BIX dot BLOG

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The unsupported use case of a disordered, surplus, mediocre midlife in St. Johns, Oregon.

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  • The Actual End

    In a newsletter edition about “stakes” in storytelling, Charlie Jane makes an observation about another storytelling ...

  • We Do The Walk

    As I’d observed, more or less, in my adult function report for Disability Determination Services, whatever else might...

  • ‘This Is Very Common’

    The world being what it is, I never did come back to give an update on my adult function report which was requested b...

  • Killing The Portland Locality Zone?

    Late last month, I indicated that at some point later this year, the portland.or.us locality zone should be freed up ...

  • Once We Were Browncoats

    This t-shirt was available for redeemable "points" on the official Serenity movie website Last year, I was invited to...

  • Dark Matters

    So I’ve slowly been making my way through the Once We Were Spacemen podcast and in the episode with Melissa O’Neil, w...

  • On Museum Memories: Daniel’s Story

    This month’s IndieWeb Carnival is hosted by James, whose prompt post asks us to think about the “places we can go to ...

  • The ‘Firefly’ Tease?

    Nathan Fillion continues to tease something on the Instagram page for the Once We Were Spacemen podcast he hosts with...

  • Your Land Is Mostly Mountainous

    Here’s a thing I learned this week. Out of the hundreds of different reasons a Kaiser doctor might send you for a sur...

  • Changes To My ‘One a Month Club’ Tip Jar

    If you’ve been tipping me as part of One a Month Club (thank you, if so), you should have seen your recurring payment...

  • Freeing The Portland Locality Zone

    Earlier this month, I exhaustively detailed my efforts to understand why usTLD Locality Support at GoDaddy has insist...

  • Hype Mode

    Speaking, as I was, of hype: SmugMug and Flickr are launching something called Mode, or perhaps MODE. It claims to be...

  • On Contradictions And Confidence

    In an insightful post about being a contradiction because in actuality “everyone holds contradictions”, there’s one c...

  • The Theft Of An Ideal

    Five days is a bit too far down the road for me just to add an addenda onto my most recent post about burnout, but I ...

  • The Fillion Tease

    Over the messaging transom today came the revelation that since late last year, Nathan Fillion and Alan Tudyk have ha...

  • ‘Spitting In The Wind Comes Back At You Twice As Hard’

    Sometimes blogging is serendipitous even when you initially have some sort of a plan. I’ve been wanting for the past ...

  • The Font Of Wisdom

    In my (coming up on) twenty-six years of blogging, I’ve had some site designs you’d have been right to call “aggressi...

  • Depending Upon

    The disability lawyers sent both email and text today to inform me that the disability examiner has mailed me a copy ...

  • Reading My Mind

    Today I resumed something I’ve done before: leaving my phone at home when I go out into the neighborhood to read a bo...

  • It’s Like The Burnout Said: Phenomenon

    Yesterday I got to thinking about how all the various kinds of burnout really are just separate tentacles of the burn...