Last Friday’s newsletter began: In Texas, it looks like fall before it feels like fall. To scramble a line from Sylvia Plath’s journal, the worst of the summer is gone, with “the new fall not yet born. The odd uneven time.” Virginia Woolf said it well in a letter: “I feel entirely dehumanized by the […]| Austin Kleon
To celebrate the coming of fall, I’m offering 20% off my paid newsletter.| Austin Kleon
Here are two pages from my delightful typewriter interview with Kate-Bingaman Burt.| Austin Kleon
One must keep his mind active, so I began jotting down a few of these “you like, I dislike” items. When it reached 500, it was time to stop and […]| Roger Baylor
There is a peculiar form of human idiocy, unusually common on the political Left but not, alas, unheard of in any segment of society: the assumption that if a person has listened to what you are saying, they must necessarily agree with you. And therefore, if anyone disagrees with you, it’s because they were not […]| Bondwine Books
First a quick note: Are you doing the September Reset? We tracked time from Sept 8-14. Then we’ve been going through several of my favorite time management strategies: setting a bedtime, planning on Friday, building in adventures, building in space, and setting evening intentions. Thanks for reading the emails! If you’re doing the Reset, please […]| Laura Vanderkam
The back-to-school season always features a lot of extra stuff. For instance, I went to our kids’ fourth back-to-school night on Wednesday. My husband wound up at three of them last week while I was traveling. Yes, the 5th and 8th graders had different nights, despite being in the same school, which was in some […]| Laura Vanderkam
Two posts in two days; when was the last time I did that? Anyway… ONE. The Charlie Kirk assassination: Initially it seemed the killer had gotten clean away and so I inferred that he was part of an operation of the deep state left. The facts that have emerged since then make it pretty clear … Continue reading "Miscellany 44. No joking sub-title for this one"| Neurotoxin
I love it when people visit me in the studio. For years, I’ve been dreaming of getting a “walk-ins welcome” sign like you see in barber shops to hang in my window. (See #44 on this list.) After watching Dean Peterson learn sign painting via his @deanpainterson Instagram account, I thought, “Why not just hire […]| Austin Kleon
I somehow got photographer Sally Mann to do a typewriter interview. It’s great. You can read it here.| Austin Kleon
Here’s another new monthly mixtape made from a sealed, pre-recorded cassette I got for 99 cents. I tape over the cassette’s protection tabs and then I tape over the music and then I tape over the artwork. This one gave me some technical difficulties. I actually destroyed two cassettes trying to record it, so I […]| Austin Kleon
I have been drawing succulents. As I explain in my letter, “For no good reason”: I continue to wear down my new Caran d’Ache pastels. Right now I’m drawing succulents that I see on my morning walks onto old sheet music and pages from thrifted books. I’m not sure what I’m doing or why I’m […]| Austin Kleon
First, some light housekeeping! This weekend, September 12-14, I’ll be in Austin, Texas as a Guest of Honor for ArmadilloCon. :D I’ve got a reading, an interview, and some chewy panels …| SAMANTHA MILLS
Wondering how to begin a new project? Or stuck in a current one? The cure is often learning to Write…| Cape Cod Writers Center
With appreciation to our faculty, staff and writers who helped make the 2025 Cape…| Cape Cod Writers Center
The 62nd Annual Cape Cod Writers Center Conference Fiction, nonfiction, poetry, manuscript mentoring and more! Online Registration is now…| Cape Cod Writers Center
I love a good comedy series. It's my comfort television. These are my favourites over the years. 90s We only had free-to-air TV at our house, so it was slim pickings from the four channels available to us. I was always happy to watch a re-run of these shows though. The Simpsons The Nanny Keeping Up Appearances Fawlty Towers (my dad owned the VHS tapes) 2000s I was watching more Reality TV and crime shows in this decade, but there were a few DVD box-sets that my housemates and I would watch ov...| Rach Smith's digital garden
Stay Tuned for Highlights about the 62nd Cape Cod Writers Center Conference! July 31-August 3, 2025 …| Cape Cod Writers Center
That is, all sports push people to the limits of what human biology, and the human psychology of obsession, can accomplish. Terminology: I mention figure skating below, but I don’t really think of figure skating as a “sport” – part of the definition of a “sport,” in my mind, is that you’re directly competing against … Continue reading "All sports are equally hard in equilibrium"| Neurotoxin
This sounds like the most utterly insufferable pile of crap. Naturally they made the novel into a movie. I forget how I stumbled upon this, but whatever. Per Wikipedia: The barf-inducing cutesy cen…| Neurotoxin
