My Golding Jobber № 8 letterpress came to me modified by it’s previous owners, Bill and Gertie Campbell, so that a small ...

I voted absentee in the U.S. federal and state elections back in September, casting my vote for Kamala Harris.

I’ve been a digital hobbyist for almost 50 years, from my days fooling around with a TRS-80 Model One (on which I coded a video game, in BASIC, called “Galactic Warrior,” and then parlayed my skills ...

When I migrated my blog to Drupal 10 back in September, one of the things that got left out was migrating the collection of just over 300 sounds that I’d posted over the years.

I was sad to learn of the death of Ralph Hostetter, in 2019, something that escaped my attention at the time. Ralph was a Maryland newspaper publisher who had a summer place in French River, here on ...

I had a hankering for a Factory Coffee this afternoon, and seeing that Island Chocolates was open today, I drove out to Victoria. Only to find that Island Chocolates wasn’t open today. I rerouted to ...

Zoë Schlanger, reporting for The Atlantic, on how your black plastic spatula might be made of e-waste: For the past several years, I’ve been telling my friends what I’m going to tell you: Throw out ...

Annie Mueller writes about the dumbness of getting AI to do dumb stuff, concluding: But what if we spent less time figuring out how to do dumb stuff faster and more time pointing out how dumb the ...