Graphs going up
I still keep my NYT subscription -- one reason is the comments The original article is here: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/12/opinion/biden-trump-consumer-confidence-economy.html…
On cleaning up after yourself
Grabbing my popcorn and cheering them on…
Two charts
One from this week’s WSJ, the other from this week’s Economist.…
More drawing time
Monthly Recap: January 2024
Major updates(s) Not a lot Big garage cleanup Went for a 5-mile run (the most in a long time) Minor update(s) * Regrettable churn at work * Worked in a trip to Barnes & Noble * Swimming a…
All wired up
(Originally a draft post for a longer series on “the first day of the 90s”) I found this piece amusing and naive. “The Internet in the 90s” is something that will be revisited later, but for now, her…
Winds of Change
I usually listen to audiobooks when I'm driving alone -- all the time -- but today, I happened to be listening to a shuffled playlist, and "Winds of Change" came on. If you're too y…
Charcoal eye, and more
While cleaning out the garage recently, found a set of charcoal pencils from a decade ago. Searched YouTube for a quick tutorial, and spent fifteen minutes doing this today 🙂 Edit: also found some…
Funnel
I’m writing this within the text capture portion of an app called Funnel. I’ve always valued a sort of “universal entry point” for things. It’s what I used Drafts for, initially. This is simpler, of…
Old Drafts
I just found a bundle of about 20 draft posts I'd written. Over time there are just so many "stashes" like this. I'm not even sure what to do with them. I could just copy-paste th…
Allegro Common Lisp
I’ve always been curious about trying different lisp/scheme implementations (will write about that someday). One of these has been Allegro Common Lisp. It’s old, it’s stable, it’s maintained, it’s at…