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The multitool was somewhere in my vest. Forty-three tools in one. Well, forty-four if you count being able to hook it to a drift boat’s anchor line when the lighter anchor—the pyramid-shaped one made from lead—wrestles itself free from...
Want to start some trouble? The playtest of This Means War is ready to download and play, right now. Be warned, it is very… different… from my other games. We’ve played it a bunch and had some pretty fantastic experiences, but it is...
First up, as promised, here is my new helper! Oh, my goodness, am I so happy with it! It handles going over the bumpy lawn and the driveway so smoothly, it’s amazing. The front wheels rotate effortlessly – with my husband’s walker, they...
I have had one of the busiest weeks I’ve had in a long time. Also: my favorite jeans, the ones I launder while wearing pajama pants so I can put them right back on again as soon as they’re dry, have formed a deal-breaking hole in the...
… are the ones you dig yourself. After more years than I prefer to calculate, little matches the joy and super charge energy of a session of web rabbit holing, of hopping from one link to another, and finding something at the other end I...
Traffic… providing a scene, an opportunity for meditation, pausing, collecting, quiet, thoughts… For you… So you can not […]
This week’s tech blog is a very in the weeds post about a technology, Azure Synapse analytics, that I work with every day in my job. Also sort of an edge case, but it was interesting to review some code I wrote over a year ago.
Perfume PosseLooking Back: Serge Lutens Daim Blond I know we have talked about Daim Blond recently in comments and oddly when I opened the perfume cupboard this AM it was staring me in the face. Last night was chilly, which is perfect...
Padma Lakshmi’s wanted to shake up the cooking competition genre with America's Culinary Cup. So how did its format come together? I have insight from its showrunner and more!
Andries Stilte as a Standard Bearer, Johannes Cornelisz Verspronck, oil on canvas, 41 x 31 in. (104 x 79 cm), in the collection of the National Gallery of Art, DC, which has both a zoomable and downloadable version of the image. I hadn’t...
At the Tate, a mammoth tower of twentieth-century radios fritz and skip through stations. Meireles was concerned with the cacophony of the modern world. He built Babel in 2001. I wonder what he would build today. When I encountered the...
by Cláudio Alves The 79th Cannes Film Festival is upon us and, as ever, Elisa is on the ground to report directly from the Croisette. Sadly, most of us can only watch from afar. For years, I struggled with festival-related FOMO, but one...