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 Chronicles of Miss Miseria So Much of Whatever-the-fuck Has Happened So Far 07th March 2026, 3:33 PM-5:16 PMI have been pushing and dragging and coercing and compelling myself to write this. Write here. Come here and write. Open the incognito and log in to my alter self an...
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.
Mar 09, 2026 from Noahie's Blog The Switch Over the last day or two, I've been dealing with an onset of fatigue. A few reasons for this: I ran out of my Mounjaro prescription, and despite seeing my provider to get a refill, it's been severa...
Mar 08, 2026 from BEEW Dancing on the Head of a Needle For roughly seven hundred years, the big theological brains of Western Christendom bent themselves into magnificent logical pretzels over whether beings of pure incorporeal intelligence, massless a...
Mar 08, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 03-08-26 There was no daily Pook-Emu Bee link post yesterday because it was Newsletter Leaf Journal day (see the links in Newsletter 270). But the next Newsletter is next Saturday. Below, I present the Marc...
Mar 08, 2026 from BIX dot BLOG We Do The Walk As I’d observed, more or less, in my adult function report for Disability Determination Services, whatever else might be disabling for me day-to-day, the unpredictability of autistic burnout makes ...
