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Let me be unglamorous and honest about the actual furniture of a writing life. What do my private, invisible days look like? What does it cost and what does it pay? (Rarely in the same currency) What is my writing for? I need to answer...
Over on YouTube I shared a video where I demonstrate a more context-efficient approach for integrating existing systems into agentic tools than MCP, one that comes with built in access control mechanisms and that LLMs are already trained...
What is Life During COVID? Life During COVID is a body of work that I produced during the COVID lockdown. It’s a series of diary entries, virtual travels and videos charting how I coped through creativity. The Coronavirus Diaries The...
... sometimes means not adopting at all.A couple of advice columns dealing with pets reminded me of the time one of my brothers broke up with a girlfriend decades ago. The straw that broke that camel's back: She came home with two yippy...
If I’m ever asked whether I’m into football, depending what mood I’m in, I sometimes reply: “No. I support Bristol City and England.” Poets are rarely associated with football. I’d imagine the Venn diagram intersection of poetry loving...
We're paying A.I.'s hardware tax on everything we buy, and most people don't even know it's happening.
Netflix has a new Little House on the Prairie (2026-), adapting the semi-autobiographical novels by
I’m very much a Moon person but I’ve written a bit about Mars over the years as well, highlighting a few key aspects about the red planet’s exploration which I thought aren’t discussed as much or in detail.NASA explores MarsA comparison...
%%yellow%%5:30 AM%%, fifteen minutes before my daily alarm. like clockwork, i am awoken instead to the squealing and screeching of a bird and the violent chirps of her friends. goddammit, that damn cat is up to it again. i swear, every...
The sky is white, though the weather app insists it’s clear: thick haze from wildfires far to the north, I think. Goldfinches dominate the morning soundtrack, beginning to nest just as many of the migrants are wrapping it up.
5-star hike • 4 mile out-and-back • Moderate | Gain 1,010 feet • The Dalles, OR | Oregon . Views beside the trail near Rowena Crest Overlook. The Columbia River Gorge cuts through the volcanic Cascade Range, exposing layers of basalt...
For the first time since 1946, the total debt of the United States ($39.5 trillion) is greater than our GDP ($32-ish trillion). The interest on this debt is currently about $1 trillion per year, which is more than we spend on defense....
We’re having another wildfire smoke day in Chicago (previously), with air so thick that your nose gets black and you taste it in every breath. As I walked my daughter to school this morning I talked to her about how this smoke has...
Years ago, during my second time at IndieCade, and when I was fairly new to attending video game events, there was a lot of talk about prioritizing events that focus on local community over an international crowd. The conversation being...
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