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Tomorrow I’m going back to work after a rather lopsided summer break (not feeling up to it physically or mentally), and the social network pendulum is swinging back into a bit of normalcy as I progressively tune nearly all of them out....
Book 26 for my 2026 goal of 36 books for the year! Still comfortably ahead with my reading. My link to the book is through my bookshop.org affiliate account, which means I may earn a small commission if you buy from there. In my reading...
I like listening to Sarah Longwell's Bulwark podcasts about focus groups, because I like to hear what the people in the focus group are saying. You don't get everything, obviously, but you do get to hear nuggets that Sarah or her team...
A year ago I read Libraries of the Mind by William Marx, and some of it is still very much on my mind ever since. Particularly what William Marx called ‘dark matter’ literature, which exists but you don’t have access to. E.g. because...
God is just and righteous. If He were not, His infinite power would make Him terrifying. But He can be trusted, and His justice is what makes mercy possible.
Yes, another post featuring Albi and its Cathedral! If you missed the previous ones, and want to know more about the place, I've got you covered:Albi - Liminal WebJapan, art, islands, France, the internet, and the rest…Today's postcard...
A lot of these cukes just hanging over the edge, hiding in plain site.
The court describes the case: Plaintiff Channel 781 News (“Channel 781”) is a YouTube-based news outlet focusing on local affairs in Waltham, Massachusetts. Channel 781 posted clips from Waltham municipal government meetings that it...
No lunches this week. I also bruised my ego a little bit. Let’s do better next week, eh? Sat a “surprise” mock Japanese exam. I passed, and lost the most my marks in a section with a type of question I had never seen before. Were I to...
I think one of my favorite feelings is accomplishment. Completing tasks and having them behind me, knowing I did them to the best of my ability, gets me on kind of a high. I've been feeling that way for the past couple of days because I...
I took an early drive this morning to clear my head. Then again my head was heavy and my sinuses were not too kind to me. So, I was up early. I was on the road but the rain came suddenly and fell so hard that the rainfall interrupted my...
You need to practice living without the things you love. If you love food, you need to fast for a day, or spend a week without indulging in your favorite dishes. If you cannot live without books, you should spend a month living without...
Life On Monday I went to see a doctor about the fever that was destroying me last weekend and got a full week of medicines and a Paracetamol IV drip to help get it out of my system. That ended up taking more than an hour, and I was...
Photo of Lyia Meta taken from her Facebook account. Malaysian artist Lyia Meta is a highly accomplished, award-winning and Grammy-nominated Renaissance woman in every sense of the word. She’s not only an insanely talented singer,...
John Keats wrote this to J H Reynolds, a friend and poet, on 19 February 1818 “I have an idea that a man might pass a very pleasant life in this manner—let him on any certain day read a Page of full Poesy or distilled Prose and let him...