On this day
Posts on and around this day (Aug 19):- 2025-08-21 / I love the color of this new Leuchtturm. It’s almost new notebook day!
- 2025-08-17 / I spent most of last week back in Flagstaff, my first trip there since we moved more than a year ago. I have so many thoughts and feelings about visiting that town — where I lived for nearly twenty years. I went for a lot of photo walks and revisited some favorite places, including this lovely corner that holds a lot of memories. Pizzicletta has expanded to a small empire but this original location is special (and next door to my favorite bike shop, too).
- 2024-08-17 / Important update: The cappuccino at Anchorhead is transformatively delicious. I stopped for this breakfast each day I was downtown for posit::conf this week.
- 2023-08-21 / I chanced across this old post about how my kid played Breath of the Wild, recently. Well, they’re keeping up that style: they started playing Elden Ring last week, and beat the game today. One week! I’m months into that game and nowhere near finishing it. All this, after starting Tears of the Kingdom weeks after I did, totally bogarting my Switch and beating the game after profoundly breaking all its mechanics to their will.
- 2023-08-20 / A couple of photos that I like, from a quick walk around downtown today.
- 2023-08-20 / I haven’t posted one of these for a while. I enjoyed this morning’s indoor ride. It’s nice to be back on the “good” bike after being away for much of the summer.
- 2021-08-20 / Just sitting here thinking about how good the whole middle guitar solo section of Rush’s “Marathon” is. Like 3:40 to 4:40 kind of comes tearing out of nowhere.
- 2021-08-17 / Hmm. Is this cracker super stale, or just gluten-free? 1/
- 2021-08-16 / I have climbed the Creaky Tall Ladder to replace the smoke alarm battery beneath the Vaulted Ceiling, and have therefore fulfilled the Dad Grimoire for at least a week.
- 2021-08-16 / I experimented with some cast iron skillet pizza last night. Not bad!
- 2020-08-21 / 🎮 After hearing more chat about it on this Monday’s Waypoint Radio, I started playing Remnant: From the Ashes again. I had tried it previously on console and found it frustratingly hard, but I’m glad I picked it back up on PC; it’s really good!
- 2020-08-21 / New pen day! This is my first TWSBI and I’m really enjoying it so far.
- 2020-08-18 / I’m sending up the M-x-help signal, emacs friends. I’m using doom and vim mode: occasionally emacs gets stuck with s- as a prefix to anything I enter, and I can’t figure out how to exit that mode. Trying to enter a vi command results in emacs thinking I’m typing s-:, and it similarly wrecks emacs chords. It’s weird. If I try to just close the window, emacs puts up the close confirmation dialog, and I can’t even answer that because a y or n gets prefixed with s!
- 2020-08-15 / If I promise the postmaster general that this isn’t a ballot, do you think he’ll find a way to get this package moving again?
- 2019-08-22 / Still equal parts lucky and utterly gobsmacked each time I walk outside after dark, glance up and see the Milky Way above.
- 2019-08-20 / Just typed “rsync” in a tweet and iOS autocorrected it to “raunchy.” When I retyped it, iOS autocorrected it to “raunchier.”
- 2019-08-19 / The Single Speed coffee trailer at the Sunday farmers market is a must-do part of breakfast.
- 2019-08-18 / We’re making progress on the new deck railing! Demolishing the old railing and then prepping the posts, building the new top and bottom rail, painting, and very careful drilling is a lot of work, all before we get to string the actual cables. We’re happy with the results!
- 2018-08-22 / Good Amazon delivery today.
- 2018-08-19 / I’m just laughing so hard. I took a burst of photos of my son practicing a dive at his swim lesson today, and I can see the precise frame where he went from “lithe swan” to “giant airborne pretzel.”
- 2013-08-22 / [Editorial for iOS](http://omz-software.com/editorial/)
- 2013-08-22 / [Pop Culture Happy Hour](http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=129472378)
- 2013-08-22 / VSCO + Fujifilm X100S
- 2013-08-18 / [Exiftool | Diving Into x-Pro1 and X100 Metadata](http://www.laroquephoto.com/blog/2012/7/12/exiftool-diving-into-x-pro1-and-x100-metadata.html)
- 2012-08-18 / TextDrove
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