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Ten random facts about the human behind the blog.

I'm skipping ahead in the Blaugust prompts, because some of the week one questions don't apply to someone participating for the first...

Come write HTML with me this Saturday.

HTML Day is an annual celebration of getting together and writing HTML, created by Elliott Cost and Laurel Schwulst. Saturday, August 8, 2026, i...

A Blaugust swap: James writes here, I write there.

A Note From Me First

One of this year's Blaugust prompts is to write ...

This post was written by Zachary Kai as part of Blaugust 2026. Read the post I wrote about art history for Zachary's site. ⁂ ⁂ ⁂ I’m participating in Blaugust this year. Like most things, on a whim. Nerd Girl, who’s coordinating this year’s edition, compiled community-bui...

be my invisible mirror
that opens when i write.
with words, wonder; hope, dreaming.

be my literary pillow;
bear the brunt of the i (eyes)
the questions, of self.

be the messy middle of my mind
on paper, that speaks of life.
blank, until it is not.

Inspired by Tim Kiely's prompt.

Warm tea, wiki edits, and zines sent by a friend that arrived earlier this week welcome me to the morning. Yesterday there was a rain shower more intense than any I have seen for a while; a powerful wind blew through the air. Now, the day is calm: the sky is cloudy and a lig...

Lovely piece on the game of Diplomacy, which I haven’t thought about for more than 50 years.

https://grantland.com/features/diplomacy-the-board-game-of-the-alpha-nerds/

Via https://gwern.net/about

#boardgames

Glad I don't depend on Airtable.

Do ants eat feathers? I mean, protein, right? This crow feather was whole when I noted it by the entrance to an ants' nest on Monday. Today it seems half eaten, although it has barely moved since Monday. Could the ants have taken it apart and down into their nest?

#ants

Space ⁂ ⁂ ⁂ Space (making) ⁂ ⁂ ⁂ Space-making. A few weeks ago I wrote about the roles of space in creative contexts, from art galleries to music to language to conversation. Space is a building block for rhythm., I wrote. This morning, I decided to write a blog post t...

Earlier this week I was thinking about inspiration – what inspires me to write? Nature, friends, what I see in the world as I walk around – all these are the basis of many of my blog posts. Museums, too, inspire me, both to think and to create. When I am in a museum, I can g...

I was at one of the local museums last weekend, because it was the last day of their exhibit on "clouds in art", that I'd been wanting to check out since March.

At the museum, I took pictures using a kids camera that instantly prints on thermal paper. I got this because Max had one at IWC Nürnberg and I thought it was cool — he also has a cool post about a thermal printer camera project, you should check that out.

It turned off before I got through the whole exhibit because it was out of batteries, so for the other exhibit they had going on I have pics I took on the phone. In the end I had a really long spool of badly rendered monochrome representations of the art.

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What if the musical memories of songs last played months ago were not held in the muscles, but in the heart – the passion coming through with every E that follows C? The occasional B, played at just the right moment, adds depth. I love the moment of getting into a song: when...

[Put on your own oxygen mask first! Image from San Diego Air and Space Museum Archives]

🎞 watched “The Odyssey” at the Metreon in 70mm IMAX on opening weekend, and mostly enjoyed it. No spoilers in this post.My pal Rohit (@rohit.khare.org) had bought tickets last year, had a spare, and invited me along last minute. After an early dinner at Cha Cha Cha (@chachach...

A few weeks ago, I started to re-think how I organise my writing. Previously, I kept my writing in three folders: Drafts, where I intended to keep all my drafts;Writing, where all my writing, including my drafts, ended up, and;My website, which contains the final, published ...

Raindrops cascade from the skies in straight lines, watering the ground left dry after July. Since the rain started falling again, the plant outside has been growing well. Will it blossom again this year? Can plants blossom twice in one year? I hope to see the pink petals again, but, if nothing else, I have the memories of its colours from earlier in the season.

I went for a walk earlier today, before the rain began. I admired the puddles as I walked; collections of water after a dry season. I wore a heavier coat with a hood – to be prepared – not realising how warm it still is outside. Nevertheless I walked and continued to walk, watching the world go by, revelling in the welcome watery weather.

Latest Eat This Newsletter battles through the heat to bring you cyclospora, doubts about the wisdom of medieval food systems, and the Ur-scapegoat in Iran's rainmaker.

https://buttondown.com/jeremycherfas/archive/etn-311-scrambled/

#newsletter #food #farming