I decided to re-read Fahrenheit 451 with my eldest this last week. I don’t think that I have read this classic Bradbury text since high school. What I had…
26 Sep, 2023 I was at the hair salon this past week. This is very few and far between for me, because I kind of...avoid going to the hair salon. As ridiculous as it sounds, you could say that I fear t
I was listening to Celeste Headlee interview Anil Dash on the latest episode of the Slate podcast What Next: TBD , and Dash said something about the kind of web communities we should build, and encour
I learned to read and write on computers. Our first home computer, the Sinclair ZX81 , had BASIC shortcuts built into the keyboards: you could hit a key combination and words like RUN, THEN, and ELSE
24 Sep, 2023 Earlier this year, I started working out. I lost around 20 lbs and have been in arguably the best shape of my adult life. My workouts have been consistent and the changes my body has unde
Liked Meh by Robin Rendle ( robinrendle.com ) What I struggle with most is sharing stuff in a room full of people who don’t care, who aren’t moved, who are…
21 Sep, 2023 Over the past eleven months, I've moved my blog multiple times. I tried out different hosts and in the midst of all the energy I spent trying to find the best, I found myself unhappy. I w
Most Recent 2023/09/25#p1 This is what it's all about: All of these things are interconnected, even if barely any part of it is in direct response to any other…
It’s about time I turned this blog back to another aspect of parenting that I’ve thought a lot about. Yeah, yeah, I’ve been reading mommy blogs again. I’m not sure why, my kids are grown, so any advic
Earlier this year, we went to Legoland California for a family trip. We were lucky enough to get a VIP tour of the build room, the place where designers and architects build the displays. Inside, the
It’s no surprise to anyone that I prefer reading peoples’ long-form thoughts to tweets or pithy social media posts. Microblogging is interesting for quick, in-the-now status updates, but I find myself
Please note, this blog post talks about concerns that are mostly known about in big companies (mainly Big Tech), rather than in smaller realities or in FLOSS. While some of the issues I’m going to be
I don’t think I need to repeat my point of view on the Google Reader shutdown , as I already stated that I don’t think that Google shutting down that product had the domino effect a few people insist
This is taken from my journal. Local time is about half past 3 in the morning. It is dark outsideand will remain this way for another three hours or so. There is nopower supply now. The solar panels w
This appears to be a regular late-summer column on my blog, as two years ago I had to break my regular pattern due to a WordPress bug which even as a paying customer was not going to be fixed any time
Most Recent 2023/09/24#p1 My wife was starting to feel much better but we got a call yesterday morning saying she needed to go back to hospital as the…
It was barely a year ago, I got myself an iPhone 13 mini. It was in an effort to be a little more minimalist. I felt having a smaller iPhone meant it would be out of the way a little more. I figured I
24 Sep, 2023 We're coming up to a year since I started writing this blog and very occasionally I've had the treat of having a post talked about elsewhere. AJ Bourg wrote about my post Getting Around T
I know I’ve spent the summer annoyed about the state of social media . But I’ve spent most of it largely off it. Mainly due to it being blocked . I’m not…
It probably sounds obscure to write specifically about dining in open air in seoul, but when I conducted my own research prior to the trip it was challenging for me to find out what are the options av
Well, Ahsoka has managed to prove a little divisive. I’d describe myself as “Camp Happy to See a New Episode Has Landed,” and Al is now thoroughly in “Camp…
Writers and talkers and leaders, oh my! 15 Sep 2023 by Mandy Brown I ONCE OBSERVED a small group of leaders gather a bunch of their team together to hash out…
A blog is a much nicer place to publish than social media, sparking fewer but more meaningful interactions. Blogging allows writers a more forgiving pace with slower conversation. On their blog, peopl
Most Recent 2023/09/23#p1 I couldn't sleep so, in the way my brain does, started thinking about how I could tie the homepage map in with the rest of the site.…
[chuck.is] Work Photos Writing Now Contact The Defeatist Attitude Against Space Exploration Published: 2023-09-23 There are people in this world that argue…
Every day that I don't write makes writing again more difficult. I don't because I convince myself what I write next needs to be significant. I don't have anything meaningful to talk about . Why does
I’ve been neck-deep in a long-form first draft for months; at this point I’m many tens of thousands of words in. Every time I look back at my writing from tens of thousands of words ago, it’s a horrib
Twenty years ago today, I wrote my first blog post! (I stopped blogging from about 2009-2011, so I haven’t technically been blogging for twenty years yet —…
23 Sep, 2023 When I was younger, I thought it seemed incredibly magical to lay back and watch the clouds go by. This followed me into my teens, though for much more "intending to craft a whimsical sel
What is a website? For the past handful of years, I’ve been teaching courses about interactive design and the internet. I teach within art departments at universities, so we learn about the internet’s
My daughter's friend broke my favorite pocket pen . We were in a diner. The two of them wanted to draw together on the table settings. They needed an extra pen. Yes, I shouldn't have done it. Even in
18 Sep, 2023 I'm coming back from a slow burning breakdown. Trying to re-engage with the things I cut out in firefighting mode, focusing on keeping myself from heading into the Danger Zone by reducing
I’ve been showing my work to design teams at companies lately and these conversations can be brutal. Not the acting or the showmanship or the awkward silences. Not even my terrible, unforgivably bad j
View All Thoughts 2023 August Housekeeping 25th People and Blogs 17th A moment on the 2nd biggest lake 15th Self-promotion 5th Who is to blame? 2nd Unscalable…
Tech The Quiet Web 12 February 2021 About twenty years ago I stopped subscribing to cable television. It wasn’t an act of intention, but rather economics. I…
Somebody’s taken Childish Gambino’s music video This is America (original, YouTube) and used some AI face-swapper software called FaceFusion to sub in Nicolas Cage. Here’s the result on X/Twitter. You
I thought I had caught a second wind at 6PM last night, and rather than watch political nonsense on MSNBC (every day the same freaking boring story about the ancient fascist with orange hair) I went u
View All Thoughts 2023 August Housekeeping 25th People and Blogs 17th A moment on the 2nd biggest lake 15th Self-promotion 5th Who is to blame? 2nd Unscalable…
The winter gloom has receded from Vegas, leaving behind electric blue skies punctuated by a few Super Mario clouds. Iâve been working on touching my toes because I worry Iâm getting creaky. Last w
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