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I’ve been watching crime drama so much, they made me anxious about my own mortality. I don’t know when it’s going to come but it will, and when it does there’s nothing I can do. If there’s one thing I’ve learned about combating anxiety,...
Stoked for the giant Monome Grid that Jackson Lamb plays in the trailer for the next season of Slow Horses. (I’m totally behind on the show, but totally up to date on the novels.)
Looks like Apple and the EU both have something they can finally agree on and can live with. Apple has never, as far as I can tell, sold iPhones as general-purpose computers, and Apple should be able to sell things that are not...
Michelle Barker: And maybe there will be a resurgence, as more people eschew the algorithms, remember the joy of coding, of craft. From the charred remains, green shoots. New life. Maybe we’ll wake up to find little websites everywhere....
The Oubliette has dominated Mega-City One for the last few months, and this week we have two stories connected to the Mega-Epic inside the Prog, as both Dredd and The Finders are drawn closer and closer to the explosive climax of this...
When the dinner party wraps up, the quilting bee buzzes off, or your friends all grab their coats and head down to catch a cab, it’s time to take a second to stand alone in the center of your place, smile slowly, and finally just blast...
Having played Quartermaster General: East Front recently, Han and I moved on to play the South Front version. The South Front of World War 2 refers to the Mediterranean theatre. The game has a long map that stretches from Gibraltar in...
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We went to Xinjiang again! Yes, again. Last year we went to the north. This year to the south. But before then we spent a few days around Shennongjia, where I saw this little mouse munching on grass. And then we went to the lakes, where...
I do put "my email" in geminispace and on the open web and make no effort to obfuscate it. Why did I use quotes above? I have a lot of email addresses: definitely dozens, and probably over a hundred. In my view, the trick to being...
Whether you're picking, buying or receiving them, this is the apex of vegetable season. And so begins the roller coaster ride of thrills and terror as they pile up in the garden, kitchen and fridge. Vegetables, vegetables, everywhere...
The day before her 70th birthday, she had to rush to the ER. She had planned the birthday party for months. But a blood pressure spike almost ruined it. She was discharged the same day. But she was so anxious that she didn’t enjoy her...
Jasper Johns, Litanies of The Chariot, 1961, dimensions? funny you should ask I’ve had this tiny Jasper Johns drawing about Duchamp in my tabs for months now, but I guess I’m finally going to post it now because the Wolfgang Tillmans...
From The Making of the Modern Philippines: Pieces of a Jigsaw State, by Philip Bowring (Bloomsbury Academic, 2022), Kindle pp. 157-158, 164: Economic and social failures combine with demography to create the issue for which Filipino...
Recently, a friend suggested that I write a Chuck Klosterman-esque essay explaining looksmaxxers and in suggesting that I would not do something like that, I made a joke about why I would not do something like that. The relevant section...