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My wife Maggie and I went last week to my friend Colette Paul’s launch for her new book, A Complete Success. (Check it out: Colette has a wonderful narrative voice, conversational in tone,…

The Issue: A hat is usually sufficient to block the glare of the direct light of the sun, but sometimes this just isn’t enough. For example, if you’re at the beach, on a lake, or in a burning-hot…

I played a lot of Mahjong this week - and not really on purpose... it just kinda happened lol. The week was actually weirdly productive and I locked the fuck in at work. I also picked up some AirPods…

On October 19, 1876, wedding bells rang in Wabash county, Indiana, for William Madison McClure (1849-1887) and his bride, Margaret Jane Larimer (1859-1913). They were my husband's great-grandparents.…

The less said about the week leading up to the weekend, the better. Things did massively improve once Saturday was around. A lot of good company, food and drink, what more does one need? (Maybe a…

Cold and rainy athens enlivened by a visit of Cinnamon from Syros, my first greek pub quiz, one meal out, and some frankly unbelievable football

17 years ago I led one of my first residential singing weekends. The theme was the Beach Boys. Beach Boys singing weekend, September 2009, Farncombe Estate The other weekend, I was in Derbyshire…

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Hosted by Miss Airedale, AKA Phil Fowler, who used to saw people in half for us when we did Dr Calamari's Music Hall of the Macabre

Moving into our new house.

A daily review with AI as a thinking partner reveals patterns you can&rsquo;t see in a single day. One observation on its own is worth little. Repeated over weeks, it becomes something you can make…

October 19, 2026 So, in essence, this is the same post as I did on Friday. No clashing accent colors, but still starting with a scarf and wearing lots of brown. Many of the same garments and…

OK, the challenge this morning was to get everyone settled down and ready for another week of what passes for normal human activity these days. Some of us had taken Sunday off with Pastor Frank, who…

Today's links The technopolitics of ad-tech: Spying is good for tech, context is good for publishers. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: PNH x Mike Ford; Singapore v Far East…

CJ is the younger of our two cats; he's ten and one year younger than McGee. He has a bit of an attitude sometimes because he figures he should be top cat. He's not, and both we and McGee have let…

Click above image for article The thirteen holes punched into the mailed postcard on October 6th 1970 were most probably signifying the running victim total claimed by the Zodiac Killer (of reported…

At the most recent hearing in the Clancy case, Lindsay Clancy&#8217;s lawyer Kevin Reddington said the following: When you consider the evidence that the government has, you have the exercise bands,…

Don‘t expect any fast email reply this week. Am in the mountains. ☺️ Reply via Email

My weekly blog post. Links this week include a gorgeous 300 year old watercolor color-swatch book that is viewable in full page, hi res scans, a story about stadium hot dog launchers and a look at…

This list will not revolutionize your life. But it just might have a little positive impact on your or someone you encounters&rsquo; day. It is just a short list of things that came to my mind and…

2016. Finish it today. Make no mistakes. That's reasonable. Make no mistakes. Make no mistakes. 2026. I've tried 26 different ways. It's just not working. Sigh. Alright. "Make no mistakes." That's…

💧 New purchase before winter: dehumidifier ♨️ After 8 years, another heat pump check 🗺️ A sneak peek at the next Bikerouter feature ✈️ The Internet Movie Plane Database 🔲 My personal…

It&#8217;s been three years and at least once a week, I find myself saying aloud, I love Boston. There is some event, some moment, someContinue reading

13th october to 18th october

October 18 2026 - 20:00 I need to watch You Can See Everything so fucking bad. I haven't anticipated for something like this since Deltarune probably…

Two weeks in the life of…. Thoughts, photos, links, and miscellany from the past fortnight.

Time to add a guitar tag. Here's a couple of practice videos https://youtu.be/JMMJ5gCy6r4 https://youtu.be/JMMJ5gCy6r4 This post (Guitar Practice - hammer) was last edited 2 days ago .

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So many things have changed since the last time I posted 17 days ago. Grandma has been in the same UTI Factory since getting released from the hospital. She is set to be released on Tuesday and will…

We live in what is being referred to as a “ post literate society ” in which 40% of Americans did not read a single book last year . This is mind blowing to me, but - I can also see that with…

Ridgeline subscribers — Oh, hello. I made a notebook: ⬤. You can buy it here. I didn&rsquo;t mean to make a notebook but, you see, I had no choice. A couple of years ago the Japanese edition of Kissa…

It’s nice that Satan’s Own Mower is working again. But no sooner had I done some serious mowing, and was waiting for HA to finish with the DeWalt string trimmer so I could clean up around the edges,…

Sorry, all: This blog post is long overdue. In fact any post at all is overdue at this point; suffice it to say it&rsquo;s been a while. The not-so-relevant-for-this-blog reason behind this is mainly…

Latest updates for Monday, October 19, 2026

Haven’t written one of these in a while! I dropped the habit of writing now pages, but I thought it could be nice to share what I’ve been up to, especially if it leads to some nice chats down the…

i’ve worked for about 3 years in my life almost no one asks how i did it and if i get asked, the answer is: you were lucky instead people judge me for how i live and complain that their life is so…

I attended another edition of Devoxx earlier this month. It&rsquo;s been the traditional highlight of my professional year ever since I first attended one in 2007, when it was still called Javapolis.…

The “personal touch” nature of my work means that I sometimes take it very seriously. This is problem more often than you’d think — creative work benefits from a certain lightness of attitude.…

Promised Walter Isaacson, my biographer, I'd stay in the background. Fourteen hours later I handed equity to every child in America.Background achieved, if the background is the entire country.One…

To go far, have fun

Hiiiiiiii wow it’s really fall huh……….. been waking up to 45 degree mornings when it feels like it was 75 just a couple weeks ago! Monday was Indigenous Peoples’ Day so I had the day off from work so…

My eldest son is 7 and is a lot of different things, but one thing he especially is, possibly above all else, is noisy.

This is a passing thought I had last week. I don’t have any answers yet, but I wanted to record the question.