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(This is my fifth post in a series of entries I’m using to participate in Blaugust for 2026.)
Over on DIY Photography, Alysa Gavilan as a good introduction to freelance photography as a career. It’s worth a read if that’s something you or someone you know is seriously thinking about that as a choice.
I’m not summarizing articles here, but I’ve known a few freelancers and photography business owners (Are you a freelancer if you have employees?) and because of that I offer some additional advice:…
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This is a Blaugust 2026 blog post.
I’m now in my third term of music theory. Back in the first term, I created a handy reference sheet for major and minor scales. I just added a new ref sheet for what’s called applied (or secondary) chords.
A Bit of Music Theory
(If you know basic music theory, go ahead and skip this part.)
First, listen to this music snippet:
Here is the music score for what you just heard:
If you enumerate the C major scale – C-D-E-F-G-A-B – you see that C is the first note. T…
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My childhood friend Eric lived in a yellow house at the end of a cul-de-sac. We spent our summers and after-school evenings playing video games (SNES, later N64), ping pong, and street hocky. We blasted the Mortal Kombat soundtrack on CD and played tackle football in the back yard. Young and indestructible, we never donned helmets or padding, but wore our bruises proudly.
Eric had a neighbor named Matt, a regular kid, but two years older than us. Matt was lanky and tall and, owing to the age dif…
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Words on this, https://noisydeadlines.net/a-few-strong-opinions-about-ai
I agree, AI words, images and video are extremely unsettling (to me). It's everything but human created. In fact the most non-human thing anyTHING (in this case, a computer) can generate.
It's like a fever dream. Or some well-detailed hallucination. The words I've read/heard from AI (via people using AI to narrate YouTube videos) has “enough” human-like mannerisms and gestures, but that makes it that much more perverse. I d…
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There are a handful of albums that I've listened to front-to-back over and over hundreds of times throughout my life. These records are not only a collection of songs, but carry a powerful throughline from start to finish.
Death Cab for Cutie's Transatlanticism, Neutral Milk Hotel's In the Aeroplane Over the Sea, The Mountain Goats' The Sunset Tree, Joni Mitchell's Blue, Frank Ocean's Blonde, and Bright Eyes' I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning. If you've pegged me for a Tumblr-era /mu/core Millennial…
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The next expansion for the MMORG, The Lord of the Rings Online, was announced on the 1st August, via the gaming website MMORPG.The Wolves of Mordor, which will launch later in the year, appears ambitious in scope as it will include two new game systems as well as the obligatory story update. This expansion takes place in Draugardh located in the North East of Mordor, beyond the Plateau of Gorgoroth. It includes the new zones of Heledhris, Parth Rhavas and Nan Ogol. These vary environmentally ran…
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Sometimes a piece of media comes along that makes you think “Gee, did they make this just for me?” and while the answer is obviously “NO”, for me personally Star Driver feels that way.
It released back in 2010 and was created by Studio Bones, known at the time in the west in particular for Fullmetal Alchemist, Soul Eater and Ouran High School Host Club.
The anime is a beautifully animated combination of mecha, song pieces and magical boy. Yup. Boy. The titular boy Takuto is the Ginga Bishounen (…
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The mother of Mikaeil Mirdoraghi, a third-grade student grade student killed in U.S. airstrike on primary school in Minab:
I had prepared dinner for him and when he was eating he said: “Mom, the food you made tastes like heaven.”
I said: “My son, why are you saying this? You’ve never said this before.”
Around midnight he put pillows around himself and sat with his brother. He said: “Brother, let’s play. I’m Iran and you’re America. Let’s play with guns and tanks.”
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With this episode, number 72, Michael Branson Smith and I are 4 films deep into our series on international independent films from the 90s. We started down under with Muriel’s Wedding (1994), then we headed up to Tehran for The White Balloon (1995) then on to working class England with Life is Sweet (1990) then we jumped over to 1920s China for Raise the Red Lantern (1991).
Like many of the films from this series, I first experienced them as a young 20-something in independent movie houses in an…
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It's time to go back to music class as I have another memory from the same music class (possibly from the same year).
The Ghost of John. This example is by Sharpe Music. Obviously I can't share the exact version I heard in class
I know little about this song. My limited research suggests this is an old folk song and it was commonplace in elementary school music classes. What I do know it that it's creepy as hell! This song scared me when I was a kid. I am haunted by the memory of this being sung…
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Ask a hundred WoW players which expansion was the best and a good chunk of them, without hesitating, will say Wrath. I'm one of them. I've played every expansion since, and none of them ever quite got back to what Northrend felt like in 2009.
