You don’t have to blog like me. You don’t have to differentiate by post kind. You don’t have to put full contents in your feed. You don’t have to keep a library of “maybe-some-day” drafts so long that you’ll never reach the bottom. You don’t have to have a comments form. Or reactions. Or webmentions. Or a guestbook. Or drawings? (But give me some way to say “hi, you’re cool!”) You don’t have to have a feature image. You don’t have to keep posts up forever. You don’t have to have tags. You don’t…
Notsu continues to expand their lineup of fountain-pen-friendly organizational products, including more blue Centre Rise notecard holders, new sticky notes, and a new set of “To Do” desk pads. We’ve also received a fresh shipment of Platinum inks (including two new permanent inks) as well as a new addition to the Colorverse “Joy in the Ordinary” collection. Finally, we have more of our favorite iLootPaperie Washi Tape, as well as new Well-Appointed Desk stamps and stickers. Don’t Miss Our…
EveryMac.com: On July 2, 1996, EveryMac.com launched. Thirty years is a long time — and a great deal has changed since then — but what has not changed is that EveryMac.com has been there to provide you with detailed info on every Mac from the original 128k to the current line. Thank you very much for your support through the years. I’ve used this site as a reference countless times over the years, mostly to figure out an obscure detail about some old Performa or to double-check dates of Apple’s…
Who's in a town square at any given moment is mostly chance. Sometimes you land on an empty scene, sometimes a small crowd, and there's no way to know who else might show up, or when. But it doesn't have to stay that way. If you've added a message board to your square from the admin page, you already have a spot where visitors stop and read. Instead of a generic note, try posting something like: The message board with a scheduled meetup. That's it. That's the whole trick. Why it works The…
In no particular order: 1. No, I’m not feeling particularly engaged with the 250th anniversary of the nation’s founding, but that’s mostly because a malignant narcissist decided to make a national celebration mostly about himself, and that malignant narcissist is also an actual fascist, so that kind of sucked all the fun out of it this year. Clearly I’m not the only one who feels this way, as the Great American State Fair, the malignant narcissist’s monument to himself (which includes a scale…
I was far removed from Final Fantasy and PlayStation when this came out so I had no idea of its existence until recently. Above is the technical demo for a remake of Final Fantasy VII on the PS3, presented at E3 in 2005. Judging by the comments, some people bought the console off the back of this prospect even though Yoichi Wada explicitly stated that they weren’t working on a remake and this was merely to show the capabilities of the console (something I’ve touched on in the past). Of course,…
I’ll actually save money by switching to fiber. I just wasn’t interested in doing all the work (ordering it and making sure there’s access to the area where the thingy can be installed) to get it. Now’s the time.
Recent Comments quicksilver — Cathy Edgett: “Angle of Repose is a great book. I read it years ago and will re-visit now. Thanks for making the connection. Now I need to walk the trail.”
Precursors of future dollar stablecoin headlines have hit the tape: SCOTUS rules on Fed independence, but Matt Dines sees breadcrumbs for the next legal fight I outline Open USD’s challenge to issuer-led stablecoins Mexico’s Brady Bond debt comes to roost
2026/07/02 Thursday Doing another media log already... today I called this guy I know to check some stuff for me, his phone rang and it was the Mortal Kombat theme, "Are you kidding me? I just watched the movie this morning!" "Did you like it?" "It's awesome!" "It's awesome!" *epic handshake* "Now call me! Call my phone!" *he calls my phone* *Street Fighter II theme song starts playing* "Are you kidding me?!?" I show him my custom arcade controller (the computer I used to plug it died, so no…
Why read the book? R.C. Sproul wrote Can I Trust The Bible? It is a short and clear book from his Crucial Questions series. Sproul takes the most common objections people raise against the Bible and answers them one by one. He looks at questions such as whether the Bible contains contradictions, whether it is historically accurate, and whether science has disproved its claims. He also explains what Christians mean when they say the Bible is without error. Sproul does not avoid difficult issues.…
I collect cool, interesting links spread all over the web and share them here every Thursday. Hope you enjoy! More of them in the archive. Favicon Website. This entire website is served from inside the “favicon” — that little icon you see on your browser tab. The author explains how he did it. Are you in the weights? Enter your name and find out what different LLMs (AIs) know (or don’t) about you. Standard Reader. The atproto (Bluesky’s protocol) now supports long-form text (Standard.site).…
I saw some things on my walk in the #SanFrancisco Upper Haight this morning. Page Street, across from the International School of SF: Sewer covers decorated with Mario things. A block west, near 1260 Page: Sidewalk carp. Jeremy Novy trying a new color scheme? Eclair Bandersnatch going ichthyic? I dunno, I just snap pics. Haight Street: Infinite love! sidewalk chalk.
