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...
2024
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
... 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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. ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 is a "post with email, minimal blog" option. I found it while I was sitting around this morning wondering about whatever happened to Posterous...
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...
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...