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The strap is gone no it is under my arm it is the feathers that are gone and if I can get my hand behind me he will be angry that I took my hand off the other wing he was angry when I did it standing on the shore and I said I had to scratch and he said th…

A wizard came to town on a Tuesday and set up a stool in the square beside a woman selling roasted chestnuts.

Ninety-Five Theses on Dispensation Set forth by a vending machine for the clarification of offerings, selections, failures, replenishment, and grace.

By the time Earl Sutter came to Mercy Junction the Ford had boiled dry twice, the rye was down below its label, and the envelope on the passenger seat had worked one corner under the floor mat as if trying to escape.

I’ve been reading a lot of Playboy recently.

On the morning of Monday, June 22nd, 2026, a twenty-five-year-old philosophy student from Lethbridge, Alberta, checked into the Hilton Garden Inn in the Côte-des-Neiges neighbourhood of Montreal, put a rifle through an upper-floor window, and opened fire…

Pagliaccio the clown walks into a patisserie.

The peas were not, as a matter of historical correction, his first love.

The scale of the cheating crisis in higher education is staggering.

In March 1860, William H.

Imagine my shock and surprise to discover that when I submit resumes now, I quickly see LLM research agents in my access logs pouring over my portfolio page.

Bob and Alice are two hackers working on an embedded system with a severe computational constraint - there is a bug in their low-cost microcontroller making OR operations significantly slower than any other operation on the chipset.

The year was 2036.

In the 1980’s, Robert L.

I read 100 books this year as a challenge to myself.

“In this season of giving, what are we to make of a billionaire with a soft spot for striving graduates who draws a hard line on being present for the pomp and circumstance, no matter the circumstances?”

So I’m reading the teachers subreddit for my daily dose of misery and sense of doom about the future when I come across an unusually worded comment.

We’re living in the cyber dark ages.

I categorically refuse to believe anybody actually enjoys ricotta cheese.

Nostalgia for the past has supplanted our yearnings for the future, becoming the default marketing tool for corporations.

There is Teflon in your bloodstream.1 Dupont knew about the toxicity of their chemicals since as far back as 1976, and to this day fight responsibility for their part in creating a ubiqitous chemical that does not naturally deteriorate. 2 The chemicals us…

Marman & Borins “Three Dimensions” was a tri-installation pop-minimalist art exhibition open at Contemporary Calgary until March 17th, 2024, composed of three mini installations: Balancing Act, THX2020, and ABCD.

It is easy to forget how recent the phenomenon of the modern grocery store actually is - it only dates back to 1916, when the first Piggly Wiggly was opened in Memphis, Tennessee.

Warning: This Diatribe was written in anger, but contains grains of truth Around a year ago, I decided to shutdown my self-hosted email service after running it for about ten years.

I maintain a living document called my things list, where I track all the different tools and such that I use in my daily life.

Wow.

In August of this year, I deleted Twitter off of my phone, after what I found to be the final straw after months of garbage policy changes enforced by the rich egg who now owns the site.

I’d like to take you on a journey through the world of scams, laundry, and search engines.

In the early days of Google and Yahoo the best hack for getting your website to the top of rankings was Keyword Stuffing.

I’ve been drawn to the idea of having many tiny sensors around my home intermittently collecting data points about all sorts of things - the Lumen measurement of our bedroom at night, the noise of the street below us, the AQI of our kitchen.

As with most anything I’ve tried to start as a habit, these update posts have become far less then routine.

Have you ever really sat down and thought about Batman?

Warning: This Article Is Poorly Written With the ongoing collapse of Twitter, there has been a lot of talk about the Fediverse, and primarily Mastodon, which in spite of it probably not wanting to be, is the flagship in the ActivityPub fleet.

As some of you are probably aware, I have the habit of going on two cyclical “kicks”, every year.

Trying something new here today.

I have noticed a pattern in my dreams.

I was recently investigating gumroad and was quite pleased with their new design system.

I’ve been investigating more deeply about Indieweb, namely their idea of a permashortlink - put succinctly, it is inevitable that shortlinking providers will either Fold, or Deprecate underused links.

I stumbled across Indie Web today, and I think it’s a neat idea.

I stopped updating this blog after two posts for a couple reasons: I enjoyed setting up the website more then I did writing for it - I created the perfect blog in terms of reading it (personally, you may debate this), but paid no attention to how I was go…

I would like to have speakers in my bedroom.

A big feature I wanted on this blog was the ability for people to see what music I was listening to right now; and you can see the finished results on the header of this page.

The concept of Filesharing (and digital piracy) has been around since before even the basic days of the internet - where floppy disks, and, even earlier, rolls of punch-paper, were shared at swap meets.