What’s the point of putting things into my read-it-later app? Actually, I know the point: it gives me a false sense of accomplishment. I now have this essay in my possession. It makes me feel good about myself immediately—without doing the thing. Even though I wrote a somewhat negative review of Erich Fromm’s To Have or to Be? it made me remember a crucial insight about knowledge. If my relationship with knowledge is to hoard information, I’ve missed the whole point. I need to bend, squeeze,…
Still from "Clotheslines," directed by Roberta Cantow, 1982.*Sawyer Made split-step stool, for Walker Street Market, photographed by Winnie Yang via The Secret Strategist.*"Ideal Hollow" by Nichola Manning, via drifting lament.*Shell buttons, via slow roads.*Detail of "an exquisite, finest muslin early 1800s French hand embroidered shawl," sold by starchedandcrumpled.*Photo of H.D. and a child on a beach in California, collections of the Beinecke Library.*"The pleasure I take from these…
Status: Hot again. Not heatwave-hot but still a bit sweaty. Resigned to taking it easy this week with just one little thing happening on Thursday afternoon. Had both great-nephs over briefly this afternoon. Younger G wanted to see all the things and stroke the rabbits. Older M was a bit burned out but still chatty. We’ve agreed to do some uncle/aunting over the next few weeks so looking forward to seeing them. Have taken the first step towards a special Sunday edition of this newsletter. Will…
MEANWHILE, IN TEXAS: SCENE 13, TAKE TWO: Starship Flight Test 13 now scheduled for NET July 23, with the launch window opening at the same time as the previous attempt, 5:45 PM CT (6:45 PM ET/22:45 UTC). Hopefully she flies this time, after a pad abort kept the craft grounded moments before T-0.
Media Logs now has a table of contents allowing you to jump to any entry instantly. About a College Girl Who Gets Picked Up at a Mixer by an Older Girl entry got fucked up at some point and absorbed many other entries so it is now fixed as well.. Return of Yuri. Maybe I'll do the same update to my yaoi log someday
Read the full post at - 90% of everything is sanding e.g. laundry This is so true for all of life -> https://interconnected.org/home/2026/02/06/sanding I’d actually add a corollary – the more interesting / lucrative / impressive an activity or position is…the more “sanding” is involved. We all think that life is like TV. It’s not. At all. Everything is just like woodworking where like 10% of doing it is cool & interesting and the rest is sanding. The point is – do you like the “sanding” part of…
August is coming up, which means Blaugust, a challenge in which bloggers try to post 31 times in August, is also coming up. I participated last year and won the gold award, meaning I posted 25-30 times. I was two away from the rainbow diamond award. I also burned out hard at the end of the challenge and didn't post anything for a month and a half. I don't think doing Blaugust is fully to blame, I was having a rough month in general and overburdened myself, but it does make me wonder if trying…
I wrote up my experience building a backyard office because I wish I had come across more articles like this when planning my build. I hope this post helps you
I was beginning to think I was going to have to reach out to get an update on the status of this order from May. Again. But, upon checking the mail today, I found that was unnecessary. Heat Seeker: Exposed#1 Pack Exclusive Cover#1E Heat Seeker: Exposed#2E#3E#4E As you can see, the covers are signed by cosplayer Grace McClung AKA Gracie the Cosplay Lass, who, of course, appears on the cover of each issue. Which is, of course, why I bought these comics, even though I already have them collected…
I’m having trouble getting started today.
21 July 2026 The word “doctor” meant “teacher” in Latin. The meaning spent a few centuries drifting from the person who instructs you to the person who examines you. That drift is the fate waiting for “test and learn”. Anna Goss has a great post about the Riskiest Assumption Test here: From the RAT to the Magenta Book. “It had long since felt like MVP had lost its way in the five years since The Lean Startup had come out. I can’t find it in myself to go and remember all of the many different…
As the clock approached half past one on July 20th, an excavator did what it never expected to do: hit an electricity cable. On that instant, hundreds of houses were haunted with the lack of electricity. Minutes passed, still nothing. Messages were flooding on group chats from different buildings. Communities coming together to understand what had just happened. Fear no more. The grid operator was already on it. Not much later than an hour and a half past the ominous accident, light was born…
When I started an independent editorial studio, most of my business came from referrals. I continued this as I rebooted my business writing practice several months ago. I also wrote thoughtful cold emails to companies I very intentionally filtered and focused on, and made time to chat with former clients and coworkers. These sales activities led to a lot of fulfilling conversations, and even potential deals that might land in coming months. Nothing worked out in the near-term though. This was…
I've been working on my neocities website for a long, long time. I've tinkered with that damn site longer than this blog has even existed. I've had probably 5 different redesigns, ranging from a really basic site to look like the 90s, to a site that had an art direction I lacked the skill to keep up with. This whole time, I've been trying to find something that says "me". Something that actually feels like a big part of my identity. My last design was kinda neat, but I wasn't super passionate…
2026/07/21 Tuesday Been getting in touch with people, cooking up some ideas, today a friend came over to bring me back the books I had lent him, Dance of Days: Two Decades of Punk in the Nation's Capital and Touch and Go: The Complete Hardcore Punk Zine '79-'83, he also brought me one, Hans Staden: An Adventurer in the New World, originally released in the Italian magazine Corto Maltese in 1989: Jô Oliveira had his comics published in several countries (if you know a bit about comics - and I…
