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 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...

  • The ‘Serialized’ Series

    I’ve realized that as of the first batch of my blogging on furiousnads.com to have been restored here from that site’...

  • Writing Is Not Optional For Journalism

    Chris Quinn, editor of the The Plain Dealer, published a “letter from the editor” over the weekend about “a college s...

  • Of Autistic Service

    The guy who owns my regular coffeeshop today told me that he looks forward to making my drink because it means his wo...

  • Sunday Stroll Two

    Last weekend, I took you on a brief tour of the last fifteen blog posts by other people that I’d read, inspired as I ...

  • Will This Mixtape Save The World

    Last month, when discussing some of my go-to comfort movies that might strike other people as peculiar, counter-intui...

  • The Wet-Sounding Sigh In My Apartment

    So, I did my part. When the every-several-weeks problem with the red rubber ring on the drain from the toilet tank to...

  • ‘Expensive Accident’ Or ‘Superpower’?

    Sometimes I just want to put two bloggers in conversation with each other without belaboring the issue too much, so h...

  • Three Minutes Of Hate

    There’s a semi-accidental “silly things I hate” blog challenge making the rounds lately. So far I’ve seen Andrea, Sar...

  • Isn’t This A Pretty Fall

    Since last March, I’ve several times here referenced Stanford Beers’ heuristic that the purpose of a system is what i...

  • Whence GoDaddy’s Authority To Supersede RFC-1480?

    For the second time in three years, I’ve been involved in a marathon series of emails with usTLD Locality Support at ...

  • Enthusiasm And Ethics

    Lou takes us on a brief tour of how large-language models have changed the way he organizes everything from specific ...

  • Selective Vagueness

    There’s a style of blogging in which you write something that superficially seems pretty anodyne in a “who could argu...

  • On Intersecting Interests: Fandom And Photography

    Zachary is hosting IndieWeb Carnival this month with the thematic prompt at the start of my title here, and for the p...

  • Some Technical Updates

    In the days since switching the blog’s design to something I’ve decided to describe as “aggressively monochrome” (whi...

  • Sunday Stroll

    Readers here know that I’m a huge fan of Kevin Lawver’s idea that blogs are the empathy engine of the web, and that I...

  • Blogging As Self-Care

    It’s a timeworn and tired tradition that bloggers love to blog about blogging. So much so that if any particular blog...