According to a rather intriguing genealogy website, I appear to have some decidedly eccentric distant cousins. While researching an ancestor, General Joseph Gardner Swift, I stumbled across a website…

More than half of Montreal’s adults ride a bike, according to a study by Vélo Québec. Although the group’s spokesman tends to suggest everyone who’s cycling is regularly commuting…

I mentioned back on the very first day of this year that my friend Scott Wood and I were planning on setting up something around the “Hastings Weird”: There are some existing loose local…

When you sense hatred and negativity in people and the world, that's exactly when you need to double down on[...]

These came from Peter Evans a couple of weeks ago, and are, well, whacky tall fellows . . . or fellowesses? I mean WT-very-actual-F? Clearly the Hong Kong 'old guard' in China, jumping on the Skibidy…

The evening light has changed. After work, it shines an amber glow across spindly seedheads. Shadows stretch. Coppery leaves fall slowly to the ground. At the beginning of October, our son announced…

Prof HAKIZIMANA Maurice Kenyan preacher Paul Mackenzie and 28 co-defendants were found guilty on Monday, October 19, of murdering 191 people, including 190 children, in the Shakahola mass graves…

Woodsy, Here's the first thing: An original Park Moon Cat in perfect shape with box. A beloved toy from childhood. Chris W. <div style="text-align: center

It's time for the Thursday Photo Funnies, brought to you a day early because that's just how hard we work here at RoundSeventeen Headquarters, formerly in Culver City, now in Pasadena. And…

Die Lehrerin, die sich vor mir aufgebaut hat, presst ihre zu Fäusten geballten Hände fest an ihren Körper. Sie ist sehr wütend und in diesem konkreten Fall richtet sich ihre...

Summer is over, and that means planning for the Cranky Network Awards presented by Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport is in full swing. I thought it was time for a little update on where things…

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My mid-week morning reads: ​• Is CoreWeave the Silicon Valley Bank of 2026?: Perhaps, but not in the way you might think. Robin Wigglesworth: SVB&#8217;s 2023 collapse was supposed to trigger a…

Waiting in for the plumber, I wrote down every word the voice in my head said. On paper he's a flatmate who's wrong about most of it. I don't take his orders.

Time to get excited for the holiday season. And for me, that means keeping an eye out for several &#8220;Holiday Train&#8221; runs throughout the area. And while I wait for the CPKC Holiday Train to…

I was reading Elder Gong&#8217;s talk from conference. He mentioned the importance of being consistent in good habits and it put me in mind of something that a firearms instructor told me a couple of…

The power of suggestion, when a person believes something due to being influenced by someone else's suggestion, plays a significant role in the paranormal world.

My friend David, who is an outstanding writer, once sent me this text message regarding notes on my latest manuscript: “You’re the best person to receive a note because no [&#8230;]

I have been part of a church that offers a pumpkin patch every year, a huge undertaking, from the offloading of the pumpkins to the selling of them. That South Florida church funded a variety of…

1. Sparrows tumble in and out of the sky on unknowable little brown bird business. 2. I hack out a crisp quarter slice out of a red cabbage head and peer within to admire the white on purple…

👀 Lying in bed kinda day, so throwback to earlier days when I was sticker spotting elsewhere.

Well, dear readers, after an unexpectedly VERY busy morning, all I did from two on was sleep. I slept and slept and just when I thought I could sleep no more, I slept again. You see, she of the Evil…

So, I added a post about my new group where I would be sharing all the graphics that I have made over the years. All the scrap kits, all the web graphics, all the email stationery, all the tubes, all…

Nominated by a reader in Rutland who also liked the story's notion of a "scuffle" between two dogs, and originally skeeted 1 by someone because it involves "a disused railway line between Stamford…

What Happened Four notable UK prosecutions illustrate the growing intersection of cybercrime, online exploitation subcultures, and digital terrorism involving teenage offenders: Scattered Spider…

I was recently held captive and sedated in Las Vegas for seven days, plus or minus a few, under 24/7 florescent lights where the staff would chatter and the TV played incessantly. The…

The concept of You, Inc. is a direct application of the idea of self-motivation instead of externally-imposed motivation, self-discipline in place of outside discipline, self-reinforcement in the…

I was thinking of maybe having themes for each week, but decided against it since it would add complication and would make it even harder to do things in time (I don’t have a backlog for this yet).…

Text of the day: “I might have put up with it years and years ago but I’m not putting up with it now.” The post Some Woman appeared first on Aleks Sierz.

REIMAGINING THE GOOD LIFE PODCAST Season 11 of Reimagining the Good Life begins October 28! This season, we’ll explore what it means to flourish through conversations about disability and belonging,…

Switzerland, a Prison? A few days ago, I came across a short video from Switzerland. Perhaps fifty seconds long. The first time I watched it, I was convinced the whole thing had to be staged. It was…

October 21, 2026 It&#8217;s time to bring out the bright colors, if you have them! The crowds these days are pretty drab (and I don&#8217;t really do much to help that, unless I&#8217;m wearing some…

I ask tons of questions. The most frequent one is probably this: — What am I doing? The answer this time: Working on doing everything consciously, hold myself accountable for the energetic welfare of…

LFF, you do not have to say anything, yes plus time equals no. The post The half empty nest | weeknotes 21 October 2026 first appeared on Neil Williams.

Most parents of adult children have said that they lost sleep worrying about their kids when they were younger, but perhaps surprisingly, some stress and wonder nearly as much about them when they…

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I had a great idea in my early days at The Institute, which finished up creating a Dr Kavanagh, PhD, while generating some quite noisy [ ie useless] data about Lithium in the groundwater . There are…

The last street in East London still lit by gas street lamps could see them replaced with electric LED bulbs under plans by the local residents' association.Read more &#8250;

Happy Wednesday all! Thankful to have a day off in the middle of the week to get my chores done. Mom's still in the rehab center, so I am chatting with her everyday now. She's getting better and…

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Things we&#8217;re reading today include &#8230; Digital bank Revolut suffers worldwide outage: everything you need to know Google Cloud down: Revolut and other banking apps crash after system outage…

One of the reasons I started this blog was to connect with others with similar values, and who are interested in similar things as I am. I find it a...

Last Updated on October 21, 2026 by Kay Hokkaido is one of the best places in Japan for skiing and snowboarding, thanks to its amazing powder snow. When we visited this year, my husband (who happens…

The flagship program of FDPPI for 2026 namely the IDPS 2026 is scheduled for November 21 in Bangalore at Hotel Fairfield Marriott, Rajaji nagar, Bengaluru. The program will be a day long event from…

Twenty Years Ago on FITK Fríða Frænka, an Antique Shop in the lower two floors of a house on Vesturgata, is a pleasantly over-stuffed collection of curios, furniture and household items. The pack-rat…

When I was about 20 years old, I began to notice a strange re-occurring phenomenon on my right hand. Maybe just once a year a small black spot appears on my finger. It stayed for a week or so, then…

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