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Want to own an inn with a dozen rail cars? A historic station in beautiful Tatamagouche, Nova Scotia? A dining car?
It took me a whopping 21 days to send 100 emails. That's 66 unprompted emails and 34 replies in total. I sent 53 messages to Bear Blog users and 47 to others. The most messages I sent in a single day was 24. The most messages I sent to...
I'm just waking up and I'm so confuseddd. I checked my bank account, cause I used my credit card to pay for gas the other day, and my credit card is in the negatives cause apparently I got some kind of refund from planned parenthood for...
Blessings upon Ro, who began this brainstorm and fed it happily. All is Not WellCracks race along the walls of time, widen between realms. Clawed fingers wedge between them, rip bloodily to make space. The realms shatter. Red-dripping...
Markus Borg reviews twenty-four Requirements Engineering columns from his tenure at IEEE Software. For the past four years, I’ve had the honor of shepherding the Requirements department and sharing a wide range of requirements...
Hello from my home in Helsinki! This is NordLetter #119, a weekly newsletter on living and walking in Finland. Each week I share some of the interesting things I found on the web. To follow the series, you can subscribe here. A new...
Finished reading The Bullet Journal Method.
Today was a travel day. Made it back home safely and smoothly. (No carsickness for the little one! 🙌) Above: an assortment of color images from this past week. Another reminder about the 10th anniversary zine – let me know, if you want...
My archiving journey continues. Apparently, media is one of those things that should not organized through folder hierarchy, but which benefit from a robust metadata system. The organization of my music library is a matter that will...
TL;DR: My self-hosted feed reading stack quietly shrank from hundreds of feeds down to 33 over the course of a year, and I didn't notice until my reading list got eerily quiet. The culprit: an unpaginated API call that turned "the 1000...
There are few creatures quite as charming—or as suspiciously competent—as the raccoon.With its black mask, ringed tail and remarkably nimble front paws, the northern raccoon, Procyon lotor, looks rather like a small bear dressed for a...
Autograph Hound Saturday yet again, and we bring our old pal L. Sprague de Camp back with another John Hancock. He also does the weirdest personal “I” that I (imagine a regular I) recall offhand. De Camp of course mightily messed up the...
Replying to my own post? Does that make this a meta meta post? Just wanted to say thank you to those that reached out to say, "I'm reading your posts." I have or will reply individually to those that did. But also to say it wasn't my...
Winged Form by Will Henry Stevens (1939, tempera and oil on paper, mounted on canvas, 26 x 35 in, Indianapolis Museum of Art)
In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book. Previous contributors include Jesmyn Ward, Lauren Groff, Bret Easton Ellis, Celeste Ng, T.C. Boyle, Dana...