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This will be kind of an unusual post. I got a recent email about my writing that I thought was such a good articulation of one common criticism that I’d like to share it (and my response) in full. Here’s the email, from William Murray1:...
PSA: there is a word for “the day after tomorrow”. It’s overmorrow, and it’s almost 500 years old. Let’s bring it back! And “the day before yesterday” is ereyesterday, in case you were wondering.
Yesterday, at the headquarters of Internet Archive Europe, I hosted the second Amsterdam edition of HTML Day! The first edition was hosted last year by Braxton Hall, who I was pleased joined us yesterday for HTML fun. I figured three or...
For a while now, looking back at it, scrolling along its length, that's how it has felt like to me: looking at a river. Of time, of experience, of flow. [ in progress... ]
It's been about three months since I last posted something to this blog. I don't often let life get in the way of my hobbies, but life (determined as it was) not only got in the way, but stayed in the way until about a week ago. Since...
⚠️ This review contains spoilers! Book review for The River Has Roots by Amal El-Mohtar. I rated it 4 stars. Written by Amal El-Mohtar, who together with Max Gladstone wrote the popular sci-fi/romance novel This Is How You Lose the Time...
I finished taking notes on Isaiah today in my quest to complete the Canon by September 25. That brings me to 1,005 chapters (84.5% of the way there)! Isaiah was definitely the hardest book left, but Jeremiah and Ezekiel aren’t easy, and...
In my ongoing quest to better manage (i.e. restrict) my media consumption, I've made some changes to my RSS setup. I noticed that, broadly, the types of feed I subscribe to fall into one these categories: Personal blogs that are...
Many years ago I wrote about how to convert Gregorian dates to Julian Day numbers or similar counts such as rata die as used in Calendrical Calculations. This algorithm is the core of C’s mktime() function that converts a broken-down...
This is not a post about gradually falling into an eating disorder without realizing what was happening I knew what I was doing A few weeks ago I spent several days hating how I looked and decided I needed to do something about it. I...
Do you have a little bit more time today to sit down and read? Here are a few links for you… Blithe Denial: On Devyn Defoe’s "Burnside" and Douglas Coupland’s "Generation X", by Lara Treisman, Cleveland Review of Books On Radical...
No update for yesterday. I stayed in my room the whole day glued to my laptop. One of those doom scroll-y days. I ended up spending money on some digital item. After that I slept, end of day. Today, I haven’t spent anything but I’ve been...
I mentioned last month going to an old time music jam where Steve and Nancy Dickey were present. I went again tonight and recorded him playing. He’s about to turn 82.
Long doc, full of split-screens to fit as much rock action into the widescreen frame as possible, and still manages to miss major events (Creedence) in favor of a portrait of the guy who cleans the toilets (a highlight) and reporters...
Here's what Brian says about Bryan Ferry's "You Go To My Head"And here's another occasion on which he reviews the singles, for Sounds