Nostr notes by Bryan Wright

I've been re-reading _Love and Rockets_ and I'm surprised ...

2026-04-11T23:56:45Z

I've been re-reading _Love and Rockets_ and I'm surprised at what a sympathetic character Vivian Solis is when she's first introduced. Vivian is a beautiful, loud, self-centered, annoying, impatient person. She has no idea why people do the things they do. Their reactions are a mystery to her, and this frustrates and bewilders her, but she's become numb to it much of the time. Sometimes it's too much, and she seems to want to grab people, shake them, and shout "Explain it to me!"

#comics

I read it through Hoopla too! I hope you enjoy it.

2026-03-22T13:00:57Z

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I read it through Hoopla too! I hope you enjoy it.

Are you familiar with Norman Wildberger's "box ...

2026-03-13T00:55:33Z

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Are you familiar with Norman Wildberger's "box arithmetic"? This would fit right in with his illustrations.

https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLIljB45xT85B0aMG-G9oqj-NPIuBMnq8z

I finished reading _Run_ by Ann Patchett. This is the kind of ...

2026-03-07T12:47:53Z

I finished reading _Run_ by Ann Patchett. This is the kind of novel that's so good I had to step away from it a few times, letting what I'd read so far soak in before going on.

It's about the nature and nurture of familes, and and about how little we know about the people we love and how little that matters.

It covers 2 snowy days in the life of a former Boston mayor and his 3 sons, when their lives intersect with the mother and daughter of another family.

#books

I accept the description, in light of the overwhelming evidence.

2026-02-04T03:13:02Z

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I accept the description, in light of the overwhelming evidence.

I hadn't heard of this show. It sounds like fun.

2026-01-26T12:19:41Z

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I hadn't heard of this show. It sounds like fun.

Yes! And teach the mice to draw for similar reasons.

2026-01-25T18:52:41Z

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Yes! And teach the mice to draw for similar reasons.

I read this a while back and enjoyed it. Have you read any of ...

2026-01-19T20:04:26Z

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I read this a while back and enjoyed it. Have you read any of Paco Roca's other books? His "Memoirs of a Man in Pajamas" is fun.

Clearly, you were walking along and suddenly transformed into a ...

2026-01-18T18:12:18Z

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Clearly, you were walking along and suddenly transformed into a deer.

Unfortunately, the linked post is only available to people with ...

2026-01-14T11:42:26Z

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Unfortunately, the linked post is only available to people with bluesky accounts.

It's only posting if you draw them on official post-it notes.

2026-01-14T11:33:13Z

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It's only posting if you draw them on official post-it notes.

Even more awkward to ban "substances". This year's ...

2026-01-13T11:25:56Z

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Even more awkward to ban "substances".
This year's tournament will be held entirely on the ethereal plane.

May you be visited by the kitty of contentment.

2026-01-12T20:09:54Z

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May you be visited by the kitty of contentment.

Talk to Hank Pym. [Diagram of Hank Pym's cybernetic helmet, ...

2026-01-12T00:38:27Z

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Talk to Hank Pym.

[Diagram of Hank Pym's cybernetic helmet, which allows him to talk to ants]

https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/marveldatabase/images/1/19/Ant-Man%27s_Helmet_from_Tales_to_Astonish_Vol_1_35_0001.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20200105083529

We attended a memorial and Protest today in honor of Renee Good, ...

2026-01-11T21:34:51Z

We attended a memorial and Protest today in honor of Renee Good, who was recently murdered by an ICE agent in Minneapolis.

The event was in Orange, a small mainstreet town in rural Virginia. About 160 people walked silently, single-file, in a loop around the center of town. Some carried signs or flowers.

Earlier, the wind was howling and the sky was overcast and spitting sleet, but as we began walking the clouds parted and the sun came out. I hope it's an omen of things to come.

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2026-01-11T16:42:27Z

#SilentSunday

A chopstick is a onek. Five points are outside my area of ...

