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(Ed. Note: I’ve been writing about beer for 15 years now, and I feel as though it’s time to see if we can’t condense this knowledge down into useful information that might help explain how we got to this point. We’ve been through a boom, we’re going through some pretty serious consolidation. Did we learn anything, and if so, what? To this end, I’ve come up with a short list …

Last week, the New York Times carried an obituary of David Lodge, who died on New Years at the age of 89. Going through Wikipedia's list of his works, I find that I have read four of his novels, including his most recent, Deaf Sentence, which appeared in 2006. Alvin Kernan's memoir In Plato's Cave states that Stanley Fish cheerfully acknowledged that Lodge had modeled the character Morris Zapp (Changing …

Dr. Drang and Allison Sheridan have some great tips for adding Retrobatch droplets to the Finder toolbar: Allison Sheridan: My main use of Retrobatch is to make featured images for blog posts that match what most if not all of the social media services will recognize. That droplet thing is money. I keep mine in the toolbar of Finder though since I always have a Finder window open when I’ve …

There are days when you think: why, exactly, am I here? If that question is on your mind at half time at a football match then you know it’s probably not going exactly the way you want it to go. One of those I shook hands with prior to the game was on his way […]

But Mousie, thou art no thy-lane, In proving foresight may be vain: The best laid schemes o’ Mice an’ Men Gang aft agley, An’ lea’e us nought but grief an’ pain, For promis’d joy! Last year, I wrote an article about clothes I wanted to get in 2024. I broke down goals in tailoring, shirts, pants, knits, outerwear, footwear, and accessories. Now, I'm going to break down clothes I've purchased …

Purple and green Aurora borealis (the Northern Lights) during a large geomagnetic storm in May 2024. Aurora borealis rays in purple and green (Purchase) Often around Vancouver, even media hyped potential for aurora borealis aka the northern lights tends to fizzle out or is so weak that it shows only as a faint green smudge ... Read more The post Aurora borealis (Northern Lights) in Metro Vancouver appeared first on …

There is one cookie that reminds me of Dallas in the 1970s—a chewy oatmeal cookie laced with caramelized butterscotch chips. When I was young, a plate of these was seen... Source

Alright, simmer down, I know I’m not really a “CEO” because I don’t have a board of directors or a c-suite or anything like that, but “day in the life of an autistic freelance web developer turned LTD company managing director” as a title was just ridiculous. Work with me here guys. I’m writing this post because a) in my opinion, there’s not enough public representation of autistic folk just… …

Booking a tattoo appointment is so exciting as long as you don’t look at your bank statement first

A look back at the 2024 highlights for the 11ty org and the Eleventy project!

Text of the day: “To be a scholar is to strike your finger on the page and say, ‘Thou ailest here, and here.’” (AEH in Tom Stoppard’s The Invention of Love) The post The Invention of Love appeared first on Aleks Sierz.

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New Year, New Projects!I am taking this spring term off from teaching, partly to re-energize my batteries which have been rather low on account that I've been going full speed (🚌) since 2018; the pandemic didn't help because teaching increased around that time (not that I am complaining, the cosmos provided something I needed at the time). Another reason for the break is partly to work on a new course …

While waiting for a hot chocolate the sun was out blasting us with warmth on a chilly day. Nice break from the snow flurries. Note tags: halifax, BlackAndWhite, iphone, waiting, winter