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“Everything you own, ends up owning you.” – Fight Club I spent a few hours yesterday rampaging through my yard with a mini-chainsaw and some Felco shears, savagely cutting back the verdant jungle that had sprung up in my yard during the heat, constant rain, and humidity of the last few weeks. I’d been getting […]

  Why is a copy insufficient? I remember in Star Trek: First Contact, that moment when Picard places his hand on the prototype of the rocket equiped with the first warp drive: his expression one of awe, reverence, almost disbelief, that he is finally able to touch an object that means so much to him,

There’s a lot of body horror in my work, and that’s because… there’s a lot of body horror in my life. Messy bodies, broken bodies, gooey bodies, malfunctioning bodies, crazy bodies. I’m fascinated at how fragile it all is, how many things can and do go wrong, and how it’s a miracle that any of

This was an exceptionally stressful week at work, and I am here to remind everyone (and myself!), once again, to give everyone a little grace in our everyday lives this year of all years. Stress and uncertainty are endemic across personal and professional lives. People’s houses are literally on fire. My job has an office

This weekend is seed organizing and inventorying weekend. I had been pining for a card catalog for this effort, but of course those are financially out of reach. So instead spouse bought these modular knockoffs and assembled them into a tower. You do have to fold the seed packets, but same energy. This was also

Woke this morning thinking of my team at work and how the last six months has made us feel like a squad of soldiers trying to survive the AI wars. My next thought slotted a missing chunk of the new book into place. I have a protag with a squad, and now I have starting

Back when I was pandemic drinking, it didn’t click that alcohol was causing significant sleep disruptions, and it was the sleep disruption that was making me feel stupider and made it harder to concentrate. This is also a big part of why new parents feel stupider, btw. It’s the sleep deprivation. My paternal grandfather’s only

I am back at the day job today. I work in advertising, and it’s been… An exciting time to be in advertising, let me tell you. On the upside, it’s comforting to know that literally no one has any idea what is happening or what’s going on or what to do next. If they say

Had fun with composition in this one. This composition idea came from watching a lecture on composition and how to use light/shadow and framing to draw the eye around and around in a painting. So your eye moves around that lit circle that’s made out of the trees and the water. This Caravaggio does it

As a PR pro, we used to tell people to get ahead of various online controversies by making statements that refute them. It turns out this is the absolute worst way to respond to criticism or correct errors of any kind. Social media has made this worse. When you respond, it kick-starts issues again. 24/7