It was private jets, mostly private jets. And the event started with the question, do you get first a yacht or first a private jet? Which I felt like this talks to my soul. And the reason why I’m ...

A repeating pattern in my life: one day every year, during the last few weeks of the spring semester at The Culinary ...

It turns out that the IKEA warehouse on PEI is located in the Rush Transfer warehouse, on the Mason Road in Stratford. If the number of parcels in the warehouse when I went to pick up our bookcases, ...

A week later, Buttondown suffered a technical meltdown, something that resulted in some of my 94 subscribers receiving 8 copies of that day’s email, and some—like me—not receiving it at all.

Modify the script so that it doesn’t need to pass the “Title” parameter to the Readwise API — the API will calculate this on ...

While our crocuses emerge tentatively in mid-March, it’s not until mid-April that they achieve full brilliance. This is that time. Lines and paragraphs break automatically. I have been writing here ...

The radiation in Hiroshima and Nagasaki today is on a par with the extremely low levels of background radiation (natural radioactivity) present anywhere on Earth. It has no effect on human bodies.

This recipe for shrimp stir-fry, for example, has 792 words of filler material before you get to the actual recipe, filled with “content” like “What People Are Saying.” I just want the recipe!

The Logical Song was the lead single on Supertramp’s 1979 album Breakfast in America. The only large-scale stadium rock show I’ve ever been to was Supertramp’s 1979 appearance at Exhibition Stadium in ...

Earlier this month Harry Holman posted A Whale of a Tale, an account of the 1857 discovery of a whale carcass in Tracadie Harbour, first published in The Islander: At the present time a novel ...

Luke: Walk with a true sense of purpose. No one ever stops you. The Leo McGarry reference is, of course, to The West Wing —another fictional universe—where Leo McGarry was President Bartlett ’s Chief ...