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28 Aug 2013, 11:50 a.m.

Introspection

Telecommuters already know this. It's the first thing they tell you. The power of place. Don't work from the same couch or bed where you watch TV, relax, or sleep. Train your brain to associate …

21 Aug 2013, 10:45 a.m.

My Family And The Ada Initiative

Please join Leonard and me in donating to the Ada Initiative. Why? Let me tell you a story, and then a surprise. My parents came to the US from Karnataka, in south India, in the …

18 Aug 2013, 22:53 p.m.

A List You Could Click Through

Reading

I've been really enjoying Rachel Kroll's blogging at Rachelbythebay. I got kind of addicted to reading her archives yesterday. My favorites, in no particular order: Bug reporting and sociopath developers Headphones, situational awareness, and even …

18 Aug 2013, 15:44 p.m.

It Is A Fun Word

This MetaFilter comment, plus not actually knowing how the song goes, caused my household to start chanting bringing in the sheaves; bringing in the sheaves as a sort of "la la la can't hear you!". …

18 Aug 2013, 12:19 p.m.

Only About Twenty Years After Joining Usenet, A Realization

Apartment Life

Emoticons are pretty essential.

14 Aug 2013, 18:04 p.m.

Uniform Light

Reading

I can be bad at remembering titles (e.g., misremembering "Silent Weapons" as "Distant Voices"). Part of this is because titles in specific genres blur together for me. You can come up with "this is about …

02 Aug 2013, 20:28 p.m.

I Don't Understand; You Must Be To Blame

Ta-Nehisi Coates writes: My friend Jelani Cobb talks about how the literature of slavemasters is filled with exasperation over their slaves laughing at invisible jokes. So from time to time you will see people come …

21 Jul 2013, 22:09 p.m.

Writing A Short Varied Life Update In A Fruitless Attempt To Ignore The Heat

Reading

All those words for "hot weather, uncomfortable variety" feel about right now. Sweltering, sultry, torrid, what have you. It broils my brain more than hot weather used to; I feel like a Terry Pratchett troll. …

04 Jul 2013, 23:05 p.m.

Innocuous

The friendly people of OpenITP let me co-work there sometimes, so I got to sit in on a chat recently in which Karl Fogel mentioned Telex. Part of how Telex would help censored users is …

30 Jun 2013, 10:28 a.m.

"No" is a new Chilean film and if you liked any combination of The War Room/Wag the Dog/Forrest Gump/Goodbye Lenin!/University of Laughs then you should check this out too.