One of my Friday joys is writer and artist Austin Kleon’s newsletter of 10 items he thinks worth sharing. They are sometimes links to his blog (his daily blogging inspired me to start my own daily blogging experiment) or to other items that caught his attention. His February 6 blog post (click this post’s title …
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I first became acquainted with Mr. Redbone, not through his Saturday Night Live appearance, but when I was caught by the cover of his Double Time album at Reader’s Corner in Raleigh, NC. I bought the album, liked his sound, and sought out more of his odd blend of old-time Americana parlor songs smattered with …
Kathleen Davis’ “think piece” — you can read it in under four minutes — briskly surveys the reasons she and her husband continue to use their flip phones. Ten years ago, the story’s angle would have been the exact opposite. She recaps the familiar arguments — the smartphone as fidget and distraction device — and …
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Darkest Hour (2017). Gary Oldman, unrecognizable as usual, as Churchill. I’m unclear, in these historical recreations, on what is real and what is manufactured. But I can tell you the moment of Churchill barging into the Underground was obviously manufactured. Interesting directorial flourishes. It ends on a high note, before the years of privation and …
An advantage of some desktop or third-party email clients is their ability to schedule sending an email. Outlook 2016 for Windows can do this, as can the macOS and iOS application Spark. There are also services/plugins you can buy to give you this feature, such as Boomerang. At work, I sometimes delay sending emails till …
I spend my working days at a computer and sometimes whole evenings too. And bits of the weekend. For the most part I enjoy it, and have enjoyed it as a hobby for the last couple of decades. The Internet can be endlessly distracting and enjoyable. But ergonomically and mentally, it’s also good for me …
I am debating what I want in a protective case for my iPad Pro. A luxury problem, to be sure. There are many choices: sleeves, cases, cases that leave the edges open, wraparound cases that leave only essential ports uncovered, cases that include a keyboard, cases that include a strap, cases to cover only the …
The @SaneLater folder in my Gmail account bulges with links to pages, or the text of pages saved via Email This, that I thought interesting enough to read later but not crucial to read now. I trolled through the emails tonight looking for ideas on something to post. I deleted some recent emails related to …
I weighed 211.0 lbs. a couple days ago, way over the control line. So I did a 22-hour or so fast. I had last eaten about 8pm the day before, so I did not eat again till after 7pm the day after. By the next day, my weight had dropped a pretty remarkable 2.5 pounds …
I install a consistent set of bookmarklets across all the browsers I use at work and home. (Except for iOS; haven’t figured out how to install them in Safari.) The most useful one on a daily basis is for Google Site Search. From the Bookmarks bar, click the bookmarklet – I’ve renamed mine to “GSS” …
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