2023-03-19: Soarin' Kierkegaard (At Long Last) Matthew Kaul writes about our anxious age in a post on The Good Teacher Substack. He brings up, as …
2023-03-19: Blue Sunday In this video, the Orkestra Obsolete covers New Order’s “Blue Monday” on older …
2023-03-18: Sometimes, I want to make a film, just so I can choose the song that plays as the credits roll.
2023-03-18: I tend to forget that people are actively using Twitter, despite all of the reasons not to. …
2023-03-18:
Metaphysical Graffiti
I remember reading about a thought experiment on altruism in my Philosophy 101 class. People were …
2023-03-16:
Under A Weighted Blanket
2023-03-14: The Process of Debranding There is a lot to relate to in this post about the process of debranding by Simone Silvestroni. Like …
2023-03-12:
Discarded
I’ve been thinking about the ways we abandon the things that keep us healthy in times of …
2023-03-11: Post a great album with no explanation. Tag others to do the same. @toddgrotenhuis @adoran2 …
2023-03-09:
My Cousin, My Friend
When I was a kid, vacations with my extended family were common. Getting together with my …
2023-03-08: It is great timing that Microsoft announced that Outlook for Mac is now free w/o an Office 365 …
2023-03-04:
The Sweetest Setup
I often think to myself that the one gap in my workflow that I’d most like to close is the …
2023-03-02: Erasing Plastic For Christmas, I asked for some plastic-free hygiene items. I got some nice soap, shampoo and …
2023-03-01: There were many “Byzantine burpees” in last night’s worship service — The Great …
2023-02-28:
Socializing the Apolitical
Usually, I try to stay pretty apolitical on my blog. There are enough political opinions on the web, …
2023-02-27:
Buy Something
Vauhini Vara writes for Wired Magazine about the story of Buy Nothing, which started as a collection …
2023-02-23:
Therapy-Speak Without the Lessons Of Therapy
As someone with an educational background in counseling, one of the most fascinating subjects to me …
2023-02-21:
The Candy Culture Wars
John Paul Brammer wades into the candy culture wars (which are adjacent to the chicken sandwich …
2023-02-20:
A Search Query To Find Your People
I find myself oscillating between writing things that I assume will be popular with those in my …
2023-02-20: My friend flawlessly executes a double metania before being blessed by our priest. This guy’s …
2023-02-19: I love the way this dude puts his monitor in vertical orientation to play pinball at his desk.
2023-02-18:
Fatal Attraction
In 1987, Fatal Attraction scared Americans with its portrayal of Glenn Close as a woman jilted after …
2023-02-17:
Ring of Past
Men I Trust has a new video for a track called “Ring of Past.” The video consists of …
2023-02-16: “You can’t teach on a book of the Bible and not come across something that will confront …
2023-02-16: Micro.blog Onboarding Kevin Quirk has a review of Micro.blog, from the perspective of a new user who is onboarding to the …
2023-02-16: I’m not normally shy about boosting the blogging platform I’m using, but on my Ghost …
2023-02-16: Me: I can’t do a video call because the webcam in my MacBook is broken. Colleague: Yeah, my …
2023-02-14:
The Pragmatism of Tearing Down What You've Built
Chad Ragsdale wrote a piece about the “He Gets Us” ad featuring Jesus that aired during …
2023-02-12: I’m in the middle of reading The Nineties: A Book and loving it, but now Tomorrow and Tomorrow …
2023-02-11:
Lack of Information
On the cusp of a revolution in information, in 1990, at a meeting of the German Informatics Society, …
2023-02-11: Kepano, who created the Minimal theme, is now the CEO of Obsidian. This should be interesting.
2023-02-10: Tonight, my sixteen year old recognized, by about 30 seconds of sound he had never heard, the voice …
2023-02-08:
Embrace the Commute
A study found that commuting may actually be good for mental health. However, it seems the benefit …
2023-02-07: This is the kind of thing you get when you cross the increasing infantilization with the increasing …
2023-02-07:
Nostalgic Thinking
Paul Kingsnorth writes a defense of his frequent invocation of nostalgia.
2023-02-07:
Self-Quantification
As a comedian, Ginny Hogan is predisposed to some humorous hyperbole, but her thoughts on sleep …
2023-02-05: YouTube w/ ads means watching a quiet movie scene about a penitent monk and getting abruptly …
2023-02-04:
American Shoegaze
The recent piece on the new wave of American shoegaze in Stereogum was nothing if not exhaustive. …
2023-02-04: The son of one of my colleagues opened up an escape room in a dorm at UNC and the idea and execution …
2023-02-03:
The Right To Remain Silent
Simon Kennedy writes for Mere Orthodoxy about how Christians need to be circumspect about how they …
2023-02-02: Out of Band Names A comment on a Stereogum piece about the new wave of American shoegaze: I know I keep riding this …
2023-01-31: Bit Rot Matt Birchler on the absurdity of media not being available for ownership. I think it’s …
2023-01-29: Finished reading: The Religion of the Apostles by Stephen DeYoung 📚. There is a reason this book has …
2023-01-29: Addicted to Trump: It seems as if the journalists who are writing all of the articles about DT not …
2023-01-28: I Accept Full Responsibility In a world that’s full of surprises, it turns out that accepting “full …
2023-01-18:
Last Known Good
I’ve been working on my blog design lately. Occasionally, a situation will arise in which I …
2023-01-16: After months on hold, was finally able to check out A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman 📚. I like …
2023-01-16: I really do feel like MLK Jr. Day should be a day of service. I’m making cards for kids in the …
2023-01-14:
No Roof, No Floor
I generally don’t do year-end lists, but I like to share a couple of my favorites things from …
2023-01-14: Art & science
2023-01-14: Kung fu series…
2023-01-08:
A Visual Sound
The skate video that first brought jazz into my consciousness in a very real way was Stereo …
2023-01-08: Sometimes the glowing review we give software when we first get it is from the thrill of novelty. I …
2023-01-07:
Rock and Roll As Youth Culture
I used to have a well-worn VHS cassette of Sonic Youth’s tour video, 1991: The Year Punk Broke …
2022-12-18: I don’t know if it’s the bird mascot that lures them, but there are a lot of cats on …
2022-12-18: Went for a mural tour downtown yesterday. Here’s John Prine.
2022-12-18:
Musical Affinity
I’m always on the hunt for new music. I’m honestly proud of the fact that my musical …
2022-12-17: Number 5.
2022-12-16:
News Blues
When the pandemic hit, I wasn’t excited about turning over my computer to my high school …
2022-12-16:
Just Browsing
Recently on Micro.blog, folks have been talking about “slow technology.” This usually …
2022-12-15: It's Christmas Now Pure Holiday by Ice Choir Though I deeply value the religious rituals and recognitions of the …
2022-12-11:
The Josh
This fantastic piece by Laura Kolbe for n + 1 magazine takes on current building aesthetics and …
2022-12-11: This should surprise no one who follows my blog.
2022-12-10:
Is Mastodon Really The Spiritual Successor To Twitter?
Mastodon was created in 2016, and the site still harkens back to its origins, a time when Gamergate …
2022-12-09:
Rooted In Place
In a worship service recently, our pastor explored the genealogy of Jesus as presented in the book …
2022-12-09: I’m still deciding how I feel about the overall Mastodon experience, but I do think it’s …
2022-12-08:
Just Adapt
I often think about how humans are maladapted to our current environments in some ways. For a …
2022-11-27:
When You Sleep
Perhaps the definitive cover of My Bloody Valentine’s …
2022-11-27: ALDI has a Christmas tree-shaped frozen pizza. Just like the early Christians used to eat.
2022-11-22: I enjoyed Amazon’s Rings of Power series to such an extent that it actually delayed the watching of …
2022-11-21:
This Time, I'm Out
After 14 years and over 10,000 tweets, I’ve deactivated my Twitter account. I’ve been …
2022-11-21: I think one of the things I find most impressive about Micro.blog is how it effectively productizes …
2022-11-19: Another in a series of outrageous claims made by fruit vendors. These raspberries are “limited …
2022-11-19: For whatever reason, a couple of days ago, Jonah decided that he was scared of me for a bit. He …
2022-11-17:
Star Wars: An Epic Poem
Jack Mitchell brings to us The Odyssey of Star Wars, an epic poem in blank verse.
2022-11-15: We Rock Harder Than You Ever Knew This year has been rich with new music. I’ve been compiling a playlist of Now Sounds all year …
2022-11-15:
Does Technology Make Tradition Impossible?
Kristen Sanders analyzes the claim made by Jon Askonas that conservatism has failed and cannot …
2022-11-13:
Skateboard Eyes
Austin Kleon writes about drawing at a skatepark and learning from the culture of skateboarding.
2022-11-12: So, the Christmas decorations are up. If you think it’s too early, you’ll have to take …
2022-11-06: It feels weird to listen to Metallica while doing something as domestic as ironing. “Master of …
2022-11-05:
The Twitter Snap
It wasn’t a well-kept secret that Elon Musk had layoffs in mind from Twitter the moment he …
2022-11-03:
When Love Is Gone
Disney+ is releasing the uncut version of The Muppet Christmas Carol. The song “When Love Is …
2022-11-02: Too small to fail.
2022-11-01:
Everything Is Awesome
I saw a cool picture of shoes on Micro.blog the other day, and it brought up a memory of a few years …
2022-11-01: Pac-Man about to have lunch. AWS booth: All Things Open
2022-10-31: Thirty-fifth anniversary.
2022-10-30:
I Quickly Eat My Words
Welp, it looks like things are already going south on Twitter. For the first time (maybe ever), …
2022-10-29: My iPad is too old to run Stage Manager (it’s last year’s model — groan). I’m …
2022-10-29:
Your Musk, My Tusks
So, the deal has finally going through, and Elon Musk is the new owner of Twitter. The first thing …
2022-10-29: I know we’re all somewhat prone to hyperbole these days, but I feel like labeling a bag of …
2022-10-27: It’s nice to see HEY World getting bio text and pinned posts in today’s HEY update.
2022-10-27: I wasn’t using Obsidian very much anymore, and then they released 1.0. Wow, this app has come …
2022-10-27:
The End Of A Musical Era
I fantasize about going back to the click wheel iPod, loading it up and going to classes at NCSU. …
2022-10-26:
Text Manipulation
Stephan Ango, who created the excellent new default Obsidian theme for the 1.0 launch (as well as …
2022-10-25: Happy Diwali!
2022-10-24: I’m going to be so bummed when my little guy isn’t into his plush buddies anymore.
2022-10-22: Our current political binaries and the vocabulary that has evolved around them is woefully …
2022-10-21: I appreciate this blog post because it uses real life examples of how amazing technology has become. …
2022-10-21:
Rings Of Power Surprise
⚠️ Warning: Spoiler alert for Amazon’s Rings of Power series. I just finished watching the …
2022-10-20:
Don't Call It A Newsletter
One of the co-founders of Substack, Hamish McKenzie, wishes people would stop referring to the …
2022-10-19:
Many People Are Saying…
Several times a week, I get an email from my son’s high school with a link to a …
2022-10-17:
What Happened To Tumblr?
Alex Hern writes for The Guardian about the current state of Tumblr and why the site will never …
2022-10-17: Elon is buying Twitter, Kanye is buying Parler and Micro.blog just added expanded support for the …
2022-10-16: A little bedtime reading.
2022-10-15:
The Spawn of The Daily Show
If you are as interested in media trends and their implications as I am, an article in The New …
2022-10-14:
🎵 Matthew 7:7
This week’s Friday Night Video is a bit of a departure from other recent entries in the …
2022-10-13:
The Jedi Monastics
I lament the decline in monastic orders that have come with rationalism and modernity. I think …
2022-10-12:
Comics Con
Alan Moore wrote some noteworthy comics and graphic novels. Those titles include Watchmen and …
2022-10-10:
Woodstock '99
Jeffrey Quackenbush has some insightful thoughts into the disaster that was Woodstock ‘99. Why …
2022-10-08:
Personal Blogging Has Moved To YouTube
Linda Holmes writes about how blog culture was once sharing your whole lives with strangers on the …
2022-10-08: Please pardon the mess as I clean up my domains.
2022-10-07:
I Would Die 4 You
I feel blessed to have come across a clean recording of Chvrches' version of Prince’s …
2022-10-06: My cats get defensive about their “property rights” when other cats come around. …
2022-10-05: Adam Wood writes about the allure of returning again and again to the internet to cure boredom. And …
2022-10-04: When I read that the Elon Musk purchase of Twitter was back on, I felt like writing that I have no …
2022-10-03: Happy to see that a 2.0 beta of my all-time-favorite Mac notes app Bear is going to come out this …
2022-10-02:
Sophists and Frost Giants
A post caught my eye the other day that seemed to encapsulate the state of news and opinion in the …
2022-09-30: Finished reading: Remote: Office Not Required by Jason Fried 📚. I was hoping this book would contain …
2022-09-30:
Billie Toppy
Men I Trust return with a new single to accompany their tour of the states. This one surprised me …
2022-09-29:
Blogging As Self-Care
I’ve been on a sort of crusade to get more people to blog recently. If I come across a person …
2022-09-29: Finished reading: Orthodoxy by G. K. Chesterton 📚. This book was dense prose but it’s possbile …
2022-09-26:
Andor Depicts War Amongst The Stars
I’ll start by showing my cards here and admitting that I can’t wait to see Andor, the latest of the …
2022-09-24: Matter is taking a cue from HEY and including notes (that you can now also take from the extension …
2022-09-24: As far as Netflix goes: If we won’t see a Season 2 that takes place in the Grishaverse, …
2022-09-23:
The Graying Of The Fun Crowd
An opinionated tweet recently provoked a strong reaction. That happens many times a day and is …
2022-09-23:
True Mathematics
Frank Yang commemorates the 20th anniversary of Ladytron’s Light & Magic LP in a post on …
2022-09-21:
Give To Us This Day
We recently changed our version of the Lord’s Prayer in church. Not to something radically …
2022-09-21:
The Verge Redesign
It’s heartening to see what The Verge is doing with their transformation. They’ve …
2022-09-20:
The Crown
I completely understand why my wife and others have no use for the British monarchy. For one thing, …
2022-09-18: Jonah the cat started this Sunday by eating a paper on Sabbath observance. Now what do I use to …
2022-09-17:
Freestyle Fever
A fellow microblogger has been posting videos of himself freestyle skateboarding and it has …
2022-09-14:
Found Guilty and Sentenced to Use a Dell Monitor
Recently, I had to give up one of my favorite pieces of electronics — my M1 iMac. The process …
2022-09-13: I come home and my son is singing and playing some tasteful covers on his accoustic guitar: Sebadoh …
2022-09-12: Thankfully, this Anne Applebaum cover story (from December of last year) for the Atlantic is aging …
2022-09-11:
Culture Wars Come To Middle Earth
In Your Favorite Pop Culture Has Just Gone “Woke.” Now What? by Jason Morehead, the author examines …
2022-09-10: Getting crazy goosebumps reading about the success of the Ukranian counteroffensive.
2022-09-10:
Giving Up The Ghost
I have been trying out the blogging platform Ghost on and off for a couple of years now. It’s …
2022-09-09: Doing a thing this week where I drink dessert flavored teas instead of eating desserts. Much fewer …
2022-09-09:
🎵 Pat's Trick
Last week, Frosted Echoes featured a Breeders cover as the Friday Night Video and this week, …
2022-09-07: Obsidian has a new default theme called “Dragonglass.” The theme has only been released …
2022-09-07:
Amor Fati
DHH from 37Signals, who is not a believer, writes about nihilism and God’s will. Nietzsche …
2022-09-05:
Institutions Absorb Anxiety
I’m not sure what to think of this piece from Mere Orthodoxy on panic over the direction of …
2022-09-04:
Typing As Music
In a piece for the New Yorker, David Owen writes about the world of mechanical keyboard enthusiasts …
2022-09-03: All you need is…
2022-09-02:
🎵 Cannonball
If you look back at the music I’ve shared on this blog, you wouldn’t doubt my devotion …
2022-09-02:
Where It Comes From
Jack Baty — @jack — writes about the MoFi scandal from an unusual perspective. Instead of gloating …
2022-08-31: Just finished reading: Radical Candor by Kim Scott 📚. There is a misperception about this book. …
2022-08-31:
Skateboard Hooligans
I was reading my friend Adam’s newsletter, Tendrils, and I came upon some quick thoughts about …
2022-08-29: Last night, my son was listening to Slowdive and asking me about setting up a blog. You treasure …
2022-08-28: Just updated my Now page (definitely beachy edition).
