2026-09-21Hello!I have half a mind to buy up some of this collection. I'm not saying where it is, in case I ever return for real, but the prices were reasonable enough where I could justify spending money on this.I ought to look up the history of certain cameras — I don't know much about Minolta or Olympus! This building didn't just sell old cameras, they were a full-fledged tech shop selling all kinds of creator gear. I bought a lens cap.Finally, author John Green has answered a template…

If you ask me, I’ll probably say I’m not writing much. Because even I forget about the poor little thing. “My blog.” I periodically slip into sentences in conversations with friends mention of “my blog,” knowing none of them read it. There is invariably no reaction, or a furtive look away. “Blog,” I think, has come to mean long-winded all-about-me blather that no one wants to read, although if you put it up as a video on TickyTacky I guess it might be a viral Thing. I wonder if I called it “my…

From The Rest of Our Lives, by Ben Markovits (emphasis mine):The X-ray department seemed completely deserted, but then there was a light at the end of the hall, and a woman was waiting for me.What happened next I can’t completely account for. Maybe it was because I hadn’t eaten all day, and then I took a lot of steroids, and then I had a lot of calorie-rich food. I had to stand up for the X-ray and press my chest against a vertical scanner, while the technician retreated to another part of the…

I have seen the West End, the parks, the fine squares; but I love the City far better . . . The City is getting its living – the West End but enjoying its pleasure. At the West End you may be amused; but in the City you are deeply excited. Charlotte Brontë (1816-1856), Villette

The sun is later today. I looked up at the sky to watch the clouds moving overhead. and I can see the rain wants to let go and take a break for a while. I can tell. The sky has a different feel to me this morning. Maybe too many changes took place at once. Or maybe everything is different now and the rain that came only served to wash away the remnants of my crazy yesterdays. But dig it . . . I do not invest much in finding the other side of the rainbow anymore.I don’t see the point.|Yesterday…

Back in January, Faye Flam wrote one of the better assessments of the latest round of government dietary advice: a mess [but] still better.What I like about this assessment is that it neither hinges on the alleged credibility of the crank who serves as Secretary of Health and Human Services, nor ignores the issue altogether.Flam acknowledges that nutrition is a contentious field and that such guidelines are distorted by politics -- while also doing a good job of putting the change in a full…

Craig Mod writes:Here’s a good example of two books in similar genres, but one full of platitudes and one of unmistakable voice: Simon Boas’ A Beginner’s Guide to Dying — it’s fine, but it reads like the kind of book someone thought they were supposed to write, rather than a book that embodies the weirdness of who they were when confronted with death’s knock. (I’d love to read the end-of-life book that says: Be nasty, brutish, get as much money as you can, and die alone on your pile of…

Boo, I just found out that my next module isn't "Information Management and Visualisation" but is, instead "Customer-led Disruption in a Digital Era". Which is fine, I guess. I mean, the assignment at the end is a customer journey, which I can pretty much do in my sleep, and it looks like most of the reading is from business journals, which aren't really difficult reading, but, aw man, I wanted to spend time just making pretty graphs and charts. Oh well. That's what Statistics is for, I guess.…

Bobcat kittens in North Texas (photo from WIkimedia) 21 September 2026 Another rainy day in Pittsburgh with yesterday’s Flood Watch lasting until noon today(*). So to take our minds off the rain … Let’s watch wild bobcat kittens at play in Connecticut in late July 2025. By autumn they will be able to hunt alone. Though they can stay with their mother for up to a year, they’ll probably leave earlier. Ready for new adventures. video embedded from Jay Cromak on YouTube (*) Flood Watches have…

In suburbia, garbage tells stories, plural, about people you barely know. The post Every Other Week, My Neighbours Put Their Lives on the Curb first appeared on Correr Es Mi Destino.

9th September. For a while I'd been thinking about a trip to Jupiter Artland on the outskirts of Edinburgh. So when Nick said he had some time off work and how about we meet for a catch up, I proposed we do the out-of-town sculpture park. I did some homework the day before, printing out maps and having an online look at the place so I knew where we'd be going and what we'd be seeing. As it turned out although that proved useful preparation and instructive, all you really need to know is on a…

03/1958 – DOT 45-15729 – JUDY and JOYCE He's The One / Hey Pretty Baby 08/1958 – DECCA 9-30729 – JUDY and JOYCE Washboard Sam / Nursery Rock (Beedle De Bop) 11/1958 – SEVILLE 45-101 – JJUDY and JOYCE Rock And Roll Kittens / Hey Pretty Baby 11/1959 – U.T. 4004 – Joyce HARRIS It's You / The Boy In School10/1960 – DOMINO R-903 – Joyce HARRIS I Cheated / Do You Know What It's Like To Be Lonesome?01/1961 – DOMINO R-905 – Joyce HARRIS03/1961 – INFINITY INX-005 – Joyce HARRIS = Domino 905 No Way Out /…

it's spreading it started in june i thought i was immune at last as i had seen so many of my friends go through it this year i thought i had perfected a way to exist in a way that detached my soul from the possibility of feeling good and bad but disassociation, detachment, disregard for oneself catch up to existence it's spreading i think that's what depression is a schism between the the realised and the unrealised the soul trying to jump between the two it spreads until every action is a…

★★★★: Not a bad plat- just tracking everything down. The levels are just as fun as I remember. I didn't love the gauntlet sections (they punished errors too harshly) but it' just more of a good thing. FYI: My reviews are scored out of 4. Also, thanks for subscribing to my RSS feed and supporting the indie web!

