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No Respect
A slice of comedy in the eighties.
Rad Dad Redemption
I've temporarily lost my cool dad status. Despite my son's well-planned and executed request (in which he invoked his "mental, physical and emotional health") to be able to purchase Red Dead: Online, I refused to let him have anything to do with it.
Sacred Alaska Is So Much Further Than Lincoln Nebraska
Faith in the frozen North.
I Don't Know
The death of Ozzy Osbourne seems like the perfect opportunity to highlight an up-and-coming doom metal band.
Sky At Night
Though Laura Groves “Sky At Night” was released as part of her album Radio Red in 2023, it may be my favorite “new to me” song this year. Groves delicate bedroom chamber pop is at once melancholy and curious. Her vocals bring to mind Natasha Khan’s Bat For Lashes
A New Reading Partnership
I was starting to get down about the fact that my read-it-later digests from Matter were causing crashing errors on my Kindle. The issue has been pretty consistent lately and I don’t have much hope of getting help since it’s not really a supported integration. A
Moon Shots
The creator's expectations for the adoption of a new software tool are now part of my evaluation criteria for that tool.
The Decline of Design
Sean Heber of Iconfactory brings the harsh realities of maintaining steady design work in the era of AI dominance. I am sorry to read about the challenges Iconfactory is facing. The first product I worked on after I got into software development used icons created by the studio. Their Twitter
Demon Haunting
Thoughts about how our culture deals with the supernatural.
Parental Risk Assessments
I recently wrote about how skateboarding taught me a measure of resilience that I don’t necessarily see in my kids. They simply have a different relationship to risky activities. As I hinted at in the post, there are upsides to this from a parental concern perspective. It’s just