2022-08-27: Frida
2022-08-27: A new issue of the Week on the Web newsletter is out today: Moving past disruption in tech, metal …
2022-08-26:
Metal Elizabethan Poetry
John Donne was an interesting guy. He was an inveterate womanizer and poet turned pious preacher. …
2022-08-26:
Moving Past Disruption
Paul Ford writes for Wired Magazine as the co-founder of a software company that is tired of the …
2022-08-24:
Minimal Mac
I was texting with an old friend the other day, and he was documenting his progress in getting …
2022-08-24: Experimenting a bit with putting longer posts (>1000 words) behind a login.
2022-08-24: DALL-E prompt: Adam Sandler at the Louvre wearing basketball shorts.
2022-08-20: The Radiant Citadel One of the co-creators of the latest official D&D adventure, Journeys Through the Radiant …
2022-08-19:
An Argument for Blog Portability
Last week, I published a micro post about my thoughts after reading Matt Birchler admonish his …
2022-08-18:
LEGO Replay
LEGO has an initiative to help with environmental sustainability in the form of reuse of their …
2022-08-18:
The Radiant Citadel
One of the co-creators of the latest official D&D adventure, Journeys Through the Radiant …
2022-08-17: In Defense Of Blog Portability Last week, I published a micro post about my thoughts after reading Matt Birchler admonish his …
2022-08-17: Just finished reading: What If Jesus Was Serious? by Skye Jethani 📚. I didn’t stick with the …
2022-08-16: A friend and colleague put the name of my site into DALL-E and these are the images it generated.
2022-08-15: I won’t deny that I’ve had some problems with my Macbook, but when I see the Dell …
2022-08-15: Finished reading: The Life We’re Looking For: Reclaiming Relationship in a Technological World …
2022-08-13: I’m past the point in my life where I want to argue with strangers on the internet, but I do …
2022-08-13: This article on the meta-layer for notes within HEY email is even more relevant now that the app has …
2022-08-12:
Population Control
I wrote in a recent newsletter about an article that Ezra Klein published, in which he discusses …
2022-08-11:
The Friend Of My Enemy
The biggest irony of the last couple of weeks has to be Rep. Peter Meijer’s loss in the Western …
2022-08-10:
A Vision Of Reality
Noah Millman writes about how little reality there is in film and TV these days.
2022-08-09: This new button in Reeder hooked up to Feedbin kind of rules. It takes you straight to the tweet in …
2022-08-09: It’s time to admit that I’m never going to traverse the length of Crooked Kingdom by …
2022-08-09: This post on why you should never change your blogging platform unless you have to resonates with me …
2022-08-08:
Marci
Bandcamp has a review of the debut album by Marci, AKA Marta Cikojevic, who plays keyboards in the …
2022-08-06: Relative Sci-fi I've heard some grumblings about the new Star Wars TV series online. The Book of Boba Fett, which I …
2022-08-05: First time playing in a while and that was… weird. Wordle 412 5/6 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ …
2022-08-05:
What Kinds Of Image Requests Confuse DALL-E?
In his latest newsletter, Charlie Warzel dives into DALL-E and profiles Andy Baio’s …
2022-08-04:
Relative Sci-fi
I’ve heard some grumblings about the new Star Wars TV series online. The Book of Boba Fett, …
2022-08-04:
Monocropping In Cities
Clive Thompson writes about rewilding cities, in a new extension of his “rewilding your …
2022-08-02: The dealership seems to want to buy my car back more than they wanted to sell it to me in the first …
2022-07-31: Airshow I consider myself fortunate to have procured a subscription to the feed reader platform Feedbin, …
2022-07-30: Errata: The post on the Alvvays song Pharmacist incorrectly compared the guitar solo/noise breakdown …
2022-07-30:
Airshow
I consider myself fortunate to have procured a subscription to the feed reader platform Feedbin, …
2022-07-30: If you can tolerate discussion of religion and American politics, this is a fantastic episode of …
2022-07-29:
Post-hoc TV Show Edits
Jack King examines the implications of creators editing shows after they have been released. He …
2022-07-28:
Judging A Book By Its Cover
A recent piece, by Ben Mathis-Lilley, in Slate Magazine, shows what kind of perspective you develop …
2022-07-28:
Drone Coma
A piece from Atlas Obscura by James Gaines, about something called “prairie madness,” …
2022-07-27: Capcom always milks their properties for all they are worth.
2022-07-26:
Always There
→ The Churchhill Garden - Always There The first thing that …
2022-07-26: Thanks to @zioibi for the Arc invite. This browser is wild!
2022-07-25:
"Silence Is Violence"
Alan Noble writes with a healthy dose of sarcasm in response to those who wonder why he hasn’t …
2022-07-24: So… I added my “Posted” folder of published blog posts to the favorites list in …
2022-07-23: My ten-yr.-old has informed us that he doesn’t want to have kids because it’s “too …
2022-07-23: I Need Some Bugspray I spend a lot of my time in software. For my job (software development manager), for my hobby …
2022-07-22: Sometimes Twitter is an absolute cesspool and sometimes I checkin and find myself laughing at so …
2022-07-21: Spider senses tingling.
2022-07-21:
Gun Culture
Tom Nichols is no longer writing for The Atlantic, but he gave us a post on gun culture just before …
2022-07-20: I have a pretty ridiculous reason for sometimes preferring a digital PKM over my analog bullet …
2022-07-20:
Obsidian For Brain Fog
Ira Robinson was astonished to find that using the PKM Obsidian helped with his brain fog. He has …
2022-07-19:
Browser Choice On Mobile
Steve Best writes about the problems with only having one choice of browser rendering engine on iOS. …
2022-07-16: Sk-Sk-Sk-Schism A few years ago, when I was teaching confirmation at the PC(USA) Presbyterian Church of which I am a …
2022-07-16:
Playing The Amazon Game
Cory Doctorow has some fresh ideas about how you can use Amazon but still support local businesses. …
2022-07-16:
Medium Pivots Again
Medium finally made its biggest pivot of all its many pivots: It changed its CEO. Ev Williams is …
2022-07-15:
Screwtape on Smartphones
Alissa Ruddell wrote a post in the style of The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis. The subject of the …
2022-07-14:
Liturgical Disruption
This article by Andrew McGowan is a few years old, but it has stuck in my mind as I explore …
2022-07-14: I love this post from Austin Kleon using a DJing technique as a metaphor for how we can exit the …
2022-07-14: I’m really hopeful about what iA Presenter can bring to slide decks. Just thinking about …
2022-07-13:
Sk, Sk, Sk, Schism
A few years ago, when I was teaching confirmation at the …
2022-07-13: I came upstairs this morning to find my lady friend sending an email from my email account. This …
2022-07-12: My little guy printed out pictures of some of his favorite things.
2022-07-10: This would be helpful.
2022-07-09:
Keyboard Jockey
Welp, I’m doing it. I’m becoming one of those mechanical keyboard nerds. It …
2022-07-08: Finished reading: The Hidden Palace by Helene Wecker 📚. Absolutely as good as The Golem And The …
2022-07-07:
🎵 Pharmacist
Pitchfork reviews the new Alvvays track, “Pharmacist,” which is their first in 5 years. …
2022-07-06: The Twitter Circle feature is a major improvement for the platform. I’m excited to see what …
2022-07-05:
To The Holy
The church that I have been attending, All Saints Orthodox Church, has a new website design and a …
2022-07-05: 🎵 Finest Hour - The Radio Dept. The concept of the Finest Hour playlist is to distill a favorite band's discography into an hour of …
2022-07-05: Antinet Zettelkasten The Antinet Zettelkasten movement is picking up steam. Despite what you would first think, the term …
2022-07-04:
🎵 Finest Hour - The Radio Dept.
The concept of the Finest Hour playlist is to distill a favorite band’s discography into an …
2022-07-04:
Antinet Zettelkasten
The Antinet Zettelkasten movement is picking up steam. Despite what you would first think, the term …
2022-07-02:
No More Netflix Binge
Matt Birchler speculates about why Netflix chose not to release Stranger Things Season 4 all at …
2022-06-29:
🕹 Summit Kingdom
Laysara: Summit Kingdom is an upcoming strategy game by Quite OK Games that has you building and …
2022-06-29: It’s healthy to be able to engage with different opinions. It’s not healthy to encounter them …
2022-06-29: Praying for Sameer Vasta, whom some on Micro.blog may know, as he is going through some really tough …
2022-06-25:
🎵 Finest Hour – Polvo
In a recent newsletter, Adam Wood proposed something called “Finest Hour.” The project …
2022-06-25: You Will Know A Tree Today, I visited my local Orthodox Christian church for the fourth time. My body felt somewhat weak, …
2022-06-22:
Ironsworn: Starforged
I wrote about the sci-fi successor to the fantasy tabletop RPG Ironsworn in the Week on the Web …
2022-06-22: Thanks to @toddgrotenhuis I’m participating in the Readwise Reader private beta. This app is …
2022-06-20:
🎵 Janky Star
Grace Ives' new album, Janky Star, caught me a bit by surprise. I became immediately attached to the …
2022-06-17:
Independent Social Media
I have been thinking recently about trying out federated social media site Mastodon. I’m …
2022-06-17:
🎵 Decades and Dreams
I posted a video from Atlanta’s Bailey Crone, AKA Bathe Alone, just a few months ago. I had to …
2022-06-16:
The Failings of San Francisco
This article by Nellie Bowles about the downfall of San Francisco and how it precipitated the ouster …
2022-06-16:
Writing Instead Of Talking
I wrote recently about how I’d prefer to express my views about a given subject by writing …
2022-06-14: “It’s like The Princess Bride but they’re on acid and at Medieval Times.” ~ …
2022-06-14: I heard my son exaggerating to his friend that I was a “master LEGO builder.” That seems …
2022-06-12: My self-hosting experiment was going along swimmingly all weekend. I used JSONLint and Gulp to get …
2022-06-10:
🎵 Terminal
Ever since she showed up in the band TOPS, I’ve thought Marta Cikojevic looked like a …
2022-06-10: Jason Morehead writes for Christ and Pop Culture about how reading the Ms. Marvel comic helped him …
2022-06-09: iA Writer 6.0 will support wiki links. That’s pretty huge.
2022-06-09: Rotten Apple I’ve been growing increasingly frustrated with Apple lately. Apple is a giant company now, as …
2022-06-08:
Rotten Apple
I’ve been growing increasingly frustrated with Apple lately. Apple is a giant company now, as …
2022-06-07:
Breaking News
A colleague was just telling me about how he hasn’t watched the news for approximately three …
2022-06-07: Who needs a Playdate for retro gaming when you’ve got one of these?
2022-06-05: Open for business.
2022-06-04: Basic Apple Guy pulled together a WWDC bingo card. He has some ideas about what may turn up at the …
2022-06-03:
🎵 I’m A Sensory Explosion
2022-06-03: Matthew Ismael Ruiz writes for Pitchfork as an obsessive digital music collector. He shuns …
2022-06-02: My wife and I celebrate our 20th anniversary today. I’m so glad we’re together. Of all …
2022-06-01: Lauren Goode wants to bring back the age of presence indicators — like the AIM Away Messages — to …
2022-06-01:
Reading It Later
I have a Kobo Libra 2 ereader, and it’s one of my favorite devices. Of course, it is used for …
2022-05-31: 🎵 It has been too long since I last listened to Hammock and the journey back into their soundscapes …
2022-05-30: The MUNYA record my mom got me for Christmas was just delivered. The vinyl pressing plants really …
2022-05-29: Claymorphism seems to be the rage now in web design. This style, which may remind you of your …
2022-05-29: TIL the web version of Microsoft Office is free if you are using the Edge browser.
2022-05-29: Another Sunday Divine Liturgy at All Saints Antiochian Orthodox Church. Beautiful service.
2022-05-28:
🎵 Perfectly Out Of Time
Stray Fossa is a band that Apple Music kept pushing on me until I realized that I really liked …
2022-05-28: Andy Phelps writes about how, growing up in California, near Edwards Air Force base, he had to deal …
2022-05-28: My son was playing his guitar and singing “All My Little Words” by the Magnetic Fields …
2022-05-28: Just updated my Now page (no swimming edition). frostedechoes.com/now/
2022-05-27:
Wired For Reproduction
Brandy Schillace writes for Wired Magazine about how …
2022-05-26: Come To The Dark Side (We Have Cookies) A lot of times, when I watch movies that pit good vs. evil in easily distinguishable sides, I wonder …
2022-05-26: The Fruit Of A Culture Of Death We tend to think of government corruption as happening in other places. Third world countries. It’s …
2022-05-26: We tend to think of government corruption as happening in other places. Third world countries. …
2022-05-24: I will never forget this piece. Since it was written, America has only grown more devoted to our own …
2022-05-23: The new Feedbin app for iOS is super snappy, designed well and seems less buggy than the previous …
2022-05-23:
Cal Newport On Social Media
Author of Deep Work, Digital Minimalism and other tech-adjacent books, Cal Newport, talks about the …
2022-05-22: Just finished reading: David and Goliath by Malcolm Gladwell 📚. Gladwell rarely disappoints. The …
2022-05-21:
Come To The Dark Side (We Have Cookies)
A lot of times, when I watch movies that pit good vs. evil in easily distinguishable sides, I …
2022-05-20:
🎵 Mint Julep - Covers
The 1980s was a decade that started with an album …
2022-05-19: Sunday worship at the Antiochian Orthodox Church.
2022-05-18:
Is Automattic A Poor Steward Of Its Acquisitions?
Almost a year ago, Wordpress owner Automattic bought the beloved journaling app, Day One. One of the …
2022-05-18: Things are heating up here in NC, and it’s about time to spin one of my favorite summer …
2022-05-16: It looks like Matter took into account one of the primary criticisms of the app — that it was too …
2022-05-16: Variables.
2022-05-14: Brave Rewards seems like a cool way to pay creators. I wish more people were verified, but I think …
2022-05-13:
Orthodox Christianity, The Far Right and the Green-Eyed Christ
A new book entitled Between Heaven and Russia: …
2022-05-13:
🎵 Full Moon Baby
I love how Hollie Cook is able to blend reggae and dream pop vibes on “Full Moon Baby.” I enjoyed …
2022-05-12: I looked into migrating over to blot.im last year (because it was so easy to post from Obsidian), …
2022-05-12: I’m leaning towards face tattoos but I’m open to suggestions on how to deal with my …
2022-05-11:
Less Is More
I’ve decided I need to introduce some changes to how I post online. I typically write a lot …
2022-05-11: I know @vincent probably hears this often enough, but, the new version of Gluon for Micro.blog is …
2022-05-08: 📺 Finished watching Moon Knight. What a strange trip it has been.
2022-05-07: When I see someone with a bumper sticker that has “class of 2026” on it, I think, …
2022-05-06: 🎵 I’ve had this song stuck in my head all week, so I added to my mini-review. You can’t …
2022-05-05: I love this story of a Catholic church in Austria that actually has a road running through it. At …
2022-05-05: Wordle seems to have been a boon for the New York Times, bringing millions of new users to the site …
2022-05-05: It’s cool to see Mastodontis get an official iPad app. Wondering if it’s time to check …
2022-05-05:
Smashing Political Binaries
Lois M. Collins has a profile of Elizabeth Bruenig, whom I’ve long admired, for Deseret News. The …
2022-05-05: Elizabeth Bruenig – Smashing Political Binaries Lois M. Collins has a profile of Elizabeth Bruenig, whom I’ve long admired, for Deseret News. The …
2022-05-04: There’s definitely an extent to which posting about personal situations on social media and public …
2022-05-04:
Everything Old Is New Again For 37signals
CEO Jason Fried just announced that Basecamp, the company, not the product, which used to be called …
2022-05-02: I realize that I just pointed to some writing tips from Clive Thompson, but here’s another …
2022-05-01: Pratik writes about the degeneration of Twitter by comparing it to your favorite bar going downhill. …
2022-05-01: One of the first things I did when I got my new backscratcher was use it on my cat. Then I saw the …
2022-04-30: I would be interested to know if anyone else is using Glasp for web highlighting. Seems like a …
2022-04-29: 🎵 Come On Let's Go Captured Tracks recording artist Scout Gillett covers the standout Broadcast track “Come On Let’s …
2022-04-29:
🎵 Come On Let's Go
Captured Tracks recording artist Scout Gillett covers the standout Broadcast track “Come On …
2022-04-28:
Rushing For The Exit
The purchase of Twitter by the world’s wealthiest “free speech absolutist” has brought quite a few …
2022-04-27: Cashing In My Chips My first thought when read (at the end of a long day of work) that Elon Musk had purchased Twitter, …
2022-04-26: Craig Mod promotes his piece in the New York Times — A Long Walk In A Fading Corner Of Japan: …
2022-04-26: Cashing In My Chips My first thought when read (at the end of a long day of work) that Elon Musk had purchased Twitter, …
2022-04-25: David French takes on the government in Florida on free speech. Based on his analysis, the state’s …
2022-04-23:
Dance Music For Introverts
Sometimes Apple Music inspires me by algorithmically playing fitting sequential songs after a …
2022-04-22: Clive Thompson wrote an ode to the em dash. After reading his fawning tribute to the multipurpose …
2022-04-22: I mentioned the building of the new Epic Games HQ in a recent issue of my newsletter, and now they …
2022-04-22: Flickr is making some interesting changes to their Terms of Service. After the changes take effect, …
2022-04-21: M.G. Seiegler writes about the hypothetical that Microsoft could buy Twitter. Unlike the …
2022-04-20: I really enjoy the roundups that Matt Poppe does of new Disney+ series for Christ and Pop Culture. …
2022-04-19:
Tracking Your Browsing Habits
moz://a, which has positioned itself as a browser company concerned about privacy, is now harvesting …
2022-04-19: The views from a lunchtime walk today.
