Month: March 2026

  • weekender, six

    weekender, six

    I somehow managed to fit in watching three movies this weekend and it started with a random pick off Netflix called Code 3, a Rainn Wilson tragi-comedy about ambulance drivers in Los Angeles. Also, it turned out to be a biting indictment of American-style health care, and a bit of an unexpected tear-jerker in the

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  • japanese, part five

    japanese, part five

    I’m Duolingo’d out. I have long had an affection for the idea of this app. I was one of their early users, I cranked through the French lessons for well over a year-long streak back when I was commuting to work downtown on the train and would sit in a little bench seat and churn

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  • weekender, five

    weekender, five

    I am certainly not entirely keeping pace with my weekender updates, but to be fair a lot of recent weekends have been us just hiding from the cold weather and watching movies or playing video games for long stretches. We’ve also spent a lot of time in the basement sorting and cleaning because the Kid

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  • book reviews: simple sci fi

    book reviews: simple sci fi

    All my great intentions for reading in 2026 have manifested in the way of man whose eyes are too big for his stomach. In my case, my reading appetite has bitten off a few large portions and I find myself already well into March and not having completed much of anything. It is not for

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  • keyboard life, three

    keyboard life, three

    Barely a few hours later and you are getting a second keyboard post today. It seems as though my life is revolving around input devices on this quiet winter Thursday.  Sigh. Why is that? Two reasons, one a tangent I didn’t include in the last post but which I thought was worth writing about and

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