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This week was actually really nice! Low key - but like, still felt really good! Last week I mentioned taking smaller notes and this week I actually followed through with it! I fell down a little rabbit hole looking into notebooks - I almost bought myself a Hobonichi Techo w a July Start1 to use as my own personal notebook, "to give it a bit more of a ritual" vs my current work notebook. But I ended up retrofitting and tweaking my work notebook to have BOTH my personal notes and my work notes in…
… to CT reader and commenter Dr Memory, who has cleaned up our database, eliminating many of the badly rendered quotation marks and similar problems. Those problems reflect the fact that the blog is now more than 20 years old, and has gone through multiple formatting systems. An unexpected side benefit is that commenters can now use emojis, which weren’t even available in Unicode when CT started out. I enjoy reading over our old posts and discussions, and will enjoy it more now that they are…
Hey friend! I started Stuff in a ten-week gap after being laid off, looking for somewhere to put the anxiety of not working. At issue #100 I compiled the first Stuff 100. At #200 I did the next.My third 100 arrives from a different place. Forty years in the workplace behind me, a fresh redundancy, and this time I'm not job hunting. I'm building something of my own.Thank you for being on this journey with me. This is Stuff, I'm still Matt, and normality returns next week.The journey is only 1%…
Hey, Niki here. This is a bit unusual. My sabbatical is coming to an end, and I am looking for a new opportunity. Full-time or contract, startup or research, remote or Berlin, individual contributor, ideally—tight team, ambitious product. I am a software engineer first and foremost with 20+ years of experience. I work on technically challenging products, foundational technology, dev tools. I’ve been doing Clojure and web recently, but I'm also very excited to explore closer-to-the-metal…
Had a suuuper chill day. Went to the card shop after a nice simple breakfast and played DanDan with someone while we waited for the other players to show up for the commander game. They never did so we just ended up playing a wholeeee buncha DanDan, which was fine by me. It was very fun, and we ended on a really good long game that came down to the wire! After all that I came home and vibed with my partner while they played a gravity falls visual novel, which was cute. I like watching them play…
Just saw it. Loved it. Possibly a masterpiece, certainly a very good film. It takes some well-made liberties with the original, and I enjoyed most of them, though I found the island of giants in silver armor confusing. That could've been cut altogether. Like all Nolan stories, it hops around in time, using the Isle of the Lotus Eaters as an anchor... and it totally works. I've got to quit watching YouTube, because all the things people have been angry about were just absolutely fine. It's a 3…
Regular readers will know that some time ago, I bought a side tank, and cab back from Sea Lion. It's my favourite loco in the world, the price was right, and so I couldn't resist. For a few years, thanks to Mike Buttell, they lived in Port Erin Railway Museum, but when the curators decided they weren't wanted in there any more, I was faced with the problem of where they should live next. I managed to get the tank back a couple of years ago, but this left the cab back on the island. Since we…
There have been a couple of things going on and projects that I've worked on since I published the last update post in April, so I guess it's time for another omnibus update! Table of Contents Wait Wait Playing Cards Gallery Wait Wait Stats Project Updates Migration to Codeberg Continues Subaru Trailseeker Update Wait Wait Playing Cards Gallery In November 2024, I was browsing around for various Wait Wait… Don't Tell Me! trinkets and found two packs of playing cards available from two different…
★★★☆☆ We’ve had this refrigerator for about three years now. Nothing fancy, but it was relatively cheap for a refrigerator (Insignia is one of Best Buy’s store brands), and it does its job: keeping food cold or frozen as needed. But the shelves are spaced awkwardly, the drawers are annoyingly shallow, and the lack of real handles (just recesses on the doors) has gotten frustrating over time. It’s mostly stopped making noises like a dying moose. (Not that I know what a dying moose actually…
You drive to the park, you walk to the gate, you get your hand stamped, you run to the line, you move up, you grab a hot-dog, you move up, you check your watch, you get to the front, you jump in the ride, and then the big moment finally arrives: the screechy cars start moving, there’s some rumbly bumping, and you’re cranking up the big first hill while all you hear is tick tick tick tick tick tick tick tick. Then there’s a short, quiet pause as you teeter on the top and float for a brief second…
📍 MUJI com Lunch 😋 Location: Kamakura, Kanagawa Prefecture, JapanComment by email
The Landscape Project is to blame for a massive unintentional experiment currently happening in my backyard. I'm relearning how to grow everything that I grow - in pots. Earlier this year my front yard was ripped out to make way for... my new front yard. I dug up three large peonies I wanted to save,...Read More
Late post but it’s still Monday!! Okay honestly nottttttt an eventful week. That’s okay though!!! Air quality was super bad because of wildfires in Canada, very hazy and smoky for a lot of the week, or honestly it was kinda more scary that the worst air quality was on the day that it didn’t even look that bad outside? I went to go see The Invite with coworker Brina, I hadn’t really been sold on it from the trailers but it was good!!! Very very funny. Though I honestly was kinda shocked that it…
