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These balsamic-glazed oven-baked ribs are a grill-free summer dinner with tender foil-baked meat and a glossy sweet-tangy barbecue sauce. Paired with Edy Massih’s garlicky mashed potato salad, made with roasted garlic, Greek yogurt,...
Mosquitoes, Megaprojects, and the New Deal's Least-Remembered Public Health Initiative
Happy Memorial Day to everyone here in the US, and happy Monday to our international friends! Whether, you’re home today or just kicking off your work week, I hope you’ve had a chance to rest easy and spin some great records. If you’re...
Christian P. Haines Under Review:Pretenders to the Throne of God. Adrian Tchaikovsky. Head of Zeus, March 2026. War is hell, except in Adrian Tchaikovsky’s Pretenders to the Throne of God, where war is horrible, but hell is its own...
The mail arrives, and rather than be full of junk ads for political campaigns, insurance companies, and furniture far too rich for my blood, it comes with three or four personalized advertisements for this college or that one. They are...
For the last few years companies have been working hard to convince us that AI is going to replace huge swathes of jobs and workers. This isn't cynical marketing from a few outliers, it seems to be a genuine belief held at the top of...
Read the full post at - 6+ Favorite Haruki Murakami Novels (So Far!) A Roundup of My Favorite Haruki Murakami Novels...so far.
After hard rain in the night, the creek is high and babbles incoherently. The red squirrel runs past my feet with growing confidence in my harmlessness, only its ears poking up above the railing that separates us.
This week's projects include the blog's newsletter, my mini-server, the comic repository, prospective new project Neuron Drizzle, and some library updates.
Suppose you want PHP to keep processing after it has sent back an HTTP response. Normally, this doesn't work:
Leigh Ann Beavers and I taught our hybrid studio-arts/creative-writing course this spring again. We met with twelve students for four hours four days a week for four weeks. The first two weeks were an intensive overview of comics...