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Take pictures of the crew returning, not putting out to sea. A U-Boat takes to the seas in search of British vessels to sink. Things take a turn for the…

Another post about processing crooks. For the others, check the category menu (to the right) under “finding wood.” This time I want to show a couple decisions I made when…

At one time I got interested in the “eye contact”, or lack of it, on video calls. I was going to present at an online conference, and I wanted people…

I continue to find help and solace in several books, and ongoingly the book Exhausted by Anna Katharina Schaffner which I have written about here. She quotes Josh Cohen on…

A few months ago, my uncle visited us from the province and he brought us this boardgame that he says has been in his house for the longest time. It…

So, here’s a test run. I’ve connected my external keyboard and trackpad to my 2018 iPad Pro to see if I can tolerate using it this way. The reason for…

Is it weird that it's almost too hot out already? Yuk. I'm def a colder-temperature kind of gal. Middle-of-the-day hot temps are too much...early mornings or late evenings and nothing…

Back in February I reviewed one of the best books I have read about pubs, for a long, long time. This followed The Local – A History of the English…

The United States joined the United Kingdom and Australia today in sanctioning 31-year-old Russian national Dmitry Yuryevich Khoroshev as the alleged leader of the infamous ransomware group LockBit. The U.S.…

What I most non-humbly call The Lord Matt Technique is a programming pattern for putting something between list items but not after and not before. Let us suppose that you…

Reading took a hit in early March with little inspiration but I was able to pull out some interesting reading mid-month that carried over into most of April. I’m currently…

Context I have an external drive. It’s a 4 terabyte drive, and I’m about to use it for backups. I also have an external SSD. It’s also a 4 terabyte…

After battling a failed respiratory system for four months in the hospital, my 23-year-old son, Justin, died last night.  Last week, he was driving the hospital bean-counters and back-office people…

In 2011, Los Angeles Times architecture critic Christopher Hawthorne launched into a yearlong book-blogging project called “Reading L.A.” The earliest of its 27 titles about the city was Louis Adamic’s…

Shannen Rossmiller wanted to fight terrorism. So she went online and did. Read more about her from her book “The Unexpected Patriot: How an Ordinary American Mother Is Bringing Terrorists…

This is a note to self about planning my day: Lunch & Shutdown: Schedule the Lunch break and the Shutdown blocks. Email time: Add blocks to handle emails. Meeting Buffers:…

If you’re doing a lot of typing on index cards for your zettelkasten, recipes, or other uses, this may be a useful typewriter hack:

Americans have a notable talent for naming phenomena, a fact exemplified by the term “reply guys” – individuals who post disparaging comments on public posts made by women.

Adam Silver wrote “Don’t use the maxlength attribute to stop users from exceeding the limit” which seems like one of those obvious things that needn’t be said, but I’m glad…