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Yesterday, we headed down to Northfield for a mini day-trip. I have to admit that, though I think that Sarah Lawrence is the perfect place for Beatrix, it would be really nice to have her down in Northfield!We did a little shopping (we...
It started from a newsletter from the beautiful, kind Lowland Hum, who have done an episode of the new-to-me podcast Podsongs, an episode I still haven’t watched/listened to because I immediately noticed an episode with Peter Rollins,...
A post by Adam Newbold about how to ensure your website is portable had me thinking about how I sometimes do exactly what he advocates — upload HTML files to a server. Hardcore IndieWeb: Run your own website 100% independently for only...
By the pricking of my thumbs,something wicked this way comes.Open, locks, whoever knocks!— The Second Witch, MacbethThere are seasons when the world announces itself long before it arrives.I have developed a sixth sense over the years. I...
Let’s consider a person you don’t know. Maybe they live in the Republic of the Congo. Let’s say they’re near a city – not the country’s biggest city, but maybe its 5th biggest city. I don’t know that city’s name, but I could probably...
A yearbook page from the 1970s rarely looks like a fashion statement at first glance, yet look closer and the hemlines tell their own story. Row after row of young women pose in skirts several inches above the knee, a length that had...
Every time I think I've seen it all from spammers, they do something that surprises me. The ingenuity of bad actors is an interesting thing. I always wonder what sort of world we'd live in if their efforts were focused on good. What...
I'm ready to grudgingly accept that the absolute market saturation of mattress retailers in America over the past 10 years isn't tied to money laundering, even though it's one of the few internet conspiracies that kind of, sort of, might...
The weather’s turned cold and stuff, so I think it’s time to spend a day reading comics. And accompanied by music from 1982 only. Kate Bush: The Dreaming 12:03: Betas by Nick Maandag (Drawn & Quarterly) This book feels kinda displaced in...
I wanted a "surprise me" button for my blog. So, if you click the cookie in my signature, it reroutes to one of my pages. I did this because I realized that my tiny experiment of adding links to emojis worked, but then the links in my...
I wish you were here. With me. Right now. I wish you were lying beside me with your feet in my lap, telling me fun stories about what you did last week. Laughing when I tell you my own. Fetching me snacks from the kitchen when you go...
I have been serving on a jury this past week. Articles I read Works & Wonders: Vikings, Vows, Knockoffs, Chickens and Eggs. (Tim Challies) Designing with Mustard (Anna E. Cook) Choosing Movies (Chris Coyier) Stage Fright (Michelle...
Chronopost and the lack of giving a..., SRAM power up contents, New chair, British stuff, A new hope tomorrow, Sanity at last.
Summer Finance, a defi platform that provides "institutional defi vault infrastructure", was exploited for $6 million in an apparent flash loan attack. The attacker used a flash loan to deposit $64.8 million and then withdraw $70.9...
John McPhee, writing in 2015 in The New Yorker, about the process of being edited at Time magazine:After four days of preparation and writing—after routinely staying up almost all night on the fourth night—and after tailoring your...