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Ease Back into Reading with Short StoriesLast time, I wrote about how reading is down across the globe. In this post, I talk about how you can get back into reading by reading short stories. I also link to a few of them that I find...
Check out As in guillotine... for more. "It makes me wonder what's changed since 2020?" Five Things for September 4, 2025 Five Things: September 4, 2025, by Guy LeCharles Gonzalez, was originally posted on As in guillotine....
So things have been coming back up the back half of this week. I feel fortunate that I have more energy and don't have the same cloud as usual looming over me. An interesting thing happened yesterday: I was at a Starbucks when I saw a...
For the longest time, my blog lived on a variety of platforms, with the latest being OMG.lol. Having a history of web development, I wanted something cleaner, faster, and developer-friendly. I have had my eye on Eleventy for quite a...
It is apparent to everyone that social media is distinctly a different experience today from how it initially developed. It has become a form of mindless consumption instead of a social space where one interacts with other genuine...
Bacchanalia Beneath the Wind Turbines, by the author Back in July I wrote a post here called The futility of constructing a better past & the necessity of imagining a better future, the essence of which was a rant against (what seems to...
I have read nothing tangible about Silksong other than it seems to be causing service disruptions and it's a game, so I'm hoping it's about a traveling bard who journeys down the Silk Road singing songs about the dangers and characters...
What I’m going to tell you today might seem incredible, but just the same way as LLMs are banned from many workplaces these days, or mobile apps were outlawed by many an IT department 15 years ago, I was consulting 20 years ago for a...
In which I inhale 185 years of vintage lead dust It's been a busy couple of months in our household. we've been fixing up the partially collapsed room. During the renovations we settled on calling it a pantry. We are also trying to...
I am unhinged. I waste the days. I have tics. I haven’t been sleeping well. I stare at the shuttle---the one I rented---in its bay when I walk by. Sometimes I go to the hangar when I have nothing to inspect, just to look at it. I imagine...
In Summary I will not knowingly use AI in the process of creating my work. I make efforts to avoid AI in both personal and professional settings. I do not consent to my work being used to train any AI models. This website is not for...
Last year I read an abysmal amount of books, like only a couple. So this year I made a promise that I would read more books and get caught up on my reading. This isn't the first time I've done this. I feel like I've tried and failed...
Emily Y. Chew, Mark Gillies, Glenn J. Jaffe, Alain Gaudric, Cathy Egan, Ian Constable, Traci Clemons, Thomas Aaberg, Debora C. Manning, Thomas C. Hohman, Alan Bird, Martin Friedlander. Cell-Based Ciliary...
After a decade of watching United stumble from one false dawn to the next, fantasy premier league (FPL) has become my sole source of joy in football. This is my seventh season playing, and in a game where 11.2 million managers compete, I...
Thirteen things this Thursday that I have read, watched, listened to or otherwise found noteworthy.
At first glance, this post may read like an ad, feel like an ad, but it’s not an ad. It just lists reasons that make me really, really like BBEdit, an app that I have long avoided and considered too complicated and complex for my humble...
I switched this site over to using the Zola SSG around May of this year because when I originally wrote the bulky-ass HTML files that used to be this site, I had a voice in the back of my head swearing that most people with a personal...
Το θεματικό πάρκο είναι σχεδιασμένο με τέτοιο τρόπο ώστε να δώσει την εντύπωση πως είναι η ενσάρκωση αποκυημάτων της φαντασίας ή πως βρίσκεται σε κενό χρόνο. Οι επισκέπτες προσδοκούν να συναντήσουν τους αγαπημένους τους χαρακτήρες ή να...
My review of the fifth book in The Expanse science fiction saga, it just keeps being super good!
本文分享了多样的个人体验与见闻，涵盖了近期阅读的书籍、观影感受（《死神来了》及其背后演员的故事）、游戏体验（《空洞骑士》的探索乐趣与手柄适配问题）、简单菜谱（娃娃菜的两吃做法），以及博客的更新计划。内容轻松有趣，展现了作者对生活细节的观察与思考，适合寻求多元化生活灵感或休闲阅读的读者。
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For roughly 20 years, from the 1990s to the 2010s, the family computer (always a desktop) was the household symbol of modernity in Brazil, a prerequisite for promising futures and the only gateway to the internet. It competed for space...
“The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing which stands in the way,” William Blake wrote in his most spirited letter. “As a man is, so he sees.” Because how we look at the world shapes the...
September has begun, and this means summer is pretty much over and autumn is around the corner (though some people dispute this ;)). To those who love summer autumn feels like the world is dying, but for me it's always been my favourite...
In digital minimalism I’m always like “could people in 1978 do this?” Could they send letters and place calls? Then it’s okay that I use the digital equivalent of that. Were they always reachable? Nope. So then it’s okay that I walk away...