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Death is a rather big part of life, so it makes sense that author Haralambi Markov kept writing about it, whether that was intentional on his part or not. In the Big Idea for his newest collection of short stories, Markov talks about his...
There’s a new bug in the YouTube TV app for Google TV that is so utterly stupid that I need to rant about it. When you play a video and press back on the remote, it should jump back 10 seconds. Well, now it now jumps back 10 seconds… and...
I shouldn't be surprised really. I dislike working with hefty platforms that target consumers directly. This is because they often do so at the expense of more advanced requirements that someone may need further down the line. In this...
Nice essay from Zachary Kai with many quotable bits! Social media platforms rise and fall like ancient empires sped up a thousand times. Yet email endures. Like the postal service or the printed book. Is it any coincidence these...
Cole Adams Under Review:The Playful Lem: A Short Story Sampler. Stanislaw Lem, translated & edited by Michael Kandel. MLA, July 2026. Although Stanisław Lem was a pioneer of many of the conventions we invoke when we discuss “science...
ONE OF THE BEST TO TAKE THE BUMP: Justin Verlander announces his retirement at the end of this season.
Farage, Immigration and reality.
What happens if you're better than everyone else? Or, at least, if there's something special about you that it would be indecent not to nourish at any cost? What if you're young, and that special part of you is undeveloped, and you don't...
Awake at 5:30, stow sleeping gear and boom tent. At the coffee shop as they open at 6:30 for a blueberry muffin and iced tea. Cast off Beaufort docks 7:00, sails up 7:10 off the Duke marine lab on Pivers Island. It the beginning of the...
Listen on Spotify, Apple Music, or YouTube Here’s a new mixtape, which was really inspired by me being depressed and watching Deerhunter do “Nothing Ever Happened” live in 2011 and getting really obsessed with the late Josh Fauver’s...
https://wc26.bogachev.fr/index.html For an example from a spectacular game, check out the Argentina vs Egypt match By Alevandre Bogachev, via Francis Gagnon
We have a respite, so I thought I’d tackle various thoughts on children, phones and screens. GPT-5.6-Sol drops tomorrow, and the Fable agents are hard at work. I’ll start with the other screens, then finish with the phones. Table of...
r7.0 - Housekeeping This is the 0th post in series about my website redesign, I'll add links to the other parts here as they become available Context My website has been around for quite some time. Having a space on the internet is...
One product category that we are seeing more and more is the refillable rollerball (sometimes referred to as the "inkball") pen. These first went mainstream several years ago with an inexpensive version released by ink maker Herbin,...