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When my brother Pete and I were kids, and our parents were out of town, we ditched school for a week and cut an “album” by recording backing tracks to my dad’s reel-to-reel, then live overdubbing on different instruments and capturing...
If you do code-heavy talks in Keynote and want to syntax highlight the code, this might be for you.
WARNING: In-your-end-o jokes ahead. Hide the kids!*****John: "Hey, we had a few complaints about that baby shower cake, so let's steer clear of anything too off-color today, ok?"Jen: "Noooo problem. I have the perfect ON color cake we...
Here is the second quarterly check-in for 2026 on what the signals are saying regarding After Capitalism. Perpetual competition, Swifties, and DUNAs (not Tuna) … Dig in! (See Q1 2026 here.) Drum roll please! The Human Cost of Perpetual...
Today is not about being honest with fiction.No, I would rather rant and rave than be indirect.And so, I will go forward and start with this –To hell with what I see.To hell with today’s modern technology.To hell with people texting and...
Gang Starr braucht man ja niemandem mehr vorzustellen. Die legendäre Crew aus Brooklyn heute hier mit einem meiner Lieblingstracks „Moment of Truth“ aus dem Jahre 1998. Die fünfte Platte von Gangstarr hieß gleichnamig „Moment of Truth“....
We’re back from our recent stationery trip to Japan, and ready to discuss all of the various things we discovered! Join us as we recap two weeks in Tokyo, Hamamatsu,...
ICYMI – Michelle Croft and I talked AI and assessment on LinkedIn Live. And I talked Charm City education with departing schools CEO Sonja Santelises. Today at 2p ET/11a PT Indiana state chief Katie Jenner, former SD state chief, CCSSO...
17 June 2026 Now that western Pennsylvania’s rivers are warming up for the summer, female plain pocketbook mussels (Lampsilis cardium) are ready to complete last year’s reproductive cycle by luring a fish. As soon as it strikes she’ll...
Arguably the first work of fiction to feature a *Tyrannosaurus rex*, Louis Pope Gratacap’s *The New Northland* (1915) is at once kaleidoscopic, mischievous, fascinating — and exhausting. Richard Fallon explores this “lost world” novel,...
69 images of kite flying from across 5 centuries and some 10 countries.
Heaven knows my Notes from Underground (Записки из подполья, 1864) translation comparison was long enough without me getting back on this hobbyhorse, but I was keeping an eye on how the translators handled formal and informal pronouns....
My Back Pages: An Unwritten Book – The Homebound Symphony The biographer of Robert Zimmerman cannot avoid seeking to disentangle the discoverable truth from the demonstrable untruth. Such disentangling is not impossible, but neither is...