Oh, no! ANA Retires Star Wars R2-D2 Boeing 787 livery 😢 I'm so grateful that I had a chance to see and capture it.

My apartment came with an unwanted roommate. It is, unfortunately, not a hulking mass of gay flesh I can snuggle with. It's something I wouldn't even want staring at me. He is seven feet tall, made of stainless steel, and hums with the low, ominous thrum of corporate ambition. He is my "smart" refrigerator, and he...

In the course of just under a month, I’ve done a U-turn on my opinion of Fix the News. I now recommend that you stay away from them, and here’s why. On July 10, I wrote a post about how Fix the News does a good job of improving your optimism with a weekly roundup of good news — concentrating on “big picture stories...

Today this blog turns seventeen years old, the first post being Welcome to the Journal posted at 12:23pm on Saturday 9th August 2008 (I never did finish that art project I wrote about in that first post). And while I don’t particularly like posting ‘meta’ posts—posts about my blog or about blogging in general—I’m...

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Curtis had a response to what I wrote earlier this week about reading later:With reading later I think we often save things because we want to be the type of person that reads this article. It’s interesting enough in the moment, but not interesting enough to spend

August 8, 2025 RFK Jr. Cancels Nearly $500 Million in mRNA Vaccine Contracts Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has canceled nearly $500 million of grants and contracts for developing mRNA vaccines, the Department of Health and Human Services announced on Tuesday. It is the latest blow to research on this...

So, usually I don’t mock people for being creative. It takes a lot of courage to put yourself out there with something you’ve made. I do it all the time, so I know how much doing so can actually cost you. But today, I have to rant about something that’s going to come across as mean. As you guys know, I’ve been...

Weeknote #8, seven six five four, three two murder one lyric at your door. Two weeks of stuff. Let’s get to it. Some Links Worth Sharing The fuckity-fuck cycle we’re in right now.: “Everything feels awful right now, you’re not imagining it. You’re not broken. You’re living through a historical pattern that always,...

In a recent post, our friend Steve of Incense in The Wind described those with an aversion to perfume-dipped incense sticks as prejudiced. This has invited some self reflection. Dear reader, I think I may have been called out[1]. It is true that I typically enjoy incense made out of, well, incense, but hell, maybe...

Usar cualquier dispositivo electrónico para escribir es un acto de fe. Escribir a mano en un cuaderno con tinta no requiere un proceso de guardado o de respaldo de archivos, y las notas con pluma y papel no precisan gestión como un sistema operativo digital. La información que escribimos en un ordenador puede...