Beethoven backlog, skipping Prime Day, puzzle joy, and this week's podcast + newsletter highlights in one content-packed round-up.| Laura Vanderkam
One. The main theme of the works of Joyce is the role of the reader as artist. That’s a sentence I like from this random po-mo generator. Though it randomly re-generates every time you load t…| Neurotoxin
Want to reach agents, editors and publishers? Then you need an intriguing pitch. Just a few sentences will make…| Cape Cod Writers Center
Reflections on school concerts, musical milestones, and fresh time management tips from the podcast, blog, and newsletter this week.| Laura Vanderkam
Powerful Writing is Sensual. Using words that helps us “see” images in the mind’s eye — sight, taste, touch, hearing…| Cape Cod Writers Center
Do you like to write? Do you want to create exciting stories? Do you enjoy knowing your words can inspire others? If so, and you’re between ages 13-18 and in grades 8-12, you’re invited to apply for the FREE 2025 Cape Cod Writers Center’s Young Writers Program, August 1-3 from 9 AM-noon.| Cape Cod Writers Center
Recently, some colleagues and I released a paper about the experiences of neurodivergent PhD students. It’s a systematic review of the literature to date, which is currently under review, but…| The Thesis Whisperer
There’s been a lot of … stuff going on at my university lately (just Google “Australian National University” on the news setting and you’ll see what I mean). People ar…| The Thesis Whisperer
Congratulations to Kelly-Ann Charland who won the new Barbara E. Struna Membership Scholarship for 2025-2026. Ms. Charland, an addiction recovery…| Cape Cod Writers Center
Did you ever consider how important "place" is in your writing? Whether you write poetry or prose, describing "place" or setting makes your words come alive. That's why you are invited to attend April 16, 2025 Writers Night Out 7:00 PM Osterville Village Library 43 Wianno Road Oster| Cape Cod Writers Center
A collection of details from the final forecast and random findings, each too small for a separate piece. Normally, we’d have an Upside/Downside piece, but Rebekah’s run into some technical difficulties – turns out multiverse travel isn’t as easy as the Marvel Cinematic Universe makes it look. I think the broad picture will be familiarContinue Reading... Federal Election 2022 MiscellanyContinue Reading...| Armarium Interreta
Waking up in 2025 is weird. Take this morning as just one example. I open my eyes and immediately fumble for the phone, opening BlueSky and Threads to see what craziness has come out from the USA w…| The Thesis Whisperer
Everyone loves a great story but it takes a lot of skill to create one. If you’d like to…| Cape Cod Writers Center
(1) This may be rhetorically helpful in resisting lawless judicial “rulings”: In the military, soldiers are required to obey “all lawful orders.” No one is obligated to obey…| Neurotoxin
January 10, 2025: I'd welcome you following me on Bluesky. While I'll be posting on a number of topics, many will be planning related. A number of other| PlannersWeb
This is a chapter in Perl New Features, a book from Perl School that you can buy on LeanPub or Amazon. Your support helps me to produce more content. We’re almost at the end of the tragic saga of given-when, a feature added in v5.10. It lost the lexical $_ in v5.24 after that feature … Continue reading "switch removed from the v5.36 feature bundle"| The Effective Perler
This is a chapter in Perl New Features, a book from Perl School that you can buy on LeanPub or Amazon. Your support helps me to produce more content. So far, Perl has not had special boolean values. Perl doesn’t even have a strictly true value; it has specified false values (0, '0', empty string, … Continue reading "Know if something is a boolean"| The Effective Perler
This is a chapter in Perl New Features, a book from Perl School that you can buy on LeanPub or Amazon. Your support helps me to produce more content. Perl v5.36 adds the -g switch as a shortcut for -0777, which undefines the input record separator so you can read an entire file as a … Continue reading "Slurp a file from the command line with -g"| The Effective Perler
The other day, my good friend Professor Narelle Lemon sent me a link to an academic paper called “AI and its implications for research in higher education: a critical dialogue” be…| The Thesis Whisperer
Many people are working from home these days, often with more (or different) distractions than usual, not least the other people in the house. About two thousand years ago, the Roman philosopher Seneca faced related problems. He discussed them in his essay “On quiet and study.” He sets the scene: I have lodgings right over… Continue reading On working with noise→| David Evans' personal blog
Thank God for the 10/7 Truthers! For a moment there I was starting to worry that the world was never going to learn The Truth about how the Israelis murdered everyone on October 7th and blamed it o…| Consent Factory, Inc.
