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Strangely, we first visited this park almost exactly 10 years ago, when it was the FIRST wheelchair accessible playground we’d seen in (then) 60... The post Grier Park appeared first on StrollerParking.

Every two-to-four years my body chemistry changes and my armpits start to reject my deodorant with an intense itch. All that aluminum has gunked up the works I guess. Usually cycling out deodorants works fine, but this time it didn’t work because my armpits were overpowering all the other deodorants. I tried a tactical reset and took the “No deodorant challenge”, the legend –which I remember my hippie step-brother Nik …

This is a brain dump about a gadget I acquired recently—a Japanese grey-market import Pomera DM250—and it's of limited interest so I wouldn't normally write about it here, except the manufacturer has pre-announced a kickstarter campaign, coming in the next couple of months, to sell a US/English version of the machine. I still have the occasional vestigial tech journalist itch, even though it's been nearly 20 years since I stopped …

I have given a (more or less) detailed account of the men's long jump competition in my "Stop the presses" article, so there is no point in elaborating further here. Instead I can start with the women's event. My preferred long-jumper, world champion I. Spanovic (the name "Vuleta" was short-lived; she divorced in December) did not manage to reach the final. Fortunately another athlete I really like, T. Davis, dominated …

Thursday marked Flinders Street station’s 170th birthday, which also means it was 170 years since Australia’s first steam passenger train first opened, from Sandridge (now Port Melbourne) to Flinders Street. (As this article notes, it wasn’t Australia’s passenger train; a horse-drawn service opened earlier in 1854 near Adelaide.) Post by @[email protected] View on Mastodon After a day of celebration on 12th September 1854, the regular public service started the next …

Akademy is this yearly thing where bunch of KDE people go to talk about and work on KDE software. I had never been in one before, but this year I managed to make it there! This year Akademy was held at the city of Würzburg. This was also my first time in Germany, which is the furthest I've ever been from home. I also had my wife Jenny with me, …

Fyodor Tyutchev (1803-73) is included in The Penguin Book of Russian Poetry but his landscape poems are given rather faint praise: 'the themes of his nature poems are conventional - blazing sunsets, snow mountain peaks, etc. - but he presents these scenes from an unexpected point of view.' His greatest work according to the editors was his love poetry, although their selection is too small to give a good sense …

Poison, blood, water, lava, fire, oil, ice, steam, deathfog… If there’s something harmful that can be spread across the floor or passively float in the air in Divinity: Original Sin 2, I’ve stood in it. Yep, even when it was electrified, cursed, burning, or even blessed. Stood in it, and then stayed standing in it. On purpose. With a big smile on my face. Not for a good long while, …

1. Vanilla – Homemade – 21.07.242. Tiptree Marmalade – Anya Hindmarch Icecream project – 25.07.243. Filippo Berio Classic Pesto – Anya Hindmarch Icecream project – 25.07.244. Kikkoman Soy Sauce – Anya Hindmarch Icecream project – 25.07.245. Mint Choc Chip – Homemade 28.07.246. Cherry – Homemade 29.07.247. Vanilla – Worton Kitchen Garden 03.08.248. Millionaires Shortbread – Treleavens 17.08.249. Brown bread – Palais Provisions 20.08.2410. Fig Leaf – Palais Provisions 20.08.2411. Banana …

It has been a while since I've done any 15mm terrain, so I slapped together some 3d printed ruin bits from Printable Scenery and made a simple box for my little men to hide in.The figures are PSC's plastic 15mm paratroopers.

By conflating consumer and industrial carbon pricing, PBO's modelling skews the perceived impact on the economy and households The post Industrial vs. consumer carbon pricing: A cost comparison appeared first on Canadian Climate Institute.

This is the first in a series of posts on the reasons I will not be voting to return the former president to the White House. My focus here is not to support his opponent but instead to explain why I believe that Donald Trump is manifestly unqualified for the role.For someone who graduated from the Wharton School (albeit graduating with a Bachelor of Science in Economics rather than an …

Bluesky is having A Moment right now, and my feed is getting busier with games industry folks. It’s lovely! I’m a little sad Mastodon didn’t get the same love but Bluesky is undoubtedly easier to use. At the same time, another challenger social media platform is having a different kind of moment. Cohost is being shut down - the creators are understandably unable to sustain funding for it. I didn’t …

November 6 – 28, 1520 The San Antonio rode at anchor for 48 hours just north of Dawson Island, awaiting a rendezvous that failed to materialize. Sensing more than ever that he was losing his authority to his pilot Estevão Gomes, Captain Mesquita turned his ship into an avatar of his nervousness. He ordered huge smoky fires to be kindled on the poop deck and musket volley after musket volley …

At Fediforum today, Renaud and I presented on the new Fediverse Discovery Providers project, initiated by Mastodon gGmbH via a grant from NGI Search. The slide deck below mostly presents the information from the website in an alternate format – but, hopefully the brief talk and then the broader discussion with the group that came to the session will have been a useful way to learn more about this new …