2022-04-17: Eastertide I look at Easter not just as a day, but as a kickoff, if you will, for Eastertide. I see it as …
2022-04-17:
Eastertide
I look at Easter not just as a day, but as a kickoff, if you will, for Eastertide. I see it as …
2022-04-17: 🍿 Got around to watching the Oscar for best picture winning CODA and I’m very glad that I did.
2022-04-17: The Slide from Epistemic Bubble to Echo Chamber 📷 Image source: Brandon Burke on Flickr In 2019, I participated in what is called a Leadership 360 …
2022-04-17: The first time I said, “he is risen” this morning, it was to my cat. Happy Easter!
2022-04-14:
The Slide from Epistemic Bubble to Echo Chamber
In 2019, I participated in what is called a Leadership 360 assessment. This particular survey is …
2022-04-13: Working on probably the longest blog post I’ve written in years and just passed my goal.
2022-04-11: Finished reading: The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion by …
2022-04-09: 🎵 Loafing Oafs And All Night Chemists People tend to think of Morrissey as an overwrought melancholic (and not without some reason). I've …
2022-04-08:
🎵 Loafing Oafs And All Night Chemists
People tend to think of Morrissey as an overwrought melancholic (and not without some reason). …
2022-04-08: Likes include vegan ice cream flavors named after jam bands.
2022-04-07: I love the idea of a non-profit grocery store to serve the needs of those living in a food desert.
2022-04-06: Populations In The Lurch Derek Thompson wrote a newsletter edition for the Altantic about population growth collapsing in the …
2022-04-06:
Populations In The Lurch
Derek Thompson wrote a newsletter edition for the Altantic about population growth collapsing in …
2022-04-06: Jobs
2022-04-04:
Buzzing Towards Babylon
With no formal announcement (whoops), Wordpress.com changed their pricing significantly, removing …
2022-04-03: In what feels like a sign that h*ck hath indeed frozen over, Google Docs now supports markdown.
2022-04-02: The best revenge… by Topher McCulluch via Flickr.
2022-04-02: I kind of love the Comic Helvetic font. Currently playing around with it for my newsletter masthead.
2022-04-01: 🎵 Hazy Shade Of Winter This cover of a Paul Simon song by The Bangles achieved more popularity than the original. The clips …
2022-04-01:
🎵 Hazy Shade Of Winter
This cover of a Paul Simon song by The Bangles achieved more popularity than the original. The …
2022-03-31: Citizen Brick created, and quickly sold out of, a MOC LEGO figure of Ukrainian President Volodymyr …
2022-03-30: Writing For An Online Audience At Micro Camp 2021, Patrick Rhone did a talk on writing a book and he delved into the topic of …
2022-03-30:
Writing For An Online Audience
At Micro Camp 2021, Patrick Rhone did a talk on writing a book and he delved into the topic of …
2022-03-29:
Hyper-capitalism vs. the World
Rebecca Riddell has an opinion piece for the Washington …
2022-03-28: Hyper-capitalism vs. the World Rebecca Riddell has an opinion piece for the Washington Post (🔗 Via Lisa Sieverts) on the US trying …
2022-03-27: Work For Love People associate Ministry with their signature industrial/metal sound, but they have a dark past in …
2022-03-27:
🎵 Work For Love
People associate Ministry with their signature industrial/metal sound, but they have a dark past …
2022-03-25: Garrison Keillor has probably the best take on the confirmation hearings for Ketanji Brown Jackson …
2022-03-25: Ernie from Tedium has a piece on the new Asahi Linux alpha build for M1 Macs. Though I’m …
2022-03-24: The first time ever in two. Better than a 7/10 split. Wordle 278 2/6 🟨⬛⬛⬛🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
2022-03-24: 🍿 Just watched Free Guy and it was delightful. It borrowed concepts from Groundhog Day as well as …
2022-03-23:
Primary Obsidian Theme
For my work Obsidian vault, I’ve been using the Primary theme. I sometimes miss the features of a …
2022-03-22:
Follow The Science
My teenager has to get up at 5:30am for school. He goes to …
2022-03-21: Jodie Cook makes the case that the hidden benefit of two-factor authentication is that it creates …
2022-03-19: I got to play around with a Moog today and it was really fun. Switched on Robert.
2022-03-19: Just updated my Now page (opening back up edition).
2022-03-17:
Summers In The Breach
Every time I think I'm out, they pull me back in. I've started listening to my records again and …
2022-03-17: Summers In The Breach Every time I think I'm out, they pull me back in. I've started listening to my records again and I …
2022-03-16: Horror Head Frank Yang, of the late Chromewaves.net, has a new blog called Space Echo, where he does what he …
2022-03-16:
🎵 Horror Head
Frank Yang, of the late Chromewaves.net, has a new blog called Space Echo, where he does what he …
2022-03-15:
The Twitter Corps
In a piece entitled It's Not Your Fault You're a Jerk on Twitter, Katherine Cross writes for …
2022-03-15: Jonah is on Cat TV on his first birthday.
2022-03-13: The Twitter Corps In a piece entitled It's Not Your Fault You're a Jerk on Twitter, Katherine Cross writes for Wired …
2022-03-11:
The Upside Down
I did most of my growing up in the suburbs of the …
2022-03-10: The Upside Down I did most of my growing up in the suburbs of the District of Columbia, during the Reagan …
2022-03-08: Keeping It In The Box When I was a kid, I spent a good amount of time with a cousin of the same age. Throughout our …
2022-03-01:
Imprecatory Prayer
I had never come across the phrase "imprecatory prayer" …
2022-02-26: Fluffy cat, velvet cat.
2022-02-26: Jordan Peterson has a song now. My son called “it a Pink Floyd rip-off done by a bunch of …
2022-02-24: Clive Thompson on why you should switch to a browser with vertical tabs.
2022-02-24: Catherine the Great invited the Mennonites to settle land in Ukraine. Less than 100 years later, …
2022-02-22:
Beating Monsters With The Cross
The day before President’s Day, I went to church for the first time since last summer. I’ve been …
2022-02-21:
🎵 Brothertiger “Torn Open”
I know, I know, I just wrote about Brothertiger …
2022-02-20: I changed my avatar because the old pic was taken when the pandemic started and I really feel like …
2022-02-20: 🍿 Watched Encanto on Disney+ and wrote a short review. Thanks to all for the recommendations.
2022-02-17: It will be interesting to see if the introduction of downvotes on Twitter improves the discourse.
2022-02-14: I feel like our new kitten, Jonah, doesn’t have a lot of integrity. He doesn’t always do …
2022-02-10: Elevator Pitch Beliefs Image source: Steven Hiller/Twitter The clip of Stephen Colbert expressing some basics about his …
2022-02-04: I just introduced my boss (who used to work in radio at the BBC) to Ronnie Martin’s new album. …
2022-01-30: Those who doubt the potency and pervasiveness of Covid need but attend the Joys and Concerns portion …
2022-01-28: My lady friend is an Evernote gal, and I’m an Obsidian guy. Will it work between us?
2022-01-28: The Political Lawyer From David French, an analogy for partisanship in this country. He came to this after leaving the …
2022-01-27: Freddie deBoer wrote some thoughts after being told a book was “taken down” on Twitter. …
2022-01-26:
The Gift of Presence
Jason Fried of Basecamp on the decision they made to remove presence indicators from the app. Where …
2022-01-25: Our new kitten is learning that our older cat is really good at cat tower defense games.
2022-01-24: From Ross Douthat, an attempt to fuse together the themes of his two books, The Deep Places and The …
2022-01-23: Watching The Neverending Story with my last night of Netflix. This movie is such a product of its …
2022-01-23:
Tatooine Under New Management
Matt Poppe typically reviews …
⚠️ Warning: This post contains spoilers for The Book Of Boba Fett.
2022-01-21: Jason Morehead wrote a fair and even-handed review of 2025: The World Enslaved By A Virus, the Plan …
2022-01-21:
🎵 Yumi Zouma "In The Eyes Of Our Love"
Yumi Zouma has a new full-length, Present Tense, coming out March 18th on Polyvinyl. As is the …
2022-01-19: I’m following Austin Kleon’s advice. START A MAILING LIST, Y’ALL. I even displayed the …
2022-01-18:
Repairing the Cracks (kintsugi style)
Sometimes, I feel like I need to stop ruminating on the “deep cleavages in American …
2022-01-17: There is finally a new Pinboard iOS client and it looks good.
2022-01-17:
The Tools Don't Matter?
I’ve heard it frequently said that the tools you use don’t matter. That people who are …
2022-01-14:
All Things Too Open
Years ago, I saw Henry Zhou give a keynote speech at the All Things Open conference. I left his …
2022-01-14:
🎵 Barrie "Darjeeling"
Barrie is another band that was recommended to me by the Apple Music algorithm. I immediately …
2022-01-13:
Discussions of cryptocurrencies seem to be on everyone's lips, these days. Most of the opinions I am …
2022-01-13: Matter just added a send Articles to Kindle feature. Now if they would just do that for the …
2022-01-12:
The always insightful Russell Moore writes in his latest newsletter about Insurrection Day. He came …
2022-01-11:
Exchanging the Truth For Lies
Professor at a Christian college, Chad Ragsdale, has a blog …
2022-01-09: Finished reading: Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo 📚. I have to say I like the Crows series better than …
2022-01-09: Austin Kleon has a post remembering poet and musician Dave Berman on the week of his birthday. I’m …
2022-01-08:
Anger Unmasked
In our county, mask mandates in schools continue to be a hot …
2022-01-07:
🎵 Geowulf "Saltwater"
Last week, I wrote about some musical favorites from 2021. This week, I’m posting the video …
2022-01-06: Twitter frequently recommends contextless rage tweets from people I don’t even know or follow …
2022-01-06: Given the recent damning ProPublica piece that focuses on Facebook’s role in the January 6th …
2022-01-04: Finished reading: Brave New World by Aldous Huxley 📚
2022-01-04: The Quick Reviews web app from @mattbirchler just dropped and it’s pretty sweet. Still a bit …
2022-01-04: Andy Nicolaides over at the Dent urges us to take it easy on ourselves when it comes to social …
2022-01-03: Two days ago, I was literally sweating at the dinner table because it was so hot and today we got …
2022-01-03: It would be difficult to come up with a more precise and succinct description of our modern …
2022-01-02: Trailing clouds of glory do we come, From God, who is our home. ~ William Wordsworth
2022-01-02: Twitter is serious about suspending the accounts of those who spread disinformation about Covid-19 …
2021-12-31: 🎵 Spectres "Northern Towns" For this Friday Night Video, Spectres comes your way with some powerful, muscular post-punk. At …
2021-12-30: The Book of Boba Fett and Star Wars LEGO.
2021-12-29: My son just became a big boy.
2021-12-26: There is absolutely no overlap in the Venn diagram of my favorite albums this year and those of the …
2021-12-25: Saw some vultures chowing down on roadkill like it was Boston Market on the way to my mom’s …
2021-12-25: My wife loves it that we got each other the same Christmas card… again.
2021-12-24:
Hazel English "Nine Stories"
This is definitely the most playful music video I’ve seen in some time. You have Hazel …
2021-12-24: Christians love the part in A Charlie Brown Christmas where Linus gives his speech about the true …
2021-12-24: For those that read this blog post (which was one of my more controversial, for some reason), my bro …
2021-12-23: 📺 Watched Steve Jobs last night. Fassbender was great as the titular character. The whole movie was …
2021-12-23:
Pissed or Blissed?
Austin Kleon quotes Bill O’Hanlon when he talks about the four energies for writing. The first two …
2021-12-23: It seems the Chinese government is starting to understand that a political system with no real …
2021-12-23: My sister was talking to my wife about a comedian who sounds just like me, “except that …
2021-12-22: Anne-Laure Le Cunff of Ness Labs was just interviewed by Indie Hackers. I really like the balance …
2021-12-21: Matt Birchler writes in Photography Needs to be Fun about how the new Glass photography network …
2021-12-20: The new kitten is thriving on a diet of faux Christmas trees, shoe laces and Moleskine bands.
2021-12-20: Just Finished reading: Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman 📚. It seems the productivity craze …
2021-12-18: I’m pretty happy with the way the first issue of my newsletter, Week on the Web, turned out. …
2021-12-17:
Hoops "Cars and Girls"
Last week I featured an important song in the Japanese city pop genre and made the comparison to …
2021-12-17: There’s something special about hearing your son playing the guitar part for a song you put on …
2021-12-17: Now that M.b. has better support for drafts and scheduling, I’d love to see a Drafts action …
2021-12-16: I’d estimate about 25% of the posts that the official Twitter client shows me are from people …
2021-12-16: Got a new kitten named Jonah yesterday and we are getting along famously. He and my other cat …
2021-12-16: Kevin Crowley was caught in a crowd during a trampling incident that killed 94 people. He was …
2021-12-15: Vivaldi CEO Jon von Tetzchner writes about how Windows tries to get you to make Edge your default …
2021-12-14: Amazon employees yet again have reason to complain about their treatment from the company as it …
2021-12-12:
America Defeated Itself
In America, those that lived during the time of World War II are often referred to as "The Greatest …
2021-12-11: I can definitely see myself using this JSON to SVG timeline plugin to track my medical history.
2021-12-10:
🎵 Mariya Takeuchi "Plastic Love"
The song for this video is from 1984, but the video was shot just recently. Originally not a huge …
2021-12-09:
Endless Talk About The Culture War
Alex Nowrasteh writes for Arc Digital on why there is …
2021-12-07:
Punishing Facebook
Facebook has been outed in the US for its dishonorable …
2021-12-06: This post by Ted Gioia focuses on how musical innovations drove Silicon Valley. He details how HP …
2021-12-06:
Asymmetric Possibilities
The other night, I was reading through the cover story for …
2021-12-04: Got the Micro.blog Orange plan and now I can edit replies within 24 hours of posting them.
2021-12-03:
Work Drugs
Work Drugs bring their smooth yacht rock to this video of a girl wandering around a city. There are …
2021-12-03:
Spotify Envy
Around this time of year, people are always buzzing about their Spotify Wrapped playlists. They post …
2021-12-02: Years after writing it, I still get the once in a blue moon email about this post from someone who …
2021-12-01: Hub and spoke model of urban planning.
2021-11-28: “Waiting is the nurturing of a moment that holds a gift.” This first Sunday in Advent, …
2021-11-27: I was contacted by eBay, and they confirmed that the second buyer I had on my camp stove was another …
2021-11-26: This week’s Friday night video is taken from a series of intimate live studio performances by …
2021-11-25: I was enjoying posts from Paul Kingsworth, but he lost me after his anti-vaccine rant this week.
2021-11-24:
Inoculation Station
Paul Kingsnorth kind of lost me on his anti-vaxxer rant this week. Did …
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2021-11-23: A cool selection of Star Wars Wallpapers created by Virginia Poltrack. Source: …
2021-11-22:
Capture + Find (+ Publish)
Ellane W. has a blog post on the capture and find methodology and implementing that with Drafts + …
2021-11-22: Medium.com is a hot mess right now. All of the gamification and financial incentives to attract …
2021-11-20:
Kessler Syndrome
I remember a time, not long ago, when we laughed at the introduction of Space Force from …
2021-11-20: Snickers the cat likes to hide behind Henry Tudor’s girth.
2021-11-20: Any attempt to stop my wife from putting up the Christmas tree today would be completely futile. 🎄
2021-11-19:
Weezer “Take On Me”
On the Weezer appreciation scale, I’m at the end next to Leslie Jones character in the infamous SNL …
2021-11-18:
eBay Has Become The Pirate Bay
Over the years, I’ve had three eBay ID’s. eBay used to …
2021-11-17:
Learning Prayer From Cartoon Bears
When my oldest was younger, we used to read a Berenstain Bears book about prayer. While the books …
2021-11-16:
Paying For The Product
Cory Doctorow has made himself an expert on digital privacy. This essay is mainly about surveillance …
2021-11-15: Nice to see Twitter following through on its promise to decentralize with a more open API.
