I am BARRY HESS

In the back of my mind I’ve always wanted to do some sort of goofy Amazon Mechanical Turk project. I guess it’s now or never. But I don’t have any ideas… Reply by email

I learned about Johnny.Decimal from Pika blogger Michael Borland. The last post on his blog clued me in. Sadly he has since passed away. RIP Michael. ❤ I’ve dipped in...

I’ve been sick for half of this past week, so not much drivel to share this Friday. The core of my love for reading grew through affordable mass market paperbacks. While it’s not new news, it’s a little sad to see them leaving. Still, I really would prefer not to read that tiny, cramped print these days. I saw this a few places, so now you get to see this: A list of Bourdain’s lists. A link to this site was shared with me I don’t know how long ago and I’m fascinated: Snowshoeing the Onion…

A couple months ago I put together a fairly lengthy post about getting an old MacBook set up to be a writing machine. It was pretty encouraging, the idea of having a machine that would just be for one thing. At the time of writing that post I was diving pretty deep into my work and I realized I was not in a “writing mode,” but I was also hopeful a little writing would happen with this new, old laptop. I’m not going to blame it all on this one thing, but at the end of that post I said: I hate…