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This week was actually really nice! Low key - but like, still felt really good! Last week I mentioned taking smaller notes and this week I actually followed through with it! I fell down a little rabbit hole looking into notebooks - I...
… to CT reader and commenter Dr Memory, who has cleaned up our database, eliminating many of the badly rendered quotation marks and similar problems. Those problems reflect the fact that the blog is now more than 20 years old, and has...
Email is the best form of communication, especially if you write informally.
Deuel County, South Dakota, c. 1995 More on Mulder’s farm…
A reader asks if I remember diagramming sentences. In math I was competent and uninspired but almost anything with words constituted play time. In short, I loved diagramming sentences. I think Mrs. Whistler, my sixth-grade teacher,...
Today, I remembered that I started an anti-spam framework project a while back. I’d done a lot of the legwork and just got distracted at some point. So, I put in some hours and progressed the project. It works using some pretty...
Hey friend! I started Stuff in a ten-week gap after being laid off, looking for somewhere to put the anxiety of not working. At issue #100 I compiled the first Stuff 100. At #200 I did the next.My third 100 arrives from a different...
Hey, Niki here. This is a bit unusual. My sabbatical is coming to an end, and I am looking for a new opportunity. Full-time or contract, startup or research, remote or Berlin, individual contributor, ideally—tight team, ambitious...
Had a suuuper chill day. Went to the card shop after a nice simple breakfast and played DanDan with someone while we waited for the other players to show up for the commander game. They never did so we just ended up playing a wholeeee...
Just saw it. Loved it. Possibly a masterpiece, certainly a very good film. It takes some well-made liberties with the original, and I enjoyed most of them, though I found the island of giants in silver armor confusing. That could've been...
Regular readers will know that some time ago, I bought a side tank, and cab back from Sea Lion. It's my favourite loco in the world, the price was right, and so I couldn't resist. For a few years, thanks to Mike Buttell, they lived in...
As I mentioned in my IndieWeb Book Club post, I first read Fromm’s book more than 20 years ago. I was in my early high school years when I stumbled upon his work and was immediately intrigued by his way of looking at the world. The fact...
In summer 1999, a kid could whisper “I see dead people,” and every person in the room knew exactly what he meant. That is what a movie actually is. It’s not content; it’s never content. It’s actually closer to a coordination technology -...
Needless to say, I've been very remiss in writing new posts for this blog, even within the context of the less rigorous schedule I proposed two months ago. I wish I had a better excuse beyond "I'm busy revising Thousand Suns for a second...
★★★☆☆ We’ve had this refrigerator for about three years now. Nothing fancy, but it was relatively cheap for a refrigerator (Insignia is one of Best Buy’s store brands), and it does its job: keeping food cold or frozen as needed. But the...