2021-11-14: Ever since I started trying to post to Micro.blog with Ulysses, I have had all kinds of bugs. Double …
2021-11-14: Just on the heels of my posting of an old iPod Sock sitting in my dresser drawer, Basic Apple Guy …
2021-11-13: It has been a long time, my old friend.
2021-11-13:
Everyday Radicalism
Does calling our actions “radical” or “revolutionary” make us feel better …
2021-11-12:
🎵 Munya “Voyage”
A few weeks ago, I blogged about Quebec artist MUNYA and her upcoming album, Voyage to Mars. MUNYA …
2021-11-12: We now have billionaires deciding whether to pay taxes to the government based on rudimentary …
2021-11-08:
🎵 Dave Depper “Lonely With You”
I had never heard of Dave Depper before this week, but …
2021-11-08: The little guy did American Gothic as Minecraft.
2021-11-07: On the iA blog, Oliver Reichenstein argues that apps are more like coffee makers than the cups of …
2021-11-06: On the post rock blog, A Closer Listen, Richard Allen reviews the new Hammock album, Elsewhere. …
2021-11-06: I like Derek Sivers practice of keeping plain text topic journals. I think I’m going to try doing …
2021-11-05: 🎮 It’s a pleasant little hamlet.
2021-11-05: Just hacked my Kobo to allow me to export highlights to a text file. My workflow is feeling much …
2021-11-05:
🎵 Colatura “At The Met”
I realize that I posted a video from Colatura not long ago, but the second single off of their debut …
2021-11-04: Terence Sweeney writes for Plough magazine about how the saints have lost relevance in our lives as …
2021-11-03: The Atlantic is buying up popular Substack writers and including their newsletters as part of your …
2021-11-02:
Likes and Easy Feedback
How do you signal appreciation? There has been a fair amount of debate …
2021-10-31: Jonas Ellison on how we act more Christian on Halloween than on Christmas. During Christmas, we …
2021-10-31: Back when 7 inches of vinyl would cost you less than 3 bones.
2021-10-31: Charlotte Bismuth on taking a sabbatical from social media. My eyes are no longer accustomed to the …
2021-10-30: I had no idea there was a recipe markup language called CookLang.
2021-10-29: 🎵 Wild Nothing - A Dancing Shell This week's Friday Night Video is a bit older but it's one that reminds me of how Jack Tatum can …
2021-10-29: I was sad to have to part with this pinball machine, which I had for 26 years, but I’m glad it …
2021-10-28:
Common Sense Violence
Warning: This post contains spoilers for the Apple TV+ series Foundation, as well as some graphic …
2021-10-27:
TCD (Total Cost of Dishonesty)
How much are the rest of us impacted by the lack of honesty from others?
2021-10-24:
Sea Green Serenade
Our Daily Bread has an insightful lesson on Psalm 77, in which Asaph unloads his anguish onto God. …
2021-10-23: Maria Popova can make even a post about changing the name of her blog into something incredibly …
2021-10-23:
You Are Not Your Own
The radio started when I turned on the ignition. NPR was playing from when my wife drove the car …
2021-10-22: From the review of Jonathan Franzen’s new book, Crossroads: Franzen knows better than anyone …
2021-10-22:
Curators Gain A New Power
As so much on the internet now is locked behind paywalls, there is a new opportunity for curators. …
2021-10-22: Rick Astley and the Blossoms "Well I Wonder" Rick Astley and the Blossoms have been on a nostalgia trip lately. They’re not reminiscing …
2021-10-20: I’m really looking forward to reading the new book by Alan Noble.
2021-10-19: A colleague and friend gave me this painting that she did. It looks fantastic in my dining room.
2021-10-17: Do you write using the printer method or the pixel method?
2021-10-17: Sunday morning newspaper.
2021-10-16:
It's Hard to Beat Amazon
As regular readers will know, I’ve been trying to rely less on Amazon and branch out into other …
2021-10-16: Plans.
2021-10-15:
Jenn Champion “Love Nobody”
Jenn Champion first came to my attention when she covered Weezer’s blue album in full for the now …
2021-10-14: I really appreciated this piece on the perfect plants for windowless offices. Though my home office …
2021-10-13:
The Great Pitchfork Apology
Pitchfork recently revised ratings on 20 albums from the past, mostly raising scores, but also …
2021-10-12:
Munya Voyage to Mars
MUNYA is set to release her new LP, Voyage to Mars, in November. On tracks …
2021-10-11:
What is the Matter?
Matter is a promising new read-it-later service that shies away from convention and introduces new …
2021-10-10:
Ted Lasso, Season 2 (is making me blue)
Warning: This post contains spoilers for the second season of Ted Lasso, up through Episode 8. …
2021-10-09: The Night the Darkness Revolted Revenge bedtime procrastination came up as a topic of discussion on Micro.blog a little while ago (I …
2021-10-09: Eventually, people learn that by calling something ‘spiritual warfare,’ we Christians …
2021-10-08: Yumi Zouma "In Camera" “In Camera” is just one of the many Balearic, breezy Yumi Zouma songs worthy of the …
2021-10-05:
Plain and Simple, Stars for Eyes
Chris Hayes writes for the New Yorker on how the internet has brought about a kind of pseudo-fame …
2021-10-04:
She and Him “Holiday”
It may be just a bit too early for posts about Christmas. Frankly, it seems …
2021-10-03: I didn’t check out Hey for email when everyone else did, but now I’m kind of curious …
2021-10-02: I asked my wife, who grew up Catholic in New Jersey, about The Many Saints of Newark and she had …
2021-10-02: It would be nice for Manton to commit to ending Finsta on Micro.blog.
2021-10-01:
Brothertiger "Arizona"
Brothertiger comes the closest of any band I can think of in blending a 2010 chillwave aesthetic …
2021-09-30: The flickr blog has a post that looks at nearly two decades of Creative Commons licenses. The post …
2021-09-30:
Users Mingling Freely with Brands
Alan Jacobs just published a blog post that made me chuckle. The Washington Post: “The metaverse, …
2021-09-29:
The Resemblance is Uncanny
A couple of years ago, I compared …
2021-09-29: I wish I had a t-shirt with colors and patterns as cool as those on this caterpillar.
2021-09-28:
Gimmie Indie Rock
1995 was a good year for independent music. The indie rock scene was maturing and new artists were …
2021-09-27: As a student of psychology, I’ve always been fascinated and disturbed by the concept of …
2021-09-26:
Hatchie "This Enchanted"
This new video by Hatchie is wrapped in a real 120 Minutes vibe. Noisy, shoegaze guitars, images on …
2021-09-26: I made it to worship service at church for the first time in over a year and a half today. It felt …
2021-09-25: I’m glad to see Mozilla coming up with new ways of generating revenue to reduce their reliance …
2021-09-25: TFW your son wakes you up on a Saturday morning to talk about how ridiculous the snare drum sounds …
2021-09-22:
Personal Knowledge Management
Tending to your digital garden. My name is …
2021-09-22: Finished reading: Place Called Freedom by Ken Follett 📚. This might be my favorite book by Follett …
2021-09-21: Last year, as music venues shut their doors, the hype began to quickly build around streaming …
2021-09-20: I read the different reactions to Season 2 of Ted Lasso and realize that your experience of it may …
2021-09-19: The news about Facebook hiding research that could proved detrimental to their business model is not …
2021-09-19: I’m excited about the upcoming changes to Instapaper. They’ve finished with …
2021-09-17: Friday Night Video | Somewhere This was a pleasant surprise in my Apple New Music Mix last week. I haven't heard any Black Marble …
2021-09-16: “The most recognized photograph on Earth gets the macOS treatment.” I especially love …
2021-09-16: I’ve made some very caring and compassionate friends through church.
2021-09-13: Finished reading: The Midnight Library by Matt Haig 📚. A very hopeful and optimistic book.
2021-09-12: In a recent post, Chad Ragsdale regrets the decline of morality in western civilization. He argues …
2021-09-11: Readwise is coming out with a read-it-later service for hardcore notetaking nerds like myself. You …
2021-09-11: Twenty years ago was my first day working in computers at Best Buy. I really didn’t understand …
2021-09-10:
Friday Night Video | Start Without Me
Greg's Guitar Lessons covers "Start Without Me" by Pedro The Lion. As far as I know, this is the …
2021-09-10:
Duett - Leisure
Duett channels the sounds of the 1980's on their pastel-infused album Leisure.
2021-09-09:
Jason Morehead asks if Facebook deliberately deplatformed his church. Like others who have had this …
2021-09-04: The Holy Post: It’s funny that Phil Vischer has a podcast that tackles some pretty heavy …
2021-09-04: A student was found with 2 guns at Enloe High School, where my sisters went to school. This is …
2021-09-04: Some are pointing to the hubris of yet another foreign power trying to graft its value system …
2021-09-04:
Maybe All I Need Is A Shot In The Arm
**Some Christians are looking for religious liberty exemptions from employer-based vaccine mandates. …
2021-09-03:
Friday Night Video | King Kalm
This one came up out of the blue last week, just as I had posted “Pink and Blue” as a …
2021-09-02: Cheri Baker has a great idea to keep us all sane: outrage slots. You only get two subjects of …
2021-09-02:
Tough Love
Mars Hill Church reveled in being Christian the manly way.
2021-09-01: When Austin Kleon wants to get answers to questions on Twitter, instead of asking a direct question, …
2021-08-30:
The YouTube Generation
My 9-yr.-old loves video games. It seems sometimes like his love for video games surpasses his love …
2021-08-29: Drew Coffman has gone all-in on crypto. He explains how he went from knowing nothing about the …
2021-08-28: The Mozilla Blog has a post explaining why hyperlinks are blue.
2021-08-28: The funny thing about minimalism is there is only so much you can say about it. That’s why …
2021-08-28:
The Return of The Wonder Years
I loved the original The Wonder Years series, which tracked almost perfectly with my age at the time …
2021-08-27:
Friday Night Video | Pink and Blue
The smooth and slightly smoky voice of Saint Sinner pairs well with the instrumentals from Tycho. …
2021-08-26: TFW multiple books you had on hold at Libby become available at once. What to read?
2021-08-24: Back to the Future, E.T., and the Wonder of a Non-Violent Blockbuster In this piece for Consequence …
2021-08-23: Here are a few blackout poems from Austin Kleon about the pandemic that remind me of the Psalms.
2021-08-21:
Work Drugs "Drive"
This is a bit of a return to form for the band that describe themselves as “smooth …
2021-08-20: 🎵 Japanese Breakfast does a gorgeous cover of Sufjan Stevens' “Romulus.”
2021-08-20: 🎵 Angel Olsen’s atmospheric 80’s cover EP, Aisles just dropped. If you buy it via …
2021-08-19:
A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Apps
A new photo sharing service could be great for photography, but is it ultimately better than the …
2021-08-16: Biden’s Betrayal of Afghans Will Live in Infamy | The Atlantic I’m breaking my usual guideline …
2021-08-15: No, Vinyl Records Aren’t Outselling CDs - Do the Math | Radio Survivor Paul Riismandel writes …
2021-08-14: My 9-yr.-old talks a lot when he’s playing video games. He sounds a bit like Bob Odenkirk …
2021-08-13: Friday Night Video | After The Moment Tonight we have Japanese band Pictured Resort covering Craft Spells' ‘After The Moment.’ …
2021-08-12:
Isla
New songs from Film School set the stage for their soon-to-be-released album. Film School just …
2021-08-11: End of the line for Uber | Cory Doctorow Cory Doctorow on the inevitable (at least in his view) …
2021-08-10:
Ethical Consumerism and the Amazon Dilemma
Amazon provides an almost perfect retail experience for the cost of a troubled conscience. Last …
2021-08-10: I like the way Matt Mullenweg calls journals “private blogs.” That guy truly has a web …
2021-08-09: What is an ethical consumer supposed to do with Amazon?
2021-08-09: It concerns me when my 9-yr.-old says things like “nobody uses Tinder anymore.”
2021-08-07: Is The Suicide Squad the beginning of the end for the superhero movie? | The Guardian Marvel’s …
2021-08-07:
Lost on Safari
Apple feels a little bit lost with regards to its implementation of Safari 15. The new look of the …
2021-08-06:
No Compliance
I love that this Facebook ad spotlighting a retro skateboarding trick starts with footage of …
2021-08-05: Using Drafts.app feels like being in control of a mini digital command center for text. Sometimes, …
2021-08-05: As of next week, my younger son will have attended school for only 2 out of the 5 weeks since he …
2021-08-04: ‘Look at Me Like a Human Boy!’ Clifford is one of my favorite movies of all time, so of course I had …
2021-08-04: Smoke on the horizon, all’s well at home | Garrison Keillor “I have friends whose …
2021-07-31: Obsessive Collecting & Hobbies in the Pandemic: Vinyl Records Demand forces a collector to …
2021-07-31: Didn’t finish reading: The Story Of A New Name by Elena Ferrante 📚. The book was very well …
2021-07-27: The first user of the beta Posts+ feature on Tumblr received death threats. “I felt like the …
2021-07-24: I can’t believe we are still in the situation where you have to prove you have a cable …
2021-07-24: I don’t care what you do, as a parent, you are never totally prepared for that moment when …
2021-07-20: Finished reading: Siege And Storm by Leigh Bardugo 📚. I enjoyed this much more than the first book …
2021-07-17: Tumblr removing post types and substituting simple content blocks is a good move. It enables greater …
2021-07-03: I really like not having access to site metrics on M.b. but it can be nice to know when someone is …
2021-06-29: “Comments are suppposed to be nice and supportive, or just like, a question.” ~ My 9-yr. old, coming …
2021-06-27:
Music As Teenage Cultural Capital
When I lived out my teen years, in the early nineties, …
2021-06-26: Finished reading: Stardust by Neil Gaiman 📚. I had trouble wrapping my head around the concept of an …
2021-06-25: On the wall above his desk, there’s a framed ticket from a Grateful Dead concert. On the other side …
2021-06-25: “‘Lucas makes movies that are intentionally designed to have holes in them that need to …
2021-06-24: Good move by Twitter to add Revue newsletter signup buttons to Twitter user profiles. I wondered how …
2021-06-20: Newsletters get tricky.
2021-06-20: Is Netflix the only company within the high-flying FAANG stock portfolio not under antitrust …
2021-06-18: I appreciate Eddy Cue’s honesty regarding Apple Music lossless encoding. Very few people will be …
2021-06-16: “If you have ever engaged in one of the typical shame fights on social media, then think about …
2021-06-12: Listening to the spaceship engine sounds from the Dark Noises app at night makes me feel like I’m …
2021-06-12: Adding this movie to my Netflix queue was an easy call. A new Netflix movie called Skater Girl …
2021-06-10: I’ve longed for pages like this on Apple Music, where you can see the output of a record …
2021-06-08:
The More Things Change
Freddie deBoer …
2021-06-04: As the kids say, “it me.”
2021-06-03:
The Sound of the Fury
When Medium decided to stop funding many of the publications …
2021-05-30: 📚When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanathi: The story of Kalanathi’s promising life as a …
2021-05-26:
Grayscale Phone
I recently showed my wife my iPhone screen, which was dulled by complete grayscale. She responded by …
2021-05-25: At this point, none of the money from the $16 billion “Save Our Stages” relief fund has …
2021-05-23: 🎮 Oregon Trail: I haven’t actually played the game, but I enjoy listening to the desert noir …
2021-05-23:
Some Things Last A Long Time
Following the previous post, I’m risking turning this into a Sharon Von Etten fan blog, which would …
2021-05-21:
Friday Night Video | Like I Used To
It may be partly the haircuts (hey Linda Ronstadt), but something feels so authentically 70’s about …
2021-05-15:
Prayers Over Facebook
Facebook has been quietly rolling out a prayer post feature that will let users post prayer …
2021-05-14: Spotify Versus the Ages Photo by Daniel Schludi on Unsplash. There are many reasons to be frustrated with Spotify, but my …
2021-05-12: I appreciate the way the official Micro.blog app has edges. If I don’t click the “Show More” button, …
2021-05-04: 📺 The Bad Batch: The first episode got the thumbs up from the little guy, who loved Clone Wars. May …
2021-04-30: 🎮 Wonderbox: My son is really enjoying the single and multiplayer modes of this game. The levels and …
2021-04-29:
A Way To Buy Nothing
These Buy Nothing groups, which offer a way to trade goods with neighbors and reduce spending and …
2021-04-24: 🍿 Wolfwalkers - A brilliantly and vibrantly illustrated movie. I was frustrated with the narrative …
2021-04-22:
Keeping Your Composure
Over at Brainpickings, Maria Popova writes about accepting reality and setting your expectations …
2021-04-21:
Female Leads
When Ursula Le Guin wrote the The Tombs of Atuan (published in 1970), the second book in the …
2021-04-17: “There are several leading theories for why vaccines could alleviate the symptoms of long COVID: …
2021-04-16: Got my first jab today, but unlike most people, I walked in with a few of the symptoms that were …
2021-04-16:
Friday Night Videos | Where Is My Mind
Nandi Bushell always puts on a great performance. She started with videos of herself playing a …
2021-04-14: Currently reading: The Tombs of Atuan by Ursula K. Le Guin 📚. The second in the Earthsea series, …
2021-04-09:
Friday Night Video | Little Fury Things (Acoustic Cover)
If you’ve ever heard J. Mascis perform Dinosaur Jr. songs solo on acoustic guitar, he goes about it …
2021-04-07: Apple Arcade is killing it right now and I wish I had the energy to play more of the games.
