View from the Quarter-gallery

View From the Quarter-Gallery

Last updated March 18, 2025

Newspapers
- FTF New York Times
- The Washington Post
- The Philadelphia Inquirer
- The Boston Globe Online - Patriots coverage as well as Red Sox coverage
- Hartford Courant
- The Connecticut Mirror - Connecticut's Nonprofit Journalism
- TheDay.com - The New London Day
TV and other media
- CNN
- MSNBC
- Google News - Current news from multiple sources
- ESPN Patriot Blog - by Mike Reiss
- WTNH News Channel 8 - New Haven, CT ABC-TV affiliate
- WFSB - Connecticut's News Station - Hartford, CT CBS-TV affiliate, Channel 3
- WVIT - NBC30 - Hartford, CT NBC-TV affiliate
Weather
- The Weather Underground - up-to-the minute weather for Groton, CT and Hartford, CT

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Perplexity AI
Zap2It - TV Listings
OneLook Dictionaries - Search a grunch of 'em at once
Thesaurus.com - Roget's Thesaurus, plus other reference links
Wikipedia - Use with reasonable caution
Encyclopedia.com - Research tool aggregation site
SE Connecticut Libraries -Groton, Waterford, Mystic, and Noank: online catalog, and links to iConn research site
QuotationsPage.com - Quotation collection and search
BrainyQuote.com - Quotation collection and search
Dictionary of Difficult Words - for we users of big words
SpanishDict - Spanish to English Translation, Dictionary & Translator
Dictionary of French Expressions - and French Words and Expressions in English
City-State / Zip Code associations - Lookups in both directions
The Truth About Cars - New Car Reviews, Ratings & Pricing, Auto News for New Models
The Beatles Bible - Not Quite As Popular As Jesus...
The Official U.S. Time - a Java atomic clock
CT.gov Portal Page - including CT flag status (half-mast, two-blocked)

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Favorite Comics

The Comics Curmudgeon - Josh reads the comics so you don't have to
The Straight Dope - Fighting Ignorance Since 1973 (it's taking longer than we thought)(no updates)
The Word Detective -Words and Language in a Humorous Vein since 1995 (deceased)
mental_floss - Where Knowledge Junkies Get Their Fix
New York Times Crossword Puzzles - Daily and Sunday (subscription)
Urban Legends Reference Pages - Spend a whole day here
Car Talk - Click and Clack, the Tappet Brothers
Coloring Pages - For the kids: a big collection
The Jargon File - version 4.4.8, 01 OCT 2004: A comprehensive compendium of hacker slang
The Story of Mel - a Real Programmer
Lunch Discussions #145: The Crazification Factor - The classic Kung Fu Monkey post
RFC 2795 - The Infinite Monkey Protocol Suite (IMPS)
Mark Twain - Twain on Becoming A Writer
Jon Gindick's Harmonica Central - and other harp links
Lemmings - The original game-- Online!
Foam Bath Fish Time

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Norwich Connecticut Sea Unicorns - Detroit Tigers Class A (Short Season) affilate, at Dodd Stadium in Norwich
Time Zone Converter - time conversion
Disney World Page - It's a Small World Wide Web
The Bible, King James Version - courtesy of the University of Virginia

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No, I'm not really such a hypochondriac:

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My personal pages: all about ME!

E-Mail me at steve@qmss.com