex-lovers drawn together after several years and reminiscing about their relationship. The actors were Jack Gleeson and…

Every election cycle, commentators race to breathlessly declare that this will be the year that Jews stop voting Democratic. And then every year it doesn't happen. And then every year Republicans ... well, let me just reprint the chronology I identified way back in 2014.1) (Non-Jewish) Republicans say they want to be Jews' best friends, particularly with respect to Israel.2) Jews express policy positions with respect to Israel that differ from those advocated by Republicans.3) Republicans,…

​ I am not a huge fan of AI imagery but it was put to good use here. A movie is supposed to be being made but it may not happen. In the meantime, this is a good substitute. I remembered the gist of the story but a lot of it I was hazy on. This was a good catch up. As he says at the end, the book makes an impression that stays with people. Prior posts on ‘Rendezvous With Rama.’

I like RSS, I’ve advocated for it in the past. I even have a roster of websites I reed via RSS. But it’s getting to a point where the open web isn’t as open as we’d like due to ai taking over and solpifying everything online. The fight is with bots scraping data to sell back to us in the form of a subscription (not that I have one), but also stealing our work for the same reason.

For Day 5 of Noirvember 2026, we’re serving up Favorite Noir Quote for our Daily Dish. Film noir movies are chockful of great lines and memorable bits of dialogue, and on any given day, any 12 quotes could easily qualify for my favorite. Today, though, I’m choosing one that I’ve actually said more than once in real life: “My old man always said, ‘Liquor doesn’t drown your troubles – just teaches ‘em how to swim.’” – Gene Lockhart in Red Light (1950) Words to live by. What quote would you pick…

When I said I had no problems copying the e1000 module sources tarball using a floppy, I wasn’t completely honest. I had to format the floppy using KFloppy first, and that failed with a permission denied message on /dev/fd0h1440. That particular file was owned by root and group disk, but I wasn’t a member of that group. I think this was a bug, but it was easily solved: $ su - root Password: # gpasswd -a diederic disk Then I had to log out and in again. The e1000 module, however, didn’t seem to…