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How uptight a place must Ravnica be if the theater community is made up entirely of hedonistic, nihilistic, demon-worshiping anarchists? I mean, I’ve known my share of actors, but this still seems like a slight exaggeration. (Disclaimer:...
Much progress yesterday and today. Builder Brad and Builder Bob were on-site with Bob's daughter and grandson, and Brad's right-hand-man Derrick to frame up the interior walls of the walk-out basement. It looks different IRL than it does...
Every disappointment, breakup, or failure turns into inspiration. A disappointment becomes a short story. A breakup becomes a poem. A failure becomes a lessons-learned post. Writing helps you revisit, process, and reframe. Nothing is...
I know that when walking the coast of Britain, many people did it to raise money for charity. I didn’t mainly because I was doing it whilst working full time and for my own enjoyment and I didn’t think I could really justify asking for...
Galen, On Avoiding Distress 1 (tr. Sophia Xenophontos): [You also said] that you learned that when his books were lost in the fire, Philides the grammarian wasted away from depression and grief and died, and that various others were...
A roundup of interesting links I have enjoyed recently. A typewriter wiki: typewriter.wiki William Jardine’s 40-volume series on natural history: c82.net A searchable index of nonfiction book prizes: book-prize-index.vercel.app The...
“The international finals for the world’s longest-running space engineering competition were held at NASA’s Kennedy Space Centre and the Walt Disney World Resort in Florida from 30 July to 2 August. Team ZA was the only African team in...
I believe you when you say I am good for a while a good day, I think until someone else paints a different picture not ugly in an obvious way only slightly unsettling enough to make me doubt if I am the monster in this story and someone...
Smaller images for the webTo prepare my images for my website to be smaller and progressively loaded, I had been using `imagemagick`. But my computer is now too old to properly install it with homebrew or macports, so I had to find...
A Bit of Housekeeping 7 August, 2026 I plan to get back to blogging as usual soon, but here are a few notes about this site that I wanted to share with you. Update on the Move As I mentioned in a previous post, Random Notes will be...
Dear You, Knowing almost exclusively the title, I dove in expecting an enjoyable but typical sci-fi romp, featuring a twisting tale of a futuristic war long in the past. I was delightfully mistaken. Instead, I was regaled with a...
Rivers’ bold treatment of the classics. View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize Stellar title with Rivers...
A retrospective included with the August 2022 issue of Musica Jazz, tracing the distinct, bittersweet trumpet voice of the late Polish master across a slew of ECM recordings. The title Songs seems almost provocatively plain for an artist...
Stationery Fest was a big event in many ways, and Myke and I were on site in Brooklyn, New York, to take it all in. We run through our entire experience, the pros and cons, the panels we hosted, and our wide-ranging acquisitions. Then...
I've been meaning to walk up here for a while but I keep forgetting or falling asleep. It's quite nice.50 words · 2 images