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The first TL;DL release in four months. Episode summaries now carry their editorial deck and pull quote into the email newsletter and the RSS feed, transcription runs on OpenAI's new gpt-transcribe model, and a season of pipeline...
“Excuses are tools of incompetence used to build bridges to nowhere and monuments of nothingness, and those who use them seldom specialize in anything else.” ~ Vernon Brundage Jr Signed, Susu ⋆˙⟡ Thanks for reading! Here's a cookie: 🍪 Go...
Last week, I mentioned that I had been wrestling with our lawn tractor. It’s a Husqvarna from the mid-2000s—it’s been in service for a long time. I’ve changed the belts, the blades, the oil, and filters to keep it running. The deck (the...
This afternoon we went for a ~10km walk around Wytham Woods — our first visit in a few years. Very peaceful, very dry right now. We came upon the pretty well-preserved head of a fox. PSA: if you’re somewhere in the 5’10”–6’2” range, I...
I'm writing this as a response to Robert Birming's AuguStory, the story of your blog post. I think blogging has interested me since I first discovered old Blogger (previously Blogspot), Livejournal, or Wordpress blogs around 2006. I have...
Another day of showers and cold. Hedge cutting for most of the day. Works council came round. Cleared a lot of cardboard boxes from the classroom.
Hey folks! This issue is coming in a touch late, as I wanted to get a good amount of time in with Taki Udon's first public Console Mode release after its months hanging out in beta land, and my schedule has been nuts-o lately. But it's...
Nearly 10 when we got up. A bit of sun but showers and the wind still cold. Started to cut the hedge. The gang came for tea. Stayed in.
Ah, August. Once again I’ve survived a ridiculously hot July and I’m blessed with a beautiful month where all is cool and the nights are still long. It’s also the time of year where my brain pipes up and says I should be more active, so...
Some random small thoughts provoked by nothing in particular and collected over the last few months. should write a post about my ideal writer cooperative community I bought poetry I'm not that into because I think my city ought to be...
Es ist kein Geheimnis, dass ich an fremden Orten gerne auf der Suche nach regionalen Speisen und kulinarischen Geheimtipps bin. Natürlich hilft das Internet wunderbar bei dieser Suche. Aber manchmal muss man sich beim Schlendern… Der...
MARY DURHAM, Mystery Writer: A Bio-Bibliographical Essay by Jamie Sturgeon. If you look in Hubin, the indispensable Crime Fiction Bibliography, amongst the authors, you will see the name Mary Durham, for eleven murder mysteries she had...
📋LifeIt’s been a bit of a quiet week. The missus hasn’t been feeling well so we’ve mostly been staying at home.We have been wanting to re-paint our living room/dining room a different color since we’ve not been happy with the one we...
One of the abiding problems in working on strategy is that people like to set goals for complex problems. In my experience the hardest part about accepting complexity as a real thing to be wrestled with, is that one really, truly doesn’t...
In the last post, I wrote about Forever Goals, which are outcomes I will always want. It’s something I can approach or maintain, not achieve. They are not SMART goals (i.e. Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, and Time-Bound). For...