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A nice scene that looks like the spirit of Americanness. Here it is, I dedicate it to public domain for use by anyone for any purpose. Happy spring!

The village of Cooperstown in Upstate New York has fenced the past and kept it open for business. Famous because of baseball, the village is designed to evoke the nostalgic America that the sport of baseball

There’s a dragon in the room. Let’s talk about it. It isn’t actually cancer, although that dreadful beast became the avatar of unavoidable tragedy to Ryan and Amy Green, two married theater kids whose

This may effectively become a farewell letter to my favorite word processing software application, Microsoft Word, far and away the best and most important product from its ubiquitous brand. As I type

The greatest thing in my life is the spontaneous confidence that sometimes sneaks up behind me during dark nights when I’m alone with my thoughts. This confidence compels me to start actively preparing

I helped my mom by a MacBook Pro, because she deserves the best for her writing endeavors. And this laptop really is the best I’ve seen. The keyboard of the current model is truly excellent, its simplicity

Mi dankas pri tiuj ĉi Malmultaj geamikoj, kiuj La vorton kreis per l’ orelo, La Komprenemajn Lipojn, Kiu unue priskribis La sono de parolado Ĉe la limo de dankeco. Image by PIC SNIPE, licensed from Adobe

Sur Read.cash mi afiŝis poemon, je mia denaska lingvo, pri mia vivo kaj mia malgranda lokaĵo. Mia celo pri ĝi estas esprimi mem si, pro la okazo de mia morto. Tial mi ĝoje surprizas, ke du homoj legis

Ĉu viaj malbonaj gestoj kaj malgraciaj vortoj fariĝas veraĵojn, vi ne scias. Ĉu viaj intuoj estas veraj aŭ malveraj, vi ne scias. Kiuj el viaj vortoj estas ies espero kaj profetaĵo, vi ne scias. Kiuj el

Laundry night brings me my last opportunity to breathe the essence of super sours and Pac Man. The super sours taste like stale gray. The young hero is eaten by the wiley ghosts. To the extent possible

The arrival of The Wheel of Time on Amazon Prime last month was one of the most significant media events of 2021. This was truly a landmark occasion for fans of the long series of epic fantasy books, which

The open source community always has delightfully creative alternatives to any kind of software you can think of, and that certainly includes games. Chromium BSU is the flagship open source videogame found

I want to tell again the stories Of wonder-christened glory, To craft a loving monument Depicting treasures above. I long to tell the stories of truth Outliving aspirations, To spin the fine threads of

Esperanto Mi kreis ĉi tiun bildon en Oktobro 2017. La dezajnan koncepton inspiris la kvincentjara datreveno de la tago kiam Marteno Lutero najlis siajn teologiajn protesto-tezojn sur la pordon de la preĝejo

Our expectations for movies change with the times. Released on Netflix in 2020, The Old Guard is not a good film; at least, it is not very good based on the expectations established in previous years by

The Adirondacks is a vast a northern wilderness declared by the state of New York to be state parkland. People who live in Upstate New York experience the Adirondacks as a major region of the state, since

Today’s sad e-kid and yesterday’s comic kid understand the gripping power of a fantasy world full of clashing contradictions. Darkness against Light, villains against heroes, the archetype of internal

On Wednesday, September 29, 2021, I decided to turn my every day transactions into public assets for the creative community to use. I did not use any cutting edge technological way to pay for things. Instead,

I feel betrayed by my culture. I just found out that one of the myths that shaped my worldview was deliberately changed to shield me from the truth. Some of my precious early memories involve a certain

I just completed my second complete playthrough of A Plague Tale: Innocence. This time, I selected the French voice acting. Since I also play with the HUD turned off for greater realism, there were no