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I've been working on Carl, my IMAP e-mail client, for the past few months. Your browser doesn't seem to support HTML video. You can download the video in H.264/AAC format…

The Grovemade Laptop Riser works great with the Grovemade Desk Shelf. It may also be the prettiest laptop stand on the market right now.It seems the best desk accessories on…

Ain Eddban, the misterious salt lakes in the Sahara. Mujzem Lake, locally known as the “Eye of the Fly”, is located anout 50 km from Ghadames in northwestern Libya. The…

Ye gods, you say, you’re alive! I know, it’s been a while. Over a year, to be exact. My last post was at the end of November 2022, and let’s…

A Very Large ArrayThe road to the Very Large Array goes past the Ponderosa restaurant in Magdalena (population 808) then out into the flat grasslands of New Mexico. Suddenly you…

My goal was to preserve some never-before-heard recordings of an incredible Dixieland jazz band made up of mostly Disney employees, the Firehouse Five Plus Two. But along the way, I…

As I have translated Friedrich Bauer’s accounts of the histories of Berlin-based typefoundries, I have been adding too much commentary. That is quite visible in my previous two entries. At…

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But you aren't composing a novel or reading a script. (Not during an RPG session, anyway.)This is a long blog post about pervasive mistakes and miscommunication in the debate about…

<p>Sometimes I build a custom element, and then I have second thoughts about it.</p>

Off-continent after 446 days!

Out of nowhere, a couple of weeks ago, without ever installing any firmware update (at least intentionally), my Fitbit Charge 5 started: As a reminder, I bought this thing for…

Being warm year-round, Costa Rica has an abundant assortment of animals, birds, insects, reptiles, and all sorts of wildlife. I was expecting to see sign of more mammals, but monkeys…

I thought I had spurned productivity culture. I thought I had embraced simplicity and small-life living. I thought I had divorced worthiness from accomplishment. I was wrong. When, 19 days…

Happy New Year! We started the year with an extreme cold front sweeping down from the Arctic. Temperatures were between -30°C and -39°C for the first week of 2024, but…

  Cycle Touring in Laos Laos is one of the more adventurous cycling destinations in Southeast Asia – the terrain is exceptionally mountainous and the distances between food and amenities…

In the early days of the typewriter, machines were mostly sold through agents. Only gradually were machines available in department stores. So, typewriter agents could be particularly aggressive, reaching out…

We find ourselves in a peculiar place. We are more interconnected, yet more misinformed. At ease with more advanced technologies, but more easily mislead by them. “Doing our own research”,…

&nbsp;Well, that was fast. The 2023 edition of the Twelve Days of Wu-Mas has come to a close, and I hope you both enjoyed the gifts and goodies I left…