Junk Drawers
Catherine was very much of the “we might need this someday” school, where “this” could be gift bags, kebab skewers, random nuts and bolts, or bits of ribbon. As a result, our house has not only one,...
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The Office: Deleted Scenes
Longtime readers may recall my 2013 remix of a Vinyl Café episode, wherein I took advantage of the pause-filled speaking style of the late Stuart McLean to take apart and reassemble the audio into...
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FaceTime Advice from Tom Ford
It’s time we all upped our video chat aesthetics game; designer and filmmaker Tom Ford has some simple advice:Put the computer up on a stack of books so the camera is slightly higher than your head....
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Better Living Through iPad Text Editing
I inherited Catherine’s iPad, and find myself using it more and more: I watch TV, edit photos, browse the web, FaceTime my mother. And I write blog posts, like this one, via email.I haven’t used an...
View ArticleHelp me celebrate my birthday with "First and Last"
I’ve been chewing on an idea I’ve called First and Last for a many years now; my 54th birthday, on Sunday, amidst a pandemic, seems as good a time as any to try it out.The original idea was to rent a...
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Pain au chocolat
Because, fuck the pandemic, I’m ordering six pain au chocolat.FuckCoronavirusPain au chocolatReceiver Coffee
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54
I turned 54 years old today.The day started with calls from loved ones, followed by our usual Sunday waffles (I added some cocoa, because, well, it’s my birthday). After lunch I helped Oliver make me a...
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Cake
Oliver took this photo of me, about to blow out the candle on my birthday cake.Birthday54Oliver
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Memories of Row 142
Six years ago this morning I was in the letterpress shop printing coffee bags for the late, reborn-as-Receiver, Row 142.Row 142Letterpress
View Article"Do they still want to hear what I say?"
I am convinced that the zeitgeist, which is shape-shifting at a dizzying pace, is going to make a dramatic turn this week; some of us are going to go to ground, some of us are going to flower.My friend...
View ArticleWorld of Windows
World of Windows: pandemic-proof P2P to (re)build resilience, from Kirsten Dirksen and an international group of collaborators, is the best view into pandemic that I’ve come...
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Remember 'other places?'
I started with The Beatles song In My Life:There are places I’ll rememberAll my life, though some have changedSome forever, not for betterSome have gone, and some remainAll these places had their...
View ArticleSurvivors of the Spanish Flu
Among those who survived the 1918 Spanish flu:Raymond ChandlerWait DisneyLillian GishDavid Lloyd GeorgeFranz KafkaEdvard MunchGeorgia O’KeeffeMary PickfordAlso on the list: Woodrow Wilson, President at...
View Articleホームレスの疎開先
Enjoy this video from #Vanlifer Yohei Murakami in Japan either in the original Japanese, or with YouTube subtitles turned on; it’s enjoyable either way.Digital HomelessJapan#vanlife
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Remember interoperability?
Remember back in the day when there was interoperability between messaging platforms? When the hope was held out that we would all be able to seamlessly chat, with a single app, a single account, with...
View Article"It was my last handshake."
Danny Caine, proprietor of The Raven Book Store, writes about an event the store held, just as the world was shutting down, with author Louise Erdrich.He finishes:As we walked over to the fire, the...
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Weekly Learning Seminar
At 100 Prince Street we’ve been working to rebuild some semblance of a new routine upon which to hang our hats.Some of the elements of this new routine, like nightly Crazy 8s, are novel. We use...
View ArticleAre we going to take a year off tourism?
Via the Institute of Island Studies newsletter, a link to the OTOK Podcast, “a podcast about and for islanders.”The second episode features Nenad Starc discussing the impact of COVID-19 on the...
View ArticleNeutron Bombs and Essential Services
Like Matt Webb, my childhood featured a bomb that would make the people disappear, but leave everything else intact:I grew at the tail end of the Cold War. My unquestioned assumption was that I would...
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