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This hat had quite the July adventure. I finished this hat just barely in time for the release of Little House on the Prairie. I shipped it on July 6th, thinking it would arrive July 8th, in time for the owner to have it in the 9th. It...
Idiot challenge, #shitfest, stupidity festival. Post every day, link something, reply to someone, send 100 emails. Every day, every month there is some circus. A man announces a challenge, thirty people link to it, they all post about...
cornmealed catfish–fried, golden brown.honey wheat toast,mayo, ketchup, and mustard. cut in two. class root beer OliPop…a full belly. heavenly satisfaction.
75% through Bonhoeffer.
Good morning, afternoon, or whenever it is that you read this. Schools in Texas generally begin the fall semester in mid-August. However, teachers go back a week and a half to two weeks beforehand for a ‘magical’ period of time called...
Apologies for the missed review last week but the film I selected works for both themes, so we should be on track this week. Family emergency. Silent movies and slapstick are practically synonymous but I am not actually a huge fan of the...
Portrait of an Artist(?) Post Nutrition Label Content Type: Art & Text Read Time: 5 min Topics: Art, self-flagellation There's a technique I use for writing when the Overthinking starts doing its slow migration from background process to...
I've been working on blit, which streams terminals and graphical apps to your browser with very low latency. Naturally, I had to see how deep it goes.This is blit in my browser in France, connected to a server on the US East Coast. The...
The fourth episode of Magical & Revolutionary is now available. I’m joined by D. Griffin Jones, known for writing at Cult of Mac, Extra Ordinary (his own blog), and collecting all sorts of vintage computers.
I watched a short interview with Nick Frosst from Cohere, and his advice for young founders was to follow curiosity, not only what seems optimal. If Nick himself had followed what was “optimal” when he was an undergraduate, maybe he...
I have reviewed quite a few different versions of this knife and this iteration is just a steel change, so, as with tradition, it is getting a midi review. A similar fate befell various versions of the Bugout and the Para3 (which is...
I was just randomly looking through some medieval books, as one does, when I discovered that a bunch of these French books for some reason had lots of pictures of bridges with people going over them.They’re so funny and fascinating to...
YouTube loves recommending video essays to me, so for a long time I’ve seen thumbnail after thumbnail promising a deep dive on “The scariest scene ever filmed!” or “The hidden secrets of the most surprising twists!” and the like. Often,...
Photo by Noah Silliman 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...
There are times when an itch for a semi-formed adventure brews in a restless mind. An idea had been forming all of last week, I wanted to see the stars, the Milky way, and perhaps even capture them on my camera. I wanted to see if I...