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tabletop/tech/whatnot/work in progress/writing

Delete everything? Never.

Posted on 13/06/2025 by Reay

I read on Mastodon a couple of days back that someone I follow has deleted her longtime files of collected notes and reminders, and has experienced a huge weigh...

art/news/whatnot

The streak is dead. Long live the streak.

Posted on 13/11/2023 by Reay

Like all things we wish would stay around, those that become solid streaks eventually end. So it is with my run of several years of doing something creative eve...

social/whatnot

Things I don’t get about capitalism

Posted on 23/05/2023 by Reay

I like money. I like having it and what it can get for me and I certainly wish I had more of it.It’s true that money can’t buy happiness. But I susp...

animals/food/social/whatnot

WTF: What The Fugu?

Posted on 20/03/2023 by Reay

Occasionally, a question strikes me that I can’t quite shake. Not just the big ones that will often occur to us — Why are we here? How are we here? ...

music/whatnot

Everything is phases

Posted on 30/09/2022 by Reay

I realized about a decade ago that everything happens in phases. This may come across as old news to some — “the only constant is that everything ch...

math/whatnot

Update to the confusion about my height

Posted on 22/06/2022 by Reay

(… and other headlines you’ve never read before…) You ever have one of those “ah-HA!” moments when you realize something that you ...

health/math/whatnot

Wait, I’m HOW tall?

Posted on 30/05/2022 by Reay

A month ago I went for a medical exam to look at booking a minor operation, and in the pre-exam they check everyone’s height and weight and blood pressure...

books/whatnot/writing

The streak is dead. Long live the streak.

Posted on 28/12/2021 by Reay

As I picked up my ebook again this morning, I realized that I was continuing to read from right where I’d left off… two days ago. I cast my mind bac...

language/whatnot/writing

Writing less, more

Posted on 01/12/2021 by Reay

I recently read this (short!) post advising–with good reason–that people should write shorter stuff but more often. It struck a chord with me. I do,...

books/whatnot

What I read this month

Posted on 31/10/2021 by Reay

It’s been a busy month of hunting things down for the reno and running around and picking up and dropping off and meeting and stress and calls and emails ...

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