2021-04-05: For those who may be interested, this is the Q&A where I was able to ask the Catholic nuns how …
2021-04-04: The Lord is risen. He is risen indeed! 🐑🪨
2021-04-02:
Friday Night Video | Hard Drive
Have you ever thought about how hypnosis so closely resembles guided meditation? Especially the …
2021-03-30: Dreaming Of How It’s Supposed To Be (a collage)
2021-03-29: I am so stoked that Kumail Najiani is going to be in the new Obi-Wan Kenobi series. I only hope that …
2021-03-29: I’m not sure I fully understand why the generic almond milk I use for my cereal needs a social media …
2021-03-29:
Time To Edit
Austin Kleon …
2021-03-27: R.I.P. Larry McMurtry. The author was nothing if not prolific. I went through a period where I …
2021-03-27: The IA Writer blog has a post on how the app can be beneficial to those with ADHD (especially in …
2021-03-25:
Medium Level Chaos
Casey Newton very publicly …
2021-03-23: I just got to ask a question of some Catholic nuns about how the practice of Memento Mori can be …
2021-03-23:
Beyond the Beyond
I was recently in search of something to to read after finishing the sprawling epic that was The …
2021-03-21: Happy name day to my lady friend! It was great that we could celebrate with family.
2021-03-20: Currently reading: A wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin 📚. Classic fantasy.
2021-03-20:
Shoegaze Saturday | Losing Daylight
The header of the Bandcamp page for Prepare My Glider features a shoegaze staple: an overstuffed …
2021-03-19: Friday Night Video | Be Sweet After her bass player left a former band she was in to join a band he said was going to be “Jimmy …
2021-03-18: Really enjoying this Flickr group of vintage travel posters.
2021-03-18: I rarely look at my main Twitter timeline. I mostly stick to the notifications tab. Now they are …
2021-03-17: I agree with Zac Hall and John Voorhees that Apple removing the HomePod from their product line is …
2021-03-16: It’s interesting how many musicians criticize or even protest against Spotify while others promote …
2021-03-14:
Near Death Experiences
The Guardian has a piece on near-death experiences (as they have been known since the 70’s), which …
2021-03-11: Prayers.
2021-03-10: “I mean, how cool is it to own – actually own – a piece of a song by one of your favorite artists …
2021-03-09: Just updated my Now page (Intermezzo edition).
2021-03-08:
WandaVision Collateral Damage
Warning: Contains …
2021-03-06: “While the phrase “politically correct” seemingly exploded out of nowhere in the early nineties, it …
2021-03-04: “One of my greatest frustrations in terms of trying to find ways to bridge this deep divide within …
2021-03-04: Apple just launched a service for transferring your photos and videos to Google. I’m not planning on …
2021-02-28: Just read: Herodias by Gustave Flaubert 📚. The story is well told, although short. You probably …
2021-02-26: A box full of Snickers.
2021-02-26:
Catholic Black Metal
There is a theory that black metal flourished in Norway because there was never a …
2021-02-25:
Memento Mori
The latest episode of the …
2021-02-24:
Mozilla Has All The Cookies
On the Mozilla Security blog, the Firefox team details their new implementation of cross-site …
2021-02-22: Ernie Smith from Tedium takes a good look at Vivaldi, still probably the browser that is most …
2021-02-22: I’m kind of sad that our cat Snickers has ceased her habit of starting the evenings by “hiding” …
2021-02-19:
Link Blogging
CJ Chivers writes about a type of writing for the web that I hope to firmly remain in the tradition …
2021-02-18:
Batman '89
When Batman came …
2021-02-17: When I was undergoing chemotherapy in 1995, I would have to listen to Rush Limbaugh while my dad …
2021-02-13:
Fear and Loathing In These United States
By most accounts, evangelical Christians are concerned about …
2021-02-12: New Order with Florida sun drenched, blissed out vocals. 🎵 Millionyoung - Less
2021-02-09: Guitar practice for the little guy.
2021-02-07: “If you are the child of elderly parents in parts of the United States right now, and if you are …
2021-02-06: If Morrissey had been enamored with Brazil, the Smiths might have made a song like Rio De Janeiro by …
2021-02-06: My superstar, heavily used apps.
2021-02-05:
Romeo and Juliet
I remember hearing Widowspeak years ago, when their album Almanac came out and not getting too …
2021-02-04:
Bandcamp Versus Spotify
Damon Krukowski writes for NPR about the differences between Bandcamp and Spotify. Though I would …
2021-01-29:
A Temple Made of Air
Giorgia Angiuli is a musical polymath. I don’t know my electronic subgenres as well as I …
2021-01-27: Tony Hawk just did what is most likely his last 720. I am a few years younger than Hawk and I …
2021-01-24: The Luddite Versus The Technologist In 1995, a young, optimistic technologist found himself frustrated by the dire prognostications of a …
2021-01-23: After listening to the latest episode of the Core Intuition podcast, I’m realizing that I’m not the …
2021-01-22:
These Important Years
I don’t know how long I’m going to want to examine the previous four years, at least as we climb our …
2021-01-20: It feels like we should be able to take a mulligan and call this New Year’s Day.
2021-01-19: “Many of the (supposed) Christians I know have lost their first love. You can tell by the way they …
2021-01-18: Transforming Disgust I love this post, about turning the tables on disgust, from Austin Kleon. In particular the quote …
2021-01-18: As I listen to the new Noble Oak record, I’m happy to see that Bandcamp has opened their vinyl …
2021-01-17:
A Fresh Coat of Paint
Approximately annually, around the end of the year, I examine my …
2021-01-16: 📺 Wandavision: Having benefitted from growing up with The Dick Van Dyke show and Bewitched, via Nick …
2021-01-15: I honestly couldn’t think why someone would try to record a cover of this song because the original …
2021-01-11: “Conservatives retain significant access — access that is comparable to the access liberals have — …
2021-01-10:
Inside the Gallery
I have to admit, I have been somewhat surprised at people …
2021-01-08: One of my favorite (former) music bloggers from back in the days of the old blogosphere, Frank Yang …
2021-01-03:
The Noise That I Loved Best
For the past 2 years, I’ve been making a …
2021-01-01:
Iconography 2021
2020-12-29:
Encase My Heart In Amber (or at least plastic)
Beautiful Noise. A simple …
2020-12-29: My mom got me this tea for Christmas. The tin advises to “cozy up during a cold winter evening and …
2020-12-26: Just updated my Now page (the longest winter edition).
2020-12-26: A few years ago, there were two dominant iOS Pinboard apps, Pushpin and Pinner and I - I chose the …
2020-12-26: 🍿Soul: Pixar does a fantastic job coming up with something new almost every time. We watched this …
2020-12-25:
The Local 506
Today I got this shirt from my loving wife as a Christmas present. The Local 506 is where, in …
2020-12-25: Merry Christmas!
2020-12-21: NC Sen. Thom Tillis, who has been a big supporter of relief for music venues forced to shut down …
2020-12-20: When this is over, we need to take a hard look at why so many government institutions were so …
2020-12-19: My youngest son and I are having fun opening daily presents under the tree in the shop from the game …
2020-12-18: 📚 The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas: Sure, I’ve seen the movie and I know how this story …
2020-12-17: Washed Out is performing a free live show on Pitchfork tomorrow, 12/18.
2020-12-14: An “Angry Staff Officer” writes for Wired magazine about how, as of The Mandolorian Episode 14, …
2020-12-13: It still blows my mind that the realest Christmas message you’ll hear on TV this year will be …
2020-12-13: Substack is a great platform and many fantastic writers are there, but ultimately their model won’t …
2020-12-13: Sometimes I worry that my son plays video games too much, but when I hear him complaining about how …
2020-12-13: Happy holidays from Emperor Palpatine.
2020-12-08:
Look To Where The Help Comes
I’ve been hard on Facebook in the past, especially with regard to their role in the recent elections …
2020-12-05:
Vinyl Church
Jonas Ellison writes about wanting to attend a vinyl church, and I’m here for it. What does he mean …
2020-12-04: 🎮 Stella: To be charitable, this game owes a lot to Inside. That’s a good thing, though, because …
2020-12-04:
Friday Night Video | Unearth
Subsonic Eye is a Singapore-based band coming out with their third full length, Nature of Things, in …
2020-12-03: Instagram made a change to their API in late October that broke the Hugo shortcode for embeds. There …
2020-12-02:
Writing In An ASMR Room
Cal Newport writes about ASMR rooms and virtual reality. While I have yet to see virtual reality …
2020-12-01: 🍿 Her: The emotional ups and downs in this film seemed a bit contrived, but the aesthetic was …
2020-11-30:
Genre Bending
In issue 31 of his newsletter, Ringo Dreams of Lawn Care, Michael Donaldson takes on people loving …
2020-11-29: Freemasonry or Social Media By the level, by the square and by the All-Seeing Eye: Christianna Silva writes for NPR about the …
2020-11-27: Color me impressed by the portrayal of Ashoka Tano on the Mandolorian. I always felt she was almost …
2020-11-25:
Where Thieves Break In
A colleague of mine recently moved to a new apartment after his roommate left and his lease was up. …
2020-11-23: Grateful to be able to watch a YouTube video and replace a $3 fuse in my dead microwave rather than …
2020-11-22: Nighttime lacrosse (a collage).
2020-11-22: I love this article, which details a Presbyterian church in Queens that is building an affordable …
2020-11-21: My teenage son spends his free time using a gerrymandering simulator to see how many blue districts …
2020-11-21: The Man Who Would Be King In episode 270 of the Seeing and Believing podcast, hosts Wade Bearden and Kevin McLenithan discuss …
2020-11-20: I’m so convinced by the central argument of Breaking Bread with the Dead by Alan Jacobs 📚 that …
2020-11-19:
Snaptweet Chat
M.G. Siegler has a post describing what I thought Twitter’s new Fleets feature would be and …
2020-11-18: I can accept that I’m in the minority when I say that Dave Grohl’s greatest legacy is being the …
2020-11-18:
Medium Admiring RSS
Medium recently changed their mobile reading experience. It’s still in beta, and you have to toggle …
2020-11-17: It has been revealed that a $1 million donation from Dolly Parton helped to fund Moderna’s new …
2020-11-17: In a politically charged year when the circus can’t be completely avoided, this interview with …
2020-11-14:
Got Nothing To Prove
I want to pose something to others who are writing on the internet. You don’t have to write think …
2020-11-13:
Matt Poppe has been reviewing each episode of the Mandalorian for Christ and Pop Culture and he …
2020-11-07: Well, it turns out I couldn’t avoid politics this weekend. I’m so glad that ended up being the case, …
2020-11-07: Trying hard to keep politics from being my companion this weekend. I can still use Micro.blog.
2020-11-06:
Friday Night Video | Here's The Thing
This Friday night, those of us in the US are probably election fatigued. Let’s spend some time with …
2020-11-03: “In America, in every puddle, there’s a gasoline rainbow.” ~ Doug Martsch, Built to Spill
2020-11-01: Just updated my Now Page (anemic holidays edition).
2020-10-31: Currently reading: A Passage to India by E. M. Forster 📚. East meets West in Colonial India. Some of …
2020-10-30: When It Comes Down I am an unaffiliated voter. I used to vote based on policies and candidates. In the last few years, …
2020-10-29: I love Craig Mod’s newsletter about walking, Ridgeline. I’m honored to be featured in the Fellow …
2020-10-29: These Pac-Man style ghosts turned into screaming banshees in tropical storm winds.
2020-10-25: On a British magistrate in colonial India: “Ronny approved of religion as long as it endorsed the …
2020-10-25:
The Cut and Paste Gospels
James Parker, writes in the Atlantic on the Jefferson Bible, in which Thomas Jefferson carefully …
2020-10-25:
Come Back This Way Again
One of the casualties of the COVID-19 crisis this year was a Tennis show in May that was to be held …
2020-10-18: This story about John McAfee’s early, heavily Native American appropriated social network Pow Wow, …
2020-10-17:
Is The Ability To Play Videogames Becoming Instinctual?
My son seems to be able to play any videogame with little to no instructions.
2020-10-16: When Jesus healed sick people, he always said, “Your faith has made you whole.” He never said, “Your …
2020-10-13: Currently reading: The Pilgrim’s Compass by Paul H. Lang 📚. I just started, but I’m …
2020-10-12: Autumn in empire.
2020-10-10: It’s that time of year again. The spooks are out.
2020-10-09: 📚 What the Mystics Know - Richard Rohr: This one is a bit more scattered than Rohr’s other books. It …
2020-10-06: I thought Libby was a wonderful books app with a terrible selection. After looking at the NYC …
2020-10-06: Thanks be to God that the president seems to be okay after contracting COVID, but I had sincerely …
2020-10-04: It has been too long since I’ve listened to Hammock and their playlist of songs for sleep is a good …
2020-09-29:
Why Germans Didn’t Want To Play Risk
In his piece for the Atlantic, The Invasion of the German Board Games, Jonathan Kay brings up an …
2020-09-29: I haven’t come across any App Clips in the wild yet, but M.G. Siegler seems really impressed by the …
2020-09-27: Really happy that my state has a COVID contact tracing app now in the form of SlowCOVIDNC. Really …
2020-09-26: I can’t wait to watch these NPR live streams featuring Moon Racer today!
2020-09-25:
Friday Night Video | Turtle Bay
🎵 Softer Still - Turtle Bay: This song and video aren’t new. I first heard the track while on a …
2020-09-25: Covidtide Kylo Ren
2020-09-24: “Brother-sister duo pegged for tax fraud that funded trampoline party in NC, feds say” After seeing …
2020-09-23:
High School Diaries
Today, one of my favorite teachers in high school died while at school (the same school my son would …
2020-09-22: Remembering my daughter Chloe with brownies and cake on what would have been her tenth birthday.
2020-09-21: My wife and I have been married for almost 20 years. We still have a lot in common, but wildly …
2020-09-21: The remote working and learning has put me in a a situation where, on a Monday morning, I can …
2020-09-20:
You’re Not The CEO
Not to sound like the teaser to a typical Medium article, but one of my favorite vinyl instagrammers …
2020-09-20: Uniting the States The identity politics that more and more defines the left has a built-in political flaw. It divides …
2020-09-18:
Friday Night Video | Daniel
🎵Bat for Lashes - Daniel: With the current popularity of the Cobra Kai series, it seems like an …
2020-09-17: One of my biggest questions about iPadOS 14 is why it made a picture of a gummy pizza I took a few …
2020-09-17: Copying handwritten notes as text was the feature in iPadOS 14 to which I was most looking forward. …
2020-09-14: Casseroles I Have Known (a collage)
2020-09-12:
A Couple Of Thoughts On Blogging
A longing and nostalgia for the old systems of blogging still seems to be fairly pervasive.
2020-09-07:
Armed in the Subway
Back in May, which now somehow seems like years ago, a bunch of folks with guns protesting …
2020-09-06:
A Brydge Over Troubled Water
On the Friday night that started a holiday weekend, I found myself helping to troubleshoot an …
2020-09-06: Thank goodness indolence is acceptable on Labor Day weekend.
2020-09-05:
It Doesn’t All Come As A Package
For a long time now, I’ve had a hard time fitting in politically. I’m adrift in the sea of American …
2020-09-04: I’m old enough to remember versions of Street Fighter where you didn’t have to download updates, …
2020-09-02: The Republicans of today would make Richard Nixon blush.
2020-08-30:
Star Wars Is About Faith
Earlier this year, on Star Wars day, I looked forward to seeing The Rise of Skywalker again and I …
2020-08-30: After a virtual worship service, I put on Miles Davis' Kind of Blue (AKA the most popular jazz album …
2020-08-29: From a purely meteorological standpoint, I want to argue that thunder doesn’t only happen when it’s …
2020-08-25:
Pandemics Can’t Kill Vinyl
After Amazon stopped shipping vinyl records, in the spring, to prioritize orders of more critical …
2020-08-23: Motherboard (Vice) is launching a newsletter about the USPS. The newsletter itself is free, but …
2020-08-22: Jonas Ellison on virtue signaling and how we don’t need it to prove our worth. To accept our …
2020-08-22: Within a minute of us bringing home this basket for the little guy’s school supplies, it had already …
2020-08-21: We’re getting a brief respite from the heat, here in NC. Still deadheading marigolds that look like …
2020-08-20: 📚 William James - The Varieties of Religious Experience: Having majored in psychology and having …
2020-08-18: Still at the home office full-time.
