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Nov 4, 2024: Madinah Wilson-Anton is the bravest person I know.
Oct 30, 2024: I voted When Joe Biden stepped down as the Democratic nominee for President, Working Families Party asked all its members to weigh in on whether the party …
Oct 23, 2024: The news of Matthew Sweet’s stroke is devastating. Please join Mike Mills, Peter Buck, Sebastian Steinberg, myself and thousands of others who …
Oct 20, 2024: What I feel bad about, when people are sort of like, “oh yeah everything is terrible. We haven’t made any progress, blah blah blah.” I’m …
Sep 13, 2024: I have never been as enraptured with a piece of software as I currently am with Capacities.
Aug 12, 2024: Good Looks live at Johnny Brenda's, Philadelphia, PA Fun band, fun venue, fun times. I think these guys really have something. And it’s always great to see the homie The Farmer Jones in person. …
Aug 4, 2024: The Mountain Goats live at Union Transfer, Philadelphia, PA The Mountain Goats might be the best live band currently touring, and I strongly recommend seeing them when they roll through your town if you have …
Aug 2, 2024: We are so back.
Jul 19, 2024: Barking On Command: R.E.M.'s Monster Tour Inspired by this tweet from Matthew Perpetua, pointing out that R.E.M.’s 1995 Monster tour featured a veritable who’s who of …
Jul 16, 2024: Once again, we are obliged to ask, “Who’s defunding who?” The settlement follows a familiar pattern: Delaware police kill someone, their supervisory …
Jul 15, 2024: Having a “maybe my favorite R.E.M. album is actually Monster?” kind of evening.
Jul 13, 2024: It didn't have to be like this What purpose does this police action serve? Does this type of police violence keep us safe? Do these incidents aid in establishing trust and respect …
Jul 11, 2024: Good thing Delaware just legalized raw milk! As of February, at least 165 people were sickened with salmonella infections tied to raw milk products …
Jul 7, 2024: Today I learned that Phillies reliever (and newly-minted All Star) Matt Strahm has a Youtube channel called Strahm’s Stadium Pulls that features …
Jul 6, 2024: Finished reading: Heavier Than Heaven by Charles R. Cross 📚 I came away respecting Cobain’s artistry more than ever, and understanding the true …
Jul 2, 2024: Gotta love an establishment that hangs a reproduction of Guernica above the toilet.
Jun 28, 2024: I am also dependably engaged from 10am to 4pm, but more likely to have verbal miscues and become fatigued outside of that time range or while …
Jun 21, 2024: I respect Ted Leo for a lot of reasons, but one of them is that he’s his own guitar tech.
Jun 11, 2024: Squarespace’s Events feature has to win the award for “Most Unhinged UI Element, Time Picker.” Behold:
Jun 7, 2024: All Under Heaven’s debut album is out today, and it’s a banger. Strongly, strongly recommended if you like Hum, my bloody valentine, Slowdive, Lush, …
May 17, 2024: The overall effect size for police force size on crime is negative, small, and not statistically significant. Police are not primarily crime fighters, …
Mar 22, 2024: MLB is “essentially in the business of content creation for the gambling industry now." Breaking down the Shohei Ohtani-Ippei Mizuhara story by …
Feb 16, 2024: Git is the closest thing we have to software from the future. I wrote Minimalist Git because I’ve seen too many developers get lost in its advanced …
Feb 2, 2024: Bookmarked Why Wall Street Won’t Stop Trump by Adam Serwer. “Woke capital” is a myth, a shallow analysis that mistakes advertising and brand …
Jan 22, 2024: Bookmarked Jobs for Delaware Legislators by Blue Delaware. Delaware tolerates a General Assembly with an ethics crisis which rivals our national …
Jan 19, 2024: Bookmarked Fluxblog 455: good night to the Pitchfork era by Matthew Perpetua. Media corporations are not our friends. They don’t care about …
Jan 10, 2024: Bookmarked Delaware lawmakers are headed back to Dover. Here’s what they’re focusing on in 2024 by Amanda Fries. Senate Republicans argue …
Jan 6, 2024: I get mail sometimes.
Jan 3, 2024: This is what disability advocates have said all along, not that it usually sinks in: The able and the disabled aren’t two different kinds of people …
Dec 7, 2023: Happy Delaware Day! I’m celebrating by looking at the Delaware state flag and asking “is this the banner we want to represent our state’s values?” …
Dec 3, 2023: The Mountain Goats last night at The Queen in Wilmington. Great energy, great show, great setlist, including the first time I’ve ever seen an act come …
Nov 29, 2023: That’s right.
