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  • Why Walking is Good

    I try to walk a lot. My step count has gone down since I started working from home, but I still get out and wander the neighborhood at least once a day, and use my feet as a means of transportation whenever I need to be somewhere else. Through years of walking, I have come…

  • Book Review: City of Stairs, by Robert Jackson Bennett

    Dammit, Robert Jackson Bennett. I was about ready to give up on fantasy, as a genre, after the last few highly-regarded novels put me to sleep. Given the length of the average fantasy book, that would save me, like, five days a year. I could have had five more days of life every year by…

  • The Ephemeral Cloud

    I’ve been a proponent of trusting the cloud for a long time, but I’m starting to rethink that trust. “The cloud” is a murky term, but what I mean by it here is: leaving your shit with someone else. Your files, your music, your movies, your everything…if it’s not physically stored somewhere in your home,…