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I sometimes think about how our infrastructure slowly corrodes.
I saw Dan Deacon for the first time last weekend, and man does he put on a great show. The fans were genuinely kind and fun, very good vibes. No small feat!
FACT75: Peter Saville, New Order, Power, Corruption & Lies, 1983, via wikipedia I’m not sure I have anything to say about them yet, but I’ve been looking at Peter Saville’s color code from his New Order album covers, which he developed...
Today's hat tip goes to one of a favorite comedian and wordsmiths from my misspent youth, the guy who recorded My Son The Nut, the great Allan Sherman (1924-1973).Here's Allan on the popular daytime program The Mike Douglas Show. Love...
I read the James Bond novel Seafire while on a business trip. This is from 1994, which is late in the John Gardner era — he only wrote one more original Bond novel after this one.It was…okay. I've never loved Gardner's work. Here’s my...
It remains too hot. The heatwave is enduring, although luckily it has never quite reached the heights of earlier this year where the humidity made my sleepy Cotswold cottage feel like a sauna. But it has remained warm and basically...
Will Dormann made a nice post with Firefox settings that a security-/privacy-conscious user may want to enable: If anybody else is making the switch to (or back to) Firefox, there are a few settings that a security-/privacy-conscious...
Yesterday, I turned 30. 12 years into adulthood. A new decade of life. A new decade for World of Matthew. I’m working on several projects. From repairing tech to designing new parts for this website. Waiting for parts to finish repairs...
Peter Davis1 delivered the Graduate English Address as a Harvard Law School graduate at Harvard’s 2018 Commencement. His speech is titled A Counterculture of Commitment. The defining characteristic of our generation, says Davis, is...
This week was mostly conversations — new scope, new people, a lot of catch-ups. When you step into a bigger job, the temptation is to start deciding. The better move is quieter. Four things I was reminded of. First listen 1. In a new...
Having arrived back home with no particular difficulty, I am actually kind of relieved that studios are still giving The Odyssey and Spider-Man a bit of space, so I can watch some suddenly-good baseball and write movie reviews. I opted...
This week I am reviewing a wild card read, as I was not quite sure what to expect. Antony Carr (1916-1995) wrote five mystery novels during the 1950s. Online information is limited but two of his other mysteries appear to be A Comedy of...
Kroyer, Hip, Hip, Hurrah! 1888, Gothenburg Museum of Art, SwedenImpressionism was at first a French art movement, starting in the second half of the C19th. Impressionist techniques included visible, thick brush strokes of pure colour,...
It’s been a while since I’ve tried making a game. I write little ideas down in my notebook here and there, snippets or ideas that I think might be fun to do something with, but it’s been I think two years since I’ve made a finished game,...
In Port Tennant, Swansea, in the late 1950s, Sunday school was not negotiable. You went to school, you played endless games of Kick the Can on the patch of wasteland we called the Bank, and on Sunday you were scrubbed, buttoned into...