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Feb 25, 2024: 🍿 Mission: Impossible III, 2006 - ★★★★½ Watched on Sunday February 25, 2024.
Feb 25, 2024: I took my iPhone 14 Pro out of its case for the first time in a while and all I keep thinking is “this camera bump is ridiculously big”.
Sep 1, 2023: 🖋 Happy Hobonichi Day! I’m due for a new 5 Year and am going to recommit to keeping it updated. I’ve done it sporadically over the last 5 …
Aug 13, 2023: Finished reading: The Creative Act by Rick Rubin 📚 I know a lot of people love this book, and I was excited to read it, but I just couldn’t get …
Aug 13, 2023: Finished reading: Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan 📚 I’m a big fan of Robin’s newsletters, but had never read one of …
Aug 10, 2023: I’ve been getting back into print magazines and Mountain Gazette is a great one. Their list of “Magazines We Love That Aren’t …
Aug 10, 2023: Finished reading: A Hacker’s Mind: How the Powerful Bend Society’s Rules, and How to Bend them Back by Bruce Schneier 📚 A book about all …
Aug 2, 2023: Finished reading: Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy 📚
Jul 29, 2023: Finished reading: Freedom by Sebastian Junger 📚 A short book on what it means to be free in the worldly sense rather than the spiritual. I enjoyed it.
Jul 29, 2023: OK, that’s it for now. Sorry for all the posts!
Jul 29, 2023: Finished reading: Lessons from an American Stoic by Mark Matousek 📚
Jul 29, 2023: Finished reading: The Alloy of Law by Brandon Sanderson 📚
Jul 29, 2023: Finished reading: In the Kingdom of Ice by Hampton Sides 📚
Jul 29, 2023: Finished reading: Babel by R. F. Kuang 📚 Wow, I really enjoyed this.
Jul 29, 2023: Finished reading: The Motivation Manifesto by Brendon Burchard 📚
Jul 29, 2023: Finished reading: The Frugal Wizard’s Handbook for Surviving Medieval England by Brandon Sanderson 📚
Jul 29, 2023: Finished reading: Red Team Blues by Cory Doctorow 📚
Jul 29, 2023: Finished reading: The Wager by David Grann 📚
Jul 29, 2023: Finished reading: Excellent Advice for Living by Kevin Kelly 📚
Jul 29, 2023: Finished reading: The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains by Nicholas Carr 📚
Jul 29, 2023: Finished reading: Assassin’s Quest (The Illustrated Edition) by Robin Hobb 📚
Jul 29, 2023: Finished reading: Every Tool’s a Hammer by Adam Savage 📚
Jul 29, 2023: Finished reading: Royal Assassin (The Illustrated Edition) by Robin Hobb 📚
Jul 29, 2023: Finished reading: Assassin’s Apprentice (The Illustrated Edition) by Robin Hobb 📚
Jul 29, 2023: Finished reading: Dopamine Nation by Dr. Anna Lembke 📚
Jul 29, 2023: Finished reading: Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay 📚
Jul 29, 2023: Finished reading: Artificial Condition by Martha Wells 📚
Jul 29, 2023: Finished reading: Govt Cheese by Steven Pressfield 📚
Jul 29, 2023: Finished reading: Long Road by Steven Hyden 📚
Jul 29, 2023: I apologize for the coming deluge of book posts. I’ve fallen way behind and have only posted a handful of my 2023 reading.
Jul 27, 2023: We’ve been picking 3-4 pints of blueberries from our garden every few days for a month with no end in sight. In 17 years we’ve never had a …
Jul 27, 2023: This was an instant (impulse) purchase. 🖋️ Ember - Tactile Turn, Summer 2023
Jul 26, 2023: Filson is constantly trying to get between me and my wallet. Rugged Twill Cruiser
Jun 5, 2023: I find it a little harder every year to distinguish between an Apple keynote and an SNL skit.
Mar 21, 2023: Finished reading: Bea Wolf by Zach Weinersmith 📚 I forgot I had pre-ordered this. It arrived today and I devoured it in one sitting. It is a joy to …
Feb 11, 2023: Finished reading: Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin 📚 Yes it is as good as everyone says.
Feb 11, 2023: Finished reading: All Systems Red by Martha Wells 📚
Feb 4, 2023: -11 Fahrenheit this morning in Connecticut. Wood stove before coffee.
Jan 26, 2023: Finished reading: Tress of the Emerald Sea by Brandon Sanderson 📚 I enjoyed this book. It’s different than the other Sanderson books I’ve …
Jan 26, 2023: 🍿 Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022) - ★★★★☆ I laughed. I cried. I was very confused. I assume it’s a great movie because I’m still …
Jan 20, 2023: 🎵 Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (2022 Remaster) - Wilco - ★★★★★
Jan 18, 2023: Watching Heart of Midlothian versus Aberdeen. ⚽️
Jan 18, 2023: Didn’t realize Wilco tickets were going on sale until an hour before hand and I managed to grab a pair!
Jan 10, 2023: Finished reading: Mornings on Horseback: The Story of an Extraordinary Family, a Vanished Way of Life and the Unique Child Who Became Theodore …
Dec 31, 2022: Ending the year with a Bravus Gravitas IV. This is one of the best beers I’ve ever had, no qualifications. If you’re on the NA beer train (or even if …
Dec 31, 2022: 📝Out with the old, in with the new (notebooks). For my pocket, it’s the new Field Notes Craft Plus. For my desk, it’s a Leuchtturm RED DOTS in Army.