2026-01-11T15:07:37Z

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A chopstick is a onek. Five points are outside my area of expertise.

These are a twok, a threek, and a fourk.

2026-01-11T14:26:26Z

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These are a twok, a threek, and a fourk.

The first rule of Silent Sunday is that no one talks about Silent ...

2026-01-11T14:24:00Z

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The first rule of Silent Sunday is that no one talks about Silent Sunday.

Also: If you see pages and pages of errors, start by looking at ...

2026-01-11T12:34:06Z

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Also: If you see pages and pages of errors, start by looking at the first error message. Often, that's the cause of all the others,

Downhill both ways

2026-01-11T12:27:20Z

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Downhill both ways

Durin's Bane

2026-01-11T00:18:36Z

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Durin's Bane

This looks very nice. I'll try it out.

2026-01-11T00:13:41Z

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This looks very nice. I'll try it out.

So far, he's not convinced.

2026-01-10T22:14:26Z

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So far, he's not convinced.

Trying to convince one of my cats that ownership isn't ...

2026-01-10T21:56:17Z

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Trying to convince one of my cats that ownership isn't transitive: Yes, I'm your person, but that doesn't imply that my cheese is your cheese.

The hardest part was milking the mammoth.

2026-01-07T02:23:03Z

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The hardest part was milking the mammoth.

For everybody at the institution of higher learning where I work: ...

2026-01-06T21:22:59Z

For everybody at the institution of higher learning where I work:

"deprecate" and "depreciate" are different words with different meanings and different pronunciations.

Thank you for your attention.

AEIOUs for each vowel

2026-01-05T23:14:48Z

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AEIOUs for each vowel

That's a safe in which you keep vouchers.

2026-01-05T17:11:17Z

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That's a safe in which you keep vouchers.

I picked psammophory because it's an odd, worrisome word that ...

2026-01-04T23:15:01Z

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I picked psammophory because it's an odd, worrisome word that will roll around in people's heads.

Embossed and gold-tinted on a book cover* it will catch the eye and intrigue the potential buyer.

* Accompanied by a striking but subdued ant picture

Some recently-closed Wikipedia tabs. Make of this what you will: ...

2026-01-04T21:10:23Z

Some recently-closed Wikipedia tabs.
Make of this what you will:

Anarchy
Georges Achille-Fould
Avcı
Sally Hawkins
American water shrew
Útgarðar
Book of Tobit
White Russia
Jiandao
Manchuria
Margaret Ayer Barnes
South Yorkshire
Charlotte Maria Tucker
American black bear
Mignon G. Eberhart
Gotham, Nottinghamshire

My wife is just finishing reading _The Cuckoo's Lea_ by ...

2026-01-04T20:51:28Z

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My wife is just finishing reading _The Cuckoo's Lea_ by Michael J. Warren, and she seems to be enjoying it. It's about the relationships between birds and place names.

https://britishbirds.co.uk/journal/article/cuckoos-lea-forgotten-history-birds-and-place

"The spider taketh hold with her hands, and is in kings' ...

2026-01-04T16:19:53Z

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"The spider taketh hold with her hands, and is in kings' palaces."

I'm betting the intended animal was a spider. I just don't see lizards grabbing things with anything like hands. And what's more ubiquitous than spiders?

But maybe the KJV just took a lot of poetic license with the whole verse.

Lucky you!

2026-01-04T14:44:22Z

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Lucky you!

A small frog basking in the sun. (The object of the ...

2026-01-04T14:43:17Z

A small frog basking in the sun.
(The object of the photographers' interest in the previous post)

#photography #frogs #amphibians

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2026-01-04T14:22:13Z

#SilentSunday

ANTithesis

2026-01-04T13:16:47Z

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ANTithesis

Eerie!

2026-01-04T00:33:14Z

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Eerie!

It was beautiful. I wish I'd been able to capture it better.

