Mar 12, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Mid-March Snow in Brooklyn (2021 and 2026) At about 4:00 PM on March 12, 2026, a friend of mine who lines nearby in Brooklyn sent me a message on Delta Chat: it’s snowing. I turned my head to the right to look out my window. Indeed, it was ...
Mar 12, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Re; Against Linking to Instagram Jatan at Journal J wrote a good blog post back in 2021 against using “bad links” in blog posts. What does he mean by “bad link”? He explains: While Instagram is one of the worst offenders of the op...
Mar 12, 2026 from The New Leaf Journal The New York/California Post “Metro Section” RSS Feed The New York Post Metro secution RSS feed now includes California Post articles. This was not concerning until I saw an ambiguous article about a new U.S. HQ for the maker of "Labubus"
Mar 12, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 03-12-26 I missed publishing a set of Pook-Emu Bee links yesterday due to an assignment. But that does not mean I was not collecting links. If you enjoy the (almost) daily links and commentary, you can also...
Mar 12, 2026 from Noahie's Blog Retardmaxxing It's been a good day so far, and for that I'm thankful. I would say that I've been focused on that constant internal dialogue on a deeper level lately. I think about my personal circumstances and t...
Mar 11, 2026 from The Autodidacts The butterfly effect of revenge bedtime procrastination Wasting time isn't bad because it wastes time
Mar 11, 2026 from BEEW Because He Was He, and I Was I I quote others only in order the better to express myself. —Michel de Montaigne In 1571, a French nobleman bought a château in Bordeaux with a round stone tower attached to it. He was thirty-eight,...
Mar 11, 2026 from The Public Domain Review Calicornication: Postcards of Giant Produce (1909) "Tall-tale" or "exaggeration" postcards illustrating the bounties of California.
Mar 11, 2026 from The Autodidacts My criteria for a good Linux developer laptop Well-built, cheap, and fast: I pick all three.
Mar 11, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Re; Offering RSS vs Newsletters I came across an interesting take by Sebastian Sastre on why he uses an RSS feed instead of a newsletter for his blog. I agree with the feed-first position. However, I personally recommend using bo...
Mar 11, 2026 from Jumbled Thoughts of a Fake Geek Boy Foundational Asimov Ah, Foundation. Along with Asimov’s robot-themed stories, the Foundation series vies for the title of Asimov’s most influential work. I suspect the robot stories have it – the Laws of Robotics have...
Mar 11, 2026 from Noahie's Blog Comfort I have this fear of a growing complacency among more peaceful days in my life. Things have been going well, and for some reason that makes me suspicious. I might be inadvertently preparing for some...
Mar 10, 2026 from BIX dot BLOG The Actual End In a newsletter edition about “stakes” in storytelling, Charlie Jane makes an observation about another storytelling thing that put me in mind of one of my favorite examples, which then put me in m...
Mar 10, 2026 from Jumbled Thoughts of a Fake Geek Boy Doctor Who: Bessie’s Tape Deck – The Third Doctor Audios, Part 1 Arguably, Jon Pertwee was instrumental in pioneering the Doctor Who audio drama format. Sure, Tom Baker had done The Pescatons back in the day, and Colin Baker had done Slipback, but it was The Par...
Mar 10, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 03-10-26 I missed publishing a set of Pook-Emu Bee links yesterday. But that just means I have more links saved for today. If you enjoy the (almost) daily links and commentary, you can also follow via feed....
Mar 10, 2026 from The Autodidacts Some thoughts about backing up, which occurred to me after my laptop abruptly expired I had other plans for what to write about, and also plans for the day that didn't involve disassembling my connection to the outside world with a screwdriver
Mar 10, 2026 from Noahie's Blog Post-Irony Just before starting my timer to sprint out this entry, I sat for a moment to try and think of some kind of game plan for how I wanted to structure this entry. After about maybe fifteen seconds of ...
Mar 09, 2026 from The Autodidacts Sheep Music & Wedding Bands On knowledge gaps and bookworm pronunciation syndrome
Mar 09, 2026 from Let’s get Person-al 🌰 it’s not that machines can do everything– it’s that we left behind anything they can’t do I think we forget sometimes that it’s not that machines can do everything– it’s that we left behind anything they couldn’t do.
