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When I catch myself in those useless thought loops, what if I just recall a time when I felt calm and open, let my body drift toward that feeling, and watch the loops gradually dissolve? It's less about forcing mental discipline and more...
As threatened, I was in Oklahoma at the tail end of last week and over the weekend, mostly to give talks. My Friday evening public lecture was on horned dinosaurs, and it was tied in with the launch of a temporary exhibit called “Bizarre...
Comics Curmudgeon readers! Do you love this blog and yearn for a novel written by its creator? Well, good news: Josh Fruhlinger's The Enthusiast is that novel! It's even about newspaper comic strips, partly. Check it out! Here it is!...
Nice and sunny at first but dull later. Went to see Harry Welch. He doesn’t look too bad. Did all the mowing when I got back. Went to pub at night. Put new shirt on for the first time.
This month, 7 years ago, we lost Wesley. He’s not gone, he just changed addresses, but he’s not here, but then he is, very much alive in our memories! It seems to me that the value of a life is contained in what you leave behind. The...
After dissecting the minutiae from the ongoing battle of the bozos ⊕ [Note: To save you a click: it is about the Musk-Altman trial. ] , Andrew Sharp’s weekly column ends with this paragraph: The reality is knottier. Had the OpenAI...
I’ve been a committed Luna fan for about 30 years now, starting from the day I bought a copy of Bewitched during university at the Kitchener location of The Beat Goes On when I probably should have been studying instead of cruising the...
I’m going on a 5 mile, 20 pound ruck next weekend. That’s not terribly far or heavy, but I haven’t done it recently, and my backpack on today’s practice trip is already heavy.
Stablecoins are private digital money pegged to a fiat currency, overwhelmingly the US dollar. Dollar stablecoins reinforce American monetary and political hegemony, delivering fiscal and strategic benefits to the United States and hub...
No jurisdiction can ignore stablecoins. They can be banned outright only in the most effectively authoritarian countries, or accommodated and even encouraged, which suits the United States and hub countries. For most countries, benign...
Dear Constant Reader, There isn’t going to be a Friday Tip this week. Maybe next week. I’m not particularly in the mood to share my skills and wisdom with the world. This has nothing to do with you, Dear Readers. In fact, I appreciate...
I've always been quite fascinated by people who seem maintain a deep interest in a subject over the long term. I have for a long time been self critical of my own inability to do so and have on occasion forced myself to maintain my...
I really thought I’d slow down on recording after I released Covers, but that hasn’t been the case at all. Not sure how or when it happened, but I already have a nice large batch of songs. Who knows, I may even release that too. The...