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2023

Restaurants loved and lost: Country Styleoriginal ↗
8 Aug 2023
Desks for people who live in small spaces and/or like Transformersoriginal ↗
8 Aug 2023
On the benefits of diaries, journals and notebooksoriginal ↗
6 Aug 2023
Transition time in media, or at least Disney, but likely moreoriginal ↗
3 Aug 2023
The wonderful historicalness of “You’ve Got Mail”, 25 years onoriginal ↗
2 Aug 2023
Barbenheimer! Beyonce! Taylor Swift earthquakes! And more, in my July 2023 edition of my not-a-newsletter newsletter and assorted ramblings.original ↗
1 Aug 2023
The 40 hour 5 day work week has long been dead – we need the four day week to get back to 40original ↗
31 Jul 2023
Can you run in summer? And other fitness advice you can useoriginal ↗
30 Jul 2023
The Wham! documentary is surprising and good and watch it you shouldoriginal ↗
29 Jul 2023
How to use the universe as an instrument to do science experimentsoriginal ↗
28 Jul 2023
Hula hoops, or if you don’t understand NPC streaming or Pinkydoll, maybe you’re not supposed tooriginal ↗
27 Jul 2023
Paul McCartney’s newest creations using history and science fictionoriginal ↗
26 Jul 2023
AI and the shift from opinion to effectoriginal ↗
25 Jul 2023
It’s summer! Time to eat your veggies! (or, food links for food lovers, July 2023)original ↗
24 Jul 2023
How to get started reading a particular author? The Guardian has a solutionoriginal ↗
23 Jul 2023
Will there be Doom? (What I find interesting in hardware/software in tech Jul 2023)original ↗
22 Jul 2023
On restaurants in 2023, post-pandemic and in generaloriginal ↗
21 Jul 2023
Beautiful brutalism at home in Romeoriginal ↗
20 Jul 2023
Reliability is a key quality in a better life. You need more of it.original ↗
19 Jul 2023
Is this the start of the decline of opera in New York?original ↗
18 Jul 2023
The 70s, now romanticized, were a time of excess in cultureoriginal ↗
17 Jul 2023
The brilliant apparel of the Bitter Southerner General Storeoriginal ↗
16 Jul 2023
Cleaning is a form of care, both for other things and for youoriginal ↗
15 Jul 2023
Friday Night Music: Jocelyn Alice with How Could You Not Knoworiginal ↗
15 Jul 2023
A cool site for people who write books (like Stewart Brand) and people who read themoriginal ↗
14 Jul 2023
The 100 best restaurants in NYC in 2023 (plus the best places to eat and drink outside)original ↗
13 Jul 2023
Paris bistros are resurging, and that’s great to seeoriginal ↗
12 Jul 2023
Work outside kinda! The desk/office leaves the buildingoriginal ↗
11 Jul 2023
In praise of the ordinary hotel baroriginal ↗
10 Jul 2023
Porsche 911: or what I would buy if I won the lotteryoriginal ↗
9 Jul 2023
Some thoughts on being sufficientoriginal ↗
8 Jul 2023
Let us go to Enceladus! (What I find interesting in math and science, July 2023)original ↗
7 Jul 2023
Blackberry Pi, or what you get when you pair a blackberry and a Raspberry Pioriginal ↗
6 Jul 2023
Norbert Hoeller, a smart person I know, is blogging. You should read what he has to say.original ↗
5 Jul 2023
Thinking about the SCOTUS and America on July 4th, 2023original ↗
4 Jul 2023
New old news from the Big Smoke/Hogtown/Toronto (July 2023 edition)original ↗
3 Jul 2023
Are all self help books the same?original ↗
2 Jul 2023
Happy Canada Day! Celebrate by eating in one of the “Best Places to Eat in Canada”original ↗
1 Jul 2023
Summertime! And the living is easy? (some thoughts and ramblings for the June 2023 edition of my not-a-newsletter newsletter)original ↗
30 Jun 2023
Carbs! Pasta and rice and noodles as well (food links for food lovers, June 2023)original ↗
29 Jun 2023
Three cool watches: present, past and futureoriginal ↗
28 Jun 2023
Silicon Valley is full of not serious people and it’s time to treat them accordinglyoriginal ↗
27 Jun 2023
On RFK Jr and the people that are supporting himoriginal ↗
26 Jun 2023
Revisiting McCartney after watching Get Backoriginal ↗
25 Jun 2023
Art direction! Art inspiration! And other art linksoriginal ↗
24 Jun 2023
On the Bloor Cinema and the other rep theatres listed in Festival magazineoriginal ↗
23 Jun 2023
What are the best potato chips, you ask?original ↗
22 Jun 2023
Cool and colorful furnitureoriginal ↗
21 Jun 2023