2026-01-03T17:08:19Z

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It was beautiful. I wish I'd been able to capture it better.

Lemonade Ingredients: * Large lump of sugar * River water * Stick ...

2026-01-03T17:07:24Z

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Lemonade

Ingredients:
* Large lump of sugar
* River water
* Stick (for stirring)
* Lemons (unfortunately, eaten by geese)

Perfect!

2026-01-03T16:05:46Z

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Perfect!

Geese, rock, river, driftwood, sunlight, all badly framed. ...

2026-01-03T12:43:54Z

Geese, rock, river, driftwood, sunlight, all badly framed.

#photography

Smart nuthatches and cardinals!

2026-01-03T00:53:14Z

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Smart nuthatches and cardinals!

Seasonally appropriate. We were walking in the woods yesterday ...

2026-01-03T00:24:11Z

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Seasonally appropriate.

We were walking in the woods yesterday and heard two crows calling to each other, one distant, one near:

CAW! CAW! CAW!
(caw caw caw)
CAW! CAW! CAW!
(caw caw caw)

No possum, no sop, no taters ...

2026-01-02T23:24:26Z

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No possum, no sop, no taters

https://ronnowpoetry.com/contents/stevens/NoPossum.html

They really are, and they've released a bunch of great new ...

2026-01-02T23:15:55Z

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They really are, and they've released a bunch of great new titles since Jan 1.

The first comic I read this year was volume 6 of LumberJanes. ...

2026-01-02T23:10:24Z

The first comic I read this year was volume 6 of LumberJanes. This is pure, delightful comfort reading and I love it.

#comics #books

https://www.boom-studios.com/series/lumberjanes/

I've been reading a lot of books from StandardEbooks lately, ...

2026-01-02T23:02:59Z

I've been reading a lot of books from StandardEbooks lately, and my first book of the year was this short collection of short stories by Daphne DuMaurier. Some of these just came into the public domain in the US on January 1. The stories tend to be deep, insightful character sketches of ordinary people facing ordinary problems, often due to personality quirks that are beyond their ability to control.

#books

https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/daphne-du-maurier/short-fiction

Only if you've driven a getaway car for robber flies, or ...

2026-01-02T02:19:31Z

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Only if you've driven a getaway car for robber flies, or aided and abetted a murder of crows.

"She's a MASTER criminal", having completed ...

2026-01-02T01:47:36Z

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"She's a MASTER criminal", having completed postgraduate studies in criming.

The internet is handy, but it's also a vector for malice and ...

2026-01-01T13:54:30Z

The internet is handy, but it's also a vector for malice and crime. What if someone early on saw the perils, and we all agreed that it would be terrible to let computers talk to each other? Think about what the 21st century might be like.

* Powerful disconnected personal computers
* Software distributed on physical media
* Broadcast and cable analog video
* Printers for writing letters
* Dumb cell phones
* Newspapers!

What else? Would such a "disconnected-punk" world be so bad?

I was posessed by the holey spirit. (Also: I looked at your web ...

2025-12-31T17:24:13Z

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I was posessed by the holey spirit.

(Also: I looked at your web page and I love your art!)

I feel sure that there's some way to recreate the ...

2025-12-31T17:00:41Z

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I feel sure that there's some way to recreate the "distracted boyfriend" meme with cheese packaging.

Cue Yakov Smirnoff

2025-12-31T16:59:15Z

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Cue Yakov Smirnoff

Appropriate, for the end of the colander year

2025-12-31T16:44:21Z

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Appropriate, for the end of the colander year

Not really on-topic: I use the Project Gutenberg text of Alice a ...

2025-12-30T13:27:28Z

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Not really on-topic: I use the Project Gutenberg text of Alice a lot in the introductory programming class I teach. We find the average word length, make a histogram of letter frequency, find the longest word, etc. I'm surprised at how many students have never read it.

I love the contrasting shapes of the berries and lichen. Somehow ...

