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For the past few years, I’ve been drawn to creating a dish using chicken and yellow squash. In several of my South Texas community cookbooks, this dish appears in several... Source

London North Eastern Railway 1950 Brake Corridor Third E1866 (GOLD)Further fitting of the interior insulation has been undertaken, ready for areas to be panelled off.Meanwhile, components have been progressing on the bench, including a correct pattern LNER letter rack for the guards compartment and several steam heater covers intended to go down the side of the vehicle.London North Eastern Railway 1938 Brake Third Open E16631E (GOLD)No progress to report.London North …

Tourists and surfers strolling down the Santa Monica pier in 1979 would have passed a mysterious awning advertising “The Natural Museum of Modern Art”. A nearby explanatory panel did little to clarify: “The Natural Museum of Modern Art project is part of an ongoing interest by the John Doe Co in natural objects and phenomena.” […]

Bain News Service, Library of Congress The Library of Congress has a large collection of high quality prints from the Bain News Service, the first news photography service in the US. The collection focuses primarily on people and events from 1900 into the 1920. George Grantham Bain not only made his own images, but collected important photos from local American and foreign newspapers. The most frequent images are of people …

Although a few fires continue to burn in the state, smoke levels remain low, and the forecasted weather is not conducive to wildfire growth. Let's take a look at how this wildfire season's air quality compares to previous years.In terms of the number of smoke-impacted days, this summer looked more like the relatively smoke-free summers of 2016 and 2019 rather than more recent years. The summer wasn't smoke-free, but we …

Cindy Lee shares an official video for one of the many dazzling highlights from 2024's album of the year, Diamond Jubilee... Continue reading…

Perhaps a month ago I came across a reference to a book about the writing of the Constitution, The Framer's Coup, by one Michael Klarman. (More on him much later.) It took a couple of weeks to get the book, published in 2016 by the Oxford University Press, from the local library system. It includes 631 pages of text and 181 pages of endnotes. It is probably the single best …

I saw the new Dominion expansion at the store last night. I stopped buying them around the tenth or so. Not because I disliked Dominion; but I never got it to the table: A usability problem. I put all of my Dominion cards in a binder, with a card box for the randomizers and tokens etc. It was too cumbersome to ship (if the binder tilted wrong, all the cards …

Thurs. Sept. 19, 2024 – On Sunday, I pushed the Publish button to start my debut novel’s adventure out into the Big Wide World...

Recently, I started a new project. I react to the accessibility of more or less randomly picked websites.Before you get too excited, It's in German. I feel more comfortable recording live reactions to websites I have never seen in my native language. However, I may try it in English if there's demand. So far, I've recorded four videos: Wie barrierefrei ist gruene.at? Wie barrierefrei ist fpoe.at? Wie barrierefrei ist bierpartei.eu? …

Bitcoin has fallen out of the public consciousness to such a degree that even the press have forgotten that the BTC price goes up and down like a yoyo for any reason or none. So I’m getting questions I’ve answered before, which means it’s time to make them into a post. [Newsweek; Newsweek] Donald Trump is talking about bitcoin and crypto a lot of late. You’d almost think he was …

Recently with friends we talked about an early web site I’ve programmed, probably the very first web service I’ve ever done. It was a simple dictionary. Back then, we had Nokia phones without real web browsers, just something called the WAP protocol and WML markup. Since I struggled with foreign languages as a student (I still do!), I decided to create a mobile site in WAP/WML to help me translate …

Book One: A Squash and a Squeeze - Published by Methuen Children's Books - 1993 (Hardback No Dust Jacket?) The very first picture book by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler, before they went on to become international stars for their beloved picture books. A goat on the bed and a cow on the table tapping out a jig? My readers collapsed in heaps and then had to have it

1988, 1989, and 1990 were some of the best years for action figures in the vintage G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero line. I know there are quite a few "fans" who seem to have no memory of any figures past 1983, or 1985, or 1987, but Hasbro was still cranking out some really good figures during those years. It wasn't until 1991 that some of the sub-teams started to …