Bash Modern Quantity Objet petit a
Objet petit a—the little A—the thing that keeps us going… in the wrong direction
BPA-free Masculinity
Conversations overheard, and under-appreciated, at first, at the barber shop.
Really more of a one-woman show…
iPhone 13 Pro: better than it needs to be
Sometimes Apple makes products that are even better than they tell us they are.
From the Help Desk: Rescuing a Laptop from BitLocker and Lenovo’s SecureBoot
I’m putting this here to help anyone who ends up in the same place I was last night at a bit after midnight. I know you’re out there… I’ve seen your panic-stricken posts to the Lenovo forums (fora?). The Problem: Lenovo-crippled firmware As the de facto “IT person” for the greater portion of my and …
Unbreaking America
The Dangers of Domestication
Part 1: From Hated to Hallowed Last month, in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, my daughter was given a worksheet at school. It looked a lot like this one to the right, but with different content. The actual content of the worksheet was “Ways I can make the world a better place, just …
The Best Stories on TV
This is not going to be the blog post that wins me a Pulitzer (has that happened, I wonder? Ah, yes, sort of), but I keep having this thought, and I feel like it deserves to be “out there.” Two of my favorite television shows of recent times have been Orange Is The New Black …
Craft Punk
A few years ago I started a new family tradition of making homemade Halloween costumes with my son, Liam. No, not like Okay, I’ll skip to the finished products from the first couple years. Year one, a Creeper, from Minecraft: I don’t even remember what started this tradition. I don’t remember whose idea it was, …
“Notoriously hard to follow”
Yes, I’ve come out of hiding, but don’t get too excited until this happens a few times in the same month. I’ve been sitting on this post for a week or so. Every time I remember reading “Putting The Talmud Online” (via kottke.org), I chuckle. A Washington Post article is linked, describing the lengths to …