Each Saturday, I have my swimming class. I cycle there, swim, and then cycle back. This has been my routine for a few months. I choose to spend my Saturdays like this, and I must say it has been…

I mean, technically she committed a few weeks back. Beatrix is going to Sarah Lawrence in the fall, and I could not be happier for her. Its style, of creating your own path and then investigating…

For those who want a TL;DR: took in an extremely sweet stray cat who turned out to be very sick, and then my husband was hospitalized a few days later (unrelated to the cat). These things will likely…

In so many aspects of life, consistency is a key factor to success. We must consistently brush our teeth to keep proper dental hygiene. We must consistently do the dishes to keep the kitchen clean…

Greetings, Friends. Here are this week’s Studio Notes™—quick bits delivered to you each Friday. 🏊‍♂️ Lithuanian artist, Ray Bartkus’, Floating…

The Iran War continues to drag on. I neglected to mention last week that Tim Cook announced he will step down as Apple’s CEO at the end of August. He will remain at Apple but instead take the…

At takeoff, I'm reading frank: sonnets by diane seuss, which, at halfway, I already know has become a mainstay of my personal canon. The man next to me peers over and asks, is that a book of poems?…

walking new paths

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Nature in Schools: Bite-sized Nature Connection = Big Impact Click here to watch the full interview Thanks to everyone for attending our first LinkedIn Live about the importance of nature…

All of the days in April are in April this year.

Hey! Good news! Showed up in my email box yesterday morning. The above's the email in it's entirety, when I click the PRE-SAVE UPCOMING MUSIC NOW it links to spotify and youtube and other shitty…

April wasn’t really a month of change, but it was one in which I put something in motion. In the meantime, I read Anathem and two other books, watched a 1945 movie, explored nerdcore hip-hop, and…

I was on and off on different streaming subscriptions like Spotify or Apple Music for a long while. I would eventually cancel my subscriptions for 2 main reasons, price and the algorithm. In Germany,…

2026-05-01 Hello! It's May now! Last night, I performed at a school concert with a jazz band, where everyone gets to watch me struggle with my cheap old electric guitar. Seriously — the…

As far as the goals for the month, this one was a bust. Didn’t get the tower painted, didn’t get in a game of Hope Eternal, didn’t get a lot of session reports written, and I’m now 4 months behind….…

The Balanced Engineer Newsletter May 2026 • Issue # 45 ATTENTION: We are 1/3 of the way through the year. 33% already! Where did the time go? These past two months have been a blur (oops I…

MELBOURNE | Coupette is the latest venue by Mulberry Group. Unlike prior venues, however, Coupette doubles up as the restaurant of new hotel, Hannah St Hotel. In fact, Mulberry Group runs all of…

We adopted 11 endangered animals, and each table group will care for one endangered animal each! The children have been busy learning about the origins of their adopted animals and have transformed…

23, Jimmy Eat World I’ve been greeted with a reminder of just how much can change within a few hours. Banging doors, shouts of fury at 5 in the morning. Cries of apologies after. My heart is in two…

uzun bir 1 mayıs gününün ardından eve döndüm. “ege saat daha üç, ne uzunu?” diyeceksiniz belki ama sabah 6’dan beri mecidiyeköy’deyim. açıkçası, bu 1 mayıs mecidiyeköy için…

Brian hovered near the surface of his bowl, watching the world above the water ripple with distorted shapes and colours. For weeks, he had been still — too still — drifting listlessly as a faint pink…

A double weeknote that resembled Swiss cheese! Between travel and public holidays there was a lot of stop and start.

Experimenting

Article I was reading this article and thought it was really good the idea it explains is so relevant to a lot of things I am trying to do in my life The Question is if you were a beginner at a sport…

On this International Workers' Day, I would like to draw your attention to an important issue that is rarely discussed. Since the start of the pandemic, working from home has become popular, but…

You know her. You might be her. She's the one who picks up the slack before anyone notices there was slack. She doesn't flag it. She doesn't CC leadership. She just handles it. And because she…

The ball has now certainly started rolling for 2026!

Current goings-on I put up a new post containing a list of work I have published in April. My 2025 publication The Reducing Flame is a nominee for the 2026 Elgin Awards in the chapbook category. The…

I joined Hiroshi's podcast episode a few weeks ago. We shared our experience and knowledge on indie dev. I'd like to cross-post our talk in English here. I also tried to create an English…

Here is an overview of content I published in April: Blog posts: Update: cut-bytes.py Version 0.0.18 SANS ISC Diary entries: A .WAV With A Payload

So I am thinking of this being a bi-weekly or maybe monthly blog of things I achieved, working on, watched and other interesting stuff I came across the last few weeks. News: Vercel got hacked!…

This thread has been created for thoughtful, rational discussion on subjects for which there are not currently any dedicated threads. Please note that our Comment Policy applies as usual. There is a…

Between not getting enough sleep and having a ton of personal and work stuff to do, I’ve not really been active this month. My limited energy has been directed towards spending time with my…

On Thursday I was riding my way to work, through the cherry blossoms, bathed in the gorgeous overly blue, crystalline spring-time sunlight. It's stunning out there. I get to just before my office and…

In an efficient curriculum, learning feels obvious -- not surprising. The "aha" is what relief from unnecessary confusion feels like.

A farewell to my dog

Vivian Hir, Class of 2025 presented a history of New House A few months ago we attended an interesting reunion at MIT. It wasn't a class reunion, or a family reunion, but it was a 50th anniversary of…

Building is the fun part. At some point, though, you need to put the thing into the world. You need landing pages, video assets, copy that makes sense, and SEO that is not an afterthought. This is…

Unwitting Accomplice

Arrived 10 minutes early and felt kind of weird. I find that sometimes I think about things I could tell other people about my life that would be real and vulnerable -- like how stressful my life has…

I graduated high school in 1998 and enrolled in my first college class that fall. I quit before finishing the semester and joined the Marines. I tried again a few years later. It didn’t take. In the…

Mostly book and game reviews. Read here.

4/19/2026 - 4/25/2026 High While running errands my husband wanted to check out Foot Locker just to browse inventory. To my surprise I saw Chicago Lows on sale, and of course they had them in my…

Guess who's back in your inbox 😁 (#569)

I listened to a Jay Shetty's Podcast episode on principles to get people to actually listen to you rather than tune you out. Keep your emotions in check [get calm before you speak, not during] Clari

this giant moth appeared at our door a few days after you’d passed, @peenutkewlee. @launshae said it could be you, i said it was just a co-incidence. but moths didn’t appear again since, especially…

Lots of photos from a surprisingly lovely spring in the inane apocalypse: a liquor store, a favorite liqueur, four-point field goals, Windows XP, a bird, a Star Trek reference, and more.

Happy May Day. It's also another Bandcamp Friday, so yeah, I'm plugging "Dangerous Babies" again. I know I'm biased, but it just seems to fit the times so well. I'll Live by Andersen Silva I'm…