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August is the deadest month.And somehow, even though you've been here so many times before, you're never prepared for the way that each week feels deader than the one before. Until finally it's the last week of August and it's like...
Nobody invented weight classes to protect the feelings of small men. They were invented by people who got tired of writing incident reports, obituaries and condolences. The logic is not moral, it is anatomical. A well conditioned fighter...
What I wouldn’t give to have some popular cookbooks like Rombauer’s The Joy of Cooking, Bittman’s How to Cook Everything, Better Homes & Gardens’ New Cook Book, Brown’s Good Eats, America’s Test Kitchen books, or Christopher Kimball’s...
Native toolkits are not terribly ergonomic, and are a lot more painful to use compared with web dev in many ways. Building a UI with them is an imperative exercise where you construct widgets one call at a time, pack them into...
I slept ok last night. My brain woke up around 2:00 AM, but I was able to eventually fall back to sleep after almost giving up on the prospect of getting a little more shuteye. While I drank my coffee on this cooler, less humid morning...
I’d planned for today to be a computer-based writing day, given the rain forecast, but when I sat down to do some computer-based writing nothing was happening. Wrote a couple of sentences, deleted them, and figured a break outside might...
A correspondent asks about the relationship and comparative etymology of smooch, schmooze, and German schmusen, and I thought it was an interesting enough tangle to post. First, smooch ‘kiss,’ which OED (entry from 1986) says is a...
Three modalities of creativity I am keen to explore: dirt, screenshots, monk-like. 1. Dirt, metaphorically Take something worthless (e.g., literal dirt, metaphorically non-working code), put great effort into it, get something nice in...
A new shrine page dedicated to one of my favorite groups!
Like Many of you I´ve heard of the passing of three icons, Dolly Parto, Tim Crry and Peter Cullen. Here´s To Them.
As Immortal God-Emperor, President and Chief Operating Officer of Earth 2’s Ex University, I have a weighty responsibility to protect and defend the institution’s reputation. Often this involves difficult questions of judgement and...
Project Runway 22's Dancing with the Stars crossover was inspired—and had great mentoring by Julianne Hough—yet gave too much attention to petty barbs from Bryan, Law, and others.
While surfing my way down Tasshin's thoughts on “do 100 thing”, I found this line of his: do things once, do it twice, do it 100x! and if U do it 100x, and it’s still fun—maybe go for 200x! that’s 2 do 100 thing challenges! or, why not...
Bottom line up front: Feds at polling places are considered observers, and if they don’t follow the rules observers are required to follow they can be removed or arrested if they refuse to leave. Read on for more. On Thursday, the Boston...
What I'm...Working on Mostly clearing course issues at my job. Practicing Singing You'll Be Back and belting Rehearsing For an audition of Significant Other. Drinking Rosso Cafe (ran out of pods) 7 Brew (like twice?) Playing Melvor Idle:...