I was surprised by how divisive last Thursday’s post was. Some thought it was my best post, and others my worst. Let me convince you today that both assertions are true.
I understand why people are confused by the massive uncertainty in health-related decision making and enticed by evidence-based argumentation. When experts disagree, doesn’t that mean that someone is wrong? Shouldn’t there…
This is an essay I wrote for volume 245 of “Down in The Dirt”, a monthly magazine from ScarsTV publications. A link to the online upload of the essay is here: https://w.scars.tv/cgi-bin/works_e.pl?/home/users/web/b929/us.scars/perl/text-writings/g14827.txt The magazine is available for purchase through amazon (a link to the current issue is here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GWRCZXW9), and volume…
This is an essay I wrote for volume 245 of “Down in The Dirt”, a monthly magazine from ScarsTV publications. A link to the online upload of the essay is here: https://w.scars.tv/cgi-bin/works_e.pl?/home/users/web/b929/us.scars/perl/text-writings/g14827.txt The magazine is available for purchase through amazon (a link to the current issue is here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GWRCZXW9), and volume…
When I was little, I bought lots of things – tat, as dad described it. Inexpensive, transient goods that I would beg for, play with for a few weeks, and invariably discard. I was addicted to buying things; plastic, hard things I could hold in my hand and take home with me. To my younger […]
When I was little, I bought lots of things – tat, as dad described it. Inexpensive, transient goods that I would beg for, play with for a few weeks, and invariably discard. I was addicted to buying things; plastic, hard things I could hold in my hand and take home with me. To my younger […]
The Return of Artaud Le Mômo The anchored spirit, screwed into me by the psycho- lubricious thrust of the sky is the one who thinks every temptation, every desire, every inhibition. o dedi o dada orzoura o dou zoura a dada skizi o kaya o kaya pontoura o ponoura a pena poni It’s the penetral […]
The Return of Artaud Le Mômo The anchored spirit, screwed into me by the psycho- lubricious thrust of the sky is the one who thinks every temptation, every desire, every inhibition. o dedi o dada orzoura o dou zoura a dada skizi o kaya o kaya pontoura o ponoura a pena poni It’s the penetral […]
It gets bad when you stop using the thing solely for its intended purpose and start using the thing as a default, a way to pass the time when nothing else is happening. That’s how addiction works. I think it’s most noticeable with the social internet, nowadays anyway. There’s nothing to do and everything’s boring […]
It gets bad when you stop using the thing solely for its intended purpose and start using the thing as a default, a way to pass the time when nothing else is happening. That’s how addiction works. I think it’s most noticeable with the social internet, nowadays anyway. There’s nothing to do and everything’s boring […]
In recent years, the boom of audiobooks, podcasts, Kindles, and other paperless reading practices has reached new heights. Given their rapid increase in popularity, I wanted to look at how these new modes of reading might be changing – and perhaps quietly eroding – our literary habits. We might begin by asking the question: what […]
In recent years, the boom of audiobooks, podcasts, Kindles, and other paperless reading practices has reached new heights. Given their rapid increase in popularity, I wanted to look at how these new modes of reading might be changing – and perhaps quietly eroding – our literary habits. We might begin by asking the question: what […]
Advice about college essays from the winner of a top prize for children’s literature: Kelly Barnhill encourages teens to write about experiences that are uniquely their own, from a point of view that is theirs and no one else’s. Plus, why do we say that someone who’s fortunate has the luck of the Irish? And […]
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I wish my townsmen to consider that, no matter whatever the human law may be, a government which deliberately enacts injustice and persists in it will become the laughingstock of the world. I say break the law. Let your life be a counter-friction to stop the
We can describe code that works. We struggle to describe code that's good. This is an attempt at the difference.
We can describe code that works. We struggle to describe code that's good. This is an attempt at the difference.
From many applicants, the class of '30 arises. Their responses to Stanford's famous 50 word essay prompts may surprise you, but
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The anxiety that you're not keeping up isn't a personal failing - it's the predictable result of measuring yourself against a target that has never existed.
The anxiety that you're not keeping up isn't a personal failing - it's the predictable result of measuring yourself against a target that has never existed.
An essay on the new wave of “online safety bills”
I wanted to control my smart home from my Garmin Vivoactive 4 but there wasn't a direct way. I found an app called APICall that lets my watch call webhooks. Home Assistant worked better than the Google Assistant integration I originally planned, and I was able to set it up in under 10 minutes using Docker. Now I can control things like Spotify playback with my watch using APICall and Home…