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I got an email the other day from Pencils of Promise out of the blue. It was a general quarterly email or so, but at the end – Carly lets know about the schools update: …

Do you get frustrated when you have to throw out fruits and vegetables that have gone bad?Have lots of kitchen scraps but can't be bothered to compost them due to possible smell, rodents, HOA rules, …

I've decided to migrate this blog to a quarto-based blog format. All future posts will be found here: https://swingley.dev/blog2.

The Untourists The Untourists - Travel Blog - Discovering the beautiful world we live in. Often called the ‘melting pot’ of Indian cultures and cuisines, Mumbai never really had a North East India food scene. …

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About a decade ago I stumbled across the cycling world of audax. Long distance endurance riding that was described to me as “…like fast touring”. The word audax intrigued me, hinted at an aesthetic, at …

This post is the second in a RISC-V Bytes subseries on the PINE64 Pinecil soldering iron and development board. Previous and subsequent posts can be found under the RISC-V Bytes category. In the most recent …

Since I first published a review on the Sears Model 6223 series I have obtained other Silvertone 800/900 models in the 3223 and 4223 series, some of which are called Silvertone 800 or 900 and …

PRC Pittsburgh Railways PCC Route 28Location: Pittsburgh, PennsylvaniaDate: July 1958Photographer: UnknownPittsburgh PCC #1562 was built in 1944 by the St. Louis Car Company. The Roxian Theatre is located at 501 Chartiers Avenue, McKees Rocks, PA …

My next project will be a “natural metal” finish on a 1/72 scale kit. But WHICH kit??? Let me know if you have an opinion by posting your preference below in the comments… PLEASE choose …

There’s a set of garages to rent as storage units near my workplace. One of them is taken by a local florist that uses it to store flower arrangements for various events, that are more …

While I was relaxing in the Crows Nest yesterday afternoon and writing about the forthcoming Merseyside Pub Guide 2024 book, the proof copy was already sitting on my doormat. So I can now put it …

The electronic version of the latest issue of the Girls’ Angle Bulletin is now available on our website. The cover shows the Hasse diagram for the partially ordered set of partitions show Young diagrams fit …

My new book with Marion Fourcade, The Ordinal Society, will be published in April by Harvard University Press. Here’s the cover: The book cover As of this afternoon, the book also has a nascent website. …

I came across this chart from an infographics that claims to show which zip codes in the U.S. are the "dirtiest" (link). I won't go into the data analysis in this post - it's the …