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Things that are cool
Reading books is cool. Taking pictures and only sharing them with a couple people is cool. Physical photo albums: cool! Generosity is cool. Saying no is cool. Sometimes saying yes is cool, but more often saying no is cool. It’s…
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Bible College Lit Magazine
It was absolutely a McSweeney’s knockoff. The design, the typeface, the snarky cleverness. No one had heard of Dave Eggers at the college that I attended for one year before transferring away. No one had heard of McSweeney’s or Neal…
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Black and white photos
Sometimes I just use the Noir filter on the iPhone photos app. Other times I use Halide III, a dedicated alternative camera app that offers a range of filters, including Zero Process (Process Zero?) that removes all the smart editing…
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Matt Editorbot
Someone has asked me to read the book that they wrote. I was happy to oblige. Nakedly obvious after several chapters that it was written by AI. The story is probably beautiful and true and good. But the phrasing is…
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Consolidating
One of my longtime problems with internet publishing has been the challenge of being spread too thin and being in too many places. At any given moment over the last 25 years, I’ve had more than one internet property. Maybe…
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Intentional AI Use
I have an epic anti-generative AI rant that I wrote in a single flurry of inspired passion in mid-December and then read aloud that same day at an open mic. It’s passionate, it’s harsh, its even inspiring to some. I’ve…
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Today
I’m thankful for community. I’m thankful for friends. I’m thankful for people who want show me things and talk with me. I’m thankful for people who want to watch a show with me, stand in line with me, sit at…
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Funerals
I was talking with someone yesterday about funerals. She told me that she didn’t want to go to a funeral. She explained that she doesn’t like them. She reminded me that she’s nine. Other kids won’t be going, she told…
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That’s a darn good beer(ish)
I courageously, inspiring, and nobly quit drinking alcohol nearly three years ago. (Ha! There’s a story there, not so noble or courageous in its origins, that I’d love to unfold to you—over coffee, around the the table, or in a…
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Let ‘em fall, baby!
The implosion of the celebrity christian industrial complex continues with the dropping of more public figures. No surprises here. Thus sayeth the Lord… God told me… God told me, word-for-word, a new message every week, which I’m posting on social…
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The internet is rotting your brain
I was always an advocate for full information and full free expression. We should all have access to all of it. And all of us should be able to say any of it. But those views were formed pre-social media.…
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We didn’t lose power. Sad.
They forecasted a big storm. Ice. Snow. Buried and stranded. We might lose power for days, even weeks. Dire warnings abounded. People remembered the ice storm of 2015 or 2006 or 2002. “My college canceled classes for a month.” “Cataclysmic!…
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Scariest thing that has ever happened to me.
In fourth grade my younger brother and I were alone in the house. We heard noise and movement and had a strong sense that there was some presence in the house. We also knew that it was supernatural or demonic.…
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Addressing my ankle
Why do you still hurt? It’s been monthsand yet here you are— nay, years It’s been yearsand yet here you areplaguing me, sore, achy is this some grand cosmic lesson I’m supposed to be learning?what test am I failing? what’s…
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things I’m considering doing as I face this thorny problem involving people and community
talk about it (have been doing that too much) take a walk (preferred option) ruminate, mull, weigh ignore, distract, be busy meditate, abide journal And last but not last: preh
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New site icon
I just changed the site icon for this site — the little graphic in the tab of the browser bar. It is a photo that someone took of me while I was a college freshmen, typing on my $3,000 Dell…
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Email
I began using email about thirty years ago. That was back in the golden age of the internet, or the start of the golden age of the internet, which I think think spanned from 1995 to 2005: before social networks…
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swiss army knives
I had a Victorinox Swiss Army Knife as a kid, I’m sure. And I can remember getting one in my first year of marriage—I think Isaac owns it now—and somehow I’ve accumulated several others over the years. But lately I’ve…
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Nobo Bottle
I pre-ordered this bottle a while ago and didn’t start using it when it initially arrived, because I didn’t see where it fit in my hydration drinkflow. Except I didn’t have much of a hydration drink flow. So I retired…