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What is Dave wearing today? Dave is currently wearing a white Nike T-shirt, green running shorts, white socks, and Stan Smiths. How does Dave feel today? Dave feels foolish and full. What are the factors affecting Dave’s mood? Dave woke...
My passion is sparking delight through the absurd and bringing people together with creative scheming. But that has not been my job for the last four years. My job has been Data Monkey in Big Tech. For awhile I’ve lived a bit of a...
Stereolab - October 1993At this rate, we could probably just turn Doom & Gloom into an Aadam Jacobs Collection appreciation blog. The goods just keep on coming (and coming). To wit! The volunteers behind this heroic tape preservation...
Stereolab - October 1993At this rate, we could probably just turn Doom & Gloom into an Aadam Jacobs Collection appreciation blog. The goods just keep on coming (and coming). To wit! The volunteers behind this heroic tape preservation...
It’s kind of incredible how quickly Capcom became a significant piece of the arcade scene. The company originally started in 1979 as I.R.M. Corporation by Kenzi Sujimoto, and if you think that sounds similar to Irem, well, Sujimoto was...
This is an ancient Japanese Sustainable forestry technique called “daisugi”. It allows for lumber production without cutting down trees. Specially planted Cedar trees are pruned heavily * (think of it as a giant bonsai) to produce shoots...
I ran across this old article in my digital files from that awful Covid Theater year of 2020, Alison Herman's story "We're Going to Run Out of TV" (complete with the panic headline; exclamation point optional). "[A] drought is upon us,"...
If you’re wondering exactly how a mailbox provider like Yahoo, Google, Comcast or Fastmail might implement support for decoding and displaying BIMI (Brand Indicator for Message Identification) logos in or near the inbox, then I’ve got...
I recently started building products focused on healthcare affordability in the US. As I was ramping up on a new space, the biggest question that sparked my curiosity was: how did we get here? This question is the inspiration for this...
Witch-Hunting is making a comeback.If you thought Tucker Carslon's ridiculous assertion that he'd been attacked in his sleep by demons was a one-off, I have news for you: At the Atlantic is a disturbing read about a particularly...
Now, Voyager is based upon the 1941 novel of the same name, which was written by the American author Olive Higgins Prouty. Now, Voyager is the third in a series of five novels written by Prouty, all of which focus upon the Vale family of...
It's gotten easier and easier to just press a button and have AI give me the answers. I've noticed a tendency in myself to reach for Claude not just for routine work, but also for things like processing my thoughts or ideating for me....
This week’s theme: Jazz versions of songs from West Side Story. Featured artists include Buddy Rich, Andre Previn, Shelly Manne, Red Mitchell, Dave Brubeck, Paul Desmond, Joe Morello, Eugene Wright, Rosemary Clooney, Sarah Vaughan, Gerry...
This week’s theme: Jazz versions of Rodgers and Hart compositions. Featured artists include Miles Davis, Paul Desmond, Jim Hall, Art Tatum, Ben Webster, Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra, Rosemary Clooney, Sheila Jordan, Chet Baker, Sonny...
Cover designs for José Carlos Mariátegui’s radical Lima-based magazine.