Dec 31, 2022: I’m giving myself a New Year’s gift of podcast & RSS bankruptcy. With few exceptions, I’m marking everything as played/read and …
Dec 17, 2022: Has anyone tried Rewind.ai? I have an invite for the early access and am both fascinated by and terrified of the idea.
Dec 1, 2022: I love this place. Kings Peak Coffee, Salt Lake City
Nov 13, 2022: I finally bought my ski pass for the season. Hopefully this will motivate me to get in shape! ⛷️
Nov 12, 2022: ⚽️ Hearts-Livingston. Hearts could really use this one before the World Cup break.
Nov 7, 2022: 🏀 Watching Celtics-Grizzlies. My Celtics have had a tough schedule to start the year.
Nov 6, 2022: It’s 71° and humid here in Connecticut on November 6th. I had to get my shorts & sandals back out. 😰
Nov 5, 2022: Finished reading: The Well of Ascension by Brandon Sanderson 📚
Nov 2, 2022: “Feast” is apparently not a word in my day-to-day vocabulary. I can’t think of a way to use it in a post that sounds like something I’d actually say.
Nov 2, 2022: Does anyone have a Readwise Reader referral that you’re willing to share?
Nov 1, 2022: I deeply regret the time, over 6 years ago, that I gave a political candidate a $5 donation and somehow agreed to a lifetime of unblock-able text and …
Nov 1, 2022: I figure a second espresso on a grey, rainy morning is the right call.
Oct 20, 2022: I’ve been wondering when the new “Orders” button in my Apple Wallet would do something. An order from Lost Art Press showed up a few minutes after I …
Oct 16, 2022: Hearts and Chelsea on at the same time this morning. The Chelsea game is obviously on a different level of skill, but I think Hearts are more fun to …
Oct 15, 2022: I don’t feel good about this: VAR comes to Scotland I’ve been gravitating towards Scottish soccer recently, in part due to the relative …
Oct 14, 2022: A Day in the Life, 2022-10-14 at 8:13a, Nortwest Connecticut, USA. I try, both literally and figuratively, to put my boots on each morning and get to …
Oct 14, 2022: Finished reading: Mistborn: The Final Empire by Brandon Sanderson 📚 Wow, that was fun.
Oct 13, 2022: I did not know that Shantaram was being made into an AppleTV series (starting this Friday!). I loved this book and hope the show does it justice. 📚
Oct 12, 2022: I gave the updated Spark email client a trial run. It’s nice, but I’m not to pay for a subscription. I have a few simple filters in …
May 13, 2022: My favorite local grocery store has been stocking more N/A beer lately. I picked up a 4 pack of Wellbeing’s Hellraiser this week. It’s …
Jan 13, 2022: Finished reading: Termination Shock: A Novel by Neal Stephenson 📚
Nov 5, 2021: 🖋 Fountain Pen Day 2021. I celebrated by inking up a new bronze Lamy Al-Star with some KWZ Honey and buying a green ysutdio Classic Revolve. I love my …
Nov 3, 2021: Finished reading: The Every by Dave Eggers 📚 Ouch. A blistering satire of tech and surveillance that hit pretty close to home. Buy it directly from …
Oct 26, 2021: Finished reading: Attack Surface by Cory Doctorow 📚
Oct 3, 2021: I couldn’t figure out today’s prompt (majority), so here’s a picture from my afternoon walk instead.
Oct 2, 2021: Dark. 📷
Oct 1, 2021: A touch of color here in Connecticut. 📷
Aug 27, 2021: There are a few opening song riffs that can immediately transport me back to a time and place. When I hear the beginning of “Alive”, …
Aug 23, 2021: View from our beach hut, Eleuthera, Bahamas. My dad and I built this in 2013. It’s made it through a few big storms, been completely under water more …
Aug 23, 2021: I own A LOT of pocket notebooks. Perhaps more than I’ll ever get around to using, which is why I usually kick myself for buying even more. But …
Aug 22, 2021: Last back to school drop off for our oldest as she starts her senior year at Cornell.
Aug 20, 2021: 🖋New pen day. Tactile Turn Nautilus. I bought the short version to better fit in my pocket and cut down a Zebra Sarasa Camel Yellow refill to fit. It …
Aug 18, 2021: Finished reading: The Way of Kings: Book One of the Stormlight Archive by Brandon Sanderson 📚 About 900 pages in I was thinking “this is good, …
Aug 12, 2021: Lukaku is back at Chelsea. Now do De Bruyne and Salah.
Aug 10, 2021: The Olympics have ended, so Settlers has restarted in our house. I came from way back for the win.
Aug 8, 2021: ☕️ This week’s roast: Kenya Kiambu Mandela AB from Sweet Maria’s
Aug 7, 2021: I’m really looking forward to Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman. It’s out next week and here’s an …
Aug 7, 2021: Finally started my Brood X notebook from Story Supply. 📝
Aug 3, 2021: Finished reading: Reborn in the USA: An Englishman’s Love Letter to His Chosen Home by Roger Bennett 📚 I enjoyed reading about the 80s culture …
Aug 1, 2021: Finished reading: The Art of the National Parks by Fifty-Nine Parks 📚 This is a gorgeous book of the Fifty-Nine Parks poster series. Each park gets a …
Jul 27, 2021: Birmingham Pens just released a small batch of fountain pens. I bought one from them earlier this year and it’s fantastic (pricey, but worth it). 🖋