Taken by Liz with her iPhone 7, Sunday afternoon, on the kitchen counter. The only peony this year.
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In So Many Words
Richard Dalloway brings home flowers for his wife.
5 Updates and 1 Swivel
News from the front.
In Passing
[At the library, after pointing out a shelf of books labeled “Amish Fiction.”] “Where’s the Mennonite fiction?” [In Passing posts are inspired by Orange Crate Art’s domestic comedy posts. I steal all my best ideas from Orange Crate Art.]
David L. Ulin on Tristram Shandy, Zadie Smith, and the Fiction of Apocalypse | Book Marks
They [Tristram Shandy and The Anatomy of Melancholy] are reminders that weirdness, unconventionality, iconoclasm is not contemporary but wholly human, that the books and writers I am looking for are the ones who make it up (as we all must) as they go along.
In Praise of the Small Town Library | Literary Hub
The allure of a small-town library.
This headless robotic cat pillow will wag its way into your heart – The Verge
“Creepy and unnatural!”
A short new movie of a comet’s surface is pretty incredible | Ars Technica
Photo: Cafeteria Menu Board
On my way to tonight’s TriUXPA event, I grabbed an early supper at my favorite place to eat in Raleigh: the one and only K&W Cafeteria in Cameron Village. There are other K&Ws around, but this one is the homiest and the sweetest. Look at those choices — what’s not to like??
Backups update
With the network problems seemingly taken care, we were still plagued with occasional, maddening slowdowns when watching Netflix or even just browsing on our devices. But when I shut down the iMac or put it to sleep, the network would suddenly leap to life or become more stable. Hmmm. I’ve been running Backblaze since mid-January …
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