2020-08-16:
Who's Going to Drive You Home?
🎵 Soccer Mommy - Who’s Going to Drive You Home?: Until now, I’ve been largely immune to the …
2020-08-15: Do Your Part Is the government afraid to ask Americans to make material changes to support the country? When we …
2020-08-15: Pretty disappointed that the Collections feature is now out for MS Edge on iOS but you can’t …
2020-08-14:
Friday Night Video | Tailwhip
🎵 Men I Trust - Tailwhip: I don’t usually have FOMO, nor do I spend a lot of time on regret. …
2020-08-13: If I’m reading popular sentiment right, I’m supposed to be okay with Apple’s …
2020-08-13: Oh wow, after a few years, reigning clipboard app champ Copied just got updated.
2020-08-12: One song that I’m pretty sure won’t be playing at campaign rallies: “Kamala’s Too Nice” by …
2020-08-10: 📺 The Story of God (w/ Morgan Freeman) : Each episode features a look across how faiths deal with a …
2020-08-09: I (Space Invaders) Miami: A collage.
2020-08-09: Sound Analysis When Wilco’s incredibly critically acclaimed album Yankee Hotel Foxtrot came out, I remember reading …
2020-08-06: Space Tower: A collage
2020-08-04: The Political or the Spiritual This is something for Christians to think about, as we get closer to Election Day. Christians will …
2020-08-02: Chains Addiction The days are piling up on one another. Their beginning, middle and end feel strikingly familiar. One …
2020-08-02: 📺 Pickathon - Khruangbin: This show (recorded last year) was scorching. The band played their back …
2020-08-02: I don’t know why: The existential poetry of the president.
2020-08-01: 📺 Transformers: War for Cybertron: Watching Megatron try to win sparks and minds for his revolution.
2020-07-31: It’s interesting to see Medium getting back into the blogging game.
2020-07-29: In this episode of the Blocked and Reported podcast, Freddie deBoer talks about the ways Twitter can …
2020-07-25: ISAMU: A Short Skate Film Filmed in Osaka and Kyoto, this short film by Brett Novak follows Japanese skateboarder Isamu …
2020-07-25: Fuzz buster: a battery leak and this old friend is finished for good.
2020-07-24: Recently, @dhe brought up Edge being the second best browser on the Mac. For those of us note taking …
2020-07-24: Feeling insulted by music recommendation algorithms. “Is THAT what you think of me?”
2020-07-23: You don’t seem to hear much about hygge anymore, but you could probably make comfy synth a companion …
2020-07-23: I once started a blog post on how big box stores were the Scrooges of our age. So happy to hear …
2020-07-22:
Narrow Vision, You're A Scapegoat
I find myself in the most unusual position of agreeing with Attorney General William Barr. Barr …
2020-07-19: App Development To Give Back To Online Communities The Micro.blog platform has been growing lately, and part of the growth has been through plugins and …
2020-07-12: The little guy was asking to get Minecraft Dungeons yesterday. I told him we would hold off and read …
2020-07-11: 🎵 The passing of Richard Swift was a tragedy and the musical legacy he left behind, not just through …
2020-07-10: The ancients are updating. A collage.
2020-07-10: Friday Night Videos: Bad Habit This is a short one, and I’d rather some new full-length music …
2020-07-07: Only the best accommodations.
2020-07-05: Politico has a piece on why the Facebook boycott by major companies likely neither cost the …
2020-07-04: 🎵 Brothertiger - Fundamentals, Vol. 1: This EP is a departure from the normal sound of Brothertiger …
2020-07-04: I am profoundly grateful for many blessings, but you will have to forgive me if I don’t feel like …
2020-07-02: Michael Flarup believes the new UI in MacOS Big Sur is going to bring back a lot more creativity in …
2020-06-29: The instrumental version of Toro Y Moi’s Causers of This is so dense as to be virtually …
2020-06-28: Faithful Mask Wearing Image by Charles Deluvio from Unsplash Andrew Carter writes for the News and Observer on how …
2020-06-27: 🔗 Fans Vote “Master of Puppets” Best Metallica Song in Band-Endorsed Poll This comes as no surprise. …
2020-06-25: 📚 The Book of Common Prayer (a biography) - Alan Jacobs: Hardly a book you would think of as a …
2020-06-24: I’ll cut my wife’s bangs during this pandemic, but I demand complete creative control over the …
2020-06-22: Thanks, but no thanks, to that bridge to nowhere. A collage.
2020-06-20: I was very close to leaving Instagram after I started seeing political ads a few weeks ago. I have …
2020-06-20: The Cult of Seeking to Serve “Mandatum” by Lawrence OP via Flickr Matt Taibbi has a thought-provoking edition of his newsletter …
2020-06-18: Colder and Closer One of my favorite albums this year has been TOPS I Feel Alive. I know I’ve been down on music …
2020-06-16: 📚 Catalyst - James Luceno: Although Rogue One was one of my favorite Star Wars films, I didn’t have …
2020-06-15: Adult coloring some goths.
2020-06-13: Has anyone ever listened to “Regress No Way” by 7 Seconds while sipping chamomile tea?
2020-06-12: Friday Night Videos - Tom Courtenay Fun video for an indie rock classic.
2020-06-12: With public transportation ridership dropping and most people working from home, Sheena Easton’s …
2020-06-11: What if I told you there was a way to express your thoughts on the web without having to break them …
2020-06-07: Live Music In A Dead Age Bad Brains at the 9:30 Club in 1983. Image by Malco23 courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. I’m not …
2020-06-07: Fires Remain Lit I do not want this moment to pass with the changing of the news cycle. I want these fires to remain …
2020-06-06: Push th’ little daises and make ‘em come up.
2020-06-04: McKay Coppins writes for the Atlantic about the Christians who loved the president posing with a …
2020-06-02: These kinds of artwork critters are found in various places during our neighborhood walks.
2020-06-02: I have never been so grateful for my self-imposed screen time limit on social media than I have …
2020-05-31: All Are Welcome Downtown Raleigh, like some other major metro downtowns, was ablaze last night. A couple of hours of …
2020-05-31: Author Cheri Baker has a fantastic post about what it was like to have a rough night in Seattle.
2020-05-30: Keisha Lance Bottoms, mayor of Atlanta, has strong words for protests descending into chaos in her …
2020-05-30: The Looters Club Protesters photo by Lorie Shaull via Flickr “Our nation’s summers of riots are caused by our …
2020-05-28: Conspiracy Christians In this week’s Moore To The Point newsletter, Russell Moore dives into conspiracy theories, with an …
2020-05-25: Respecting Tools My 2018 iPad Pro with Magic Trackpad 2 I bought an iPad Pro back in 2018, when I was studying for …
2020-05-23: Link Posts And Small b Blogging Marius Masalar has some thoughts about blogging and link posts. Masalar sees a lot of value in them …
2020-05-22: Wanfuni Records Presents Takahiro Lofi beatmaker extraordinare and all around great guy Takahiro Fuchigami put together a compilation …
2020-05-21: I Tried Microblogging and the Results Will Shock You I’ve been trying Wordpress out for a long time. I’d be embarrassed to tell you how many innocent AWS …
2020-05-17: Just updated my Now page (tending your garden edition).
2020-05-15: 🎵 Friday Night Video - Everlasting Love [youtube youtu.be/JaYTNsS_m…] Token “groovy chick” included.
2020-05-13: Meeting on the moon. A collage.
2020-05-11: An Older Tradition People who want church to be more traditional make a good point. But they don’t typically aim far …
2020-05-10: 🎮 While everyone else is playing Animal Crossing, my lady friend is working her way through Stardude …
2020-05-07: Radiance. A collage.
2020-05-04: This time of year can be busy with Motörhead Day (the 8th of May) following so closely in the heels …
2020-05-04: Happy Star Wars Day! I wrote a short piece on how to enjoy it.
2020-05-03: Happy Star Wars Day Disney wisely chose to observe what has become an annual tradition of celebrating the Star Wars …
2020-05-01: English Breakfast Hoops new EP, English Breakfast, takes what is probably Coldplay’s best song and adds a bit of …
2020-04-30: There’s some irony in the fact that book delivery takes so long now from Amazon, due to their …
2020-04-28: Sitting in-between.
2020-04-28: Listening To New Music As A Rite Of Spring Jeremy D. Larsen, writing for Pitchfork, uses the riotous 1913 Paris debut performance of …
2020-04-27: Margaret On The Guillotine After putting out a successful album in 2018, an illness left Gia Margaret without the ability to …
2020-04-26: Roam, If You Want To In his latest newsletter, Chris Bowler spends a bit of time on the Roam note taking service that is …
2020-04-26: My Harvard employed younger sister spent the better part of yesterday morning trying to virtually …
2020-04-25: My son’s voice has changed during this whole COVID isolation thing and I hear him sometimes and …
2020-04-23:
A Little Zine
When Austin Kleon started making zines out of a single piece of paper, and then kept on making them …
2020-04-23: Despite the ability now to immediately sample any piece of music for yourself, I still find value in …
2020-04-22: “Bright Eyes Reveal New Single ‘Forced Convalescence’ Featuring Flea on Bass” is not a headline I …
2020-04-11: Jason Morehead discovers Being an Introvert During a Pandemic Isn’t All It’s Cracked Up to Be. I can …
2020-04-10: Never Too Late Or Too Soon After his months-in-the-planning shoot for a new song got cancelled, due to COVID-19, Ernest Greene …
2020-04-10: Flowers from Harmony by brillianthues on Flickr Good Friday.
2020-04-09: iLamp It’s surprising to see that the “iLamp” version of the iMac, which hasn’t been sold for 15 years, …
2020-04-08: “People described as essential should be treated and paid in a way that reflects that description.” …
2020-04-06: Just A Game Most of the time, dream pop isn’t known for being particularly challenging. Still, Noble Oak’s new …
2020-04-04: Just updated my Now Page (my home is my castle edition).
2020-04-04: Sometimes, I think the world just isn’t as black and white as it’s portrayed in the movies. Then I …
2020-04-04: 🎵 It’s hard to believe that the Mogwai that just put out the house music inspired Reverso EP are the …
2020-03-29: Dry Bones [bandcamp width=100% height=120 album=1694396191 size=large bgcol=ffffff linkcol=e99708 …
2020-03-29: I know I just blogged about it, but C.S. Lewis’ ‘Learning in War-time’ is one of the most …
2020-03-26: Let’s Dance Philip Christman implores us, in Volume 99 of The Tourist, when we are tempted to write another …
2020-03-22: Going to Virtual Church I am happy that my church decided to hold virtual worship service this morning, complete with …
2020-03-21: Richard Burr should be prosecuted for insider trading for his role in spreading information that …
2020-03-21: Time to Look Forward Andy Nicolaides from The Dent has a post about continuing to care about things that may seem …
2020-03-20: Screenshot Daily has a post on games with themes around mental health. Strong recommendation for …
2020-03-19: Drop the Needle The vinyl industry didn’t need another piece of bad news, after the delay of Record Store Day, and …
2020-03-15: 📚 I rarely read a book quickly, because it’s hard for me to get past the feeling that a chapter …
2020-03-13: 📚 David Sedaris - Dress Your Family In Corduroy and Denim: Sedaris has such a self-deprecating humor …
2020-03-08: Love In The Time Of Coronavirus Photo by Portuguese Gravity on Unsplash Inspired by Austin Kleon, Omar created a one page zine, …
2020-03-07: 🎮 The Final Fantasy 7 remake is really well done. Gorgeous, cinematic, and fantastic at managing the …
2020-03-06: Ghost of a Song I’m not sure I’ve ever heard a song firmly in the classic shoegaze genre start out with such a lofi …
2020-03-04: I love this review of Tot, the new note-taking app from the Icon Factory. You really get a sense for …
2020-03-03: The Social Media Morass A few months ago, Consequence of Sound reported on Disney passing on the chance to buy Twitter …
2020-03-02:
The Social Media Morass
A few months ago, Consequence of Sound reported on Disney passing on the chance to buy Twitter …
2020-03-01: 🍿 The Big Sick: I had been wanting to see this movie for some time but it seemed especially …
2020-02-25: Good times, great oldies.
2020-02-20: That thing where you listen to a competently conducted interview that nevertheless doesn’t address …
2020-02-17: A bassist admitted to burning 3 churches to raise his profile as a black metal musician. I knew …
2020-02-16: Affiliations Patrick Rhone writes about why he used Amazon for affiliate links and why he no longer does so. He …
2020-02-15: 🍿 Just watched A Marriage Story. As an alternative, I could have just stabbed myself in the heart …
2020-02-15: 🍿 Just watched A Marriage Story. As an alternative, I could have stabbed myself in the heart 20x.
2020-02-15: This Is The Way The Mandolorian Unofficial Wallpaper From Deviantart, a beautifully subtle Mandalorian wallpaper in …
2020-02-15: It may have been Valentine’s Day, but that didn’t prevent my lady friend and I from engaging in our …
2020-02-10: Learning to Skate This winner of the Best Bocumentary (Short Subject) Oscar this year went to the film Learning To …
2020-02-08: This California fire is going to make already long waits for vinyl records even longer. The only …
2020-02-08: Tread Lightly John Pavlovitz found himself buying bananas the day after his father died. He was going through such …
2020-02-01: Christ and a blue heaven.
2020-01-26: Every week, Medium sends an email about an article urging people not to “fall in love with a …
2020-01-21: The DMV forces you to pay extra to submit vehicle property taxes via a chatbot. Someone please …
2020-01-20: Vinyl Me Please Dinosaur Jr. - Green Mind Us old dudes are suckers for reissues of our favorite records. I’ve owned …
2020-01-19: Engineering Our Art Image via Bruce Timothy Mans Music is easier than ever to discover. Surely this is a triumph and …
2020-01-19: Knowing E.B., this tweet will probably be purged soon, but I’m linking to it because it was …
2020-01-14: It has been raining for days. It feels like we will all be living underwater soon. We’ll try to make …
2020-01-13: It’s in the 70’s in January here in NC. The windows are open and the sirens outside …
2020-01-12: Thinking about switching from Ghost hosted on Digital Ocean back to Micro.blog hosting. Ghost is …
2020-01-10: Chinese Lantern Festival Koka Booth Amphitheatre, Cary, NC
2020-01-10: When my youngest son’s friend suggested they turn on Disney+, I didn’t imagine they …
2020-01-08: It’s difficult to live in a representative democracy and feel so utterly misrepresented.
2020-01-06: 🎵 YSSY - The Mandolorian: This synthwave version of the Mandolorian theme song is gorgeous and …
2020-01-02: This post from Austin Kleon is how you do a gratitude list. Just what I needed today.
2019-12-29: This review of the new version of A Christmas Carol and the points that it brings about the values …
2019-12-25: It’s the End of Advent, Merry Christmas This year, around the holiday season, I’ve had a shift in my thinking about Christmas and the period …
2019-12-21: I thought Star Wars Rise of Skywalker was menacing, exciting and redemptive. It certainly did the …
2019-12-13: Watching my AirPods almost get crushed under the wheels of a Trader Joe’s shopping cart, as I took …
2019-12-08: We Demand A King According to a new Pew Research poll, the number of Republicans who say presidents could operate …
2019-12-07: My lady friend accidentally called Siri “Alexa” and then was genuinely worried that Siri would be …
2019-12-06: Funky Cold Medina playing in Jersey Mike’s when I walked in. There was a real vibe in that sub shop.
2019-12-01: Just updated my Now page. Ghost blogging and other tidbits.
2019-11-30: I’m continuing to really enjoy the Mandoliorian. Meanwhile, my teenager won’t even check it out. …
2019-11-29: It’s interesting to me that Apple Music is suggesting new songs by Marilyn Manson. If I had an …
2019-11-27: It’s a beautiful, drizzly fall day, with so many leaves hitting the windshield like giant …
2019-11-24: Please pardon the dust as I move Frosted Echoes to a new host and platform.
2019-11-21: Came home from a long day at work, opened a (virtual) book and read. We also see interesting …
2019-11-20: Movember Starlings I saw my first show at a club in 1993, at the venerable Local 506, on Franklin St. in Chapel Hill. …
2019-11-17: Songs That Travel The Same Byways Manuel Riess (@hutaffe) recently wrote a bit about returning from Apple Music to Spotify. His …
2019-11-16: Braved the malevolent ambience of my local Sport Clips for a haircut. Got to see footage of a …
2019-11-15: My wife took my son to the dentist and told me they were playing old school metal like Ozzy. All I …
2019-11-14: 🎵 Tennis - Runner Folks, I would really like to checkout The Mandolorian. However, that would require two things: …
2019-11-10: Do You Like Me (check yes or no)? Next week, Instagram is set to begin hiding like counts on posts in the US, according to this …
2019-11-09: 🎵 Frankie Cosmos - Jesse: A conservative estimate would be that I’ve listened to this song …
2019-11-04: 🎵 The patron saints of indie pop, The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, have broken up. I can’t …
2019-11-03: I’ve seen a couple of records recently that spread 11 songs over 4 sides at 45 rpm. Now …
2019-11-01: A new set of alternate icons, like the ones that were just added to Reeder, can be such a source of …
2019-10-31: Pleased to see the announcement from Jack Dorsey that Twitter will cease serving political ads on …
2019-10-29: A couple of weeks ago, when the gift of rain broke a drought that had lasted several weeks, I passed …
2019-10-29: This guy is ready for All Hallows’ Eve.