Nov 9, 2023: An Opinionated History of Modern Rock Hypothesis: while it is usually impossible to pick a precise genesis of any cultural movement, for the purposes of this exercise, R.E.M.’s …
Oct 11, 2023: Delaware earns a C- on Common Cause’s Community Redistricting Report Card Perhaps the perfect encapsulation of Delaware Way politics: Delaware …
Oct 9, 2023: Citations Needed: Ep 189: PragerU, the ‘Product Of His Time’ Defense and the White Guilt Amelioration Industrial Complex How can we take …
Oct 2, 2023: Beaver Hall, Junior Year Inspired by the announcement of REM’s “Up” reissue, I took a trip back to Fall ‘98, my first semester away at Penn State. …
Sep 26, 2023: Folks, it seems like there’s a pending announcement of new music from Charles Bissell of The Wrens coming next week. This is not a drill. …
Sep 22, 2023: Lucky enough to have seen Death Cab for Cutie and The Postal Service last night at the Mann. My son’s first concert (he’s a huge Postal Service fan). …
Aug 27, 2023: Sunny Day Real Estate last night in Baltimore. Still can’t believe how tight these guys sound and how well Jeremy’s voice holds up.
Aug 10, 2023: Three candidates have announced their 2024 candidacy for Delaware’s lone U.S. House seat. How did they use branding to differentiate themselves …
Aug 9, 2023: Strong Enough? Pulling the thread that connects Sheryl Crow’s “Strong Enough” and boygenius’s “Not Strong Enough” in both …
Jul 22, 2023: Made the Roy Choi salsa verde tonight and, folks? It’s good. Admittedly fudged the recipe a bit based on what was on hand but it’s a hell of a …
Jul 18, 2023: Allstate is still using “security questions I can probably find the answers to if you’ve filled out your Facebook profile even a little …
Jul 12, 2023: I’m in the Delaware Call today! The Politics of Design will be a lighthearted series of critiques focusing on the branding of state and local …
Jul 5, 2023: Finished reading: Tomorrow Will Be Different by Sarah McBride 📚 I absolutely tore through this book. Partially out of personal interest in …
Jul 1, 2023: Here’s Representative Eric Morrison on his controversial vote on HS 1 for HB 121 (the Seaford LLC voting bill): Governing is not easy, and things are …
Jul 1, 2023: I will be calling balls and strikes this afternoon
Jun 12, 2023: John Carney has not moved on When Delaware Governor John Carney announced that he would allow House Bill 1 and House Bill 2 to become law without his signature, he declared that …
Jun 7, 2023: Bookmarked Rep. Mimi Brown and Frank Cooke used their positions in elected office to rail against advocacy orgs like NAACP and ACLU and pretend like …
Apr 24, 2023: The 80% off all ebooks sale at Verso Books ends this Wednesday. (Looks like most of their paper books are also 20-30% off, too.) You know your boy …
Apr 20, 2023: Janet F*cking Weiss A testament to the sheer power and grace of Janet Weiss. Featuring Sleater-Kinney and Quasi, along with her time in the Jicks and select guest …
Apr 12, 2023: State legislators have attempted to ban CRT in every state in the nation, except Delaware.
Apr 11, 2023: DNF: The Terraformers by Annalee Newitz 📚 Huge fan of the author’s previous work, but I simply could not find an entry point. Too many characters, and …
Apr 4, 2023: Just dropped the needle on this monster for the first time in a long time and let me tell you, it still absolutely owns.
Apr 3, 2023: Definitely not going to take this personally.
Mar 30, 2023: If you’re suddenly in the market for a less fashy RSS reader, I can wholeheartedly recommend NetNewsWire. (I’m also experimenting with …
Feb 25, 2023: I could stare at this photo for hours.
Feb 20, 2023: Finished reading: Everything Is Combustible by Richard Lloyd 📚 Downloaded this audiobook from the library after Tom Verlaine’s passing put me in …
Feb 16, 2023: Your local paper probably deserves your subscription money more than the New York Times ever did.
