It only took me half an hour of fruitless reading in wikipedia and beyond to realize that the people who write about the history of clothes online have no idea what they're talking about and don't care ( Read more... )

I'm reading along about baroques architecture in Poland (do you need to ask?) and there is the statement that baroque furniture was often made of tilla wood. I didn't recall ever having seen that term before, s I clicked the link on the word . . . and found myself looking at an article about a satellite ( Read more... )

Content advisory: this contains very personal, possibly contentious, potentially offensive material about religion and its place in the current cultural and political landscape.  I'm not looking for a fight.  I'm not looking to be convinced I'm wrong, or to be vindicated by other people's experience. I'm mourning a personal loss. (most of the ( Read more... )

This time I thought I had backed up my files up to last week in the (Frank-titled) "master ninj" drive automatically: that's where I thought I was saving things to. It's somewhat protected, because it doesn't have an operating system on it ( Read more... )