2019-10-27: Reformation Sunday Two years ago, in 2017, was the 500th anniversary of the Reformation. For those of us in the …
2019-10-25: In the case of TWTR earnings, “buy on the rumor, sell on the news” would have been …
2019-10-20: This rainy, chilly Sunday is the perfect day to huddle under a blanket with a good book.
2019-10-19: Chipping Away At Democracy It has never been a better time to quit Facebook, after the company recently revealed a policy that …
2019-10-19: Chapel.
2019-10-15: On campus today, some students stopped to survey me about the relationship with my dorm RA. At my …
2019-10-13: Cause Célèbre In a break from my normal habit of avoiding hot takes and only sticking to what is room temperature …
2019-10-12: Suggested add-on items for these Jesus shoes would be socks, extra laces and indulgences for your …
2019-10-08: TFW you grow a beard in a weekend and you feel like teen wolf but your wife reminds you that, …
2019-10-06: 🎵 DIIV - Blankenship: This track, from the just released Deceiver album, is powerfully propulsive in …
2019-10-06: UBI in Stockton It’s good to see early results in some experiments with universal basic income. I’m especially …
2019-10-05: Did about an hour long DJ set for a hackathon. Totally forgot to play “Heaven’s on …
2019-10-03: What sort of maleficia is going on when it is 100 degrees in October in N.C.? 🌞 This is getting …
2019-09-29: 🎵 Hammock - Circular As Our Way: I’ve been sick recently, and this new cut, from the …
2019-09-22: This weekend I installed a ceiling fan/light fixture and planted some mums for the fall. The …
2019-09-22: We have lost some legends in these last few weeks.
2019-09-21: I didn’t spend formative years reading tomes like The Trouser Press Guide To 90’s Rock, the …
2019-09-20: Today the bagpipes guy positioned himself on campus. It was a perfect day to hear the dynamic high …
2019-09-19: My name is Robert and I endorse this message. If I could only teach my non-technical friends two …
2019-09-19: Talk about damning a band with faint praise. This is from a review of the new Pixies album. But the …
2019-09-15: Getting and Spending In the latest issue of his newsletter, Om Malik writes about consumerism being one of the harder …
2019-09-14: Anybody else doing biblical research while listening to deep cuts from The Go-Go’s tonight?
2019-09-14: Going downtown. #raleigh
2019-09-13: Spent part of the evening in the offices of a contemporary art gallery, with multiple pictures of …
2019-09-13: Their Eyes Were Fixed With the start of the football season, there are many who are questioning whether they should …
2019-09-12: Yesterday I spent lunch trying to remember the plot of Reality Bites while watching it without sound …
2019-09-09: Somehow I doubt negotiating with the Taliban ever came up as a use case in design sessions at …
2019-09-08: Minimalist Phones In Light Phone 2: the high hopes of the low-tech phone, Michael Zelenko writes about how hope for …
2019-09-07: Civilize the Satanists This post by @rmcrob bemoans the current state of churches focused more on therapeutic purposes than …
2019-09-06: I’ve come to that moment that every parent knows will happen but for which they can never be …
2019-09-06: Politics or News? In this post, @ayjay writes about studying politics as opposed to absorbing news. A great many …
2019-09-04: TFW streaming services aggregate the output of two bands with the same name. You’re browsing …
2019-09-02: Just updated the Now page on my blog.
2019-09-01: This little guy is keeping an appraising eye on me.
2019-09-01: The end of summer is here.
2019-08-31: Last trip to the pool for the year?
2019-08-31: 🎵 April Showers - Abandon Ship: As far as I can tell, Glasgow’s April Showers only had one …
2019-08-28: Now this is a Batman movie I would pay to see in the theater. Written by a bot, no less.
2019-08-27: It’s great to hear that Disney+ will be releasing episodes of their original series in a more …
2019-08-25: I Found A Reason (to use Twitter) With the introduction of the Feedbin client for iOS, which mirrors the new design of the Feedbin web …
2019-08-25: 🎵 Treatment - Solitary: Without any new sounds from bands like Roman a Clef and the Ice Choir in …
2019-08-22: Jason Morehead has [a lovely piece](https://opuszine.us/posts/extravagance-of-god about the vastness …
2019-08-22: Changing my blog logo too frequently has been an interesting exercise in learning how long apps and …
2019-08-21: Yesterday, I listened to “Head On” by the JAMC. Today, I learned that David Hasselhoff covers that …
2019-08-21: It appears that Disney is working hard to make the Disney+ service a no brainer. The latest is that …
2019-08-21: Very happy to hear that Spotify is bringing parental controls to their family plans. This is one big …
2019-08-18: My son just hand coded his first basic website. It’s dedicated to the show Parks & …
2019-08-18: Marius Masalar has me sufficiently interested in Gorgoa to try out this gorgeous puzzle game.
2019-08-18: 📚 Digital Minimalism - Cal Newport: I was really enjoying this book. Newport’s examples of a …
2019-08-16: Sometimes I wonder why I haven’t seen a post from someone on M.b. in a while. I check their …
2019-08-13: Though I wrote this piece comparing Tumblr unfavorably to Micro.blog a few months ago, I’m …
2019-08-11: American Moloch In a piece entitled Our Moloch, written just after the Sandy Hook shootings, Garry Wills compares …
2019-08-10: In a district in the Punjab state of India, you have to plant 10 trees and submit photos of yourself …
2019-08-10: Great Healthcare In the continuing saga of anecdotal evidence that our healthcare system is badly in need of repair, …
2019-08-09: “The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, …
2019-08-07: “I asked a painter why the roads are colored black. He said ‘Steve, it’s because …
2019-08-05: Just heard “Go Your Own Way” on a drug commercial. Et tu, Fleetwood Mac?
2019-08-04: Atheists in Foxholes In the piece, Study Asks If War Makes A Person More … Or Less … Religious, Diane Cole …
2019-08-04: 🎵 Ryan Porter - Force for Good: On Ryan Porter, bassist Miles Mosley, who plays with Porter, nails …
2019-08-03: In university, when I would perform psychological experiments that involved human subjects, it was …
2019-08-02: 🍿 Always Be My Maybe: This is a rom-com with a heavy emphasis on the com. There is a lot of humor in …
2019-07-29: I have to admit that I was jealous of my son, still lying in bed as I headed off to work, but not …
2019-07-27: Ballots from a cupcake contest.
2019-07-25: It’s amazing to notice the extent to which designs are being altered to keep objects from being …
2019-07-25: “I may not know much, but I know America’s problem is not that those towards the bottom …
2019-07-25: A New Commons The NY Public Library has just joined Unsplash. NOAA is there as well. This leaves me wondering if …
2019-07-21: Get Thee To A Nunery In Why On Earth Are So Many Millennials Becoming Nuns?, Eve Fairbanks examines why millennial women …
2019-07-20: Yesterday, I got an email from Netflix that my 7-year-old’s profile had been changed to …
2019-07-16: Ancient aviator.
2019-07-15: 🍿 A Little Chaos: To call a movie that takes place in palatial 17th century French houses and …
2019-07-12: Genesis of Exodus In our worship service on Sunday, we watched the trailer for a documentary, done by the PCUSA, on …
2019-07-11: Bus ticket to nowhere.
2019-07-10: Progressive Christians and the Bible Chaplain Mike writes on Richard Beck’s observations about the relationship of progressive …
2019-07-08: If you find yourself concerned about facial recognition technology infringing on your privacy, …
2019-07-07: How To Win Friends And Influence People I seem to be reading a lot about “influencers” lately. When I think of influencers, the typical …
2019-07-06: Philadelphia knows mosaics.
2019-07-06: Philadelphia knows murals.
2019-07-06: 🎵 Sambassadeur - Foot of Afrikka: This song, which evokes imagery of the burning sun of Africa, goes …
2019-07-03: This eclipse.
2019-07-03: It’s unfortunate to see Spotify shutting down direct upload for independent artists. The …
2019-07-03: Another great example of skewed perception of value among those with too much discretionary income. …
2019-07-03: Hear ye, hear ye, please tune in tomorrow for President Trump’s banana republican speech and …
2019-07-02: Paul: Gee John, that ‘A Day In The Life’ is a really nice song you’ve got there. It would be shame …
2019-06-30: I love this story about a man, who, after being diagnosed with Parkinson’s, had a conversation …
2019-06-29: Target shopping music.
2019-06-29: In my past few trips to Target, I’ve heard 2 different Toro Y Moi songs, The Smiths, Wild …
2019-06-28: Twitter is now enacting a policy where politicians' tweets could get slapped with warning labels. …
2019-06-27: The Corporate Dragons In The New Wilderness, Maciej Cegłowski writes about changing views around privacy and how the rules …
2019-06-23: Taco warriors.
2019-06-22: I Need Sunshine 🎵 Sebadoh - Sunshine: I’m still deciding how I feel about the majority of the new Sebadoh …
2019-06-20: And Justice For All
2019-06-20: “Males do not do anything.” This statement is causing a lot of division in our home.
2019-06-16: My little guy was so chuffed to give me this card in the morning.
2019-06-14: Bring On The Day An excerpt from an interview with singer/songwriter Bill Callahan about his new album, which exudes …
2019-06-10: There are many reasons I’m excited about skateboarding making its debut at the next summer Olympics. …
2019-06-08: The last thing I need today is my teenager schooling me on actors from John Hughes movies.
2019-06-08: 🎵 Sonic Youth’s new Battery Park live album demonstrates much of why I usually don’t get …
2019-06-05: I’m composing blog posts in Drafts, sending them to Bear for better viewing and editing, then …
2019-06-05: Since I haven’t watched the keynote, I really didn’t understand the breadth of the announcements at …
2019-06-04: Like many others, my wife is pretty into true crime podcasts, tv shows and books. She even considers …
2019-06-02: 🍿 Paterson: This movie is a delightful celebration of the ordinary. Adam Driver plays Paterson, a …
2019-06-01: 🎵Sleater-Kinney - Hurry on Home: This summer seems to be rushing in with a burst of music …
2019-06-01: I have heard people use the phrase “golf ball sized hail” before, but I’ve never …
2019-05-31: I remember when It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia, which is now in its 14th season, first …
2019-05-29: Not Common Enough I wrote recently about how my bullet journal is becoming more of a traditional journal now. It also …
2019-05-27: Jason Kottke, referencing a piece from Kickstarter co-founder Yancey Strickler, on how a dark forest …
2019-05-27: Jason Morehead writes about how creating ultra-violent videogames affects the developers of those …
2019-05-26: Social Decay The New Yorker recently featured an article from Cal Newport entitled Can “Indie” Social Media Save …
2019-05-25: Whiteboard landscape.
2019-05-25: Since I used to make paper watches as a kid, that I would pretend had computers and could be used …
2019-05-24: My son’s FIFA videogame has a career mode where you do things like read emails about how a …
2019-05-20: Less Bullets, More Journal I started the year 2019 with another respectable bullet journal (bujo), crafted from a Moleskine …
2019-05-19: Recently, a candy and soda shop closed down and a weight management business opened up in the same …
2019-05-17: I’m sorry son, there’s no skatebo riding here.
2019-05-15: Bear notes app now supports exporting to Wordpress in a really elegant way. It feels better than the …
2019-05-10: This whole piece on drug marketing and mental illness is fascinating but one thing really surprised …
2019-05-10: Skateboarding was the Rosetta Stone that translated jazz into a language I could understand. I still …
2019-05-05: Some Called Her A Prophet I have been following the health status of, and praying for, Rachel Held Evans recently, as she lay …
2019-05-04: In congratulations for becoming a teenager, Liam got a ticket to a Stanley Cup playoff game from his …
2019-05-04: 🎵 Pure Bathing Culture - All Night: The latest record by Pure Bathing Culture, Night Pass, is …
2019-05-04: If this means anything to you, we should probably be friends.
2019-04-24: Jesus spent a large part of his ministry healing those who were sick. Why is it that making high …
2019-04-23: 🎵 Keep Shelly in Athens - Don’t Fear The Reaper: The hushed, dreampop atmospherics of this …
2019-04-21: I don’t normally post pictures of food but my mom’s Easter cupcakes are too festive not to share. …
2019-04-20: Perch.
2019-04-20: 🎵 Rhian Sheehan - The Absence of You: This song has such a powerfully dramatic widescreen cinematic …
2019-04-19: Vinyl On Demand I never was one to buy a ton of records, but one of the reasons I have slacked off of my vinyl …
2019-04-19: Doctrine and Grace This is a piece I wrote almost exactly a year ago. It never made it to this blog but it seems …
2019-04-14: With all of the breathless coverage of the last season of Game of Thrones, I thought it was worth …
2019-04-13: This woman in a Chick-Fil-A commercial just referred to herself as a “grilled chicken influencer.”
2019-04-07: 🎵 Kisses - Bermuda: It’s been a while since I’ve listened to Kisses, but back in 2010, …
2019-04-06: Creator Interviews For those who are creating on the web and even monetizing their creative output, Richard MacManus - …
2019-04-05: The Kind Of Hearts We're Dragging Around My little guy had his seventh name day not long ago. He was over the moon to receive what he called, …
2019-03-29: I rarely lol when reading something, but this article on people having problems rebooting their Nike …
2019-03-28: “Our names are so similar. Where is your family from?” Mariana Timony interviews indie rock legend …
2019-03-27: In his review of the new AirPods, Federico Viticci quotes from The Cure deep cut, “To Wish …
2019-03-26: El Barto
2019-03-23: My son is complaining about having to watch a 30 minute TED talk for school. Does he think I’m …
2019-03-22: 🎮 Bad North: I recently read speculation that, if the Vikings hadn’t hired themselves out as …
2019-03-16: This story on some potential upcoming changes to Twitter gives me hope that the folks steering the …
2019-03-16: Catch the breeze.
2019-03-16: It will be interesting to see how the Reeder 4 read-it-later service with iCloud sync shapes up.
2019-03-13: Royal Trux is what it would sound like if that crummy college apartment close to campus made a …
2019-03-09: Fasting This Lent Last year, for the first time, I fasted during Lent. I made Friday my fast day and fasted from sunup …
2019-03-09: I still have a few disappointments, but I really enjoyed watching The Last Jedi on Netflix today …
2019-03-03: Tribute to Swift Most of the Record Store Day exclusives recently have not been my cup of tea. However, this year, …
2019-03-01: 🎵 Writing for Bandcamp Daily, Jes Skolnik describes the music of Barcelona’s Fatamorgana by …
2019-02-25: For the 25th anniversary of their album, For Your Own Special Sweetheart, Jawbox is going on a …
2019-02-25: Jonathan Merritt on the fate of churches forced to close and/or be converted for other uses. When …
2019-02-23: In 2017, @ayjay wrote about how it’s now harder to be forgiven since Christianity …
2019-02-22: I’ve never seen a kid who loves plushies more than my little guy. Yesterday we celebrated a birthday …
2019-02-15: It has been a while since I’ve played, but I still love this game.
2019-02-08: Great post on the position Patreon is in and the dangers of taking VC funding.
2019-02-04: I love this story about a Dutch church that held a months long worship service to protect Armenian …
2019-02-03: Real golf fans are not excited about the Super Bowl today but more so the perhaps inelegantly named …
2019-02-03: Micro.blog vs. Tumblr A lot of people these days are worried about the demise of Tumblr. The product has changed hands a …
2019-02-02: I’m not exactly an NFL apologist, but when a major pop music star is willing to perform at an …
2019-02-02: Go Home Alexa, You’re Drunk After pining for the Apple HomePod last year, but feeling like it was just a bit too expensive to …
2019-02-02: Coming out of hiding.
2019-01-31: Whenever my cat makes noises while she’s sleeping, I imagine she’s fighting dragons in …
2019-01-26: This month’s playlist.
2019-01-26: Excited to hear that the shutdown is over. Disappointed to hear Mary Louise Kelly from NPR …
2019-01-21: 🎵 Wild Nothing - Partners in Motion (live): There aren’t a lot of dream pop bands that feature …
2019-01-21: Using LEGO as an inspiration for building better software.
2019-01-21: Honesty in politics.
