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I like to keep an eye out for cool shapes during my walks and use them as inspiration for my #SidewalkFriends drawings. It’s like my version of hunting for Pokémon. Inspired by a patch of white and blue paint on the sidewalk across the...
[Ah well. The price was right.] After running a 5K last week, I was pleased to receive an email letting me know I had complimentary race photos available. It read as follows: You crushed it at the Shoreline 5K! Your complimentary photos...
Most people who've heard of Radclyffe Hall know exactly one fact about her: she wrote The Well of Loneliness, and the British government banned it for being obscene. That trial is real, and it mattered. But it was actually the second...
A few weeks ago I published the first half of my conversations with the people who read cold scripts for a living. I spoke to 38 agents, managers, assistants and junior execs on which credentials actually get a script read. We learned...
So after I mentioned in my last post that I was trying out jrnl for journalling, and said that I’d blog about it if it stuck, this is that blog post. But first, let me begin by talking a bit about my history with journalling. I wasn’t...
Breezy and cool. The sun glimmers through thin clouds, prompting a Linne’s cicada to call—that stuttering buzz. A bluebird sings up by the shed.
Suppose you’ve never worked at the command line and you’re reading a book about the bash shell. You read that !$ is a shortcut to refer to the last word of the previous command. That little fact will almost certainly not stick in your...
Depending on which conservative you read, either disaster was averted or an an election was stolen in Minnesota's Republican gubernatorial primary yesterday.Credit John Hinderaker of PowerLine with enough sense to see that pillow magnate...
I always wonder why *so many* people prefer to fill their bio page with things they hate. Not an expert but does this sound healthy to you?
Last night was a Celebration of Life for my late friend Catherine Hennessey. It was a lovely event, held on the lawn at Beaconsfield on a perfect summer night.I was asked to be one of the speakers, to reflect on my relationship with...
Alternatively, Looking Backward to Go Forward. But I think the first is right. I've been listening to a lot of the Bill Atkinson and Andy Hertzfeld interviews on YouTube. It's inspiring stuff, but also a bit melancholy. The future didn't...
This post documents my attempt to reproduce the problem outlined in FreeBSD – /etc/pam.d/sshd was updated/overwritten – no merge attempt I have a working test jail: testingmerge Snapshot of 15.0 [12:11 r730-03 dvl /usr/local/share] % zfs...
This post is part of a series about rare perceptual abilities. Find the intro and updated list of articles here. Thanks to a They Might Be Giants song, I learned of supertasting young. There exists variation in which compounds people can...
These two articles looked at the relationship between fertility and social liberalism in Europe:They showed a paradox. Social liberals have fewer children than conservatives, but over time, Europeans have become much more socially...
Just before starting in on the James Bond theme, the Danish Symphony Orchestra had their conductor “assassinated” live on stage. That visual, followed immediately by the opening bars of the Bond theme is just legendary.