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Book review for Piranesi by Susanna Clarke. I rated it 4 stars This book kicks off rather abstractly. A man wanders the halls of a huge house with hundreds of rooms. Amongst its many rooms, there are 13 dead bodies - all skeletons - plus...
It's been a while since I allowed myself to just pour freely onto the page. I admit I've noticed myself getting rut-barrelled into the ground again—getting caught up in the formula of writing, standardized. The desire path becoming the...
I just got this bullshit spam. I like AI. I work for an AI company. And I have also been hand-writing the same blog for 28 years and have zero intention of having AI continue it without me. The whole entire point of blogging is for me to...
I began wearing glasses for nearsightedness at age eight or nine – I was the classic kid who couldn’t read the blackboard, back when children were not as routinely tested for vision problems. My vision got continually worse over my...
past. prologue. | 19”x22” mixed media on bristol
Scored a cool new wallet… similar to the one that broke, also met Kelly Curtis who managed Pearl Jam from its formation in 1990 until his retirement in August 2020. I bought a sweatshirt from his shop, and we talked skateboarding for the...
Maria Konnikova ★★★★☆ An interesting read on how con artists operate, and the psychological traits they manipulate in order to trick people into doing what they want. It’s roughly structured around different phases of a con, from picking...
Flowers in the meadow by a tree by Pixabay (Pexels)This is a story I wrote with the prompts:Magical School – Real Estate Developer – Wine BottleCassandra gazed out upon the outcropping of rocks, surrounded on all sides by an angry North...
I recently spoke with Jay Dragon, the creator of Seven Part Pact, Wanderhome, and Yazeba’s B&B about Seven Part Pact, which recently was successfully funded on Kickstarter for more than a million dollars. We spoke the final day of the...
Not a lot to say about today. Still in recovery and today had me dealing with more exhaustion and some pain. I did head outside in the afternoon to get some fresh air, and take some garden tour video. Before I started, I spotted Slick’s...
Bunny received a flyer in the postal mail claiming she could win “$15,000 Cash or Choose Your Cruise—Spain, Italy, Greece, and More!” There were just three simple steps to claim the prize: Pull the tab of the attached VIN Gauge...
(Lots about bodily fluids, up close and personal, and the male body, a lot of it in street talk, so inadvisable for kids and the sexually modest) Another little posting that might — like “Struggling Actor” earlier today — go far. But it...
Dharmateja Priyadarshi Uddandarao on avoiding Metric Theater when building AI products: The Reality of an AI Implementation
Good posts from Moonwriting and Olly about the benefits of using a website platform and why you might not want a fully DIY website. I agree with the points they both make. If you want to self-host and hand-code your website, that’s...
black holes The moon Seeing planets through a telescope Space in general (except like… life on other planets. That kind of freaks me out cuz we (humans) don’t know how to act and just let things exist) Severe weather, specifically...