On the mega long YouTube phenomenaoriginal ↗
20 Jun 2023
Bernie’s Rule of Business Predictions and Time Framesoriginal ↗
19 Jun 2023
85 or so interesting things I wanted to write about and maybe will some dayoriginal ↗
18 Jun 2023
On Sylvia Plath and other fine visual artistsoriginal ↗
17 Jun 2023
Reading as a defence against those that would ban and burn booksoriginal ↗
16 Jun 2023
How to rate Hannah Gadsby’s Pablo-Matic show at The Brooklyn Museum?original ↗
15 Jun 2023
AI AI AI AI: here’s some good, bad and scary stuff on AIoriginal ↗
14 Jun 2023
Reflecting on the Apple Watch while reading how the Apple VisionPro might floporiginal ↗
13 Jun 2023
On spatial computing and VisionOSoriginal ↗
12 Jun 2023
Beige is a great colour, especially for summer clothing.original ↗
11 Jun 2023
How to study Yeats “The Lake Isle of Innisfree” and other good things you missed in high schooloriginal ↗
10 Jun 2023
Beef and chicken and pork, too. Or is that two? (Friday food for mid-June, 2023)original ↗
9 Jun 2023
On the changes to the Twitter API in 2023 and why I’m not using itoriginal ↗
8 Jun 2023
Who doesn’t need advice on how to better run your kitchen?original ↗
7 Jun 2023
Very cool: a map of the night trains of Europeoriginal ↗
6 Jun 2023
What I find interesting in Mainframes and CI/CD (tech update June 2023)original ↗
5 Jun 2023
The odd third season of Ted Lasso, and other thoughts on TV, June 2023original ↗
4 Jun 2023
Pull up a chair. Make it into a sofa. Make it comfy, even.original ↗
3 Jun 2023
Friday night cocktail: sbagliato madnessoriginal ↗
2 Jun 2023
Who’s a good robot? Who’s a good robot?? You are!original ↗
1 Jun 2023
It’s lilac season, people! A May highlight! Here’s some other highlights (and ramblings) for this May of 2023original ↗
31 May 2023
Advice for all you frustrated artists out there (including me)original ↗
30 May 2023
On remote work, productivity (and the lack thereof) and three day weekendsoriginal ↗
29 May 2023
What do professional runners get paid?original ↗
28 May 2023
A thought or two on “Air”, especially after “Blackberry”original ↗
27 May 2023
Blackberry: a device once loved, now a film (and a great one)original ↗
26 May 2023
On Warhol, Basquiat, and Haring too. All three in the news.original ↗
25 May 2023
The best thing I’ve read on China in a while…original ↗
24 May 2023
Some thoughts on using Apple devices to get fitoriginal ↗
23 May 2023
What Ethernet (which is 50 years old today) taught me about technology (open and cheap and easy and good enough wins)original ↗
22 May 2023
On the eel pie and mash houses of Englandoriginal ↗
21 May 2023
No more champagne: Churchill and his moneyoriginal ↗
21 May 2023
Here’s four good lists for youoriginal ↗
20 May 2023
Some thoughts on being sufficientoriginal ↗
19 May 2023
On appreciating the Chrysler Building (my favorite building in the world)original ↗
19 May 2023
What’s old is news in Toronto (May 2023 edition)original ↗
18 May 2023
Homelessness is a concurrent disorder in a number of waysoriginal ↗
17 May 2023
Fashion news, for rich and poor, serious and otherwiseoriginal ↗
16 May 2023
What I find interesting in cloud tech, May 2023original ↗
15 May 2023
The Combo Pizza of Venice, and other things Glace Bay and Cape Bretonoriginal ↗
14 May 2023
The neighborhoods of Glace Bayoriginal ↗
13 May 2023
You Of All People can Live a Quiet Lifeoriginal ↗
12 May 2023
The latest and greatest from Teenage Engineering: the CM-15 micoriginal ↗
11 May 2023
What’s cool? The interactive Open Infrastructure Map is cooloriginal ↗
10 May 2023
On Karl Lagerfeld now (thinking about difficult people)original ↗
9 May 2023
The winter of smarter cities and why that’s a bad thingoriginal ↗
8 May 2023
How to find your purpose in lifeoriginal ↗
7 May 2023
In praise of bordeaux: red, white and bubblyoriginal ↗
6 May 2023
Everything but the Girl, in three timesoriginal ↗
5 May 2023
From Henry V to King Lear: Branagh comes of an age (as do we all)original ↗
4 May 2023
Why the Quebecois version of the Simpsons is so greatoriginal ↗
3 May 2023
Trips to Uranus! Roundworms with the munchies! And much more! :) (What I find interesting in math and science, May 2023)original ↗
2 May 2023
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