2025-12-30T11:26:08Z

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I love the contrasting shapes of the berries and lichen. Somehow it's very Dr. Seussian.

I hope you enjoy it!

2025-12-30T00:00:31Z

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I hope you enjoy it!

Here's a sample of the writing: "From midnight until four ...

2025-12-29T23:22:59Z

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Here's a sample of the writing:

"From midnight until four o’clock are the dreaded hours of St. Ann’s regime. They are gray, cold, dreary hours⁠—hours when pulses lag most feebly, when the breath comes most wearily, when life seems a burden that is all too easily escaped and the other world seems so near that the nurse must cling to her patients with all her will to keep them from making that quiet, easy journey. "

I've started reading _The Patient in Room 18_ by Mignon G. ...

2025-12-29T23:20:59Z

I've started reading _The Patient in Room 18_ by Mignon G. Eberhart and it's wonderful. Mysteries often revolve around small details of everyday life, so old mysteries like this one, written in 1929, give an intimate view of a former time. In this case, the setting is a large midwestern hospital, as seen through the eyes of a middle-aged nurse.

https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/mignon-g-eberhart/the-patient-in-room-18

#books

Shortly thereafter we hear the black and white kitty shouting ...

2025-12-28T15:21:11Z

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Shortly thereafter we hear the black and white kitty shouting "Leggo! Leggo!"

I would certainly finnish it. It looks delicious!

2025-12-28T01:13:56Z

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I would certainly finnish it. It looks delicious!

Steinbeck: Start with _Of Mice and Men_, then go on to _The ...

2025-12-27T13:04:28Z

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Steinbeck: Start with _Of Mice and Men_, then go on to _The Grapes of Wrath_.

Dickens: Start with _Great Expectations_, then go on to _Bleak House_.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez: _One Hundred Years of Solitude_

1. Gimme Shelter by the Rolling Stones, with those amazing ...

2025-12-26T23:21:54Z

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1. Gimme Shelter by the Rolling Stones, with those amazing backing vocals by Merry Clayton

2. It's Never Too Late to Have a Happy Childhood by Marshall Chapman
https://youtu.be/iAx7Lt-aRWY

3. Farther Along, sung by an impromptu choir in a small Baptist church
https://library.timelesstruths.org/music/Farther_Along/

"Farther along we’ll know more about it,
Farther along we’ll understand why;
Cheer up, my brother, live in the sunshine,
We’ll understand it all by and by."

A scientist's hymn.

For what it's worth here's an illustration of the scene ...

2025-12-26T19:17:44Z

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For what it's worth here's an illustration of the scene in question, from the 1869 edition of the book. (Unfortunately, the scene wasn't illustrated in the original 1843 edition.)

Maybe Scrooge's business provided pen and ink for visitors, as banks do. The business seemed to revolve around loans, mortgages and debt collecting.

I found this marvellous article about Scrooge's business:

https://blogs.loc.gov/folklife/2019/12/more-about-the-business-of-scrooge-and-marley-an-ethnographic-approach/

Those both sound good. You might be interested in "What Jane ...

2025-12-26T15:27:33Z

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Those both sound good. You might be interested in "What Jane Austen ate and Charles Dickens knew" by Daniel Pool. It's a book about everyday life in 19th century England.

Thanks for pointing me to the article. There's a lot of ...

2025-12-26T04:01:57Z

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Thanks for pointing me to the article. There's a lot of interesting information there.

I agree that it would have been much easier to understand if Dickens had said "pencil" instead of "pen". Maybe the terms were somehow interchangeable at that time? Or maybe Dickens just didn't write the word he'd intended? So many questions!

Please let me know if you find anything.I did a quick search for ...

2025-12-25T22:55:44Z

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Please let me know if you find anything.I did a quick search for pocket inkwells and some of them look small enough that they could plausibly be carried around in a pocket. This seems like it might be one of those little details of day-to-day life that contemporary authors just don't bother to mention.

Good point! (or, rather, bad points!)

