Borepatch

If you listen to music on the radio you've heard this song.  In a way its a throwback to the 1970s when radio stations would play all so...

Divemedic has been geeking out about home network stuff which has been a bit of a walk down memory lane - I once had a supervisor who turne...

The comments to yesterday's post were simply hilarious.  I clearly am not the only nerrd around here. Oh, and Rick T - sometime I will ...

This is perhaps the Platonic Christmas song. 

I never knew he could play the piano, or that Johnny could play drums.  Or that Sid Caesar could play sax.

The Queen Of The World and I like watching the old TV shows ('50s, '60s, and '70s).  One of these is The George Burns Show, the ...

The Queen Of The World sent me this sad story : The   ship's   remarkable speed earned it the coveted Blue Riband award from Great Brita...

And back at dock after an extensive repair and refit.  Don't mess with Texas' battleships. This is a very long video of this morning...

The mid-20th Century was the high point of the much appreciated and much lamented in its passing "Mid-Brow"* culture: a set of soc...

Ambisinistral at YARGB has a regular Friday feature, showcasing off-beat and unusual (well, to me at least) music groups.  It's a deligh...

Specifically, World War II Navy ice cream.  It looks pretty good, and the powdered milk and powdered eggs don't look like they are infer...

This is a delightful blast from the past won a Grammy in 1991.  It's striking just how much Clint Black looked like Roy Rogers.

Seemingly everything old is new again.  Apocalypse Nostalgia, anyone? 

John Wilder has a very thought provoking post .  It's long bit highly, highly recommended.  He ends what would be a depressing post with...

Dwight visits the dry-docked USS Texas .  He also buys a souvenir bit of USS Texas steel .  Somewhere, #2 Son has some souvenir deck teak fr...

The Queen Of The World and I love bluegrass.  It's an old type of music, but until the 1960s was pretty much confined to the Appalachian...

YARGB has a post up about the old school bare-knuckle boxers and how their exaggerated stance wasn't stupid.  To the contrary : To moder...

52 years ago today, the Oregon Highway Division tried to remove a whale carcass.  With dynamite .  Now there's a country music song for ...

Electronic communications rely on the concept of a Carrier Wave .  Basically, this is a well-defined electronic signal that all devices can ...

Haribo introduced Gummi Bears 100 years ago : The first production plant was a copper kettle in his kitchen and his first employee was his w...