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I was sixteen, two months from seventeen, for the Bicentennial. That August, at the Montgomery County Maryland Fair, I bought this Jimmy Carter for President posterI either lost it or tossed to my great regret now. Republicans viciously called him a communist and but he beat Gerald Ford anyway if only because Ford's pardon of Nixon, who the face-mullet called Vance the other day said was treated unfairly by un-American Democrats. I don't remember corporate Democrats then professing their…
Dear Constant Reader, After not feeling terribly motivated for a while, I did a bunch of costuming in June. Most of it was improvements to existing acts, which I had been meaning to get to for a while. I’ve been using the same pair of gloves for a couple of acts and I wanted Mina in Furs, one of my most performed numbers, to have dedicated gloves. I found a pair of plain white satin gloves in my closet and Devastasia had some great embroidered net fabric, which I cut out the motifs to make…
👋🏻 I know it has been quite around these here newsletter parts. The reason why was I have been working through another pair of miscarriages with my wife and they drained my desire to create. Then I felt a call to write about them. And so I worked through a new essay called "Moments." I hope you go give it a read. I'll share more about the process soon. I just wanted to poke my head up in your inbox and let you know I didn't stop, I just needed to make this one behind closed doors. Until next…
Thanks to Charlie Horse 47 and Killdumpster for their sponsorship of this post, via the magic of Patreon. ***The longest day of the year has come and gone and, as the sun sinks lower in the sky, let us sink lower into the past and discover just what delights awaited us, within our local newsagents, this very week in 1976.Neal Adams arrives on the Avengers' strip, even as their comic approaches its twilight days. It seems that even the power of Nifty Neal won't be enough to save it.I do believe…
I’m so glad I came to the hotel this past Sunday! The heat advisory that was issued late last week quickly changed to an outright warning for Sunday afternoon thru Wednesday night. I have a habit of taking screenshots of my weather app. It’s interesting to look back at these but, this time, I think my excessive screenshots were reminders that I made the right choice coming to the hotel. Here’s a little on the heat…On Sunday afternoon, it was getting a little warm by the time I moved to the…
An Essay About Lessons through Games and Miscarriages Spoiler WarningThis essay talks about key moments in the following games. If you haven't played them and wish to do so unspoiled, what are you waiting for?Go play them! I'll be here. Journey by thatgamecompany Outer Wilds by Mobius Digital Tunic by Isometricorp Games Pierce Brown, Light Bringer"To those who wrote that we might read, to those who fell so we might walk, to those who came before so we might come after, gratitude." There's a…
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So I just got done writing about how Elon Musk's xAI data centers outside of Memphis feature 57 largely-unregulated gas turbines pumping pollutants and toxic chemicals into black neighborhoods that already see disproportionate levels of pollution-triggered illnesses among local minority children.This synopsis was from a recent lawsuit by civil rights groups pointing out Musk's Colossus 2 AI data center is openly violating the Clean Air Act:xAI’s power plant in Southaven has the potential to…
Tun-huang by Yasushi Inoue, translated by Jean Oda May, preface by Damion Searls (New York Review Books, 2010) Damion Searls, in his preface to Yasushi Inoue's 1959 historical novel Tun-huang, grouped the novelist's fiction into four genres: historical fiction, love stories, postwar sociopolitical fiction, and autobiographical writings. Of these, I've sampled only two. Chronicle
One of the reasons salmon are so desired.
In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book. Previous contributors include Jesmyn Ward, Lauren Groff, Bret Easton Ellis, Celeste Ng, T.C. Boyle, Dana Spiotta, Amy Bloom, Aimee Bender, Roxane Gay, and many others. Kevin Powers’ novel Children of the Wild is a profound exploration of friendship and love. Kirkus wrote of the book: “The author, himself a Virginian and a combat veteran, skillfully weaves threads of…
by Kaye Dee A Triumph and a Tragedy It’s just a few hours until publication, and I’m finishing this article at the last minute, so I can bring you the most up to date information on the tragic loss of the Soyuz-11 crew. These are the first deaths to actually occur in space, and their … Continue reading [July 2, 1971] The Silent Touchdown (Loss of the Soyuz-11/Salyut-1 Crew) → The post [July 2, 1971] The Silent Touchdown (Loss of the Soyuz-11/Salyut-1 Crew) appeared first on Galactic Journey.
My mother clucked her tongue when I had my neck stretched on my twentieth birthday. If she could have forbidden it, she would have. Not under my roof. Well, good thing I have my own place and my own money. When I came for Sunday dinner after having my skin sandpapered until it was soft and nearly translucent, she didn’t say a word. Her eyes traced the newly visible lines of the blue-black veins that webbed my collarbone and she choked down her protein substrate in silence. By the time the meal…
OBI-WAN KENOBI — NABOO STAR WARS: EPISODE I (HASBRO) “The young Jedi Knight Obi-Wan Kenobi and his mentor, Jedi Master Qui-Gon Jinn, help Queen Amidala and her forces in their attempt to liberate the planet Naboo from the overwhelming onslaught of the Trade Federation.” On we march with this Phantom Menace—oh, sorry, Episode I thing, apparently. It does sort of feel like the next natural point after Power of the Force wrapped up, I suppose. I’ll admit, it’s a bit more of a limited selection as…
When the US government took down its climate science site a group of scientists put all the material back online at Climate.us Dave Snowden has been at his favourite knowledge management conference and offers blog posts with many reflections that caught my eye on intergenerational management cultures (older workers attend to contexts; younger workers to rules), the inability to preserve implicit knowledge through compression, the fundamental question of what is lost between wisdom, knowledge…
The Minnesota Fringe Festival schedule was just announced, but if you want a preview of the sort of adventurous, inventive, outside-the-box art you will see in August, check out In the Backroom by Michael Torsh at the Southern Theater this weekend. A new show on a holiday weekend? That's right, and that's intentional. From the press release: "This performance considers the complicated nature of celebrating America's 250th anniversary, the effects of imperialism on the individual, and how we…
