Sept. 27, 2025, 10:57 a.m.

Path to perfection

It’s cluttered with contradictions.

Antiorario Weekly

The dark, smudged print of a maple leaf on the concrete sidewalk, with the hint of a stem, left after the rain
Les feuilles mortes se ramassent à la pelle

There has to be a middle ground between posting only links to videos of cats and dogs napping together, or bears being chased away by pigs (which I don’t do) and posting about “AI” over and over (which I’d rather not do, yet here we are again), as if any new link weren’t just a confirmation of the previous ones, more evidence of the same nonsense and just another way to fill everyone’s brains with the same anxiety week after week.

I obviously need to refresh my reading list, so I welcome ideas.

A reader, who claims I “hate everything”, inadvertently gave me the idea to collect and post about things I appreciate/like/love while out and about. So I’ll start with that picture of the ghost of a leaf on the sidewalk—not because it’s a particularly good picture, but because I find it a very cool phenomenon.


I blogged—and you’ll never guess about what

  • My five-year iPhone

    It was time for a change, but I didn’t take it lightly.


Notes and links

  • Parcels: LOVED

    Some new music just dropped.

  • I finally freed our home wi-fi from its shackles

    The satisfaction of being able to do this is marred by the fact that I wish I didn’t have to. Truly, home IT projects bore the crap out of me, but I don’t see a way around it.

  • Bloomberg: With induction stoves, chefs discover a foolproof path to perfection

    Related to our best purchase of the year.

I’m leaving the fun stuff for last:

  • Apple threatens to stop selling iPhones in the EU

    Fueling my contradictions.

  • How “AI” could radically change schools by 2050

    According to two muppets who’ve been enjoying the kool-aid.

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