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• 15-Aug-2024

  
  Wherein an ancient poem prompts me to reflect on failure and learning While there’s a lot of things I’ve had and lost over the years. Some artifacts I’ve kept but never really looked at. Here’s a poem (with corrected spelling): While raccoons run up trees Spider webs are being made While pigs roll in mud Otters swim in the sea That’s from a very yellowed piece of...
• 13-Jun-2024
  On Names I read Names too on the nose at the end of May and dropped Steve an email about the topic, a 2018 BBC article: Do our names push us towards certain jobs?. A fascinating topic, that. There’s an aphorism in recovery: “to name it is to tame it.” which this reminds me of, but is...
• 27-May-2024

  
  Blogger Redirects, Linkrot & Writing I have been reading blogs a long time. And I’ve been writing for a long time too. Today at the IndieWeb pop up event focused on writing I had reason to remember when I got linked to on Boing Boing. It a list of links I had collated, but it was to my old blog...
• 11-Mar-2024

  
  Tales from the Glitter Gym: Addendum This past weekend MAS posted a new Tale From the Glitter Gym: The Old Guy and it warmed my heart. I won’t spoil it but it’s great. I was a the guilty party responsible for hastening the end of Tales back in 2011. I thought and still think MAS’s series is a funny, well-observed slice...
• 06-Mar-2024

  
  Reading “I don’t like your examples” in 2024 One of my favorite pieces of writing, technical or not, is called “I don’t like your examples!” by Steven Feuerstein which he first published 2 decades ago on the O’Reilly website [internet archive link]. It has a publish date of 11 October 2000. In the essay, he writes about his book on PL/SQL for Oracle....
• 22-Feb-2024

  
  Delete Your Drafts on Leap Day! or not! As of this writing I have 8 drafts in WordPress. Some of them are more than a year old. Aaron Jorbin has a post called Leap Day is Delete Your Drafts Day! Jeremy Felt replied with a post saying that he would be participating. He wrote something I identify with: Some drafts are fun markers...
• 02-Feb-2024
  Kudos to you for hitting publish. I love this quote. It’s a great thing to see first as I start my day reading the internet. Also, At its most basic, making art is about following what’s luminous to you and putting it in a jar, to share with others. —Ben Folds, A Dream About Lightning Bugs: A Life of Music and...
• 21-Jan-2024
  Make A Website Already! I am loving that more people are getting excited about making websites. I still am. I’m not only the Hair Club president, but I’m also a client – Seymour “Sy” Sperling, President, Hair Club for Men, 1980s I am all in. I’ve maintained this website for two decades. I’m excited to see energy around the...
• 31-Dec-2023
  Call a Rabbit a Smeerp If you are looking for what the heck “Call a Rabbit a Smeerp” means, you’re looking for it from the Turkey City Lexicon. Available on sfwa dot org and on critters dot org. I was watching the latest Zack Snyder movie on Netflix and “Call a Rabbit a Smeerp” kept returning to my mind.
• 09-Nov-2023
  How many words? Whither Blog Drafts? I’ve been playing with aggregate data on this blog for a while. I like to see what it all adds up to. The above sentences are dynamic. They will be up-to-date as long as this is a dynamically powered website. They work because I added a WordPress [shortcode] to this post. It runs some code...