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September 2025
: From another great piece of writing by Joan Westenberg, “Why Belief Beats Discipline”: We are not …
: The exits you’ve carved so carefully have become cages, keeping you from the growth you envisioned. …
: Watching the video “You need to be bored. Here’s Why” where Harvard Professor Arthur C. Brooks …
: My favorite hack lately is adding detailed AI prompts to my text expander. Really useful for …
: Watched a video on the controversial question “Are wooden pencils better than fountain pens?” and it …
: Jack Edwards, the “internet’s resident librarian,” shares his book reviews and bookish thoughts on …
August 2025
: The Ritman Library has digitized 2,178 rare Occult books and made them available in their online …
: “Nature connectedness is now accepted as a key root cause of the environmental crisis,” Richardson …
: Back in 2016, deep inside a Canadian mine, geologists stumbled upon something extraordinary. At …
: Explorers have discovered the world’s deepest shipwreck, lying 6,895 meters (22,621 feet) beneath …
: That’s right – in the town of St Paul in Northern Alberta lies the world’s first ever UFO landing …
: The disgustingly educated are not “know-it-alls.” They’re “want-to-know-it-alls.” They collect …
: I may have broken my website somehow so I’m not sure when today’s post will be going up. If you’re …
: Project Midnight = Rayne I worked on Project Midnight last night. The writing itself is terrible and I’m unlikely to keep any …
: Checking out Kite, which is Kagi’s news aggregator. Very simple and easy to set up. You can keep an …
: I managed to make enough gold in MoP classic to buy myself a WoW Token. Way easier to make 11K in …
: I’ve enjoyed doing laundry lately, and not in a productive, getting things done kind of way. In a …
: As Albert Einstein famously said, “Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and …
: So when I said I was going to post here every day in August I guess what I meant is that I will post …
: My bulk order of socks arrived and I took out all the other socks in the drawer, stored them away in …
July 2025
: I finally got around to ordering ALL the socks. They should arrive tomorrow. The sock gnomes may …
: According to a new study, humans can inhale more than 70,000 microplastic particles each day in an …
: The Midnight Letter It’s been my goal since the start of the year to eventually (one day, maybe) launch a physical …
: So far today: Went to the dentist. Broke a tooth. (In that order).
: Archaeologists carrying out excavations at Egypt’s Saqqara necropolis recently made a discovery …
: Ideal Number of Daily Steps Isn’t as Many as We’ve Been Told This latest research paper looked …
: I’m convinced there’s some kind of vortex in or near my dryer that opens up during loads and sucks …
: Caution: Wet Paint Been in the mood to play around with CSS so both my main site and my micro.blog got a fresh coat of …
: Carl Jung on the Power of Tarot Cards: They Provide Doorways to the Unconscious & Perhaps a Way to …
: Played around with the CSS after pointing my highlights feed to micro.blog instead of Notion Gave …
: The Audience Effect Our brains evolved to care deeply about social status. When we sense we’re …
: Strange Portals Spontaneously Appearing in the Home One outlandish feature of the world of the …
: I tried sublime.app and it’s very cool. You clip things you find interesting and it pulls up related …
: Last night I discovered bearblog.dev and it seems like an excellent blogging platform alternative. …
: Currently reading Joan Westenberg’s “How to Make People Give a Damn” and thinking about how …
: I’ve been using News Explorer for all of my daily RSS reading, and I love it, but it’s forced me to …
: I'll Read It Today I discovered Manuel Moreale’s initiative “I’ll Read It” in which he encourages people to start …
: Feedle is great for finding new RSS feeds to follow. Love that I can batch RSS feeds by topic. Hope …
: Me: I’ve come to an important life decision K: Okay… Me: After many years of battling the sock …
: Gave my notes a little flair thanks to the CSS snippet from birming.com
: I’ve been trying for the Cartel Master’s Gearglider mount in WoW and even with the Collector’s …
: I’ve been watching The Waterfront on Netflix and I haven’t decided if I like it yet. Melissa Benoist …
: Been trying out a new RSS reader: News Explorer and so far I love it. The way it pulls comments so I …