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$185,000 bought this house five blocks from meCharles L. Marohn Jr. and Daniel Herriges, Escaping the Housing Trap: The Strong Towns Response to the Housing Crisis. Hoboken NJ: Wiley, 2024. (8/25/2026) This fall I'm part of a local group...
26 years! > Oh my aching back
I visited a pub recently that, before I went in, I really wanted to review. I drank there, periodically at least, years ago. It had closed during Covid and my assumption was that it would never come back. And yet, here it was, recently...
I still build websites for a living and I feel like a dinosaur. > “How many more websites do I have left in me before the old fire flickers and dies? Is snuffed out. Before making websites is no longer a viable way to earn a living?”
Someone recently asked me, what rules do I try to live my life by? Good question. In no particular order: Do no harm Be kind at all times Ask yourself, is this helpful? Whatever this is Don't put off difficult tasks Face your fears and...
OMG, it’s still going!? > Hype Machine
Like many people, I was sad to read news that Dolly Parton died in Nashville, Tennessee yesterday, August 25, 2026, at the age of eighty years old. From the obituary on her website: A rhinestone life that shone bright enough for the...
Yes, you need an eSIM for Italy — even though Italy is one of the more digitally advanced countries in Europe. Between the narrow medieval streets of Rome and Naples, the winding mountain roads of the Amalfi Coast, and the patchy signal...
Patxi Salinas Dean Saunders Separated at birth? The post Separated at birth? appeared first on Playrface.
Modesty arguments often say that you should mostly or entirely bow to ‘expert consensus’ or the views of particular others, and who are you to disagree. It has been a few years since I’ve properly addressed this so: My answer is that you...
Here are the 21 players of Survivor 51, plus their thoughts about the twists and turns and random stuff that will be showered upon them.
Every once in awhile something comes along that is completely unnecessarily, accomplishes nothing, but is too delightful to not check out. macOS has featured built-in screen savers since the earliest builds of Mac OS X and there are...
I've been looking at my old domains from about 2005-2012 on the Wayback Machine at the Internet Archive, and I am honestly surprised at how little about me has changed from 20 to 40, even if the years in between were quite a bit...
Book title: Ninth House Author: Leigh Bardugo Rating: 3.75/5 The world-building in this book is fantastic. I just want to know more. The pacing is a bit tough, though. The moment things get intense, the chapter ends, and the next one's a...
There are some ideas floating around the internet about how best to honor the late Dolly Parton. Dolly believed all children should have access to quality reading materials to help them learn. She acted on this belief, and her results...