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Cooler weather is incoming, and Spier & Mackay is dropping new clothes left and right in their typical, drip-drip-drip fashion. The New Arrivals page shows all the latest goods, while their Fall Previews page shows things coming very soon. There’s always something new on both pages, so you’ve got to keep up with the updates on those pages to see when new stuff drops. This season I’m as interested as …

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As a teen, I wanted to be like the popular girls — specifically to have certain things figured out. I struggled as an autistic teen growing up to figure things out myself, and neglectful parents only increased my struggles. I wanted to be one of those girls who smell good when they walk past and leave that kind of impression. Now, I like smelling good or like nothing — especially …

Cedar Rapids traffic is rarely congested, but there's a steady supply of it,even during Week Without DrivingWeek Without Driving is being observed for the first time this year in Cedar Rapids. Begun in 2021 in Vancouver, Washington, it has gotten bigger each year since. Founder Anna Zivarts of Disability Rights Washington has also published a book in 2024, When Driving Isn't an Option: Steering Away from Car Dependency (Island, 2024).Week …

Welcome to October, sandwich fans! As always, a new month brings 3 new sandwiches for the Tribunal to investigate, and there are some good ones coming! But first, as ever, we must review what we learned in September. September’s Tribunal sandwiches included the Mulita, a Mexican melt from Tijuana involving 2 handmade corn tortillas, plenty of Oaxacan cheese, meats like carne asada or carnitas, and a thin Tijuana style guacamole …

The Batrachomyomachia (“Battle of the Frogs and Mice”) is a comic epic parody of the Iliad and a good source of names for your pet mice. Like Artepibulus, “he who lies in wait for bread”. Greek etymology rabbithole also led us to troglodyte, which ultimately means, “hole, I get into”: From Latin trōglodyta (“cave dwelling people”), from Ancient Greek τρωγλοδύτης (trōglodútēs, “one who dwells in holes”), from τρώγλη (trṓglē, “hole”) …

Hello team! I turned 45! It happens every year (not the same age, but the same feeling, of time marching forward, with me along with it) so no big surprise. This weekend was the Great Race, also every year, but I unsubscribed from their e-mail list at some point months ago because they seem to operate this list under the misconception that subscribers want to think about Great Race 24/7 …

Those who follow my blog have heard of Travis Tygart, the guy with the ridiculous hair-style whose unique desire is to see Russia disappear from the international sports arena. He is the head of the US Anti-Doping Agency and a great expert in condemning Russia (and, on occasion, China) while explaining and justifying his acquitting decisions when it comes to american athletes. If you don't remember what I am talking …

The White MollFrank L. PackardNew York: Doubleday, Doran, 1931306 pagesWalt Disney failed to interest NBC in Jimmie Dale, Alias the Gray Seal. His biographers haven't made much of this, but evidence suggests it irked. He'd first read Jimmie Dale's adventures in adolescence, and would act them out with childhood chum Walt Pieffer. What roles they'd played are unknown. I like to think one of the Walts played Marie Lasalle, the …

1st October 2024 In the main courtroom of the Supreme Court there are the benches – really desks – where the Supreme Court judges sit, and at each place there is a microphone for each justice, with a button they can press when they want to speak. But at the head of the bench, at the centrally placed desk, there are two buttons: one for the presiding justice to press …

CSX Railroad Brakeman. This is a 40mp image. If it were 20mp, no one of could tell the difference.(click to enlarge)Fujifilm X-T5; 16-55mm f/2.8 lens @ 23mm; 1/500th sec. @ f/5.6; ISO 640 I'm of the opinion that for the vast majority of us photographers, 20-24mp are enough (need vs. want) for almost everything we want to do with our images. There are exceptions, of course. Several years ago, as …

[war] The Big Baltic Bomb Cleanup… A look at the race to safely remove vast amounts of weaponry dumped in The Baltic after both World Wars. ‘…In their watery graves, the many land and naval mines, U-boat torpedoes, depth charges, artillery shells, chemical weapons, aerial bombs, and incendiary devices have corroded over almost 80 years. The Germans, like other dumping nations, long assumed that when the casings broke down, the …

I assume by “reviewers” you mean random people rating your book on goodreads or Amazon or whatever? Not like ACTUAL REVIEWERS who are paid to write reviews for an actual publication? Hate to be the one to tell you, but most random people are thick as hell, and not in a good way.

If you've taken probably even the most casual look at this blog, then one thing will perhaps have become very clear - I have a very great interest in the history of the BBC. It's a subject I find deeply fascinating, and something I very much enjoy researching, writing about and, when I get the opportunity, making radio features about.So when my colleagues at Look East, the regional TV news …

I haven't been very inspired to photograph trains, so I try to jump on any inspiration I do have. On June 26, 2024 I noticed that the eastbound Canadian was coming, I saw it was a lovely evening, and I decided to make some pictures.