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Illustrations from the patent granted to Seymour Cray and Maurice Roush for the cabinet design for the Cray 1 supercomputer, 1976, via Mini Museum, who will sell you a board from one of the machines …

Someone on twitter said her son (or someone) had replied to something she said with the burn: “just because you overplucked your eyebrows in the 90s”.In the thread was a reply: a kid responded to …

Snorlax leaning into the whole vibe of her namesake.

Last night we were at Kroger and I saw an ad on a shopping cart for the no-alcohol Guinness. Advertising apparently works on me because I brought a 4-pack home, even though I had no …

Friday was my 2nd week since my 2nd vaccination for Covid–19 so things are a bit freer for me, should I take that path. I am deeply relieved to have had the vaccine and to …

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I’m driving a loaner car from the Jaguar Land-Rover dealership, a 2023 Range Rover Velar. I’m not in love with it. But it’s got a name: Abbie Angie. What happened was, my lovely 2019 Jaguar …

I guess I should start this week’s update by saying hello to my son’s friends, who seem to have discovered this blog. I’m pleased you’re reading something, guys! Congrats on ripping your eyeballs away from …

January has been an unobtrusive month, as shown by how few photographs I’ve taken. I started the new year with my friend Lizi and an appalling migraine. I visited Blackpool for a weekend with Muffy …

July 28, 2022. Located at La Mitad Del Mundo, the Quitsato Sundial is a place that shares various aspects of the astronomical knowledge of the prehispanic cultures of the region. Not far from the monument …

Histoire naturelle des cétacées, 1804I find enterprise software fascinating because it operates the entire economy and yet it frequently neglects every single principle of quality that software people may espouse. Slack is/has been the anti-enterprise …

For the first part of 2021, my reading mainly consisted of Agatha Christie and John le Carré novels which I found were very easy to read with a tiny baby asleep on you. But as …

Some exciting news; I’m back in government! After a 6 month break (and with the first version of Indiekit released in beta) I’ve started a new contract with the Department for Environment, Food and Rural …

I’m stealing Matt Webb’s “filtered for” format here – for a bunch of more or less loosely connected items that I want to post, associate and log as much for myself as to share. And …

American Artifact: The Rise of American Rock Poster Art is an excellent, highly DIY doc. In it, Merle Becker (who has a YouTube channel devoted do DIY video production) follows her passion around the country, …

Looking back at my resolutions for this year, I was reluctant to set firm goals because I had disappointingly achieved so little in 2021 and was unsure how the future would play out. As it …

Repairs While Riding Upward Falling Payloads Light Cassette Removal Tools Bye Bye, Blackbird (Chet Baker, 1964) Leatherman and Topeak working together “Opportunity Is Always Out There” With Simon Mann

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Elon Musk’s Twitter in the name of ‘Free Speech’ has just banned anyone mentioning that they have accounts on other platforms – whether that be Truth Social, Facebook, Mastodon or anywhere. This is an unconscionable …