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Mixing personal and business kinda sucks The first lesson: mixing personal and business under one login can cause some issues. Early on, while opening accounts and applying for their credit cards, something got flagged as fraudulent and...
Today had definitely turned out to be a hot one. Tomorrow is supposed to be even hotter. It should also be our first stock up shopping trip to the city, so I’ll want to head out quite early, before things get too hot. Knowing the heat...
Who do you think your are? Sitting quietly by myself in the garden of the Orchard in Grantchester yesterday, I was joined by this teenage Jackdaw, who gave me a hard stare. So I stared back and he kindly posed for his portrait. Quote of...
She was fascinated with the inner lives of people she’d known for a fortnight in a way she hadn’t been with me in years. I hated that I still cared about her. It felt undignified to care so much when it had been so long since she asked...
Issued by the Italian magazine Musica Jazz, this sampler was released in 2019 to commemorate ECM’s 50th anniversary. Its source was the label’s “Touchstones” campaign, a group of fifty albums returned to circulation in two waves of...
Random thoughts too long for a Mastodon post, but not long enough for a full-blown post. 🪟 Once again, Pitchfork raided my tape collection from the 1980s for one of its retrospective reviews. This time, the site re-examines one of my...
why try to die some the wiser, well, it would be a nice surprise as if i even could - i'm always doing something wrong or i'm afraid of doing something wrong i have no flourish for you - it's exhausting other things said partly willing...
Though I still have not had the pleasure of unpacking a box of author’s copies, I am kind of jazzed to see that my OUP book, The Spiritual Imagination of C.S. Lewis, is out today on Kindle and ePub (Kobo, … Continue reading →
I think you've got a little sausage on your jacket.
As far as Spider-Man is concerned, the world has amnesia. Still heralded as a crime fighter, Spider-Man has become a loner. Even his closest friends have forgotten that he’s also Peter Parker, a nice guy from Queens. To clarify: The...
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In his essay on Salvador Dali, Orwell argued that because Dali was a repulsive human being, the right wouldn’t admit that he was a great artist; conversely, because he was a great artist, the left wouldn’t admit he was a repulsive human...
A new post from ben.balter.com · Read it on the web →A decision without a URL gets relitigated forever. (share this quote) What makes a remote engineering team actually work comes down to how you communicate, not where you sit. Most of...
Boxcar Children #118 The Spy Game by Gertrude Chandler Warner, 2009. Mrs. Dawson, a friend of Mrs. McGregor, the Aldens’ housekeeper, stops by one day for a visit. Mrs. Dawson is also a housekeeper, working for Amanda Penner. She has...