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He's not still on about that holiday last month? Well yes, but even I am now growing tired of photos of blue skies and butterflies. (Haha! As if!) However I have to post these, the last of the holiday, so I can move on and post some dreary grey Scottish December/January outings. Yeah, I can't wait either.skinklarge hopper / locustBerthelot's pipitfeeding the lizards at the trackskinks on videoAnother day and …

I made a few pilgrimages to Los Angeles in the `90s when a couple of my friends moved out there (specifically to a bungalow in nearby Costa Mesa, as I discussed here). As a lifelong New Yorker, all I knew about L.A. was stuff I'd seen in movies and television, romanced by locales from films like "Repo Man," Penelope Spheeris' "Suburbia" and "The Decline of Western Civilization." I dutifully logged …

A rule I try to live by is “just stay on the horse”. Even if you’re moving slowly, the fact that you’re on the horse and making forward progress is what really matters. However, after a nice break with family over the holidays, coupled with food poisoning and a cold, it’s safe to say I fell off the horse with respect to exercise and training. As I got back into …

Borrowing the UK’s Shadow Cabinet idea and bringing it across the Atlantic is a good idea. Timothy Snyder: In a shadow cabinet, in Britain and Canada and elsewhere, parliamentarians from the opposition party follow the actual cabinet members, develop expertise in the relevant portfolios, and comment to the press. They remind the public that other policies and other approaches are possible, and get a chance to show off their skills. …

The new, "Absolute," DC books have been a wonderful treat, surprising me and many others with how darn good they are. "Absolute Batman," has been getting a ton of attention, and, "Absolute Wonder Woman," is incredibly solid, but I've been quite surprised with how much I've enjoyed the tweaks made to the O.G. hero in, "Absolute Superman." I've discussed before how I sometimes struggle to enjoy Superman stories although I've …

Flowtape is a German mix series that branched out to releasing music last year, with the Survivors compilation. On January 24 Vol. 2 will be released, and once again with a focus on dark electro and breakbeats. This time Italian producer TLXCO reappears and they also welcome Filmmaker, Anti Yo, Nghtly (pictured) and Gavelman into the fold. It will probably be available on tape (since they only release cassettes) and …

Dan Counsell: Can we please have the macOS X Lion UI back? 😍 Kyle Halevi (I trimmed the URL): @realmacdan I redrew more than just Lion, see here: https://www.sketch.com/s/… Louie Mantia: There’s a refined clarity to this version of Aqua. It evolved gracefully to this point, where every element was distinctly different and yet cohesive. Consider the search field alone. Now, search fields have the same appearance of every other …

This week the World IP Office officially published a patent application from Samsung on January 9, 2025 that relates to future devices (smartphones and tablets) with different styles of rollable display methodologies.

I have firmly resolved to worry less about awards and QSLs in general. I still log my QSOs and upload them to QRZ.com and LotW, but I only do the latter for my communication partners. I personally consider logging itself to be very important and I will never give it up. However, I was looking for a solution to keep track of the DXCC entities I had already worked. Then …

Pricing & AvailabilityWhat comes in the box?Design & ConstructionSize & MeasurementsUser InterfaceEmitter & BeamMode ChartRuntimeDriver & RegulationBatteries & ChargingSwitchCarry & ErgonomicsCompetitionConclusion Pricing & Availability Convoy sent me this light in exchange for an honest review. Here is the official product page where you can see current pricing. At the time of writing, it’s $89 USD with the optional Molicel P45B batteries I chose. What comes in the box? The box …

This might read like yet another manifesto, when in fact it's a series of choices that I have either already gone through, or am about to. In general, it's a mid-long term plan that I want to follow to regain sanity. Refuse the ultra-capitalistic point of view on society Premise: my devices are at least 4-year old. My main music instrument was built in 1991 and bought a year later. …

The first moment I was absolutely gleeful in Cornucopia was when I opened a spell-book in the starting area. >OPEN BOOK Opening the spell book reveals :- detect magic spell; dispel magic spell; purify water spell; dispel illusion spell; detect illusion spell; levitate self spell; detect evil spell. This is what you start with! This game is going to take a while. I have the rest of January blocked out. …

lakecountylibrary:LIBRARY WRAPPEDYou checked out… probably some stuff? Thanks for doing that :) Used our wifi maybe? For something? Look we actually don’t know what genres you read or how many times you renewed Gender Queer. We don’t want to know. Our gift to you is privacy. Take it. Be free. Oh! I love this.

This week saw notable discounts on a few Apple products, including the AirPods Pro 2 and AirTag 4-Pack at Amazon. For accessories, if you're on the hunt for Apple Watch bands or USB-C charging accessories, we're also still tracking big deals from Woot and Anker today. Note: MacRumors is an affiliate partner with some of these vendors. When you click a link and make a purchase, we may receive a …