Tuesday 30th April 2024 Another month end. Another motley collection of miscellaneous matters and some good news to begin with ….. £920,000 fence reopens Cambridge busway The northbound Cambridge b…| BusAndTrainUser
Claire’s has filed for bankruptcy, and my 90s self would be shocked. Claire’s was a boutique in the loosest sense of the word – it was more like a Toys R Us of tween accessories, and if my niece’s recent purchases of JoJo Siwa bows and unicorn hair extensions are any indication, it still is. […]| Cookies + Sangria
There’s nothing like the Winter Olympics to remind you that you are not, in fact, an elite athlete. However, that doesn’t mean you can’t have fun… or work on your fitness. If you’re having a raucous Olympics party, A) invite us and B) feel free to play the drinking game version (responsibly, and without driving, […]| Cookies + Sangria
One week down in Pyeongchang. One week to go of me pretending I know how scoring works in every sport. Despite the fact it’s been cold and windy in South Korea, athletes are giving their all and we’re still rooting for our faves to win medals. Here are just a few highlights from the first week […]| Cookies + Sangria
Happy Valentine’s Day to everyone, but most especially to America’s newest sweetheart, Adam Rippon! If you have been following the 2018 Winter Olympic Games in Pyeongchang, you will already be familiar with Adam as the fiercest figure skater and ready-for-the-runway glamazon bitch, always ready with great eyebrows and a witty quip for Andrea and all […]| Cookies + Sangria
Every two years, I always watch in awe of the Olympians who are the greatest athletes in their respective sports. “How do you throw a javelin stick that far?” “How do you run so fast so far in less than 10 seconds?” “How are you doing a proper push-up on a v high bar?” “How are […]| Cookies + Sangria
IT’S OUR FINAL WEEK OF WHOLE30! JK NO IT’S NOT THIS NEVER ENDS THIS IS WHO WE ARE NOW Day 22 M: A recipe if you’re breakfast-weary: this pumpkin breakfast bake. The words pumpkin and bake made me worry about sexpants, but it’s really not. The apples and raisins are sweet, but the sweet potatoes […]| Cookies + Sangria
So it has been a year since James Maliszewski's last post at Grognardia and the OSR is still a thing. Still no Dwimmermount, though. I read ...| middenmurk.blogspot.com
In the beginning everything was a mystery. You started off| Middenmurk
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We hear back from our survey respondents with ideas on how to strengthen the relationship between the planning commission and governing body.| PlannersWeb
Want to know how to succeed in business? Do the work that others are not willing to do, or simply just are not doing. My wife and I own a couple of properties. As such, we have different contractors for different things: Plumbing/Septic Electrical Lawn mowing Fence building Cleaning once per month Plumbing/Septic At our […]| John Doherty
Taught by Ephraim Rubenstein from April 22nd to May 1st, 2023| ephraimrubenstein.com
5 alternative names for this series| Lara L. Schenck
2 things I learned this week| Lara L. Schenck
