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During the conference’s haymaking class, Lauren Muney gave me a gorgeous antique scythe. She had prepared it for someone in the class, and I was the only one without a scythe. More...… Continue reading Post …

I like the stripes on this one: the contrast between the vertical stripes on the bodice and skirt, the horizontal stripe on the skirt, and diagonal of the bias-cut sleeves. The maker even made the …

This summer, a new video game came out that changed the way we think about comedy in games, becoming an instant smash hit in the process. That’s right, I’m talking about Thank Goodness You’re Here! …

The Samuel Tarbell Ames House is a large, gambrel-roofed house located in New Ipswich, New Hampshire. The residence was built in 1890 for its namesake, Samuel Tarbell Ames (1810-1897), who was eighty years old when …

Bikepunk, les chroniques du flash Vingt ans après le flash, la catastrophe qui a décimé l’humanité, la jeune Gaïa n’a qu’une seule solution pour fuir l’étouffante communauté dans laquelle elle a grandi : enfourcher son …

Denn die Todten reiten schnell A few days ago I was looking for a font similar to an inktrap typeface I saw on a TV Literary show on TV Brasil. I found it. So I …

learning a lot about sed, awk and other commands by making a spotify statusbar widget

[Equations in this post may not look right (or appear at all) in your RSS reader. Go to the original article to see them rendered properly.] Regular readers1 know that I like to watch mathish …

After a rainy grey morning the sun broke through. I was surprised to glimpse a Red Admiral sunning itself among the leaves of a Fig Tree. 2024 has been a bad year for butterflies, cool …

September is a month of fullness in the garden and the pantry with the crops at their peak and all … Harvest time Read More »

There is an opportunity within the chaos created when work from home and hybrid work hollowed out the Central Business District (CBD) of places like San Antonio and Portland. In San Antonio I saw a …

Yesterday (June 2nd 2024) we lost one of our great sporting heroes. Of course I’m talking about Rob Burrow CBE who played scrum-half for Leeds Rhinos. He was the tender age of 41. He lost …

Does he know what his sentence is?” “No,” the officer said, wanting to continue with his explanations, but the traveler interrupted him: “He does not know his own sentence?” “No,” the officer repeated, pausing briefly …

Twice a year, Kaggsy and Simon host themed ‘club’ weeks dedicated to books from a particular year. Joining in has long been on my to-do list, and this week finally I’ve managed it, with the …

My wife and I picked up the then-unknown-to-us 3M game "Regatta" (1968) a few years ago at an antique shop. And after playing it, we instantly fell in love with it; movement is based on …