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There's a scene in Apollo 13 where Jim Lovell, played by Tom Hanks, asks Houston control to check his calculations, which they do using a slide rule. My father told me that when he was in college (1950s) that engineers measured their...
So you don't have to experience the same thing: If you are like me, and don't rinse your mouth after brushing your teeth, take care if you clear your throat afterwards. When you harrumph afterwards, don't do it with too much rigor; this...
Eteng Ettah, host of the great podcast Consider this for Comfort, shares a few of her favorite comforting reality TV shows with us—and makes a case for TV as a cure.
Tessa Thompson is an absolutely magnetic actor, and I could watch her in anything. Most
Tobias Wong, Bulletproof Quilted Duvet, 2004, ballistic nylon, cotton, 86 x 86 in., collection SFMOMA via Dwell Seeing an uncredited version of Tobias Wong’s Just Another Rich Kid Cokespoon #2 on social media this morning hit a bit...
I’ve written before about using bunny.net as a CDN for this blog, where I basically just cache everything, because it’s a static blog. Whenever I release a new blog post, I purge the pull zone, and the new blog post becomes available....
Recently I made the decision to bite the bullet and purchase an iPad. I'm not an Apple person, so this could be considered a big deal. I am an Android user through and through. It just feels better to use, in my opinion. It also has a...
In the country of the blind, goes the proverb, the one-eyed man is king.In his 1904 short story "The Country of the Blind" H.G. Wells writes of a sighted man named Núñez who finds himself in exactly this position. Instead of being...
These lovely covers for the new editions of the late Andrea Levy’s six books were designed and illustrated by Holly Ovenden for Tinder Press in the UK. The colour palettes are great!
Growing up, one of my favorite summer dishes – alongside my dad’s Salt & Vinegar Chicken – was his creamy cucumber salad. This tangy, crunchy, cool treat refreshed us on long, humid summer nights. When the craving hit recently, I asked...
Procrastination
I’ve been running 5.5e for a couple of months now for my “Szass Tam Stole My Life” campaign. For the first few weeks it was fine, and then it was infuriatingly terrible and filled me with existential dread and the white hot rage of a...
A roundup of interesting links I have enjoyed recently. A catalog of everything William Zujkowski has read and wants to read: williamzujkowski.github.io Self-hosted media tracking: github.com Sohla El-Waylly on where to start if you’re...
And looking up from the bottom always makes reaching for the top seem impossible..At the bottom, the top look so high and so far from my reach. I know . . . One of my last drunken memories was from an afternoon that went sideways. I was...