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We pull into Gallup, New Mexico, at 10PM local time last night. Totally pooped out. 🥱 Today we’re off to Elk City, Oklahoma. Much shorter day. We’re only covering 563 miles. 🚙 It’s hard to believe it’s August 1. Even one day on the road...
The Checkout Counter #44 whew my july was packed! sports, wildfire smoke, good eats, torrential rainfall—truly a month of the epic highs and lows of summer.thanks for reading! until next time. Film The Man Without a Past (Mies vailla...
Bookstores, like libraries, are full of possibilities. The possibility of adventure, education, learning a new skill, the exploration of ideas. For us readers, these institutions of amalgamated human knowledge are sacred ground. Books...
Image source: IMDB I’ve been going through the work of the great French filmmaker Agnes Varda this summer. While I was long familiar with her masterful features Cleo from 5 to 7 and Vagabond, the rest of Varda’s filmography has long...
Okay, everyone. It's finally happening. I'm switching instances. See you on the other side (@nantes.social) #nantes
IndexGravity CircuitSome games, you just know from the bleeps and bloops on the main menu: Gravity Circuit has some immaculate bleeps and bloops, and it lives up to that promise in being the best damn Megaman clone it can be. Rather than...
After having daily driven Linux on my gaming desktop for a few years now I’ve found a handful of utility programs that have been useful to me that I feel may not be talked about very much. Nothing fancy or flashy here, just some solid...
I’ve been stuck in the Windows ecosystem since version 3.1. Think about the legacy there. You build up a certain kind of muscle memory over three decades that’s hard to scrub away. For the longest time, Linux was just a tool in my bag, a...
I was looking browsing my RSS reader today and this post from Andreas popped up reminding me that not only is it somehow August already (seriously, how?), but also that it’s the start of the blogging challenge Blaugust.I’ve known about...
The Barony does not produce knights - the hereditary nobility of the petty kingdoms are expected to be capable administrators, planners, strategists, and logisticians - many of them also train with weapons, but this is mostly for...
This summer is a never-ending fight against heatwaves. The best I can do is accept it and make the best of it. Therefore, in this lighter issue, I will go over a fantastic Medieval horror book, a great movie adaptation of a beloved...
Today is 1st August, which is marked by the old Celtic festival of Lughnasadh, named after the God Lugh. This coincides with the English Lammas Day, one of many Christian festivals with pagan origins. The word for August in modern Irish...
Robert Redford and Natalie Wood in This Property Is Condemned (1966) Vitals Robert Redford as Owen Legate, railroad representative Mississippi, Summer 1931 Film: This Property Is Condemned Release Date: August 3, 1966 Director: Sydney...
Here's a map I drew, because I sometimes draw maps. #KelvinDrawsThings
Just two things to think about today. What has the PKM/Zettelkasten movement produced? Excellent article questioning what the PKM movement and tools have produced. This point struck me hard. There's a whole subgenre of books about PKM...