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The terrible pun in the headline is its own reward (or crime, depending), but I will say that I was moved to look out the office window because I heard…

A further bump in real wages of up to 3.5 per cent is expected this year, alongside an expected 3 per cent jump in real disposable income, according to Russia’s…

One gentle breathis a caravan to the heart.One gentle breathis a pilgrimage across the voidbetween the sun and moon.The desert is wide, yetone exhalation sweeps awaythe endless past, with all…

Today's links Fintech bullies stole your kid's lunch money: Taking 60 cents out of every reduced-lunch public school dollar. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history:…

"Love surprises us. It ends." ~ Eliza GriswoldAccompany, as in provide musical support. Also walk with, be with; hand to hold. Your designated person in roomsclaustrophobic with accusation, or just…

Futura, the typeface favored by the likes of filmmakers Stanley Kubrick and Wes Anderson was also used extensively for NASA’s Apollo 11 mission (along with an American knock-off of Futura…

I don’t know how these Friday newsletters come together. Or maybe I do. They usually start with an image I want to put at the top, or a subject line.…

I diagnosed why, when using my 2019 TCL Roku TV as a monitor for a mini PC running KDE Plasma, I could only get a 30 Hz refresh rate at…

The last full moon slips towards the horizon outside Kawaihae Harbor.

In future years, when I wonder why I wasn't writing as much, let me remember that I was doing a lot of baking, from yesterday's lemon blueberry tea caketo today's…

Sitting here, doing nothing. Dog’s panting, but he’s enjoying the freshness of the forest. Birds are chirping, as they should. Thank you for keeping RSS alive. You're awesome. Email me…

This is a FOSTA case. It reached the 9th Circuit on personal jurisdiction grounds. The 9th Circuit held that some foreign defendants were subject to jurisdiction. On remand, the court…

I admit it. I’ve spent my summer inside, pretending to be a little, big-eyed kitty running around on a fantasy island swimming like a mermaid, baking pastries and scavenging for…

It’s not even 8:30am as I start this, and I’ve already spent a couple of hours outside. It was already 19C/66F, and I don’t think we got any cooler than…

No, not the athletic event in Paris, the Olympic Mountains of northwestern Washington. I stopped by Lake Crescent, hiked to Marymere Falls, made a stop at the no-longer dammed Elwha…

Sharing my favorite images from the early days of photography... The post Early photography: Dog and Puppy in Barrel first appeared on Cendrine Marrouat - Artist.

As Bhavna and I were ready to leave the Ocean City Welcome & Information Center, we walked back on the path toward the parking area. I slowed down a bit…

Sandra Bullock has come a long way from her quiet childhood in Arlington, Virginia. She went on to become an Academy Award-winning actress as well as one of the most…

I wonder what it is like to live in uninteresting — boring, even — times? It must be nice. While I continue to ponder that,…

Image resize and quality comparison Another tiny tool I built with Claude 3.5 Sonnet and Artifacts. This one lets you select an image (or drag-drop one onto an area) and…