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📺 WATCHED: X-Files Season 2 episodes: "Soft Light" and "Our Town". "Soft Light": From the episode description, I was going to skip this one (man's shadow is killing people). I searched for reviews and saw Tony Shaloub was in it so that...
Yesterday, at a playground with my granddaughter, I heard some children called by name. Among the names were Ezra and Noah, good old-fasioned names, which I was glad to hear. However there are many, many Biblical names which one never...
I’m more than halfway through the first week of classes and that feels like as good a time as any for a three things, teaching, Thursday: Thing the First For my historical methods class, I bit the bullet and bought the entire class...
You blow hot and cold on the merits of being in business for yourself, but sometimes you go to a mid-week desert blues show with a Danish friend, and as a result have one or two beers more than you might usually have, and you get up an...
Maybe I’m just too old. Maybe I’m just too cynical. Maybe it’s a combination of both. After yesterday’s news that Meta settled its lawsuit with a bevy of state attorneys general, I find my eyebrow still raised in skepticism. The bottom...
This post provides a couple examples to go along with two earlier posts. The pattern we’re illustrating is families of polynomials pn(x) that each satisfy a differential equation and a three-term recurrence. The differential equations...
With my closest work friend K's departure to pursue medical school, I felt like I have gone back to my first few weeks at the job. Everything is so awkward and uncomfortable and it's a miracle if I've gone through a day without taking a...
While I’ve been working on scenery as part of the 2026 Season of Scenery challenge I’ve had a few tanks on the go as well, since I can slap mucky washes on buildings and tanks (and myself) at the same time! The challenge rules allow...
This is the second of two parts on media creation. You can find the first part over here: Creating media with an uncooperative mind Infinite negatives # In trying to figure out what I should write and talk about, I could spend the rest...
Speculation is rampant after Apple released a series of teasers for tonight’s penultimate episode. There are dozens and dozens of incredible breakdowns out there. Amazing theories. Most of them wrong, but a few who are starting to get...
The Starbucks union is asking you to BOYCOTT STARBUCKS. A temporary change in our habits can give so many workers a permanent livable wage.
Timothy Olyphant as Seth Bullock on the first season of Deadwood. Vitals Timothy Olyphant as Seth Bullock, taciturn Canadian-born lawman and hardware store owner Deadwood, Summer 1876 to 1877 Series: Deadwood Air Dates: March 21, 2004 to...
Donny catches up with an art collector who was driven to find the originals for Spider-Gwen and Gwen Stacey The post Collector’s Cache: Of Spiders & Gwen appeared first on Hipsters of the Coast.
I launched my Analog Defaults page earlier this year to take a snapshot of my most used/favorite stationery products across many categories. It has been helpful to me in seeing what changes, and what stays the same, over longer periods...
It's time again to plumb the depths of that most bizarre and inexplicable place:The mind... OF A CAKE DECORATOR. Buckle up, it's going to be a wrecky ride. I can't decide if these are supposed to be teeth, eyeballs, or mini-marshmallows:...