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I fed some of my songs through Google's AI chatbot, Gemini, to see what would happen. That may sound like the precursor to a joke --a joke that will allow me to spend several paragraphs detailing the hilarious, whacked-out observations...
I bought a Zune, but not just any Zune, the Halo 3 edition Zune. You might be asking yourself, "why?". You probably know by now that my favorite games are the original Bungie-era Halo games. Halo 3 of course being my favorite. And as my...
I occasionally hear middle-aged people wax nostalgic about how great college was. Often, they say it was the best time of their life. This has always seemed odd to me. I'm sure many people are happiest in university, but I have a hard...
In the late 80s, a manager at Microsoft named Paul Maritz sent an email to a colleague suggesting they “eat their own dogfood.” What he meant was that LAN Manager, a product he oversaw, should get more internal use. How could they build...
StarringRobert Pattinson, Zoë Kravitz, Jeffrey Wright, Colin Farrell, and Paul DanoDirectorMatt ReevesOverviewUnmask the truth.In his second year of fighting crime, Batman uncovers corruption in Gotham City that connects to his own...
Desert Brat 2026-08-16 you're welcome ig
Holy Smoke! Nice juxtaposition on a Donegal beach. Quote of the Day ”A man’s dying is more the survivors’ affair than his own.” Thomas Mann Musical alternative to the morning’s radio news Paul Simon | Graceland Link Triggered by a...
Book now for my tours through August, September & October There is Roy on the far right with his left hand stuck in his pocket, to indicate the appropriate air of nonchalance befitting a street-wise man of the world of around twelve...
even if I just came back from Hawaii, I was craving kalbi, the kind we have in Hawaiilooked in one of my cookbooks and found a recipe for the sauceI made 1/4 of the recipe (the recipe I am posting is the full recipe)Kalbi from Wisteria...
Last weekend, when we arrived home from our hotel weekend, it was off for a quick dinner in a little bar tucked under the L tracks and a production of The Outsiders, a musical I had opted not to get tickets for last time it was in town,...
Orktober is on the horizon so I thought I’d give you a wee glimpse into my plan of attack. I thought the Orky half of the new Armageddon release as they’re some seriously cool looking Orks in there and I just couldn’t resist. This is...
A week ago, when I was working on my project for HTML Day 2026 I stumbled upon this passage from an essay on blink and marquee tags: At the time, there was a new breed of web professionals proudly labeled “webmasters.” Part designer,...
Photo by Pontus Wellgraf on Unsplash🍕 I’m JA Westenberg. I write essays about technology, philosophy, productivity, and what it means to be human. If you like ideas that take their time, you’re in the right place.While you’re here, a few...
E.J. Kenney, review of Rudolf Hanslik, ed., Sex. Propertii Elegiarum Libri IV (Leipzig: B.G. Teubner, 1979), in Classical Review 31.2 (1981) 200-202 (at 202): Hanslik follows a practice in which he is by no means alone, but to which...
Writing this from Orania Hotel in Berlin, sipping a negroni and doing a little people-watching as people ride, walk, scoot, and drive past the floor to ceiling windows. It’s a nice hotel, fancier than I could justify booking for just...