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There's this thing that starts to happen when you get older. Young people look at you like you're mad. Young people who are wearing exactly what we wore when we were young. Kids, we've just learnt that baggy jeans aren't worth it. You...
One of a series of 26 small canvasses from Group 1. Primordial Chaos by Hilma af Klimt (1906-7, Oil on Canvas, 52.5×37 cm). A major exhibition of works by Swedish artist Hilma af Klmit (1862-1944) will start in October (2026) and run...
From Family of Spies: A World War II Story of Nazi Espionage, Betrayal, and the Secret History Behind Pearl Harbor, by Christine Kuehn (Celadon Books, 2025), Kindle pp. 160-161: There was intense pressure to intern the entire Japanese...
I completed another of my 40 before forty list last week and fulfilled a childhood dream in the process: I went up in a hot air balloon. Shane bought the balloon vouchers for me for Christmas last year, and after redeeming the vouchers...
I sometimes think about how our infrastructure slowly corrodes.
I saw Dan Deacon for the first time last weekend, and man does he put on a great show. The fans were genuinely kind and fun, very good vibes. No small feat!
FACT75: Peter Saville, New Order, Power, Corruption & Lies, 1983, via wikipedia I’m not sure I have anything to say about them yet, but I’ve been looking at Peter Saville’s color code from his New Order album covers, which he developed...
Today's hat tip goes to one of a favorite comedian and wordsmiths from my misspent youth, the guy who recorded My Son The Nut, the great Allan Sherman (1924-1973).Here's Allan on the popular daytime program The Mike Douglas Show. Love...
I read the James Bond novel Seafire while on a business trip. This is from 1994, which is late in the John Gardner era — he only wrote one more original Bond novel after this one.It was…okay. I've never loved Gardner's work. Here’s my...
It remains too hot. The heatwave is enduring, although luckily it has never quite reached the heights of earlier this year where the humidity made my sleepy Cotswold cottage feel like a sauna. But it has remained warm and basically...
Will Dormann made a nice post with Firefox settings that a security-/privacy-conscious user may want to enable: If anybody else is making the switch to (or back to) Firefox, there are a few settings that a security-/privacy-conscious...
Yesterday, I turned 30. 12 years into adulthood. A new decade of life. A new decade for World of Matthew. I’m working on several projects. From repairing tech to designing new parts for this website. Waiting for parts to finish repairs...
Peter Davis1 delivered the Graduate English Address as a Harvard Law School graduate at Harvard’s 2018 Commencement. His speech is titled A Counterculture of Commitment. The defining characteristic of our generation, says Davis, is...
This week was mostly conversations — new scope, new people, a lot of catch-ups. When you step into a bigger job, the temptation is to start deciding. The better move is quieter. Four things I was reminded of. First listen 1. In a new...