I’ve been trying out a couple of new web browsers and moving my newsletter subscriptions to different email addresses. The I-am-not-a-robot gauntlet has been brutal.
Link and ephemera Friday 8.1.2025
Links and ephemera Thursday 7.31.2025
One day when I was in the third grade, our music teacher, Mrs. Lafayette, had the class compose a song together. Words and music. It was only about 10 seconds and it went like this:
“Early in the morning
Standing by the road
I jumped when I saw a little toad.”
(Then two more lines here with the same beats as the first two. I don’t remember those lines now.)
“Then I caught him nibbling at my sock.”
55 years later, sometimes I catch myself singing that stupid song, inaudibly, under my breath.
I use an app called Lose It to track calories, and I have cottage cheese with lunch nearly every day. I bought a different brand than usual recently, and Lose It lists it as “cootage cheese.” This amuses me to an unreasonable degree.
Cootage cheese.
Link and ephemera Wednesday 7.30.2025
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Here’s something I saw while walking the dog: This pleasing house
Links and ephemera Tuesday 7.29.2025
Currently reading: The Stainless Steel Rat Saves the World by Harry Harrison 📚