Empire of Dirt

by TAO on May 19, 2013

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Go Bathe Yourself In Fire

February 4, 2013

You fought hard and you saved and learned, but all of it’s going to burn. And your mind, your tiny mind, you know you’ve really been so blind. Now’s your time burn your mind. You’re falling far too far behind. Oh no, oh no, oh no, you gonna burn! Fire, to destroy all you’ve done. [...]

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Of Muskets and Manned Flight

January 22, 2013

I’ve accumulated some more photos from disparate sources. Niagara-on-the-Lake in Ontario, Canada has its share of hyphens. Despite that it is a rather large tourist attraction hosting some of the best vineyards in the Great White North. Besides the trodden grapes the area has a great deal of history including action during the war of [...]

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Don’t Fade Away

December 16, 2012

Walter P. Chrysler rescued automobile manufacturers before creating his own eponymous dynasty. During his reign Chrysler was known as the “engineer’s automobile”. Often stodgy in style they just as often led the industry in mechanical innovations. Like all long-lived companies there is a lot of history and lore which can be drawn upon to illustrate [...]

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Random

November 26, 2012

I’ve taken a lot of photos since my blog has gone silent. So….RANDOM PHOTO TIME!

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Back In Business

November 16, 2012

The site is running reasonably well again so I’ll celebrate with a link to an article on fountain pens from a Manila paper. If you read closely you may see a familiar name. Just click here.

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Fortress Of Focus

January 27, 2012

So my blog is broken. I’ve not posted anything in so long maybe it decided to commit suicide or at least invite the grim specter of death to come a knockin’ early. I have managed to get things functioning OK but the plugin I use for displaying images still refuses to load. ‘Tis a wasteland [...]

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Eye Candy

October 17, 2011

Hershey, PA is the land of chocolate or something. Well, not really since nothing seemed to be built with cocoa anywhere within the city limits. I expected something a bit more like this.  Still, it was founded on and continues to subsist on the tasty, tasty slopes of chocolate kisses (among other diversified products). As [...]

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Baltanical

October 17, 2011

When I think of Baltimore television shows like Homicide: Life On The Street and Hot L Baltimore or the movies of John Waters mold my vision of that coastal city. All stellar works that stick in my mind but not a rounded representation of the place. Now I find myself living about an hour from there [...]

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Simone Says

September 28, 2011

A few weeks ago I took my first trip to Philadelphia which isn’t that far from my new digs in Pennsylvania. I went ostensibly for an NAWCC chapter mart where I could look over watches and such for sale. Afterwards I had planned to go to the Simone Foundation Automotive Museum with a fellow horological [...]

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