Feb 15, 2023: Because of the way campaign finance works (or doesn’t work) in America, it’s often much easier to understand a candidate’s priorities by understanding …
Feb 13, 2023: Finished reading: The Idiot by Elif Batuman 📚 One morning, on my way to a lecture on Balzac, it came to me with great clarity that there was no way …
Jan 12, 2023: Finished reading: The Future of Another Timeline by Annalee Newitz 📚 Still cooks.
Jan 10, 2023: My favorite music of 2022 Lots of good stuff this year. Here’s a playlist: My very favorites Additionally, here are a few albums and singles I wanted to call special …
Jan 7, 2023: Finished re-reading: The Perfect Pass by S. C. Gwynne 📚 Inspired to pick it back up after the untimely death of Mike Leach late last year.
Jan 6, 2023: Finished reading: This Wheel’s on Fire by Levon Helm 📚
Jan 4, 2023: It was a bit disappointing to learn that a “plant-based sports bar” had taken over and destroyed half of the Elliott Smith wall, but I wasn’t gonna …
Dec 21, 2022: This picture was taken at the finish line of the 2012 Beaver Stadium Run, seconds after Franco Harris (right) had admonished me to “Finish strong, …
Dec 17, 2022: Thank you, Joe Brandon. (Get yours here: www.covid.gov/tests)
Dec 16, 2022: Perhaps one of the most important pages on all of Wikipedia: List of Sauces.
Dec 15, 2022: Twitter is rapidly moving away from “place I don’t want to spend as much time” and “place where I should not be publishing …
Dec 2, 2022: Christmas kitty.
Dec 2, 2022: This Bird Has Flown I opened my Twitter account on December 27, 2006. I am Twitter user 307,983. Over the past nearly 16 years, I’ve spent far too much time, energy …
Nov 24, 2022: Wishing a manageable Thanksgiving to those of us struggling with disordered eating. You don’t need to “earn” your meal. You’re not “being bad” if you …
Nov 23, 2022: I’m sure how good I feel today has nothing to do with doing morning yoga for three straight days. Probably entirely unrelated. Nothing we can …
Nov 10, 2022: Equations Unbalanced, Riddles Unsolved Listening to “Pony Express Record” this week, I wondered “where are the rest of the bands that did this?” Admittedly, …
Nov 10, 2022: The tools, protocols and culture of the fediverse were built by trans and queer feminists. The culture and technical systems were deliberately …
Nov 5, 2022: Did a Democracy this morning. Early voting is good.
Jun 18, 2022: Dudes Rock A playlist vaguely inspired by 10 years of Celebration Rock, meant to be played loud while drinking ice-cold cheap domestics and shouting the lyrics …
May 26, 2022: They don’t actually believe “arming teachers” or “hardening school perimeters” or “more mental health …
Apr 27, 2022: Four Of A Perfect Pair Collecting the work of King Crimson’s classic quartet, together and apart: Belew, Bruford, Fripp and Levin. Playlist available on Apple Music …
Apr 15, 2022: Missed My Connection in Heathrow A playlist inspired by traveling for the first time in 2+ years and the attendant disorientation/depression that follows. (no, I did not go to London! …
Feb 13, 2022: My first guitar While cleaning a bunch of stuff out of the attic in preparation for our move, I found my first guitar. It was a Harmony classical guitar, almost …
Jan 20, 2022: Currently reading: Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman 📚 Once time is a resource to be used, you start to feel …
Dec 22, 2021: My favorite albums of 2021 Once again, I pushed myself to listen to lots of new music this year. A full six of my top ten records were by artists who are either new or new to …
Dec 14, 2021: My copy of the Aeon Station record arrived yesterday. It is very, very good and makes me feel very sad. In other words, it is exactly what I’d hoped …
Dec 10, 2021: Currently reading: Work Won’t Love You Back by @sarahljaffe 📚 Good evening.
Dec 8, 2021: I do not usually get excited about ““delightful”” UI design but the snow flakes piling up on top of this window in Apple’s Weather app made me smile …
Dec 7, 2021: Podcasts I Listen To Because I’m lazy and get tired of writing bespoke answers to “What podcasts do you listen to?” I’ve captured my answers here. …
Dec 3, 2021: Public comment on SB 149 I’ve been taking part in community listening sessions for Delaware’s Senate Bill 149, which would amend the state’s Law Enforcement …
Dec 1, 2021: Spotify Wrapped is a fascinating case study in how much we trust AIs to identify our tastes better than we can identify them ourselves.
