Things I learned while looking up other things, 2024.03.11
Dear friends, It's the worst day of the transition to daylight saving time today (US, observed): the first work day after the change. I woke up earwormed...
Things I learned while looking up other things, 2024.02.11
Dear friends, London is a city that rewards the reader. It is all reader fan service, as far as I can tell. Literary references lurk in alleys, lounge in...
Things I learned while looking up other things, 2024.01.11
Dear friends, Hope you enjoyed your second new year today (especially if you went to the burning of the Clavie). I think the practice of following several...
Things I learned while looking up other things, 2023.12.11
Dear friends,Welcome to what is now the traditional December edition of Things I Learned While Looking Up Other Things! Here again is the link to one of my...
Things I learned while looking up other things, 2023.11.11
Dear friends, A long time ago I had a gag website called "November is No New Projects Month" and I think of that every November (no, I'm not doing NaNoWriMo,...
Things I learned while looking up other things, 2023.10.11
Dear friends, I always think of the year as downhill from August, and like anything rolling downhill it accelerates as it goes. I suppose it slams into the...
Things I learned while looking up other things, 2023.09.11
Dear friends, I was lucky enough to visit five really good museums in the last two weeks, so this edition of TILWLUOT might range a bit further afield than...
Things I learned while looking up other things, 2023.08.11
Dear friends, I was lucky enough to see The Mountain Goats the other day here in Portland (and doubly-lucky to be able to do so with my kid). We got there...
Things I learned while looking up other things, 2023.07.11
Dear friends, For a long time I have been trying to find the source of the claim that there was one person in Western history who had read "everything"...
Things I learned while looking up other things, 2023.06.11
Dear friends, I am (gingerly, tentatively, apprehensively, hopefully) traveling soon, to Seoul and Tokyo, and getting ready for the trip is consuming a lot...
Things I learned while looking up other things, 2023.05.11
Dear friends, Would you like to know where to rent a 'big-ass gong'? I didn't think I did, but this post changed my mind. Then I started wondering how much...
Things I learned while looking up other things, 2023.04.11
Dear friends, A nice thing about moving to a new place (and I have found many, many nice things since moving to Portland almost a year ago) is learning about...
Things I learned while looking up other things, 2023.03.11
Dear friends, I did NOT get COVID last month! Whew. I did, however, do a bunch of prophylactic comfort reading, including a few of the novels of Susan...
Things I learned while looking up other things, 2023.02.11
Dear friends, Today I'm in that most modern of purgatories, the time between having been exposed to Covid (and feeling a little iffy, maybe some fatigue, a...
Things I learned while looking up other things, 2023.01.11
Dear friends, Welcome to those of you who signed up via Robin Sloan's 'sletter (note, the olive oil is everything he says and more)! It's at Robin's...
Things I learned while looking up other things, 2022.12.11
Dear friends, Welcome to what is now the traditional December edition of Things I Learned While Looking Up Other Things! Here again is the link to one of my...
Things I learned while looking up other things, 2022.11.11
Dear friends, Have you dreamed of potatoes lately? (I haven't, but now that I know what they supposedly signify I'm vaguely disappointed.) People always...
Things I learned while looking up other things, 2022.10.11
Dear friends, Yesterday was the anniversary of one of my favorite tweets of all time. Some things that fall into the category of "neat thing, but great band...
Things I learned while looking up other things, 2022.09.11
Dear friends, Usually I come to this letter with a list of things I joyfully learned while looking up other things; I'm lucky in that I can usually find...
Things I learned while looking up other things, 2022.08.11
Dear friends, Just this morning I learned about the cat gap. (Don't worry, I've already pointed out that it's a great band name.) In a moment of idle...