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As I write this, July will be over in just over an hour. This past month, my informal experiment had been to walk at least 10 min/day, ideally outdoors. Yes, it probably was a very low bar. But committing to this, even if only to myself,...
Brewer’s Fayre, Beefeater, and several other Whitbread restaurant brands are all set to close permanently in early September, with final trading dates confirmed below. The following article gives a breakdown of the reasons behind the...
I'm going to offer an opinion about something that I probably don't really care about, Apple's new "Apple Upgrade" program. Riccardo Mori has an opinion, one that I'm inclined to agree with on an emotional level. I've even complained...
Barry Walker Unit - 13th Moon Gravity Well, Portland, Oregon, July 25, 2026The Pacific Northwest’s finest pedal steel-led free jazz country rock experimental collective is back! The Barry Walker Unit’s debut LP from last year was a...
Historische Häuser und Kirchturm in Tallinns Altstadt Tallinn gehört zu den kleineren Hauptstädten Europas. Die Altstadt ist überschaubar, viele interessante Viertel liegen in Laufweite und auch weiter entfernte Ziele sind mit Bus,...
"Good evening, ladies and gentlemen, I am the Lobster Boy." That was Grady Stiles Jr's opening line, delivered thousands of times over a career that spanned decades of American carnival midways. Audiences came to gawk at his hands and...
Introduction A Confederacy of Dunces won the Pulitzer prize for fiction in 1981, and is the funniest book I have ever read. While I look forward to a book that can dethrone it, it is hard to imagine that such a book could exist. It also...
I've been working with the cozy gaming magazine Cozy Companion for about a year now, and will soon have a few recipes in their dark fantasy/horror cousin Grim Omen as well. I've really enjoyed working with them, and would highly...
Hello, loves! I do the wrong thing, then do the right thing. I tick myself off. I take a break. Tout le monde déteste l’IA. Added in post: These articles tell you, as well as I can, what really happens in my programming sessions. This...
Smoking is one of those habits I buried, but it refuses to stay buried. I was a teetotaler for most of my life until I got a taste of a cigarette and liked it. Before I could even register what was happening, I had moved on to a pack a...
I wanted to show you a year’s worth of messages from my barber’s software, because this is what software should be. No spam, no upsells, no growth hacks, no unwelcome cuteness or puzzling verbosity. It’s so curt and straight to the point...
I’ve been thinking about my mom lately, for no real reason except that the happiness of her memories is now greater than the sadness of not having new ones. One of my favorite things I’ve done was to sit down with her and write down...
From Robin Sloan: Yet we should never forget that the product of work isn’t only the work — it’s also the worker. Doing the work changes you; the up-close experience transforms your capabilities and even your desires. Insights and...
More than three decades after Twin Peaks wrapped its initial run, I am always amazed to find original props that have both survived the years and remained unexamined. This piece, which actually served as two different props, has a...
Konstantin Knop wrote to me about a weighing puzzle. Apparently, the balance scale keeps inserting itself into our conversation. Puzzle. There are several coins, each weighing either 10 grams or 11 grams. Determine the parity of the...