2025-12-25T22:01:53Z

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Good point! (or, rather, bad points!)

Was that due to post-WWII economics, or because of ...

2025-12-25T22:00:49Z

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Was that due to post-WWII economics, or because of preferences/traditions?

That's interesting! I didn't know the reputation of post ...

2025-12-25T21:42:22Z

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That's interesting! I didn't know the reputation of post office pens.

Scroogy-Doo: Scrooge unmasks the three ghosts, revealing that ...

2025-12-25T21:16:07Z

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Scroogy-Doo:

Scrooge unmasks the three ghosts, revealing that they're actually real estate developers who want to acquire his house so they can build a skyscraper on that land.

"And it would have worked if it hadn't been for that meddling Tiny Tim!"

I've heard that people of the time had to break the layer of ...

2025-12-25T19:10:34Z

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I've heard that people of the time had to break the layer of ice that formed at the top of inkwells after cold nights in unheated schoolrooms. Maybe one of Bob's jobs on winter mornings was breaking this ice and shaking up the ink to re-dissolve anything that had precipitated out.

My guess is that as long as Scrooge kept the counting house above 32F during the day (for his own comfort) the ink should remain liquid.

This is my favorite adaptation of _A Christmas Carol_, even ...

2025-12-25T18:32:00Z

This is my favorite adaptation of _A Christmas Carol_, even though it condenses the story and has abrupt transitions. The artwork and animation are wonderful and (for me) capture the mood of the original.

https://youtu.be/iN6IMZFwY50

Thank you! That's a very interesting article. What about the ...

2025-12-25T17:22:27Z

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Thank you! That's a very interesting article. What about the ink, though? Would the visitor have dipped his steel or quill pen into Scrooge's inkpot, or would he have carried a bottle of ink around with him? Or, again, did he just pick up a pen from Scrooge's desk?

Any historians out there? Every year I re-read _A Christmas ...

2025-12-25T14:42:15Z

Any historians out there? Every year I re-read _A Christmas Carol_ and this year when I read the following sentence I wondered "what KIND of pen?" Would someone in 1843 London have an early fountain pen? Would he have used Scrooge's pen and inkwell (surely not!)

'At this festive season of the year, Mr. Scrooge,” said the gentleman, taking up a pen, “it is more than usually desirable that we should make some slight provision for the poor and destitute, who suffer greatly at the present time.'

Yum!

2025-12-24T22:37:01Z

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Yum!

Beautiful!

2025-12-24T22:35:09Z

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Beautiful!

To be clear: I haven't been listening to any news since the ...

2025-12-24T22:28:50Z

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To be clear: I haven't been listening to any news since the election because it just makes me unbearably sad or angry. The news I hear "accidentally" is more than enough.

That looks amazing! Lucky you! (Also "Flora of ...

2025-12-24T22:22:55Z

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That looks amazing! Lucky you!

(Also "Flora of Middle-Earth" sounds like like it should be a novel about someone named Flora, like "Tess of the d'Urbervilles".)

Until the most recent US presidential election I always listened ...

2025-12-24T15:54:13Z

Until the most recent US presidential election I always listened to NPR* while making breakfast. The voices seemed to be coming from a world of good, kind people. They were comforting companions. I miss that.

These days I get something like the same feeling from mastodon. I wish there were a "mastodon radio" telling me about nature and math, cats and art, foibles and tall tales.

* Not uncritically. I had angry exchanges with their ombuds about the term "enhanced interrogation techniques".

The "stitch counter" (aka "pick counter" aka ...

2025-12-24T12:27:36Z

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The "stitch counter" (aka "pick counter" aka "linen tester") that my mom gave when I was a kid.

If you're not familiar with these, it's like the one at the link below. (I'd take a picture of my own, but I have a cat in my lap.) It folds up into a delightful flat inch-long object that you can put in your pocket. It's perfect for looking at tiny things.

