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There’s a type of person you meet when you’re on holiday. I call them Grumpy Grumperson. They live in or near the places tourists flock to — famous landmarks, national parks, pretty little towns — and somewhere along the way, they...
Magnum P.I. was always spy-adjacent. Magnum was an intelligence officer (…or a Navy SEAL?…or both?), and multiple episodes had a espionage angle to them, usually related to Magnum’s somewhat-murky service during the Vietnam War. He even...
Yesterday was one of those teaching days where I had plans going into the day, with back up plans because I wasn't sure the original plans would work, and then I went with the original. Let me explain, in case it's useful:--I had planned...
"Curated," in any context other than a museum or an art exhibit, e.g. "Food. Curated" (a television show) "Curated Upgrades" (a furniture manuufacturer) "Discover Our Carefully Curated Member Favorites" (a retailer) "Languages change,...
An autumnal morning, heavily overcast and cool. The continuous trill of tree crickets counterbalances the stream’s trickle: two kinds of traffic. A pileated woodpecker cackles.
Recently I heard a claim that surprised me: Xinjiang once ran one of the best bilingual education systems in the world. Most people are aware of the controversial policies of recent years promoting Mandarin as the common language in...
Eric Kim’s Kimchi Bibimguksu with Grape Tomatoes is the perfect late-summer dish for enjoying some of your farmers market finds. And while some boiling is involved, it’s served cold, making this a refreshing break from the summer heat....
Henry Corbin, Alone with the Alone: At this point we must recapitulate the distinction, fundamental for us, between allegory and symbol; allegory is a rational operation, implying no transition either to a new plane of being or to a new...
This website is, in some sense, an open call for everyone out there: “this is what I think and this is what I do, let’s connect!” This requires setting up pathways for people to reach out to me, and people want interacting to be as...
This is the complete chat with the duo behind Leaf (Geekstrada and Helaas), the custom firmware for the Miniloong Pocket 1. Covering their backgrounds, how they came together, the problems that led to Leaf, the technical decisions behind...
First of all, let me take a moment to retract a passage from my book:Find an app that works for you, and then stick with it, even if it’s not absolutely perfect. Determine your bare minimum feature set and find something that does that....
For most of my first year at Blockbuster, leaving the store represented progress. A real job would have better hours, better money, and some hint of a future. Kelly eventually gave me a chance to test that theory. When Kelly left...
Continuing yesterday‘s thought for a bit, here’s a Wurts Brothers photo from the early 1920s, showing the intersection of Madison Avenue and 24th Street, taken from Madison Square Park. The building on the right that runs past the right...
Part of the User Manual Series where I give some brief overviews of the media, experiences and thoughts that help make me...me. Released hourly on my 32nd birthday. Death Note Death Note was the first example of me going back into anime...
My system of keeping a history of my writing and research within Obsidian.