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Ideated from: some recent releases I’ve been spinning Blood Incantation is fantastic. Their 2019 release Hidden History Of The Human Race is one of my favorite modern metal albums. Then they made an ambient record …

The Old Royal Naval College dominates the riverfront at Greenwich. Designed by Sir Christopher Wren, the complex was originally a Royal Navy hospital, but from 1873 to 1998 was home to the Royal Navy’s officer …

for we must know in advance, if we are prepared for that conflict, that the combat may have truces but never a peace. If we take the widest and wisest view of a Cause, there …

I could rob a bank, nobody would look up. A middle-aged man (Alan Arkin) repeatedly tries and fails to have an affair. This is an adaptation of a Neil Simon play (screenplay also by Simon) …

I really appreciated Cory LaViska’s take on #WebComponents here. Especially this bit:You know what framework I want to use? I want a framework that aligns with the platform, not one that replaces it. I want …

Ruby on Rails has built-in support for managing uploaded files with ActiveStorage, which both cleans up your application code and acts as an abstraction over different storage backends. Azure Storage is one of the supported …

This is my second in a series of guitars which take inspiration from the work of Dominique Field, this time in Red Cedar and 640 scale. With the addition of an elevated neck and a …

Spent a few days over in Lithuania at the end of October, visiting our lad in Vilnius. The city is spilt by two rivers, the Vilnia and the much larger Neris, which are home to …

Bob Maysmor was climbing Villarrica volcano in the Andes of southern Chile when a ring appeared in the sky. This volcano has active vents, one of which created this volcanic vortex ring. It consists of …

I have this mate called Long Tall Tony who climbs mountains and is always going on about thrutching.'Sssh!' I said once in a posh pub. (You could tell it was posh by the way the …

A letter from Alexander Deriev, husband of the late poet Regina Derieva. The Russian couple have a helluva back story. I wrote about her in “Writ on Water,” an 2014 essay for the Times Literary …

The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of the collection of Kelly and Zach Weinersmith considering Can we settle space, should we settle space, and have we really thought this through …

A post on the Transit Toronto Facebook page here has revealed that two cars from Toronto's Scarborough RT rapid transit line, which closed in 2023, have found their way to the Halton County Radial Railway. …

This rough looking shed was made using boards made from tree bark from my yard. The part of the bark I used was from the inside of the bark - the part next to the …

In my first post about this strange lash-up I saw in Stratford, I shared some photos of the CN crew bringing a short string of cars into Stratford's rail yard. The crew did a little …