Month: November 2020
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I Don’t Think You’re Ready For This Player
How the book Ready Player Two could be a teachable moment for the internet.
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Tuesday Tune Two-fer: Jeremy Blake (Red Means Recording)
Two tunes from an artist who showed what you can do with synthesizers and gave me calm when I needed it
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Walt Disney Imagin
Congratulations to Joe Rohde on his retirement, plus my thanks, and some speculation about the future of Disney parks
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The Mandalorian Was Filmed Before a Live Studio Audience
Episode 12 of The Mandalorian, “The Siege,” was episodic TV Star Wars, and proved the rest of the series isn’t really that
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Semi-New Song Sunday: First Aid Kit
Hearing First Aid Kit for the first time makes me wish I’d grown up in their version of the 1970s, instead of the real one
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More to See Than Can Ever Be Seen
Breaking away from toxic social media by actively choosing to make better use of your time
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My Possession
The latest Dirty Projectors song seems as close as 2020 is going to let us get to a collective exhale.
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Weekend in Big Sur
Our long weekend in Big Sur for our anniversary, plus an accidental iPhone 12 review
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M1 MacBook Pro: Cool Runnings
That photo isn’t one of me Totally Sidetalkin’, but it’s almost as amazing. I’m holding a running MacBook Pro up to my face. Without fear of scorching my delicate skin or torching all my white hair to blackened cinders. Today I got a 13″ MacBook Pro with the new M1 chip, and I’ve spent the…
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The October Country
Ray Bradbury’s The October Country is something I should’ve read a long, long time ago.
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Tuesday Tune Twofer: Songs for my Mother
Remembering the early 1970s, and two songs my mother liked to sing when I was a kid.
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Semi-New Song Sundays: Nada Surf
Nada Surf is new to me but is still making me nostalgic for my college years.