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Posts published in August 2011

Is Babbage in Decline?

When I first visited New Babbage in 2007, I was stunned. The average quality of builds was (to my eye at the time) excellent. Kandace’s…

Steam spider

I’m quite certain my Dyson would lose in a battle with this spider: http://www.microbotic.org/Steam2.htm If you haven’t tripped across the creations of Christopher Conte, let this…

August 6 – Case Closed…Mostly

Bookworm Hienrichs smiled at Tepic Harlequin and Gilhooly Skute as she heard the tale of their search, and saw its result in Tepic’s hands. She…

Todo list

Tend the garden, mend a fence, bake a pie, make an affray, ford a stream, hike up a mountain, write a story, read books, lay…

Autopsy Report: George Callenby of Falun

  Malachi Miggins states, I am a Doctor of Medicine practicing in the City-state of New Babbage.  On the morning of the 1st of August…

I Have To Tell You A Story pt 4

  Macbain blinked, and said: “Fading?!  How quickly?” “Not quickly it would seem, fortunately.  Or at least doesn’t seem quick to me, as of yet.…

And because it is Summer….

Menu from the Baldauf Drug Co., Milwaukee circa 1920.   (full-size image available here at Ye Olde News)

For the fashionable railway inspector

[img_assist|nid=3179|title=|desc=|link=popup|align=left|width=640|height=577] I would so love to take a summer rail trip through the mountains with this.   (via Steampunk Vehicles)

Search for the Satchel

Tepic looked up from the table as Gilhooly entered the Sneaky Vole and smiled.“Watcha mate, long time no see!” he said “grab a seat an…