Personal blogs

On stage at Radio City Music Hall, I hid The Power Broker. All 1,200+ pages of it. I clutched the paperback close, under my academic regalia. On stage, helping deliver diplomas to eager graduating students …

[WriteAPrisoner.com, 2021] Alien observer, tasked with providing the Galactic Cooperative with a few good reasons to leave your Earth alone. So far, it’s not looking good. Were it not for “Fear and Loathing in Las …

Bunny and I went to a local Toyota dealership to fix an issue with her car (it turns out it was a very unusual, but very minor, issue) and while there, we saw this on …

DS099: Not very happy with this, 098 was a dud. Just couldn’t get the thing I had in my head out onto the screen and was singking more and more time into playing with lighting …

The Apple Vision Pro represents the end of something. Or possibly the beginning. It’s an apex product from an apex economy. What we know about capitalism – liberal democracy, Western economic dominance – suggests some …

My Personal Knowledge Management (PKM) system has hit a new wall since I started taking notes on my work laptop in a new Obsidian Vault. How do you sync notes across devices? The Obsidian Help …

WIP: Remains a work-in-progress for the year 2024. K My daughters are fascinated by strange things. Of course, the younger one is influenced by what her sister does. Five years ago, the elder one asked …

Is André 3000 in his jazz era? | NPR When sessions for New Blue Sun began, he was still figuring out how to operate the digital woodwinds that feature heavily on the album. As it …

One of the pairs of Fran pyjamas I made Something odd has been happening to me lately. Every morning, when I take off my pyjamas and get dressed, I take the time to fold them …

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 accidentally discovered an incredible lost …

In Taiwan, sometimes the government mandates certain Saturdays or Sundays as “make up workdays.” If you get off Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday for Lunar New Year, for example, you may have to come in next …

At the beginning of the week, we took an early flight back from Arica to Santiago to spend the remainder of our time in Chile there. Making the most of cheaper, more accessible healthcare than …

The navigation for the third edition of The HTML Review is something else (on a big screen; it’s OK on a mobile, but nowhere near as cool).Reply via email or Mastodon.

As many of you know, my big project during the winter and spring a year ago was a group of twenty charcoal landscape drawings. They eventually formed the core of my book Snowy Fields, along …

From the end of 2016 through the first half of 2020, I lived in Seattle. I really liked living there when I did. It was a quirky city (I had moved there after burning out …

When I was given the chance to host the live on stage conversation with Werner Herzog for City Arts and Lectures in San Francisco I was barely able to believe it. What a gift! What …

Probably the single greatest balm to the weird internal weariness I've been feeling for the first half of this year is the song "Bibō no aozora"by Ryuichi Sakamoto, performed by him and Taeko Ōnuki on …

Via Scott Thomas (@ScottGL1 on twitter) comes a very interesting note on a US weather service forecast from yesterday: I live on a small island located in a steep-walled inlet that opens onto an inland …