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Library card catalog

When I started using my local library as a kid, we didn’t have library cards. Instead, in the back of every book was a one card held in a sleeve and another taped to the book. When you wanted to check out a book you’d take it to the desk, and they’d pull out the […]

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Screenshot of my twitter bio

I recently hit 5000 followers on Twitter, and I was surprised by how many people asked how I did it. I mentioned it in passing, like I would mention if we drove by the world’s largest ball of twine. I told my wife the answer is I didn’t do anything at all to specifically get […]

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My friends Kyle and Adam run a podcast together called get_options(). I am ashamed to admit I haven’t listened to any episodes (except one, you’ll see), but in my defense I don’t listen to any podcasts. I’ve been ON a few podcasts, but I didn’t even listen to those episodes. Anyway, I was talking with […]

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Long ago I did a post about Boodler.  One of its features is to be able to output to an mp3 instead of the speakers. One of my favorite recipes is called One Storm.  It starts out with a little ripple of water from a stream, with low thunder in the distance.  Peepers and birds […]