Figuring out how to fit the most dishes into the washer while still getting them clean is basically boring, grown-up Tetris.

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Today's missive from the 18thc #miscellany I tote around, anticipating algorithmic attention?

To observation and improvement! 🥂

Today's #miscellany missive from the 18th century.

About avarice, the pathetic futility of greed, and cries of (psychic?) poverty from the wealthy.

A Treasury of Words You Didn’t Know You Needed

A Treasury of Words You Didn’t Know You Needed There is a particular kind of reader — the sort who delights in words like jeremiad, philippic, or omnium gatherum — who will feel instantly at ...

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A Treasury of Words You Didn’t Know You Needed

A Treasury of Words You Didn’t Know You Needed There is a particular kind of reader — the sort who delights in words like jeremiad, philippic, or omnium gatherum — who will feel instantly at ...

#Miscellany #Recommended #English #Language #Humor #& #Satire #Reference

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So I own a couple of copies of this book of #miscellany that I'm (slowly) working on. One is pretty beat up; I carry it in my backpack while traveling. It's still gorgeous.

In fact, I feel gratitude. Maybe not all of what's in this passage, but gotta agree with the top-line premise.

“It should be a general rule, never to utter any thing in conversation, which would justly dishonor us if it should be reported to the world.”

In an airport, onto city 2 of 4 this week and brought my meditative 18th c #miscellany reading along. Also the conversations overheard while traveling … 👀

Saturday Miscellany—3/7/26 I’ve been sick most of this week, and spent so little time with my eyes open it’s a wonder they still function (reading online posts really didn’t happen–nor di...

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#Miscellany #Exoplanets #Black #Holes #About #The #Newsletter #Binary #Stars #Sgr #A*

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a window decal in the back of somebody's car, showing a classic "Little Green Men" alien wiping away nonexistent "dust" from the window in order to see out; the rest of the window reflects the local downtown street scene, with trees and brick buildings galore

the title card on the desk of a tax preparer we visited, declaring her job description to be "Chaos Coordinator" (she said it was a gift from coworkers)

a fellow musician's aluminum guitar (I had assumed steel, but he told me it was aluminum), with the multilayered shadows of some nearby bushes cast over it from a nearby heat lamp, looking almost like a design painted onto the body of the guitar itself! (he was confused when I told him to stay put for a second, but I didn't want to let the opportunity by)

an Andy Warhol-style piece I titled "Capitalism" because to me it just FEELS like the perfect representation - a dozen (in sight, hundreds more surrounding) loaves of bread in square red bags, with the word "BIG" printed in big blue font on each one

a random dump of miscellaneous "things" from around, that I found mildly noteworthy
(and yes, the choice to put the "capitalism" one next to the Woody Guthrie one was intentional)

#photography #miscellany #streetphotography #guitar

#Miscellany #Hubble #Space #Telescope #Asteroids #Stars #Galaxies #Jwst

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My ongoing micro-series on an 18th c #miscellany. Open the page and see what you see.

"If affectation could be entirely banished, how few, in comparison with the present state of things, would be the number of preposterous mistakes."

Darn if they hadn't got a point though.

#Miscellany #Politics #Galaxies #Colliding #Galaxies

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The Curiosity Klatch - 27 Issue No. 27 (1 February 2026)

A new Curiosity Klatch is up! This week’s Miscellany includes curiosities, jokes, seasonal thoughts, a recipe, and Voting Bracket updates.

My latest weekly Substack is available and free at open.substack.com/pub/spfitzin...

#substack #recipe #trivia #miscellany

#Miscellany #Vera #Rubin #Observatory #Galaxy #Clusters #About #Me #Stars #Galaxies #Colliding

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Tough words for lawyers and doctors but phew on historians 🎯 but honestly all of us. #miscellany

"The historian has the Theban and Trojan wars at his fingers ends, but is almost wholly ignorant of a much higher concern, the proper knowledge of himself."

"It is a sign of great prudence, to be willing to receive instruction; the most intelligent person, sometimes stands in need of it."