Nov 30, 2021: I’ve been listening to to The Jordan Lake Sessions, Volumes 3 & 4 by The Mountain Goats a lot lately. These sets were recorded live in …
Nov 10, 2021: The young(er) king just got his first jab. Welled up a little as we were waiting, not gonna lie.
Nov 9, 2021: Citations Needed News Brief - Reconciliation Bill Negotiations: A Media Autopsy 🎧 These are human interest stories, right? Budgets are fucking human …
Nov 9, 2021: One of the really intereting things about critiquing “right-clicker mentality” is that the ability to right-click and see how a site was …
Sep 22, 2021: Hop Along at Anchor Rock Club, Atlantic City, NJ Setlist
Apr 23, 2021: The “values and vision” of dead men I am desperately trying to avoid weighing in on on the weirdo whose unhinged LiveJournal about Disney wokeness was published in the Orlando Sentinel …
Dec 31, 2020: Best of 2020 (The Albums) I’ve done some sort of year end, “best of” list as long as I can remember. This probably hasn’t been the “best” …
Nov 11, 2020: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in Vanity Fair: I used to, frankly, abuse myself mentally about how I’m nothing. I realized that I need to choose myself …
Oct 30, 2020: I knew nothing at all about Ellen Siberian Tiger as of two days ago, but this record got mentioned on The Key and honestly, it’s lighting my hair on …
Sep 28, 2020: Currently reading: The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation by Jon Gertner 📚 Hard not to read this quote about …
Aug 26, 2020: Some people baked bread, some people cut bangs, some people took up knitting. Maybe my pandemic coping hobby can be “needlessly replacing every tool …
Jul 30, 2020: If you think installing tracking software to spy on your reports would make you more comfortable with extended remote work, you have failed as a …
May 6, 2020: Now that I’ve had a chance to rewatch The Rise of Skywalker a couple times, I feel comfortable ranking the films. Posting it here for posterity: …
Mar 24, 2020: I’ve consumed a lot of “how to lead remotely" content lately (for obvious reasons) and so much of it boils down to: acknowledging humanity …
Mar 7, 2020: My dude “shipped” his first Roblox game this morning 👨🏻💻🕹
Feb 8, 2020: Shouts to The National for the 3-color print job on the insert for “Sleep Well Beast.”
Jan 19, 2020: Finished reading: Horror Stories: A Memoir by Liz Phair 📚 If you were expecting a linear memoir Liz Phair, or “here’s what happened the night I wrote …
Jan 10, 2020: Bought myself a belated Christmas gift: the 3LP reissue of Wolf Parade’s “Apologies to the Queen Mary.” Sub Pop knocked it out of the park on this …
Jan 8, 2020: If sea levels increase a little under 2 feet by 2100, Delaware (the nation’s lowest-lying state) will lose roughly 8% of its land area, including …
Jan 2, 2020: Might mess around and #goveg in 2020, who knows
Dec 31, 2019: Ten Years in 17 Bullet Points got laid off did the self-employment thing bought a house learned to code had another kid took a job ran a 5-miler took another job did a featured …
Dec 31, 2019: I never bothered to make a Best of 2019 music list, which is something I’ve done since my teenaged years, but I did make a “best beers I had for …
Dec 31, 2019: Twenty Nineteen 2019 was a rough year. I doubt I’m the only one who feels this way, for reasons personal, professional and/or political. In the intrest of …
Dec 5, 2019: After decades of advancements in semantic markup and accessibility, Instagram decided that we should consume all content as flat, inaccessible images …
Nov 29, 2019: Jackpot.
Nov 27, 2019: Happy Thanksgiving, everyone.
Nov 21, 2019: The very structure of American life has changed to make the basics of stability difficult to attain, down to something as simple as eating with your …
Nov 12, 2019: Haven’t watched anything yet, but my first impression of Disney+ is that every single other streaming platform needs to copy how D+ handles login on …
Sep 30, 2019: This new Sturgill Simpson record is the sound of an artist just straight-up Going For It on every single song. It has no chill whatsoever, and I mean …
Sep 25, 2019: Anyone who insists Apple is “now a services company” has never logged in to iCloud•com.
Aug 29, 2019: I somehow found the spot in YouTube TV that allows me to record all college football games with one click. I am drunk with power.
