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A trip to Rimini was not on his chronology but Twombly’s photo of Miramare was from 2005, and I think his trips to Wal-Mart in Lexington were endless, but this one was from 2007. NGL, these things are intoxicating.
Today is graduation day for my twin girls, Moxie and Clarity. They've gone through a lot of things I didn't have to go through when I was a kid: divorce, moving, changing schools, going back and forth between two parents. Yet they turned...
Somewhere, in the endless blue ocean, a gigantic mammal shudders as it takes its last breath. Thanks to science, we know that all dogs go to heaven, but all whales descend through the murky depths until their carcasses litter the seabed....
Last month, we visited the tulip fields in Lisse, near the Keukenhof gardens, every year, these fields burst into color and lot of people come to visit them. If you are ever in the area around April or May, it’s worth a visit!
It’s becoming one of those days where I discover even more new people with blogs. Some people out there are fun, some serious, others are grumpy… At this rate I won’t stop writing emails all morning. And you know what, I think I’d like...
In the 24 hours before I started writing this post, Plausible told me joost.blog had 254 visitors. My server logs told me 536 fetches over the same window came from on-demand AI bots like ChatGPT-User and Claude-User. Those bots only...
This week I have been looking inside public Docker images, with the aim of finding API keys etc. inside, and then reporting them and claiming bug bounties. It has been a partial success, in the sense that I found loads of private...
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! Mother Goose...
I am reading Creative Authenticity by Ian Roberts. I’ve only just started, so I haven’t made up my mind about it yet — perhaps it will improve as I wade deeper. One quote from the first chapter on searching for beauty aligns with my...
21 May 2026 Yesterday morning four peregrine falcon chicks were banded at the University of Pittsburgh’s Cathedral of Learning by Patti Barber, Endangered Bird Biologist from the PA Game Commission (PGC). This is the third year Carla has...
A new study of corporate communications has revealed a startling linguistic absolute: any professional who begins a sentence with “I don’t mean to beat a dead horse” will immediately engage in a prolonged, systematic, and entirely...
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