I culled a lot of books off my reading list, and added books I already own. The list is now longer.

I donated some shorts to the local thrift store, and walked out with Coffee and Cigarettes and Season 4 of The Simpsons on DVD, and the Choose Your Own Adventure Tattoo of Death. Not bad.

The proposed CSS reading-flow property seems very useful—it’s challenging to create complex layouts that also have good reading order for screen readers, and that usually results in jumping through markup hoops. I’m hopeful reading flow would make those non-issues. 💽

I actually like a lot of the new Liquid Glass apple redesign, but the expected readability issues are very much present. 💽

My dad texted out of the blue, this time about Robert Redford. In honor of Robert Redford’s passing, I’m watching Barefoot in the Park. Redford is paired with the one and only Jane Fonda. The movie is … Read more

I’ve kept a haphazard journal since I was a teenager. It’s helpful to write it, but not that useful to save. I got rid of lots of notebooks last year. Now, I’m writing digitally. I don’t like it as much, but I can save it forever. Cool?

Today, I learned that Shania Twain and Mutt Lange’s relationship was even wilder than I thought.

[They announced their breakup] after Lange had an affair with Twain’s then-best friend and secretary Marie-Anne Thiébaud, with whom he reportedly continued the relationship and moved to Switzerland.[7] Lange and Twain divorced in June 2010. On 1 January 2011, Twain married Frédéric Thiébaud, the former husband of Marie-Anne.

Where’s the Netflix documentary? 🎵

Some days, my human body feels like it’s made up of about 65% urine.

Last week I completed Mental Health First Aid training. Good material, and a great group and instructor. I highly recommend it to anyone who’s interested.

Steely Dan Savage: Sex advice for sad missionary. 🏴‍☠️

Watched on Monday September 15, 2025.

Watched on Monday September 15, 2025.

Now that the Switch 2 is out, I’m not playing that, and instead finally playing Switch 1 games. It’s like mini time travel. Mario Odyssey is both what everyone else was playing eight years ago, and what I’m like, “Whoa, they pulled this off” right now. 🕹️

Finished reading: The Book of Form and Emptiness by Ruth Ozeki 📚

What a beautiful book. How Ozeki handles grief, mental illness, and growth, is astonishing.

Personal hygiene confidence indicator: I’m now eating ramen shirtless. 🏴‍☠️

Interesting blog post over at This Days Portion: You do not need “analytics” for your blog because you are neither a military surveillance unit nor a commodity trading company. My thoughts weren’t that articulate, but I removed analytics from my blog years ago for similar reasons. 💽

I saw Assscat with my friend Delmar last night. Very funny show. Wyatt Cenac was the monologist. He asked what Gabagool was.

Sebastian: “Capicola”
Wyatt: “Why don’t they say Capicola, then?”
Sebastian: “They switch ‘C’ for ‘G’.”
Shannon: “If they offer you gum, don’t take it.”

The room fell over. 🎭

Started reading: The Book of Form and Emptiness by Ruth Ozeki 📚

Finished reading: Crank by Ellen Hopkins 📚

Read this because it was fairly widely banned.

I bought a blind bag of comics at Forbidden Planet last week, and have been reading through them this week. When I was a kid I didn’t have enough cash to consistently buy comics, so I would randomly drop in the middle of arcs; since this bag is a mix, it felt oddly nostalgic to just get a middle slice of a story.

Finished reading: On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder. A vital work. With American fascism in full swing, you can’t afford to miss it. At 120 small pages, and under eight bucks for a hard copy, there’s no excuse. 📚 🇺🇸 ✊

Heavy slice of life with just enough wry humor.

The defense against slop and brainrot - by Paul Jun. Great short read on how doing basic hard brain things makes you smart, and how that will increasingly be a differentiator in the world.

Watched on Friday August 22, 2025.

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