Aug 28, 2019: Actually, it’s fine that my rMBP battery percentage indicator decrements even when it’s plugged in. It’s fine and good.
Jul 23, 2019: Finished reading: How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy by Jenny Odell 📚 A few thoughts: The “doing nothing” in the title isn’t just …
Jul 22, 2019: Turns out, there’s an honest-to-god legit indie record store in downtown Lewes, DE. Who knew?
Jul 22, 2019: Working on it.
Jul 20, 2019: The vacation house has Yahtzee… but no score sheets. Downloaded a score sheet to my iPad Mini, opened it in Notes and am keeping score with the …
Jul 18, 2019: It’s really not that bad, but there is a certain absurdity to it.
Jul 9, 2019: “This is some really nice music… if you’re old.” — Yung Stunna on John Coltrane’s A Love Supreme.
Jun 22, 2019: One of the things I miss the most about The Old Web: pages like this. One person or group of people curating a list of fan-submitted guitar tabs for a …
Jun 13, 2019: I’m working on building and tracking some small habits that will bring me joy and better mental health. One of the things I’m tracking is “play the …
Jun 3, 2019: charleston
Feb 12, 2019: Shakespeare turned dust to dust Y’know how the YouTube algorithm is an awful garbage fire but sometimes it serves you a gem that feels like a piece of yourself in a time capsule? …
Dec 21, 2018: My year in music, 2018 My 2018 in music can be best summed up in five words: “Bark Your Head Off, Dog.” Hop Along’s third album took a moment to get lodged in my brain, but …
Nov 17, 2018: Vermont We visited Vermont for my 40th birthday. Burlington is a wonderful town, and the local beer is pretty amazing, too. The Alchemist The first …
Oct 7, 2018: Paint this picture in my mind, my masterpiece It’s been a while since a song grabbed me out of nowhere and refused to let go. But that happened last week, about 15 feet from my desk at …
Oct 1, 2018: Every Black Panther costume gets a double portion of candy. I don’t make the rules, I just live by them.
Sep 6, 2018: Please join me on the new Mastodon instance I just spun up, hejira.is, a place for like-minded individuals to beatifically discuss their appreciation …
Aug 30, 2018: Dropped into my local record store around lunchtime. Clerk saw me, walked over and said “Dude, I have a truckload of new, super clean 80s indie and …
Aug 28, 2018: Listening to the audiobook of Insanely Simple, in which author Ken Segall relays a story about Steve Jobs proudly demoing a “with special …
Aug 26, 2018: Currently charging my son’s shoes via USB for his first day of school because that’s a thing you do in 2018.
Aug 8, 2018: Ben Gibbard’s been doing the rounds to promote Death Cab for Cutie’s quite good new record, Thank You For Today. Gibbard was asked to …
Aug 1, 2018: Tomorrow, I’m gonna drive about 200 miles to drink some beers in grass parking lots and watch an amateur football blowout with over 100,000 of my …
May 17, 2017: The seasons roll on by Soundgarden was never my “favorite band.” I was always a Pearl Jam guy, at least in high school. Others were Nirvana People, or Nine Inch …
Nov 24, 2016: What "Unrivaled" Means for Penn State in 2016 I’m so jealous of Ohio State fans this week. Not because of their team’s success, recent or historical. It has nothing to do with their head coach, or …
Jan 12, 2016: Three Weird Tricks That Might Help Your Sketching (or not) They might not work for you, though, and that’s okay! Sketching remains a vital part of the design process here at Arcweb Technologies, and has …
Aug 4, 2015: Hail To The (New and Improved?) Lion Let’s start our discussion of Penn State’s new academic logo with critiquing the work itself, before we dive into critiquing the process. The …
Apr 14, 2015: The purely aesthetic form I’m about halfway through Jony Ive: The Genius Behind Apple’s Greatest Products. So far, it’s a good read. It portrays Ive as …
Mar 9, 2015: Why We Prototype Here at Arcweb, we’ve been spending more time using analog methods of exploring and communicating our ideas and we’ve augmented our UI design process …
Jul 22, 2012: Now what? The first Penn State memory I have was the stein. It proudly sat on the bookshelf in the family room. “Class of 1972,” it read. I had no …
Sep 8, 2011: About 8 years ago, we received a coffee grinder as a Christmas gift. It was a very thoughtful gift, because my wife and I both love coffee. Except …