In the early pandemic, I decided to pick up the hobby of reading cookbooks. Fortunately, I had already gone through the phase of baking bread a couple of years earlier, so all of that was out of my system. I was pretty obsessed back then, to the point where the sourdough starter reminded me of […]

It’s spring, I think it’s spring, yes really, it’s spring, and I have to stop myself from writing about juiced-up kids and hormonal robins and the flourishing minor bulbs, all sproinging all over the place like little fireworks. It’s true that they’re the incarnation of spring but I’ve written and written about them and you […] The post I Don’t Know What the Crows Are Saying appeared first on The Last Word On Nothing.

Why the poorest people in the world spend fortunes burying their dead

Proposal for an EU platform that funds open-source projects using measurable criteria, benefiting developers, the EU, and society.

February 18 At Melanie’s request Wednesday morning started with pancakes. Ed is known for his buttermilk pancakes so we drove over to Kevin and Linda’s (where Ed was staying) to let him cook us breakfast. On our way to breakfast we stopped at Staples and picked up the completed print job from the day before, […]

It’s been a rough start to the year. The day job has been intense and there was a death in the family which has all coincided with a long period of extended illness. Until mid January, I’d been able to say with some confidence that on the balance of probabilities I hadn’t had COVID-19 in … Continue reading "The First Quarter"