Completed my 25-hour service on the four-wheeler this weekend. I’m happy with this machine so far. I still need to install a winch, which I have, because it is too heavy for me to move on my own and I ride alone a lot.

A gloomy morning, except for the wren: the dull mechanical songs of the quarry, the low cloud ceiling, the cold breath of autumn making leaves tremble on their stems.

A week of links from 14 to 20 September, pulled from what I shared over on social.omgmog.net.

Panning for Frontier Gold: Gun Fury, 3:10 to Yuma, The Deadline, and The Lonely ManOften (always?) matters less who directed a western that who wrote it. That applied even to what Ford, Hawks, most famed and associated with the genre, did. I see particular names in credits and know there will be much ahead to like. All movies compel for good story and dialogue, westerns the more so. Or maybe I like them enough to sift continually for sleepers. For sure there are diamonds amidst much that is…

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I’ve decided to do a once a year update on the city I live in. They used to be somewhat random, but once a year seems right. First up is local politics. In a month Torontonians will go to the polls for the 2026 municipal election. The key thing I’ll be watching is whether or … Continue reading Politics, pizza and the planetarium: my annual update from Toronto, 2026 edition

Editor's note: Every week, I publish the phone's home screen from a blog reader. Want to participate? Fill out this form. Want more? Check out the archive. All app links go to the App Store, Play Store, or F-Droid. What is your name and what do you do? My name is Edson, I’m 28 years old, I’m a clinical and educational psychologist, and I’m in the final stretch of my PhD in education (phew!). I first came across the Manual many years ago, landing from a Google search on one post or another,…

“Only you would think it’s romantic to go to the beach in October storms!” I tilt my head into the wind and yell, “Babe, don’t you feel invigorated?” He growls, “I feel cold and all stormed out. I’m going to the beach cafe, and get coffee to warm up.” I turn to him and grin, “Get me a hot cocoa.” He kisses me gently and says, “Will you drink it while it’s still hot?” I grin, brush the hair out of my face and yell, “Probably not.” I push myself to the flood line, head in the wind, the water…

FTA: Some thoughts on family, football, and having a little faith. Plus a whole buncha killer new tracks. Note: I’m resharing a post from this same weekend last year. It has only been mildly updated. In a world that’s gone sideways, celebrating life events has become much more essential. I also will take any chance I get to talk up John Hiatt and Ducks football, so there’s that. FWIW, I wound up finishing the book I mention below not too long after this first ran. If you haven’t read it, I…

I was traveling over the latter part of the week and this cut into some of my music listening, but I did enjoy three albums this week during my travels. First, I’ve been going back to Paul Motian’s 1977 ECM date, Dance, pretty regularly. It’s pretty free even if it is peppered with plenty of post-bop. Charles Brackeen is really amazing on these albums with his searching soprano saxophone stealing the show. I posted in a few weeks ago, but it feels worth positing again. It inspired me to listen…

Some 85 years ago, during the epic eight-month siege of Sevastopol. Wehrmacht soldiers of II/Artillerie-Regiment 814, 11th Army, Army Group Sud, cover their ears as a Czech-made Skoda 9.45-inch Howitzer Model 39 (24 cm Haubitze vz.39) fires at Red Army positions, probably during the siege of Perekop, on or about 24 September 1941. The two-battalion/four-battery AR 814 was the only German unit to use the rare gun, of which only 16 were made for the Wehrmacht after two early tubes had been sent…

📷 Facing the wave.

On 18 September 2026, the 355th Wing inactivated the remaining A-10 Thunderbolt II units at Davis-Monthan: The 355th Operations Group, 357th Fighter Squadron (“Dragons”), 357th Fighter Generation Squadron, and 355th Training Squadron, capping a half-century of Warthog operations from the Arizona base and casing the unit’s colors. They had a pair of 47-year-old Idaho Air National Guard and ANG Test Center A-10Cs fly in from Gowen Field and Morris ANGB, respectively, for the inactivation…

Some of the vehicle silhouettes from WWII US War Department identification guide "FM 30-40 Recognition Pictorial Manual on Armored Vehicles." Source: Archive.orgIn the skies, seas, and battlefields of World War II, hundreds of different vehicles of all shapes and sizes meant US soldiers needed a fast way to tell which side a tank, plane, or ship was fighting for. The US War Department published a series of pictorial identification guides to train soldiers to quickly distinguish friend from foe.…

Kind of scary-looking, not going to lie. Official caption: A drone swarm launches during the XVIII Airborne Corps’ Exercise Scarlet Dragon 26-3 at Fort Bragg, N.C., Sept. 16, 2026. The exercise used layered aerial attacks to test sensor, command-and-control, and air defense integration under realistic conditions. Photo by Army Sgt. Noe Cork, VIRIN: 260916-A-UV759-1725 During the event: Coordinated swarms of 25 to 100 drones flew in tactical formations to stress sensors, software, and air…

Tonight represents a landmark in the history of televised sports. No, it's not the inaugural season of Monday Night Football; that was last year. It's close, though: for the second season debut, Frank Gifford replaces Keith Jackson as play-by-play announcer, a move that has twin ramifications. In joining Howard Cosell and Don Meredith, Gifford helps form one of the most memorable broadcasting teams in television sports history, one that would earn the praise and ire of millions around the…