Jerry Towler

On one hand, the iPhone 18 Pro seems like a great upgrade, and it’s not too expensive if you trade in your iPhone 17 Pro.

Just finished Ezekiel 28, which officially brings me under 100 chapters left to write about for Chapter by Chapter.

I have reached Ezekiel 25 in my Chapter by Chapter notes, and now all I want to do is watch Pulp Fiction.

We should celebrate this kind of obsessiveness more often and more loudly.

Today’s newsletter from Matt Ragland is… weird.

Every Monday, Matt Gemmell posts a new short story.

I just realized I’ve finished notes on more than 90% of the Bible for Chapter By Chapter.

New word for me from today’s Apple crossword: “pluot.”

Cal Newport says that there’s no concern that Tesla’s FSD will “go rogue” in the sense of disobeying traffic laws.

The bad news is my flight home got diverted.

Today, I realized I listen to two (totally unrelated) podcasts whose acronym uses the letters TPK: Total Party Kill by The Incomparable The Knowledge Project by Shane Parrish Now I just need podcasts abbreviated KPT, KTP, PTK, and PKT.

When I encountered Mrs.

Some of my oldest habits as a human creator have become markers of AI slop.

Visiting DC this week, and I continue to laugh at Americans who stand directly in front of subway doors to board and then get shocked when they have to move to let people off the train first.

The Guardian managed to write almost three thousand words about the history of the modern industrialized two-day weekend—published on a Sunday—without using the word “Sabbath” once.

Despite the repeated warnings about the invader/conqueror from the north, the book of Jeremiah doesn’t actually mention Babylon by name until chapter 20.

On The Talk Show 452, “A Scam Held Together with Patriotism and Golden Paint”, John Gruber said: One of the things that, to me, just defines a Mac app is being able to open whatever the element of the app is, you should be able to open that into a window…

“No, Saturday is the day of pre-rest.

Yesterday’s thunderstorm cooled off the valley enough for me to get outside for the first time in a few weeks.

Yesterday, during a thunderstorm, the Costco we were in lost power.

Working my way through my Chapter by Chapter notes on Jeremiah tonight, I kept thinking, These chapters are really long!

The ESV study Bible’s notes on Jeremiah begin, Determining the authorship of the book of Jeremiah is complicated by several factors… I understand and appreciate the challenges; I just love the juxtaposition of the name of the book, which comes from the au…

We have started our Fall marathon-of-marathons a little… early… this year.

I finished taking notes on Isaiah today in my quest to complete the Canon by September 25.

Finished reading: The Butcher’s Masquerade by Matt Dinniman Wow, this book was very nearly serious fantasy!