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✈️ The last time I was in an all executive airplane was Silverline in the UK. Clearly not as many people flying to Ottawa this morning.
Near the end of The Tombs of Atuan, the wizard Ged is in the desert with a young woman, Tenar. They have escaped a great evil and are tired, footsore, hungry. They have no food and little water and are a day’s walk from either. Tenar,...
One of the restaurants I miss most since leaving NYC is Win Son, so whenever the craving strikes, I break out their cookbook and get to work! A recent favorite is their Fried Eggplant with Black Vinegar, Labneh, and Spiced Cashews....
Coaching Finale? As June came to an end, I managed what I believe will be my final youth baseball game. (Unless of course someone twists my arm into doing it again, which I could totally see happening.) I counted 130 games managed...
If you don’t know, my maternal family is from Jamaica so my roots to the island and its cultures are very strong. So I was ecstatic to find out about SpriteWrench, a “one man micro-studio” based in Kingston, Jamaica, headed by Glen...
Nota bene: I credit my colleague and friend John Alcorn with the phrase “negative invisible hand”. As I mentioned in my previous post, Addition #11 of Adam Smith’s 1784 pamphlet provides many reasons why the herring bounty is a scam....
Diamond Rainbows is the fifth album from the Julie July Band and their fourth album of original material. Their first, back in 2018, was a tribute to the late Sandy Denny, representing a foundational plank of their live show. Although...
China’s 龙(龍) and the West’s dragon are not the same creature. They were pressed into a single word by an act of Bible translation.Robert Morrison, the first Protestant missionary to China, spent years on a complete Chinese Bible,...
Ricoh GRIIIx; cropped to 65X24 ratio. (click to enlarge)I’ve written two other posts about this camera and if you want to know all of my opinions of it—both the positives and negatives—you can read those here and here. I’m not going to...
From around 1910, the Valentine & Sons Publishing Company gives us “Battery Park” as a postcard: It took me a moment to understand what we’re seeing here. The brown building with the strange spire is One Broadway before its extensive...
On June 19th I was in the Carberry-Brandon area of Manitoba and had a free evening. Little did I know how many rainbows I'd encounter!
🔖📝 Read Will Doing “Morning Pages” for 30 Days Make Me More Creative? by Grace Abbott (The Good Trade). I love Abbott’s recommendation to follow your energy rather than holding to a rigid externally-imposed structure.
Over the weekend, I released rssCloud Server 4.0 and wanted to discuss how I added WebSub support to the server. WebSub is an alternative protocol that has the same purpose as rssCloud: to notify subscribers of real-time updates. Back in...
Hanging onto this roundup of the best recent poetry from The Guardian in anticipation of participating in the sealey challenge in August. 📚