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Welcome to the post-fourth-of-july post! Insofar as family things go, we did not really do a whole lot yesterday. It's tough to get into any kind of celebratory spirit when the country (world?) has basically gone to shit. It's pretty...
I’m 41, which is the statistical midpoint of an American woman’s life. I’ve been thinking about how my life is going: pretty well! In seventh grade, on my science teacher’s birthday, one of my classmates asked if she was sad to be...
Wenn ich ehrlich bin, gehöre ich nicht zu den Menschen, die ihre Freizeit am liebsten auf anspruchsvollen Bergtouren verbringen. Lange Anstiege, schmale Bergpfade oder Wanderungen mit vielen Höhenmetern sind einfach nicht meins. Umso...
AMBITION, LOVE AND CHOICES IN AN OLDER IRELAND Jonathan Bank’s Mint Theater company lately gave us an arresting revival of Miles Malleson’s Yours Unfaithfully in this theatre, and here he is reinvigorating another 1930s play, this time...
The Norway v Brazil World Cup match is popular on this flight. ⚽️😂 Go Norway! 🇳🇴
I spend a lot of time watching the free-software sites, and for a couple of years now one name keeps earning a click: WidgetWorx. There are currently 17 "unquestionably niche, but surprisingly useful apps" on offer, none of them more...
I spend a lot of time watching the free-software sites, and for a couple of years now one name keeps earning a click: WidgetWorx. There are currently 17 "unquestionably niche, but surprisingly useful apps" on offer, none of them more...
Turns out ChatGPT is a fan of POAP KINGS! Wonder if our agent optimized interface is helping?
A draft using #OxfordBoaters as an example Today I was half joke about ducks and geese, but there’s something underneath the joke if you lift the lid. After Darwin, many nineteenth-century elitists became fascinated with cataloguing...
It’s sunny on this beautiful not-too-hot Sunday, and I’m enjoying a quiet day before the routine of work starts again. Here’s some random thoughts and moments of my last few days/weeks: That’s it for now. Will try to kick my ass to write...
Another short day, another long night. We see Marcello trying to do some actual writing in an open-air cafe, then getting attracted by an actual person’s story. He’s a little flirtatious with the teenage waitress but he mainly just seems...
Some years ago I went thoroughly into Margaret Irwin’s Tudor novels, and liked almost all of them. This month I read, possibly for the first time since I was a teenager, her Stuart novels, and liked only one of them. Royal Flush (1932)...
DL 0881 taking us to Seattle-Tacoma. Good number of soccer fans on this flight. ⚽️✈️
Electronic circuit theory is a frequent theme on this blog. As a part of this sorta-curriculum, I published a number of articles about operational amplifiers. I keep coming back to this topic for two reasons. First, I think these...
PSA: Never, ever, buy Pokémon cards in these airport kiosks. Prices are 2x market! 💸