Gone but Not Deleted
This piece really hit home with me on this Father’s Day.
… Read the restI don’t remember the final conversation I had with my father. Toward the end of his life, he was hard to understand on the phone,
This piece really hit home with me on this Father’s Day.
… Read the restI don’t remember the final conversation I had with my father. Toward the end of his life, he was hard to understand on the phone,
This will likely be the most divisive thing that I have ever written here, but it’s time to get this off my chest.
In Order of All Around Awesomeness
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… Read the restThe world lacks a great all-around red. Always has. We’ve made do with alternatives that could be toxic or plain gross. The gladiators smeared their faces with mercury-based vermilion. Titian painted with an arsenic-based mineral called realgar.
… Read the restIn the same way that we use an American-style toilet, a Roman user would sit down, take care of business, and watch number two float blissfully away down the sewer system. But instead of reaching for a
… Read the restSince we had busy lives and lived hundreds of miles apart, we agreed on three rules. First, we would play it only in February each year; second, you were not allowed immediately to tag back the
… Read the restFour decades ago, less than 5 percent of American were cremated when they died. Now that figure stands at nearly half. This is how cremation actually works, and the story of what happens to a culture
… Read the restThe pipeline didn’t record many metrics. The ones it did have made it look like things had gotten worse. My bug discoveries caused the overall bug count to increase. The pipeline’s failures increased because I made