Caspian Tern looking for food in the San Diego River This May I set some big goals for my birthday month. Coming off of a fun experience at the 2026 San Diego Bird Festival, I decided to share my hobby with my friends and family. Most people know that I’m into birds to an almost comical level. But many people have never gone birding themselves. There are many ways to go birding, and not all of them need to be intense. But for myself, I was planning a lot of birding. And the main event was a…
Avis Reflection – New York, New York The real pleasure of the X Half is having a very compact, cute camera I can use to capture everyday life. An EDC (Every Day Carry) camera, as they say. That was what I was hoping for from the device. And, sometimes, it worked wonderfully. While the Leica D-Lux 8 is also comparably compact, the X Half is noticeably smaller. Also important is the fixed 32mm equivalent prime lens. And unlike the D-Lux 8, no lens needs to extend or retract. Those small details…
📍 BLUE BOTTLE COFFEE KAMAKURA CAFE (ブルーボトルコーヒー 鎌倉カフェ) Enjoying a cold brew in this heat. Location: Kamakura, Kanagawa Prefecture, JapanComment by email
annual correspondence and it's warm on my birthday yes i'm young in year it's industrial heritage, again, more so, the same lake on the water this time and i am trying to sketch the devil but he keeps moving and wind laps the still still i don't know boat words the paddle foreshortening with careful careful careful wrists i just started drawing drawn over bones and how i could lie here in all day daydream while you need my keys call me to shore other things said close enough Yesterday ::…
Sometimes things just don’t go according to plan. After hours of delays for lightning and a few sprinkles, it looked like we were finally going to get this race in. I was in the garage area talking with some friends, when all of a sudden I felt some drops hitting my back. Given the looks […]
Samii and I saw Jim Gaffigan perform stand-up comedy yesterday as part of his, "Everything is Wonderful," tour. It was a fantastic show! Gaffigan discussed a variety of topics from some darker humor (a bit about selecting your menu options and filling out a survey for a last meal before an execution had Samii cracking up) to his usual relatable wit about other subjects--he observed when he sees someone running in an airport because they're late he legitmately thinks, "I hope they don't make it…
Here's an interesting bit of game-historic preservation: someone has posted a browser-playable version of Cliff Johnson's epic (and epically-slow-to-release) 2012 puzzle game, The Fool and his Money. Here's the new web site: www.the-fool-and-his-money.com. I dunno who did this. Cliff Johnson's original web site, www.thefoolandhismoney.com, stopped working a couple of years ago. I have no leads on what happpened to the man himself. I hope he's okay. That's the announcement. I'm about to go into…
My birthday is coming up, so I’ve been thinking about birthdays. For the past three years or so I’ve also had a “Casemas” holiday on my calendar for the third Wednesday of July, since I was born on the third Wednesday. I don’t remember quite what the conversation was, but noaks and I must’ve been discussing it at some point since he invited me to the original event. This year, I realized that what I’ve been calling “Casemas” would be more accurately “Casegiving,” since Christmas is on the same…
Taking in all the sights
Mom (Petra von Kant) and Dad (Alex Allerson of all the ’76 Fassbinders) are leaving town on separate business trips, leaving their daughter with the mute nurse (Godard’s Married Woman). But all three adults are having secret affairs, and head to the same country house, where they try to play it off and have a good time together since they’re all equally busted. Dad is with hottie Anna Karina, mom is with dad’s employee Bruno, the nanny is with blonde Volker Spengler (fly guy of Satan’s Brew).…
I have no idea what Mark wants. I doubt he does either. The post Walking on the Moon with the Kid Who Is Still Mine first appeared on Correr Es Mi Destino.
Power Cat Sunday 2026-07-19
Californian Mountains earlier this July. Good afternoon! It's just before 5 o'clock on my balcony, and the smog from the Ontarian forest fires has finally blown away from the city for now, hence the lazing outside. The morning part of the slow sunday morning hasn't had any meaning for a long time now. 10 of them now! I woke up late today, about noon, snoozing on and off after coming home in the wee hours of the morning last night. Summer in the city, what else am I to do but enjoy it while I…
It’s the one at my hotel, and it doesn’t look like it’s been used the entire summer long. Which kinda makes sense, this is an airport hotel, after all, and thus, I expect, not a hotbed of competitive traveling beach sports. I still give the hotel points for trying. ConGregate 12 (the convention I was at this weekend) is now in the books and I had an entirely lovely time. Tomorrow is a long drive home. Hopefully a boring drive. When you’re driving for seven and half hours, you don’t want drama.…
I am helpless to resist an engagement-bait game on social media, so I was an easy mark once I started seeing posts in response to the prompt “Describe Your Favorite Movie As Boring As Possible.” The problem is that once I started, I found that they were annoyingly fun to write, and I couldn’t stop making more of them. So here are some (including never-before-seen-on-Bluesky entries) for posterity. I don’t think any are all that obscure, but in any case, solutions are at the bottom of the post.…
