The New York Times has an article on the best restaurants in Boston. I guess that’s cool, why not the Boston Globe?

Stunning Artemis II Phone Wallpapers NASA has made available more than a dozen mobile wallpapers of photos taken during the Artemis II mission for free download. Basic Apple Guy has made some wallp

Can’t help but share these amazing phone wallpapers - link to Kottke

The Feeling of Becoming Less and Less of a Person In Ben Lerner’s new novel, technology divides us further from one another, and ourselves.

Huh, looks like my last post didn’t work. I’ll assume user error. I am excited that I just got Ben Lerner’s Transcription as I’ve seen, but not read, an unlikely number of reviews. Posting this so I can read the review after reading the (short) book.

After an amazing family vacation to Savannah, Georgia to visit my niece, a student at SCAD, we are home, home again. It’s much colder here, and there’s a lot going on, but there really is no place like home.

Purple crocuses

Dog walk yields signs of Spring

‘A blaring alarm’ issued for Colorado River as heat wave melts snow early Runoff into Lake Powell could be the third lowest on record, according to the latest projections from federal hydrologists, causing concern for Lake Mead.

Federal forecasters now say they expect Lake Powell to get just 27% of average inflows this year, down from a previous forecast of 36%: www.reviewjournal.com/news/environ... via @alanhalaly.bsky.social

New England Sports Network on Instagram: "In that same game, he assisted on three of the other four Bruins' goals 🤯" 480 likes, 5 comments - nesn on March 15, 2026: "In that same game, he assisted on three of the other four Bruins' goals 🤯".

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I’m not sure if I am embedding that, but Joe used to come into the bar where I worked when I was at RPI and … this is a great clip!

The Met Introduces High-Definition 3D Scans of Dozens of Art Historical Objects The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Open Access Initiative expands with three-dimensional renderings of significant pieces—most of which are free to download.

From Colossal -

The Met Introduces High-Definition 3D Scans of Dozens of Art Historical Objects

Thanks to The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Open Access Initiative, we can now experience every detail in three-dimensional renderings of nearly 140 significant objects in its holdings.

FontCrafter: Create Your Handwriting Font for Free Convert your scanned handwriting into custom OTF, TTF, and WOFF2 fonts with local browser processing and vectorization. No account or uploads needed.

Saw this on hackernews today, and thought I’d give it a shot. https://arcade.pirillo.com/fontcrafter.html My handwriting is pretty bad, let’s see how it turns out!

This was posted in our corporate slack this morning and I’m DYING #programmerhumor

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Loved the work trip to Lisbon, but SO VERY happy to be home.

Well this is going to be an interesting Monday morning

Ah the joys of Friday. Good work day, early dinner date night “who doesn’t want to be in soft pants at 8:00 pm?” Team USA advances to the men’s hockey gold medal round. Daughter has her friends over. And I have some time to do some creative work. Life is good.

https://www.futilitycloset.com/2026/02/19/decalogue-3/

Jonathan Franzen’s “10 rules for novelists” - Number 8 hits hard: “It’s doubtful that anyone with an Internet connection at his workplace is writing good fiction.”

Souped-Up CRISPR Gene Editor Replicates and Spreads Like a Virus The self-spreading CRISPR tool increased editing efficiency roughly three-fold compared to older versions.

Researchers led by Nobel winner Jennifer Doudna have developed “NANITE”—a gene-editing tool that mimics viruses to replicate and spread to neighboring cells.

I know its being sold as a good thing, but … “self-spreading” sounds scary.

via Singularity Hub

Rep. James Talarico On Confronting Christian Nationalism, And Strange Days In The Texas Legislature YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

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Just making sure we all have seen this.

Nile Rodgers, Bonnie Raitt and John Squire on the Fender Stratocaster How did a radio repair man make an instrument so sublime that it makes giants of music weep with reverence? As the Fender Stratocaster turns 70, we explore its extraordinary life

"How did a radio repair man make an instrument so sublime that it makes giants of music weep with reverence? As the Fender Stratocaster turns 70, we explore its extraordinary life."

Nile Rodgers, Bonnie Raitt and John Squire on the electric guitar that changed everything:

Britain’s Story: The Next Chapter - BBC Royal Charter Review, Green Paper and public consultation

This is the Gov looking for your input on the BBC. It takes a while to complete (15/20 mins) but it’s pretty comprehensive and covers most aspects.

Please share. I’m surprised many people haven’t seen it yet.

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miss intelligence and coherent discourse

The SOUPErbowl was a big hit, even with snowmageddon. We got more than 2 ft (60+cm) of snow. My son lost his cellphone while playing outside, that’s going to be a pain. I’m not sure we will find it. Trying to get an old iphone to boot and change it to his profile, if I can.

My father passed away on this date in 2017. Miss you, Dad.
We are all prepped for the snowstorm, hoping we don’t lose power.
Lots of firewood to keep us warm if needed.
Lots to read, comics have been picked up!
And beer and wine and SOUPer bowl
One of our favorite traditions.

The seven Democrats who voted yes to approve ICE funding were:

Rep. Tom Suozzi (New York)
Rep. Henry Cuellar (Texas)
Rep. Don Davis (North Carolina)
Rep. Laura Gillen (New York)
Rep. Jared Golden (Maine)
Rep. Vicente Gonzalez (Texas)
Rep. Marie Glusenkamp Perez (Washington)

"But it is possible all sentience produces irritation."

Fantastic story, thanks for sharing!

Well this is pretty cool - makes me want to try to create one on my own. Game Poems
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So excited to see Bad Bunny perform. This is an epic video trailer/teaser. Only good news in my feed today.

A photo of a magazine cover article. The Wekfare State by Nell Zink. The image is a painting of two hands holding a cup of hot chocolate with a 5 Swiss franc coin on the table.

Today’s short story read.

Well, now I'm starving for NY Pizza

OK, got some reading done, watched half a movie with the better half, got some guitar practice in, and then …. THIS!

I love TimeOut in the Fenway! What an awesome place to grab whatever you want! This sucks, I hope something cool goes in its place!

Well, this certainly has been a day. Time to put away the screens and read. One short story a day, working out well so far! Any fantastic short stories to recommend?