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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...
My mom was a walker. She prayed and walked, socialized and walked, got space from my dad through walking, and probably brightened a lot of other people’s days with her generally friendly demeanor. She walked a LOT, several miles a day,...
Tickets available on Sunday 23rd August & in September. Click here to book Tutivillus the demon eavesdropping upon two women I spent a morning on my knees in St Katharine’s Chapel in Limehouse, photographing these rare survivors of...
Last year I wrote a short post highlighting where I write on the internet. One of those places was a new blog called "Code and Culture", where I explained it was "a place where I can put my more serious writing". I remember thinking back...
Blog reader Ryan and his wife S were very generous, taking me, BFF, Jalna and Mich to Alan Wong’s Sunday Brunch BuffetSo much good food and lots of good conversationsRound 1: inarizushi, spicy tako poke, limu poke, sashimi, ta’ape...