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So, I purchased a new pen again. This is becoming a thing now it seems. I’d been eyeing the Neon Yellow Lamy Safari so I went ahead and bought it.I just arrived in the mail this morning, but I’m super happy with it so far. It writes well...
Everything in this world has an expiry date. Literally everything you see has a mechanism through which it dies, and you know that in advance. Thousands of years ago, Hindu scriptures described the world as cyclical. Everything that has...
So, Glen Hansard died last week. Yes, ONCE was a good movie. Yes, “Falling Slowly” is a good song. But Hansard was at BEST problematic. His partner in Swell Season (and ONCE) was Marketa Irglova, whom he met when he was 32 and she was...
No One’s Happy (via Matt Birchler): Most native apps collect far more data than their website equivalents ever could. They request permissions to hardware, sensors, and background processes that browsers deliberately restrict. The...
ICM2026 in Philadelphia was, for me, a celebration of mathematics and people. I met many friends and colleagues, as well as several mathematical ideas and results. The nature of these meetings is that they are abrupt and random. (Some...
The Beatles - Rubber Soul SessionsWill the powers that be ever stop finding new ways to sell old Beatles albums to us? Probably not. To wit: there’s a Rubber Soul “special edition” coming out in early October, boasting one of those...
I was recently coerced and bamboozled into reactivating my Final Fantasy XIV (FFXIV) account. The last (?) time I had played I made a new character and started on a new server and quickly learned that, while FFXIV does a pretty great job...
i would like for less stuff to stay in my screenshots folder, and more stuff to be in spaces that i actually like visiting over and over again
I loved Keith Ridgway's novel Dooneen, set in an alternative present version of Dublin where housing struggles are intensifying towards some kind of uprising. The story actually starts though in Southwark with two men walking from the...
Here’s a video update from July, which includes a bunch of truck stuff but ends with some good camping footage. My output has slowed down dramatically in the last couple of months, as I’ve gotten busy with work-work and also gotten a...
$55 billion. $20 billion of that in debt. The largest all-cash leveraged buyout in corporate history, bigger than the $45 billion TXU deal that held the record for almost two decades. That's what it took to take Electronic Arts private...
I was looking at my Blaugust posts from last year, and I have one titled Hidden Gems on Bandcamp, wherein I shared some of my favorite lesser-known albums on the platform. Since there is another Bandcamp Friday coming up tomorrow, I...
Where the first three stages of the Montana Backcountry Discovery Route (MTBDR) were more than 125 miles in length, Stage 4 was a mere 72 miles and contained no expert alternate routes that would - at least in concept - suck up more...
I’ve always been fascinated by how magicians are able to direct our attention. Even if you’re on guard, a skillful magician can guide your focus to where they want it to be. They don’t just use their movements. The words they say and how...
The beauty of welcoming your newborn daughter into the world in summer is that you get to enjoy the weather and get out of the house more easily. The downside is that nobody sends your tomato plants a memo that, maybe, they should just...