Five Tracks for a 5k
Heading into the final weeks of the C25k plan, getting the music dialed in has helped. Nothing too uptempo. This initial list is working pretty...
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What's working class?
If someone pays you a wage—if you sell your time for money—you're working class. Applications, in terms of my taxonomy of peeves: • The idea...
Finished a Dune re-read
Dune 2 caused me to go back and re-read the novel. I don’t know how many times this is. Well north of a dozen. Maybe...
You people are gonna make yourselves sick
Another day, another campaign ad from a backwater district in a red state using the language of disgust and outrage toward Donald Trump to ask...
Star Wars Provokes an Early-Life Crisis (1996)
I dug out the Wayback archive of an old personal site that contained, in turn, a collection of things I rescued from my original GeoCities...
Soup sandwich
Drill sergeants were fond of calling people and events "a soup sandwich." "You're a soup sandwich." "Yes, drill sergeant." "Do you even know what a...
NPR isn't listenable, but ...
... I don't think I'd use these examples to explain why. Anti-identity-politics people are having a field day with this, veering into the usual weird...
The renunciate
A series of things had gone wrong, so I had been living in a basement room for several months before this particular morning, and like...
Hate reads
I should get over this particular shame: I hate-read "how I use the iPad" posts, so this roundup of recent genre examples from Michael Tsai...
Baby sea turtles
I was once standing on a walkway looking down on the lower corridor of an office building I worked in. Next to me was my...
What does the money need?
In the midst of a Mastodon thread about the pressure to generalize driving out accessibility: “We have to ask how did system administrators (sysadmins) rebrand...
Bottom of the news cycle
I have gotten a lot better at realizing when it is time to take a break from the news earlier. I used to have to...
Buy Once for Me, Not for Thee
Ars Technica on a brief experiment in replacing a Raspberry Pi with cheap mini PCs: “I recently tried to use a Raspberry Pi 5 as...
They gentrified my glucose monitor
I'm diabetic. Not the socially acceptable kind. The punchline kind. If you don't know what I mean, and if I actually know you, I'll take...
Just start writing
I corresponded briefly with Vincent about Scribbles, and he used the phrase "just start writing" a few times to describe his intent for the product. ...
We need more accountable government
In today's Oregonian: “In January, Portland Public Schools floated the idea of asking voters to increase the local property tax that pays for around 700...
bad AI hair day
Responsible businesses are absolutely right to look askance at any AI features an app in their portfolio has added. The way businesses "look askance" at...
Supportive mom
I guess I must have been in seventh grade when the Shōgun miniseries was on t.v. It was a big deal in our house and because...
a little meta about Meta
Adam Newbold on calls to block Meta Fediverse instances: “The very thing that makes the Fediverse special—the ability to seamlessly cross a platform boundary and...
Plaintext miracles and wonders
Jack Baty noted a new Denote release. I read each version's release notes, curious what's going on with it. This time I see a little...
Posthaven and its tradeoffs; blogging humility
Posthaven is a "post with email, minimal blog" option. I found it while I was sitting around this morning wondering about whatever happened to Posterous...
How to talk about a problem
I don't know a lot about this stuff. I have some instincts, some habits, and some things I try to remember, but it's worth noting...
My second Scribble post, about my first
I just spent a few minutes using my new Scribbles account to write down some thoughts about a topic that has come up. Scribbles is...