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Pay me in exposure. No, you pay me for exposure.I used to be a contributing editor at Rolling Stone magazine, which sounds a lot cooler than it was. Basically, if you hung around long enough y…
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13 hr agoComment 3Share
That poem. Holy shit.As you know, I don’t much hold with poetry, but damn this was some some kickarse word-poeming. The New York Times has a nice write up of it here.
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Jan 21Comment 6Share
Destroyed by Umberto Eco's crazy Escher print book warehouse.Lobes sent me this mind blowing vid on the Twitz this morning. Umberto Eco looking for a book in his personal library. Doesn't sounds like much,…
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Jan 20Comment 6Share
Broken day.I knew I was going to have a tough one today. We were getting new solar panels installed. The inverter on the original array finally packed it i…
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Jan 19Comment 6Share
What I did on my holidays.Not much, actually. I didn’t go near the keyboard between Christmas and the end of the first week of January. I’ve been back since then trying t…
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Jan 18Comment 7Share
Have the best Christmas you can.We saw off another old mate this week. Gulliver. One of two brothers we rescued from a wild litter shortly after Thomas was born. That would mak…
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Dec 24, 2020Comment 12Share
Rowing! Now with pixels.I tried an Apple Fitness + workout this morning. The fruit company’s exercise streaming service launched this week and I got it as part of my bu…
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Dec 16, 2020Comment 4Share
John Le Carré passed away overnight. I listened to his last novel Agent Running in the Field on Audible a couple of months ago and made a note to write…
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Dec 14, 2020Comment 6Share
Our old Lab, Sophie, reached the end of her long walk this week. It’s been pretty hard concentrating on work ever since. I’m kind of hoping this eulogy…
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Dec 11, 2020Comment 11Share
A horse walks into a bar and gets edited.There is so much truth here. My thanks to Gregg Goriss for the tip.
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Dec 10, 2020Comment 4Share
Finally! Twenty plus years of jujitsu training pays off.Getting a migraine at my desk, I had an exciting moment when I stood up to go get some nurofen. Both legs were asleep and collapsed eccentricall…
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Dec 2, 2020Comment 6Share
The rise of the machinesJonathon Last’s newsletter for The Bulwark is always a bracing read, and never more so than this morning when he pointed to a piece about the wa…
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Nov 23, 2020Comment 9Share
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