So many things I appreciate about this snippet. Among them the semi-colon! #miscellany

100 things that made my year (2025) Walking cookies to friends on New Year’s Day. Accepting the sad fact that my nervous system can only handle one cup of coffee a day. Drinking lots of herbal te...

#Miscellany #2025 #top #100

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An image a book, the cover printed in full color of all kinds of food. In a white window is “Great American Favorite Brand Name Cookbook.” May all the gods save us.

Baking strategy meeting. #StoryTime #Miscellany

At this point we’re just baking for the hell of it, and today, we got out The Tome as kid calls it. Three inches thick, good paper, full color printing, gilded pages. Like a grimoire.

So dyers and other color nerds.

Hi.

This explanation of iridescent chocolate also applies to bug shells, butterfly wings, and bird feathers, which is why we will never have hummingbird-colored yarn.

Boo.
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a woman is stirring a pot of food with a wooden spoon and says `` more butter ! '' Alt: A gif of Julia Child, stirring vigorously, with the caption “more butter”.

Crumb cake! From one of those holiday cooking magazines (I love them) from HA, 2003. Fuck I’m old. #recipe #miscellany

To start, melt two cups of butter. I like doing it on the stove because it doesn’t explode over the interior of the microwave. You do you.

Schott’s Significa Schott’s Significa, A Miscellany of Secret Languages, is the latest from CH friend Ben Schott, master of minutia, trivia, erudite history and wit. From a thorough vexillology of pride (flags) to a …

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What’s in a Pen Name?: How I Went From Gothic Fiction to Bubblegum Pop James Baldwin famously claimed that “every writer has only one story to tell,” and I’ve found that to be true. In my w...

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What’s in a Pen Name?: How I Went From Gothic Fiction to Bubblegum Pop James Baldwin famously claimed that “every writer has only one story to tell,” and I’ve found that to be true. In my w...

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Saturday Miscellany—8/23/25 I really should’ve saved a couple of things from last week’s list for today…oh well, it’ll be faster for both of us this way. Odds ‘n ends about books and re...

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Dusty old scrapbooks My friend John discovered a bunch of old scrapbooks in a dusty closet of the church he attends. As he poured over yellowed newspaper clippings, faded photos and church bulletins and directories, he became obsessed with the idea of preserving these. At some point he called me for advice because I had helped him make the transition from an ancient Windows PC to a Google Chromebook. I suggested he use an app on his iPhone to scan the scrapbooks and save them as PDFs and then organize them in his iCloud account using the Files app. I explained how he could set up a folder structure put these in some sort of order. As the number of folders and files grew it became more and more difficult to do on his phone so I brought up the idea of moving this content to his Google Drive so he could manage it all on his laptop. Somewhere along the way John asked ChatGPT for help and it mentioned Google Sites as a useful tool for making these files available. Over the years, I think I’ve used most of the better known website tools, going back to FrontPage and up through Blogger, Typepad, Posterous and, finally, WordPress. But I don’t think I was aware of Google Sites. So I started playing around and came up with **this** , mostly as a demo. The links on the website go to one of the folders or files in John’s Google Drive. As John shared the site with church members he got lots of excited feedback but he also learned that an amazing (to us) number of people don’t have a computer (laptop or desktop). Everything is in an app on their phone, not the best way to view the old scrapbook content. We needed a way to give the phone-only folks a sense of what John had created. John has enlisted the help of someone who is more comfortable with today’s technology and the plan is to create a dedicated Google account for the church so the archive files and the website aren’t orphaned when John and I head for the last roundup. John quickly learned (as I did many years ago) there are basically two types of reaction to a project like this. The most common is a yawn. Who cares about about a bunch of old church scrapbooks. The other is excitement at the discovery of the church’s rich history.

Dusty old scrapbooks My friend John discovered a bunch of old scrapbooks in a dusty closet of the church he attends. As he poured over yellowed newspaper clippings, faded photos and church bulletin...

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