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Image source: MUBI In anecdotes repeated by Jack Nicholson and Katharina Kubrick, director Stanley Kubrick believed ghost stories were fundamentally optimistic since they suggested continued existence after death. This is an interesting sentiment, though one …

Summer is here. Time to cool off. Cocktail coolers have long been a fixture in the mixological world. This particular refresher comes from the classic Savoy Cocktail Book of 1930. Like their cousins, Tom Collins …

What takes place once a year and involves me drinking large quantities of beer? Well, OK, it could be practically anything, admittedly, but, more specifically, it's the BV London Pub of the Year award. Yes, …

ONE OF MY FAVORITE WAYS of being with my clients is when the dialogue suddenly time travels into the future. You can almost feel it when it’s about to happen. A tale of a frustrated …

Disclaimer: This post expresses my opinions, which do not necessarily reflect consensus by the whole Web Components community. A blog post by Ryan Carniato titled “Web Components Are Not the Future” has recently stirred a …

My 2018 12.9 iPad Pro has been one of my greatest tech purchases. I’ve used it nearly every day for the last 5.5 years, and it’s still in great shape. Why upgrade now? While I’m …

A few years ago, I thought it would be funny to have sudo cd work to cd into nonexistent directories, and so I manifested: # in .zshrc function sudo() { if [[ "$1" == "cd" …

A couple of months ago, I reviewed Jason Roberts’s new book Every Living Thing: The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life. It’s the story of two eighteen-century naturalists, Carl Linnaeus and Georges-Louis Leclerc, …

I've been looking at my various "train related" slides, and decided to scan some, including today's mystery train from May, 1966. This miniature train looks typical of the kind of thing you could find at …

It’s now about two years since I got my new laptop and replaced my Surface Go and my desktop computer with it to be more flexible when commuting. Here’s a small recap on why I’m …

Riding through Columbia Villa in St. Johns in 2014. (Photo: Jonathan Maus/BikePortland) Metro has won a $1.1 million federal grant that will boost walking school bus and bike bus programs in north Portland. The news …

Good news from Amazon and GameSpot: If you grew up stealing the comics section of the newspaper from your parents to read the hilarious and insightful adventures of Calvin and his stuffed Tiger, you’ll want …

Please join me, along with friend and fellow author Colleen Miniuk, on the evening of December 12 (at 7PM EST / 6PM CST / 5PM MST / 4PM PST) to celebrate the release of my …

The Imperial Bank Building in Sherman Oaks, CA, where we made Tiny Toons, Animaniacs, Pinky and the Brain, Freakazoid, Batman: The Animated Series, Road Rovers and Histeria. These paintings of our home base were made …