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Jessica Nlabu and Shannon Kurlander in Beige at Riverside Studios. Photo: Rebecca Tozzoli Clozza Beige is a powerful play but not an easy one to describe. Joy (Jessica Nlabu) is instructed in how to be and behave. Initially, it feels...
Arron will be a sophomore at Rutgers this coming fall, and he is moving out of the dorms and into a apartment. Rhonda and I drove up to New Brunswick this week to help him move some of his stuff, and he followed us in his car for...
Claiming ownership of a meal you didn't make. When you order a meal in a restaurant, the food manifests itself through a pattern: You sit down and procure a menu. A waiter asks you for your order. The waiter communicates your order to...
So, there was a solar eclipse on Wednesday! This pawst is admittedly just an excuse to share some beautiful pics I took, but whatever, this is my blog so I can do it! "But Dr. Glowcat, you have that super interesting, informative and...
The macOS command-line tool hdiutil is used to manipulate disk images. From the WHAT'S NEW section of man hdiutil on the latest macOS 27 Golden Gate beta: In macOS 27.0, hdiutil is deprecated. Use diskutil image instead for all disk...
It’s nearly impossible to do everything at once. We know this truth, yet every time, we make the same mistake of thinking we can actually handle more things at once. We don’t want to leave anything aside, not even for a few months. Our...
From a link on Metafilter, I found a webcomic called Strong Female Protagonist, which was published online from 2012 to 2018. It’s a standard superhero setup but completely upends the standard genre by investigating what happens when...
Back in 02024Q3 we planned on releasing custom badges for our newsletter subscribers. These were to be dynamic images that changed over time based on subscription length and other special inventory items. Did we mention we have a...
Sometimes, I am overwhelmed by the sheer amount of existence and possibilities happening all around me. My friends are leading their own lives: one recently started a new job, another is testing the waters for a side hustle. A...
Beans have unexpectedly become one of my favourite garden treats and these Dragon Tongue bush beans, which I planted for the first time this year, are absolutely delightful! 🌱
The Concubine by Norah Lofts published 1963 Following on from this post earlier in the week: Anne Boleyn's Imaginary Stepmother (low class and scandalous) - This is the book that set me off in pursuit of Anne Boleyn’s lost stepmother. I...
This week I’m in Spain to see a spectacular eclipse, among other things. I’ve also done a reasonable amount of geocaching, including on Tuesday finding my 1000th geocache. Which led me today to ask: how many caches does Geocaching.com...
Dopamine is a neurotransmitter that is commonly misunderstood as the "pleasure chemical." In modern slang, we talk of "dopamine hits" to describe what people are doing when they say, spend hours scrolling their social media feeds or...
The view from my porch this morning, looking east to the line of storms that obscure the sunrise. It’s a very still and quiet morning here on Nexwlelexwm/Bowen Island. A line of thunderstorms passed over the island a couple of hours ago,...
(1) Hey buddy. How's it going? Ready to explore the backrooms?... (2) Think I might have seen something moving around in there... (3) Maybe we should go take a look... (4) Don't worry, buddy, I'll protect ya! (This is what happens when I...