Mine was a freebie from a fabric company, but it's very sturdy and has held up for decades.

This is a good example of "Chesterton's gate": ...

2025-12-22T18:20:01Z

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This is a good example of "Chesterton's gate":

https://www.lesswrong.com/w/chesterton-s-fence

A nice video about the value of doing small, helpful things: ...

2025-12-22T16:24:16Z

A nice video about the value of doing small, helpful things:

https://youtu.be/-nkxwfi4Ko0

Also a big fan. We've bought tea from them for many years.

2025-12-21T11:35:06Z

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Also a big fan. We've bought tea from them for many years.

These tea infusers: ...

2025-12-20T12:32:37Z

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These tea infusers:

https://arborteas.com/collections/tea-infusers/products/stainless-steel-tea-filter-html

My wife gave me two of them, one for work and one for home. They're just the right size for mugs and they have plenty of room for the leaves to expand. The lid is made flip upside down to make a drip-catching stand for the infuser when you take it out of the mug.

Imagining a story in which a corrupt customs officer snips off a ...

2025-12-20T11:22:49Z

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Imagining a story in which a corrupt customs officer snips off a bit of each of these valuable tapes ("They'll never miss it!") and stashes it in a box, hoping to someday be rich.

I'm so sorry for your loss. The loss of a beloved pet feels ...

2025-12-20T03:17:30Z

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I'm so sorry for your loss. The loss of a beloved pet feels like losing an internal organ.

I'm so sorry. I feel the emptiness in every room.

2025-12-20T03:14:28Z

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I'm so sorry. I feel the emptiness in every room.

Thank you and Pica

2025-12-20T01:05:34Z

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Thank you and Pica

Juniper ~June 1 2019 - December 19 2025 He was the sweetest, ...

2025-12-19T23:40:55Z

Juniper
~June 1 2019 - December 19 2025

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I love the writing of Dallas Lore Sharp. For example: ...

2025-12-17T12:09:15Z

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I love the writing of Dallas Lore Sharp. For example:

https://gutenberg.org/cache/epub/42871/pg42871-images.html

I've just finished reading a collection of ghost stories by ...

2025-12-15T00:18:44Z

I've just finished reading a collection of ghost stories by E. F. Benson. Here's a story that has an interesting twist on vampires. They're spirits that inhabit people's bodies. The people can walk around at any time of day, but the spirit comes out only at night. They're also associated with biting flies?

https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/e-f-benson/ghost-stories/text/mrs-amworth

#books

Professional-level Uncle Wiggily board game

2025-12-14T19:52:50Z

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Professional-level Uncle Wiggily board game

Beautiful, stunning graffiti inside an abandoned hydroelectric ...

2025-12-14T14:24:04Z

Beautiful, stunning graffiti inside an abandoned hydroelectric power plant.

#photography #urbex

"You wouldn't upload a vertebrate"

2025-12-14T11:35:10Z

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"You wouldn't upload a vertebrate"

Is this related to Wittenbauer's parallelogram in some sneaky ...

2025-12-12T01:40:31Z

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Is this related to Wittenbauer's parallelogram in some sneaky way?

https://archimedes-lab.org/2025/05/29/wittenbauers-parallelogram/

That's awful about Mary Baldwin. I found a couple of ...

2025-12-08T23:48:46Z

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That's awful about Mary Baldwin. I found a couple of newspaper articles about it. It sounds like one of the problems is the all-to-common lack of dialog with students and faculty. Hard decisions can sometimes be avoided by engaging all the stakeholders, and even when things don't work out, the blow can be a little easier to bear if everyone feels like they've been part of the decision.

I read The Crime at Black Dudley myself just a few weeks ago and ...

2025-12-08T23:31:58Z

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I read The Crime at Black Dudley myself just a few weeks ago and enjoyed it. It's the first of her books I've read.

Nothing vultured, nothing craned

2025-12-07T17:42:43Z

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Nothing vultured, nothing craned