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Today, I'm using a prompt from blogprompts.fyi: Write a blog post about moments in your current or past life that you would classify as sublime. Many moments with Danny come to mind, of course. We've had lots of times together that I...
Today I want to talk a bit about how a city shows you the expectations you should have about what existing in that city will be like.In other words, how do I see the built environment setting up expectations about what the city is...
Many simplified, intro, or “plain-English” WCAG re-interpretations frame Success Criterion 2.1.1 Keyboard as ensuring a control or widget or thing can be operated with a keyboard. Some go further and also ask you to consider...
Finished reading: Song of Susannah by Stephen King 📚 Two weeks ago, I wrote about finishing Wolves of the Calla. Things are really heating up, and boy does King go hard. If you know you know. I made a mistake; my thoughts, above, were...
This is a work of fiction. Deep thanks to Claire, Paul and Pete at Good Day Mockingbird, for the prompt that provoked this story, and for their enormously helpful editorial review and fact-checking of the piece. I used AI to brainstorm...
It was less than a month ago that I blogged about having listened to a documentary about Dolly Parton, writing “What an icon!”. Now she’s gone. So sad, so strange. This Friday it’s three years since my dear dad passed away. It feels like...
I found a fun little quip from John Wright, the drummer of Nomeansno, about the history of music post Nirvana. Every major label tried to sign every band, and then it became no longer an alternative, it sort of became co-opted by the...
Unified Fractured One of the most interesting papers I’ve read in the last couple of years is Questioning Representational Optimism in Deep Learning: The Fractured Entangled Representation Hypothesis (2025).I don't know what to do with...
Who are you?I’m Ryan Douglass. I’m a speculative fiction author based in Atlanta, Georgia.What do you write?I’m mostly a horror author, but I like to experiment with genre, form, and age category. I started writing when I was very young...
At Crusoe’s Books, the anonymized Readersinhistory tells us of the trauma of having to get rid of their library because the university he/she works for needs the space for something else. Why they can’t take just them all home and thus...
Looking at the benchmark interest rate for 30-year US Treasury debt, long-term interest rates have been rising. Any price change might happen for a number of different reasons: 1) expectations of future inflation are causing investors in...
Lasers stand in for red string in Fernando Blanco’s cover riffing on the stringboard trope for Next Level: One Shot #1 (DC, October 2026). ▲ Next Level: One Shot #1 (DC, October 2026), cover by Fernando Blanco
I’m in the last-dash packing stage getting ready to fly out for the SF Pen Show. I’m excited to spend time with my West Coast Pen Friends and see how crazy the SF show will be this year. If you’re coming to the show, be prepared for the...
So…I am still working on the online multiplayer(asynch) code and UI and UX for Ridiculous Space Battles, but progress has been pretty good, and certainly way quicker than the first time I attempted to do all this sixteen(!) years ago… So...
On the morning of 26 August 2015, WDBJ7 reporter Alison Parker was doing exactly what she did most mornings, standing outside a lakeside tourist spot in Virginia, interviewing a local chamber of commerce official for a routine early...