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The Amish are not a people known for their love of the newfangled. They are deeply wed to their traditions, keeping to themselves, keeping the old ways alive, and shunning any sort of Engliſche imposition on their material culture. But...
Sometimes, in conversation, someone will say a word or phrase and immediately follow it up with “Oh, I guess we’re not allowed to say that.” Usually it’s something racial, but it might also refer to sex or gender. I’m never sure how to...
Have you ever thought about how easy it would be to hack you?To get into your accounts, mess with your finances, disrupt your business, leak customer data, reveal personal information, etc?Well however much you thought about it before,...
I've posted a lot of big, multi-doll reviews lately. Those take a long time to write...and a long time to read! And I'm not even done: there are at least two more mega-reviews on the way as I try to explore some of the hot new summer...
Just posting to exercise my brain a little bit. I don't wan't to title this post "pregnancy week 13" because I don't want to find it again anytime soon. There's a time in pregnancy when you blood volume raises to carry more oxygen...
Just had another crazy experience with AI last week. One of the types that reminds me that we're living in different times.I have been suffering for months with some pretty serious macOS performance issues. My GPU bar was always pegged....
Here’s some good juju. View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize I’ve been after the classic Hancocks,...
Clementine Helm BeyrichOn a grey Berlin morning in the winter of 1863, a young girl named Anna quietly entered her foster mother’s study.She expected to find Clementine Helm bent over the draft of a gentle domestic tale—something proper,...
Had a thought about technology yesterday:The moment we used plant twine to attach a chipped stone to a stick, AI became inevitable.There is only one "technology".There's randomness in which branches uncover on the tree and how far down...
Sir Thomas Overbury (1581-1613), His Wife. With Additions of New Characters: And many other Witty Conceits never before Printed. The Seventeenth Impression (London: Printed for John Playfere, 1664), fols. G6-G7 (?): A Melancholly Man Is...
Looking back 15, 10 and 5 years… August 2011 did not see much camera use from me, but I did get out for a leg stretcher in the Santa Fe mountains to see the aftermath of the Pacheco Fire. Perhaps this one’s apropos as the slopes further...
Vacation has officially started. 🥳 We made it to another ocean (after 21 weeks). The weather forecast for the coming week is not super great, but I take it – it was dry long enough. And some clouds in the sky make for more dramatic...
By the way, we ate here. Lunch was delicious. bistro 1640 And no, no photos of my meal this time. I simply forgot.
I swear on my mother’s grave, I am not giving the stiff finger to Frank here. Honest. I was just pointing to his name when the OH snapped a photo … little muppet
Spending a weekend with your boyfriend’s parents is remarkably emotion packed as well as insightful. My heart is swinging like a pendulum from feelings of gratitude to frustration that my own family dynamics will never look or feel like...