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Yesterday I visited a client who wasn't happy at all. The guys at the office, who book my jobs, told me about it beforehand. They explained that her house inspection had been rescheduled twice because colleagues of mine had called in...
My arch nemesis lives only about 1.5 blocks away from me. It’s a coffee shop door. More specifically, it’s a sign on that door: This is what happens with embarrassing regularity: I am inside, about to step out, my brain reads PUSH from...
I read my first Doris Miles Disney mystery back in 2017. It was Family Skeleton (1949), and it featured her series sleuth, an insurance claim investigator, Jeff DiMarco. This is a brilliant read, and one I can highly recommend. Off the...
Because I've been on holiday recently and am indeed on holiday now, I've been running into one of my pet peeves of being a tourist: the lack of signage. Before I go generalising, I have always found Scotland to be good at road signage....
This morning, I heard on the radio that a Partenavia P.68B Victor (reg. OY-BSE) had landed at EKSN for refueling. I took a chance and biked like hell to catch it, but alas, I missed it by only a few minutes. Instead of heading straight...
../_Attachments/Banner 1.png *Private education at Gordonstoun introduces traditions of brutality - dog fights. Purchasing and rearing hounds to kill each other in illegal rings excites the lingering arrogance in the youth. A demolished...
If you're receiving this email, you either opted into announcements after purchasing one of my games or signed up for one of my newsletters.Hi, folks,Asa here. Apologies for the interruption. I'm reaching out with some exciting news and...
Image source: IMDB One of the running themes of my writing has been re-examining long-held assumptions about movie history. I have a bleeding heart for panned films and a skepticism towards broad claims. If you’ve dipped your toes into...
[“No, thanks, Dad. I'd rather make out with my Monroebot.”] Way back in the mid-2000s, Neil Strauss’s book “The Game” shone a spotlight on the so-called seduction community. One of the book’s main characters was pickup artist Erik von...
I have had a myriad of questions about the straw bonnets Caroline, Mary, and Laura are wearing as they enter Independence for the first time. Questions in post comments, private messages, text messages, in-person, and on the live watch...
Let's do a thought experiment: do you care if a state actor tries to access your mail provider? I think most people would respond "when would that happen?" Well, as the EFF reports the DHS has issued unlawful subpoenas to Google for...
The first issue of, "White Boat," came out from DSTLRY back in mid-2024. It took some time, but the second issue was released as well, and a hoot. Then...delays. It got to the point DSTLRY announced a temporary shutdown/pause, and it had...
Don’t worry, I’m not desperate enough to use any social media that requires me to give my ID. The other week (6/30), Bsky had accidentally “temporarily” rolled out age verification for TX based users - that roll out was a “mistake” but...
A paper sculpture study of Why not Sneeze by Rrose Selavy, and accompanying labels I forgot until I heard Michelle Kuo mention it again on Modern Art Notes Podcast, but one of the real discoveries of the Marcel Duchamp retrospective was...
The mind loves to change the world. Just not itself. It wants to fix the politics, the web, the weather. It picks up ideologies and wears them like it invented them. Nothing can be changed. Things happen, or they don't. A thought has no...