You never realise you are jeopardising your life in the moment you are doing it. You have no context, while committing the act, that this very act would prove fatal. There is no way to determine that in advance. A person in an inebriated state never realises that this state would become permanent. That he would crave this very state every day, and that craving would destroy everything else in his life. All forms of realisation are acts of hindsight analysis. All of your understanding,…
Day Four. We left Gallup, New Mexico at 6:30AM local time outbound to Fresno, California. We arrived in Fresno at 6:30PM local time. It works out to 13 hours becuase we had a shift in time from the Central time zone (CST) to Pacific (PST). We covered 783 miles or 1260 kilometers. I’m happy to be out of the car. I’ve had trouble sleeping on this trip for some reason. Last night I slept like a baby. I woke up at 5:30AM on my own, no alarm needed, which was nice. While we’re here I’m trying to…
I recently ran outside in the middle of the night with a baseball bat to chase away an intruder who was obviously trying to do mischief.My neighbors are torn over whether I was courageous or foolhardy.Several have expressed the feeling that I was "lucky." The man might have been armed. He might have overwhelmed me with superior quickness and strength. I might have actually hit him with the bat, then faced legal liability for using "excessive force." On the other hand, one older neighbor…
[Gosh, that’s fast] Back in March, Scottish runner Josh Kerr announced his intention to break the world record in the one mile. That record was set way back in 1999, in an entirely different millennium. It belonged to Hicham El Guerrouj, who ran an incredible 3:43.13. On Saturday, Kerr donned a bespoke speed suit and custom running spikes, and then he ran a mile faster than anyone in history. Roger Bannister would be proud.Link: https://www.bbc.com/sport/athletics/articles/cx2jl1wge2po
I am back from EGG Con this past weekend, and it was fantastic. I sold a lot of books and played a few games. Heidi Gygax Garland and Erik Garland did a hell of a good job with the Con. Reminds me of Gary Con in its early days. It is kind of small, but I hope it grows; it is really a great con.Jackson, ILI got to play some NIGHT SHIFT in Jackson. I ran a session of "For Whom the Bell Tolls." It was a fantastic experience to see Valentino, Renee, Andy, Rowan, Denise, and Candy brought to life by…
Money tree plants are rumored to bring good luck and prosperity, making them popular gifts. 19 Money Tree
Who doesn’t love a sunset.
Pasted up on the base of a light pole, framed by silver steel, is this hand painted flower. Quick and dirty, alive with the rush of creation. The magenta center dot is the only thing that feels considered. The rest is all organic and emotion. The sticker addition is also quite respectful. It’s not a signature, but a comment, in context, but not the focus of the conversation. Midtown, Manhattan.
Finally getting around to reading “The Age of Reading is Over” in The Atlantic (the hard copy, one of my last since my subscription has lapsed, arrived). It’s some of the saddest stuff I’ve ever read, and I’m not even to the AI section yet!
The pattern persists, the pattern persists. I woke up late again, the pattern persists, the sink isn't very full of dishes, but it's not empty either, the pattern persists, I slept badly again, the pattern persists, I woke up on the wrong side of the bed, the house smells bad, I forgot to clean the cat's litter box... I forgot? I highly doubt it, maybe a cigarette will calm me down? Nah, there's a sweet treat in the fridge, damn, I should cut out sugar. There's nothing special about me, I have…
Since my trip back from Japan in February (literally—the idea popped into my head waiting for takeoff) I’ve been working on a new way to make games. I forced myself to think about the future and asked “how might games be made in the new world?” (some may say the post-ai world? perhaps a not-so-distant future?) It took a lot of work but I’ve done it! To test my new system I’ve been recreating many old arcade games to see how easily and succinctly these classics sit and fit in my new system.…
Sometimes my curiosity gets the better of me. The long-ish walks I take around the neighborhood for exercise often pass through a long, narrow overlook park called Fairview Park, which basically has one long, winding one-way street with ascending hills on one side and descending hills (and a sidewalk) on the other for most of its length. Not long ago, they put up a map of the park near one of the entrances, and I noticed that it denoted a hiking trail zigzagging up the hill and connecting to…
I slide into reality like one of those old great ball players who slide into third base with hopes to lead his team to a run that wins the game.Jim Carroll said, “I just want to be pure.”I don’t know how possible this is for me. Then again, there are those who live with their impurities and still manage to come out on top or they figure out how to get ahead without chopping off the heads of the people in front of them I know I was told the last shall be first and the first shall be last.And in…
8th JulyHere we are into July already. This was something of a frustrating trip and yet also fairly enjoyable. I had heard there was a family of long-eared owls in the Pentlands. Gordon had been walking his dog and had enjoyed a tremendous display from them - the adults flying nearby and catching food to give to youngsters in the trees overhead. Loads of photos were going up on birding sites, others having similar encounters. I waited until a decent weather day and caught the 44 bus to Balerno…
A crew of Canadians and Michiganders took a remote operated vehicle (ROV) to the deepest point of Lake Superior, a point known as Superior Maximus. It’s the first such attempt in some 40 years. In that attempt UW-Milwaukee researcher J. Val Klump piloted a submersible craft to the deep. This one was done by a robot which feels safer and kinder to the lake. To give a sense of how deep Superior Maximus is, the surface is about 650 feet above sea level and the deepest point is 733 feet below sea…
