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A fine post by Ethan Marcotte called The negotiation cycle led me to an incredible essay by Alan Jacobs called From Tech Critique to Ways of Living. It references an…

If you live in the Great Pacific Northwest, send me your blog. I need some folks to live vicariously through. 🌲

A very bizarre thing happened the other day, and, no, we’re not talking about someone donating a billion dollars to me, but that would be pretty sweet. The incident began…

Discussion panel about preserving the legacy of origami creators at CfC. Left to right: Bodo Haag, Mitya Miller, Michał Kosmulski, Tony O’Hare and Ilan Garibi. Photograph by Wojtek Burczyk. My…

Last Friday I made my second visit to the coast this month, to the appropriately named Bexhill-on-Sea. I’d spent a considerable amount of time the previous evening, mulling over where…

The second week of work being super busy 🥱 This coming week is the first week of our new on-call/host-of-the-week, so there's going to be a lot less context switching…

This week’s edition is the last one before going on a cruise ship next week. See you in two weeks!

LiveJournal turns 25! We’re inviting everyone to celebrate the jubilee together by participating in the #LJ25 hashmob! Authors of the best entries will get rewards from LiveJournal!

Today we are talking about Delft Old Church (let’s fucking gooooooooo) because I went and I want you to know all about it – in video form. We consider how…

Spring 1994: the Williams College Elizabethans outside of our tour bus. Looking back at college thirty years later, the two most formative experiences and communities for me were the Williams…

“I would like to thank the Idaho Potato Commission for assembling a categorized database of 1,700 potato recipes from around the world. I consult it frequently and it has become…

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In two days, I pack the truck and head north up Vancouver Island to meet my wolf guide, Tom, before spending two weeks camped on a remote island, waiting for coastal wolves…

If I get some time today, I could spread that ag lime on the two sheep paddocks. I’ve been meaning to buy some lime. I should do that. Which reminds…

I quickly created a JSON feed for this website. While setting up Echo Feed to mirror my blog posts on the fediverse, I’ve discovered how its capabilities to fetch from…

Have you ever looked at someone else’s problem and immediately thought you knew the answer? It’s like being an armchair detective during a movie, confident in predicting the next turn…

The world US colleges are experiencing a wave of pro-Palestinian protests demanding Universities cut their ties to Israel, etc. Some authorities have responded with militarized police forces breaking up protests…

We sometimes disappear into ourselves, abandoning the creative passions we used to love. And the question is, will we ever come out again? [...]

The recent incident that saw horses from the Household Cavalry running loose in the streets of central London is surely open to all sorts of interpretations: musing on the place…

I recently came across a few interesting and previously unseen rejected artwork examples from the original cabinet design of Puck Man. So this week, I figured I’d do a follow…