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Since early 2025 I've been reducing my reliance on "Big Tech". Unsurprisingly Microsoft is one of those firms I've been working on moving away from. Like with Google it is very difficult to truly leave, but it is very possible to greatly...
Last week, I planted marigolds and yesterday, the first sprouts emerged. Today, I counted two more. New life is beautiful. in: notes tagged: home nature phenology plants
Words: Chris Arnsby Nicky Campbell: “Oh, very good to see you. Thanks for joining us. Listen, tonight’s show is wonderful. Rock and roll up for the greatest pop show on Earth, Top of the Pops and prepare to marvel at the line up tonight....
Bughunters can be mined for ideas, but – like most of TSR’s output in the ‘90s – is padded with too much fluff and empty space to present a truly high quality package. Originally Published March 16th, 2002 WHY BUGHUNTERS? Bughunters was...
Inverted Columns Inverted Columns Capitol Columns Columns that were once part of the United States Capitol building form a monument in the National Arboretum. Capitol Columns Fountain and Pool Fountain and Pool Chinese Juniper A 2015...
I have a theory. In 2018, or thereabout, Mark Zuckerberg watched “Ready Player One” — or maybe he actually read the book — and decided to pivot Facebook into the Metaverse12. That went tits up, but everyone kind of forgot once AI made...
About a month ago, we could no longer ignore the occasional drip, drip, drip that sounded like it was coming from beyond the bathroom wall. Up until then, we “fixed” the problem with the occasional shrug. At one point I almost made the...
I was quite taken with the Bass-O-Matic album, cringe though the band name isIn the review, I make that cardinal rockcrit error of looking for the dance artist who can sustain at album level. Writing still from outside the culture at...
I recently watched mythologist and storyteller Martin Shaw speak with Matt Fradd about myths, fairy tales, and faith. I loved the conversation, and hope to read Martin's latest book, Liturgies of the Wild.Myth is a wild way of telling...
Ever since I was a little kid, I hated the idea of being tough. I didn’t like the idea of being told to “toughen up”, “be brave”, “suck it up”, or “be a man.” Since I wouldn’t learn phrases like “toxic masculinity” for many years, I...
Time to hitch a ride with the Cosmic Hobo and take in some more Second Doctor audio releases. Last time we got four Companion Chronicles, one set in Season 4, two in Season 5, one in Season 6; this time, we’ve got three Season 6-era...
IG users antiart et al. (2026) inadvertently created a great example of a non-significant correlation and/or regression for you to use this fall when they created a scatter plot that illustrates a celebrity's nepo baby (or old money)...
... to the sole benefit of US Big Oil? I think so. This seems ... obvious.We have radicalized countless people in the Gaza and Iran. How could we not have? With the rise of drone-based munitions, it won't take much to harass most...
Finished reading: The Assassins of Thasalon: A Penric & Desdemona Novella in the World of the Five Gods by Lois McMaster Bujold 📚 I enjoyed this book in that it had various twists and turns and yet still felt cut and dry.