2019-01-20: 📚 The Idiot - Fyodor Dostoyevsky: I picked up this book many years ago and didn’t get very …
2019-01-19: Whereas the rest of the world uses Google as a verb to mean doing an internet search, my …
2019-01-19: TJ’s unicorn.
2019-01-18: My favorite storyline in the House of Cards series was the one where the president picked his …
2019-01-17: My boss in LEGO.
2019-01-09: 🔗 The wisdom of Deo Volente Just as Muslims say “inshallah,” after mentioning plans to …
2019-01-03: 🎵 Stone Roses - I Wanna Be Adored: I probably saw this video when it first came out, but it’s …
2018-12-31: 🔗 Albuquerque mayor wears Pantera Christmas sweater while signing bill for paid parental leave. I …
2018-12-31: Analog Manifesto I like the idea of an analog manifesto from @rianvdm. The comparison to the Agile Manifesto, with …
2018-12-30: Over at the house of the Browns for breakfast before worship.
2018-12-29: Christmas Bells.
2018-12-29: Christmas in Motion This paragraph from Tim Challies' recent Merry Christmas post captures the twinge of sadness that …
2018-12-29: Working on a cover for a 2018 year-end playlist.
2018-12-28: Alexa Speaks Apple Music Though I have yet to see any of the ad placements he writes about, this piece from John Voorhees in …
2018-12-27: Evening festivities.
2018-12-26: For those of us who follow the liturgical calendar, we are still in Christmastide. Merry Christmas! …
2018-12-25: Alone time.
2018-12-22: The little guy imagining some characters.
2018-12-22: 📚 A Gentleman in Moscow - Amor Towles: I really didn’t know what to expect from this book but it was …
2018-12-14: I Was A Teenage Bumblebee Surprisingly, a not-insignificant part of the plot of the Bumblebee Transformers movie involves the …
2018-12-13: Church parking lot at night.
2018-12-13: It’s interesting to see forestry.io implement content blocks in Jekyll by using front matter.
2018-12-09: This piece on dreampop, while not definitive, is an informative and succinct pocket guide to the …
2018-12-09: What the snowman learned about love.
2018-12-09: Snowbloom.
2018-12-08: Dinner at Aranda’s Mexican restaurant before we get snowed in.
2018-12-08: 📺 The new Star Wars Galaxy of Adventures shorts on the Star Wars Kids YouTube channel are really …
2018-12-08: 🎵 Men I Trust - Say, Can You Hear: I had heard of Men I Trust before but never checked them out. …
2018-12-07: With the announcement from Microsoft that they are ditching Edge in favor of Chromium, many defects …
2018-12-05: It had been years since I’d heard the phrase higgledy-piggledy and now I’ve come across …
2018-12-05: “Hey guys, I found a tree full of cat toys.”
2018-12-03: The “Payless Experiment” with a pop up shop called Palessi that sold the discount …
2018-12-01: At the front lines of the war on Christmas.
2018-11-29: K.Q. Dreger, with some spot-on thoughts about the current state of Medium.
2018-11-25: Feast Daze Each year at Thanksgiving time, I think about the time I spent working in retail and the family time …
2018-11-24: Nearby here, Samuel Oliver-Bruno, an undocumented immigrant living in a sanctuary church for the …
2018-11-23: Missionaries A few days ago, my mom showed me these books about my great grandfather/grandmother and great great …
2018-11-22: Every Glad Hand Full of Gold The public was recently treated to a preview of the new Star Wars themed areas at Disneyland/Disney …
2018-11-21: Speed Bumps on the Web Justin Kossyln, who works in product management for Alphabet, argues it may be time to add some …
2018-11-19: 🕹 Inside: This was easily one of my top 5 all-time favorite games. The dense atmospherics and …
2018-11-17: I will be playing more of the Waterdeep: Dragon Heist D&D campaign tonight. This module has a …
2018-11-03: At an open source conference recently, a speaker asked for a show of hands on who thought open …
2018-10-30: I am digging the new iPad Pro pretty hard and wondering what this machine will be capable of when …
2018-10-29: In a bid to be more like Micro.blog, Twitter is considering removing the like button.
2018-10-28: I wrote this piece almost 3 years ago. Nothing substantial has changed since then, which is a …
2018-10-27: Hope In Source I was fortunate to see Henry Zhu speak at the All Things Open 2018 conference with honesty about the …
2018-10-23: At the state fair. The nice couple behind me in line prefaced most of what they said with “I ain’t …
2018-10-19: The Apple of My Eye The Apple New Music algorithm tries. It really does. At the end of every work week, it conjures up …
2018-10-18: Comic book selfie.
2018-10-15: Micro Monday recommendation: @grindwell. Expanded thoughts from yesterday.
2018-10-14: Grind Well At its most effective, group therapy is successful primarily because it destroys the fallacy that we …
2018-10-13: Playing this urban D&D adventure/campaign tonight with some first time adventurers. More …
2018-10-12: That feeling when your 12-yr-old dissects the false claims made about sanctuary cities in a …
2018-10-06: Made this paper Minecraft sword for my little guy. He called it “flashy.”
2018-10-05: Never Coming Home Alexis Madrigal writes about how, despite the ability to switch to the reverse-chronological …
2018-10-05: 🎵 Softer Still - Turtle Bay: Softer Still may be my new favorite band. Their debut record, Nuances, …
2018-10-04: 🎵 Yumi Zouma - EP III: It may seem strange, but Yumi Zouma sounds different on the shorter EP format …
2018-09-30: I wasn’t learning about guys like this until college. Certainly not in seventh grade, like my oldest …
2018-09-29: 📚 City of Brass - S.A. Chakraborty: This book presents a nice respite from the Eurocentric fantasy …
2018-09-27: My six-year-old, on playing video games at church: “I couldn’t get any kills in Bongo …
2018-09-23: Even tying your shoes can be difficult with a kitten around.
2018-09-16: This has been a tough weekend for the NC Coast. I shudder to think what the fence in this picture …
2018-09-15: Thanks to hurricane Florence, we now have a bathtub on our deck.
2018-09-13: Encouraged by the divestiture from Pinterest, I’ve switched back from Pocket to Instapaper. It’s …
2018-09-12: With my lady friend at Old Brunswick ghost town.
2018-09-12: Prepping for Hurricane Florence in NC. Gas lines are long and people are quick to steal your spot at …
2018-09-09: Adolescent Punchbowl My family just enjoyed a beach trip with many of the amenities that renting a house by the ocean …
2018-09-08: I haven’t burned a CD in a long time, but this C86 covers comp makes a good soundtrack to …
2018-09-08: Gratifying to see the local paper do a piece on the great career of Nile Rodgers.
2018-09-07: A Defense of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator The other day, on Twitter, I stumbled across this thread of people espousing their opinions about …
2018-09-05: If you don’t consume dairy, does the Dairy Queen still have dominion over you?
2018-09-04: My wife was puzzling until her puzzler was sore.
2018-09-03: 📚 Neil Gaiman - Norse Mythology: After reading this, I finally feel like I know what was going on in …
2018-09-02: Decrying Internet Bias Has Some Familiar Echoes It seems the latest distraction thrown at the American public, from the president, is attacking the …
2018-09-01: I don’t often drink soda, but when I do, it’s the real stuff.
2018-08-30: I was on a Pinterest page, while logged into Google, when I attempted to click on an image and …
2018-08-29: Reagan, G.I. Joe and Me The Reagan administration was known for its deregulation initiatives. I never thought about one of …
2018-08-27: Kitten in a bag.
2018-08-26: King Knight from Shovel Knight looking regal. #videogames #papercraft
2018-08-26: 🕹 Shovel Knight - King Knight (Cubeecraft)
2018-08-25: Riding the Waves of News This week, for the first time in a long time, I actually enjoyed following the general news cycle in …
2018-08-21: Really excited about the open sourcing of Icro, a fantastic third-party micro.blog client.
2018-08-20: 🎵 Stars - Heart: There is an apocryphal story about a couple that wanted to play “their song,” Stars …
2018-08-18: On the decline of Twitter: Why rage quit a service when diminishing returns just erode your user …
2018-08-17: Your honor, in defense of glo-fi, I submit as evidence the first side of Small Black’s New …
2018-08-17: The fact that Medium is trying to get me to resubscribe by promoting think pieces celebrating …
2018-08-16: This guy’s name is Jeff and his haircut game is strong.
2018-08-14: Augustine, some of his contemporaries, and theologians in the Medieval era reinterpreted …
2018-08-13: 🎵 Tortoise - Tortoise: This classic post-rock album is full of wandering music.
2018-08-12: It was great to have Tru Pettigrew and the Cary PD at church today talking about bridging the divide …
2018-08-11: Opponent Process Theory I’m happy to finally have a name for that phenomenon that I always knew existed but of which I never …
2018-08-11: Media Scarcity in a Time of Entertainment Abundance I recently had my name day and added 2 years to the 4 decades I’ve been on the earth. I …
2018-08-11: Mid-century modern cat nap.
2018-08-04: 📚 I love it when books of fiction inform me of actual historical events about which I had previously …
2018-08-04: Without a sound.
2018-08-04: 🎵 Jorge Elbrecht - Wash Away With The Rain: Borrowing from the Johnny Marr jangle guitar template …
2018-08-04: Without a sound. #vinyl
2018-07-29: 📚 The Making of the Christian World - Robert Payne: I picked up this book from a retiring pastor who …
2018-07-28: Virtuous Fame Last year, I taught a confirmation class of 8th graders about famous Presbyterians. Although few …
2018-07-28: From CNET’s analysis of the beating that the valuations of social media stocks have taken this week. …
2018-07-28: Marriage is definitely easier when your spouse is impresssed that you know all of the words to …
2018-07-26: 📷 Mexican soda. Wanna Fanta?
2018-07-21: Therapy on audio tape.
2018-07-19: 📚 Armada - Ernest Cline: I understand that ebook usage may have peaked, but the Kindle Paperwhite is …
2018-07-18: 📷 On fire at the museum.
2018-07-15: Tinyletter about a big conversation Philip Christman captures the kind of frustration I felt when using Tinyletter. Readers, I …
2018-07-15: Life changes are usually best when they are planned. Saturdays are for spontaneity, though, which is …
2018-07-14: Punk in Drublix
2018-07-12: I want to work in this office.
2018-07-08: Apple vs. the Upside Down This article on the Apple data center in rural Maiden, NC sounds like something written about the …
2018-07-08: 📷 Light room. This installation at the NC Museum of Art was truly impressive.
2018-07-06: From @vasta, thoughts shared on the beauty of nightswimming.
2018-07-06: A celebratory vision of paradise from @restlesslens.
2018-07-05: Social media intern used to sound like a dream job but now it seems like the most fraught gig ever.
2018-07-05: I Consoled Myself With Rudimentary Thoughts The main response I hear to the Netflix documentary series Wild Wild Country is disbelief that the …
2018-07-04: Better food labeling.
2018-07-04: Presbyterians Get Political On this Independence Day, when we celebrate the birth of our nation and honor what that means to us, …
2018-07-03: RIP Richard “Dicky” Ochoa Swift Onassis. We have lost a very talented man. It’s also very sobering …
2018-07-01: A good piece on how passionate politics can still be civil, respectful.
2018-06-30: 📚 A Column of Fire (Kingsbridge Trilogy) by Ken Follett: Although Follett’s characters can …
2018-06-30: The Danger of Using the Bible Instead of Letting It Use You One thing that angers me a great deal is the misappropriation of passages from Holy Scripture. Tyler …
2018-06-27: Flowers in bloom in downtown Raleigh.
2018-06-26: Flowers blooming downtown. #raleighnc
2018-06-26: Nice tavern facade.
2018-06-24: Aaron Belz turns the best of list into poetry in Piloting from 2001.
2018-06-23: SNL imagine sitcom producers dealing with the hockey stick curve rise in identity politics in The …
2018-06-23: Apple Music indicates the most listened-to tracks on an album with a star. I have a theory that when …
2018-06-21: Statue fun. #tbt
2018-06-21: Dunbar’s Number and the Church Even as members and pastors have changed over the years, one complaint I’ve consistently heard about …
2018-06-18: When you hear Jeff Sessions speak, remember Matthew 4:5-7. Even the devil can quote scripture for …
2018-06-17: Being a dad means I get to make paper cameras for this guy. We have fun together.
2018-06-16: 🔗 As someone who struggles with a love of records and a simultaneous desire not to collect more …
2018-06-14: Has Apple Legally Sabotaged Itself? Justin Lee at Arc Digital argues that Apple is painting itself into a corner by arguing for a strict …
2018-06-13: Amateur photography.
2018-06-12: 🎵 Pure Bathing Culture - Hats: I immediately had the sense that Pure Bathing Culture covering the …
2018-06-10: One of the best things about the possibility of high definition vinyl is that it will work on …
2018-06-09: Taking A Knee From Christ and Pop Culture on how the NFL has handled the player’s protesting by kneeling during …
2018-06-09: Hey Rose, Hey Madder One of the most rage inducing/heartbreaking things I’ve read this past week is that Kelly Marie …
2018-06-08: Doing some papercraft with the little guy. #papercraft #starwars #solo
2018-06-07: Sending a GDPR notification email to the fans of your band is one of the most punk rock things you …
2018-06-06: Making Peace with Star Wars I was only a few years old when the Star Wars trilogy first came to theaters, and the movies and …
2018-06-06: 🎵 Wild Nothing - Letting Go: Wild Nothing is one of my favorite bands and I don’t care who …
2018-06-05: Today at work a colleague refused to drive my machine with an Apple mouse because he didn’t …
2018-06-03: Teen Daze is reissuing a few of their albums. Their debut, the chillwave classic Four More Years, is …
2018-05-29: 🎵 Weezer - Africa: Just in time to remind us that mainstream social media can actually be a force …
2018-05-29: Seeing All The Looks On The Harvard Faces 2018-05-26 A nautical journey in Boston. Walden Pond was not at all what I expected. I didn’t …
2018-05-27: Some people are just in it for the chase.
2018-05-27: Amen and amen.
2018-05-25: A Talking Camel With Cloven Hooves: The Phantom Menace In A Different Light Sarah Kurchak, writing about her grandfather’s apparent affection for Jar Jar Binks, who he called …
2018-05-25: New phone experience.
2018-05-24: IKEA Backs Out of A Deal After literally working with town officials for years on a new site for a store, IKEA has just …
2018-05-24: Industrial Aqua: OS X Envy Tedium has the backstory on a movement that took place in the aughts to make Windows machines look …
2018-05-20: 📺 Victoria (Season 2): This is such a charming show. Finishing up the season was like saying goodbye …
2018-05-06: I’ve written before about why I chose Apple Music over Spotify, but this integration between …
2018-05-06: 🕹Eastward - this game, from a Shanghai studio, looks like a retro-pixel RPG enthusiast’s dream …
2018-04-29: We Rented The Night Sky I’m not a lifestyle guru. You probably won’t see a post with a listicle on 11 ways to hack your …
2018-04-22: This poster speaks volumes to my teenage self and I’m really tempted to buy it.
2018-02-24: A Continuing Odyssey This past week, Alto’s Odyssey, the sequel to the much lauded iOS game Alto’s Adventure, was …
2018-02-18: Rage Against The Machine The folks from the writing tool IA Writer (which I love) have an amazing blog post that gets a lot …
2018-02-16: Van Halen and the New Orthodoxy Van Halen’s debut record recently celebrated its fortieth birthday. Consequence of Sound …
2018-02-10: Queen Elizabeth Approximately Photo from the Library and Archives Canada on Flickr Some days, I find myself questioning the value …
2018-02-03: The Disappearance of Physical Media Smart speakers are becoming ubiquitous. Apple finally released their entry into this increasingly …
2018-02-03: Charming Legacy Last weekend, my five-year-old and I created a collage together.
2018-02-03: Ignoring the Big Fish in the Room For a few years now, I’ve followed a “read the Bible in a year” program. Last year, I used the plan …
2018-01-16: By The Numbers I recently mentioned to my boss that I’m used to metrics being involved in my work. I’m used to …
2018-01-15: Worms That Remembered Dirt Austin Kleon writes about his take on copyright law here. Since Kleon published a book titled Steal …
2017-12-19: Hall of Presidents Revision 45 When I was in Walt Disney World earlier this year, the Hall of Presidents in Liberty Square in the …
2017-12-17: The Push Button Publishing Industry At this point, most of us have read about all of the research and effort that has gone into making …
2017-12-09: Gender is Not a Genre When I first saw the headline that Moogfest (which occurs annually right down the street from my …
2017-12-06: Looking Abroad for Inspiration and Not Trusting Rich People Listening to twee pop from South America and feeling nostalgic about the 90’s was not how I planned …
2017-12-05: Seventeen Seconds of Frankie Rose Today was one of those days. Down with a cold and unable to do much, I spent much of the day in bed …