Part of it was the setup. TBC pulled me in, but Wrath was the first expansion I got to walk into on day one, already max level, already ready, no old-world slog standing between me and the new stuff. You picked a boat to Howling Fjord or a zeppelin to Borea…
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Cheerful fumbling
It’s a damp early morning, the house clearly recalls the past hot day better than the cooler night. I’m playing a four chord song on my piano: my voice leading is clunky, the rhythm is uneven, and I couldn’t be more pleased to spend five minutes like this, skill-taste gap be damned.
Even though I’ve played piano and other instruments in the past, it feels like starting over again. They say that to be an expert at anything, you need to practice for 10.000 hours. Well, I’ve only…
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I had a migraine this morning that really threw me for a loop. Then I spent the afternoon and evening dealing with a different kind of headache: getting my phone number transferred to a new(ish) phone.
We picked up a Fairphone 4 a few years ago as sort of a hedge in case the electronics industry and/or tariffs and/or international trade went bonkers and one of our phones died. (We weren’t expecting all three.) The teenager used it for a bit before we bought him a phone that was closer to what he…
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Just a little story about how I came to own a Divorce Ring, prompted by seeing mention of divorce rings on another blog that I read.
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When the events I share on my weeknotes are few and far between, it’s often because I wrote a lot of posts already talking about stuff that was interesting to me during the week, so, yeah it happens sometimes! In any case, this is some of the other stuff that happened between July 28 and August 3, 2026!
📅 In case you missed it, I joined Blaugust for 2026, a month long event where the point is to write and participate as much as you want! Of coures, I’m going for the full 31 posts, though there a…
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So, I’m taking part in Blaugust again. I’m not even going to try to do 30 this month. I’ll be happy with 5 or 10. But this is #1, so it’s a start.
The last time I wrote something, I talked about how I was considering going back to music subscription services simply because I missed their music discovery options. Self hosting was just not doing it for me in that regard. I really didn’t want to go back to paying for music, though. I have spent well over a year getting my own library up and running…
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vibrant digital acrylics as part of Peggy Dean's retreat, reflecting on personal feelings and the pursuit of a perfect day amid humor and pets
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Today, I appreciated the small things by taking a walk in nature during the work day, but I actually stopped to touch grass this time. Well, moss. I touched moss.
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I like public transit and I like music, but I especially like music about public transit. In no particular order, here are some of my favorite transit tunes.
The Bus Is Late
If you're an avid audio drama listener, you may recognize this first one as the Weather from an early episode of Welcome to Night Vale. "The Bus Is Late" by Satellite High is actually just one of an entire EP of songs about the bus. Another favorite track of mine from the album is "A Girl Who Loves Buses Too." I, too, am loo…
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Today’s post is part of the Blaugust 2026 Group project, which features a series of writing prompts set for specific dates throughout the month. The idea being that everyone who wishes to participate can write about the same subject, riff off each other’s posts and enjoy a shared experience. In many respect having a common writing prompt levels the playing field and provides a sense of common purpose among those who take part. Today’s group project prompt asks the question “tell us all about you…
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I have been seeing lots of fun collages of book covers showing what people read during the month and decided I needed to make one for July. Not surprisingly, I headed to Canva where I found a plethora of reading tracker templates. They all made it easy to copy, paste and resize the book covers … Continue reading July Reading →
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I document what albums I am currently listening to during Blaugust and supply Bandcamp links for each so you can check them out too.
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AH-- AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH I've written a couple thousand words today and yesterday which, don't get me wrong, were really fun write-ups but if I'm going to commit to the trials and tribulations I have lined up for me (more writing, in the spirit of BlAugust) then I need to tone it back.
Not only on a literal, word count scale but on a metaphysical level. I need my soul to rest. I'm too introspective. I put images in my last post, I haven't done that in a while! Have I gone mad? Do I have a temp…
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✒️ I’ve been using a Bullet Journal for 2 months now. I’m starting to get a feel for what works for me, and I realized I don’t miss most of the digital tools I was using before. I still use a digital calendar, email and Standard Notes, but I’ve been very satisfied having my to-dos in analog form.
📘 I started reading the last book of The Expanse series, “Leviathan Falls” by James S.A. Corey. I love to have these beloved series to get back to, and I might be unconsciously taking longer to read it…
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A Library Without Walls
My grandfather's library
I grew up among books. Both of my parents are avid readers. My sister is a book lover too. When she has time, she posts amazing articles about books and book series on plenty of different topics. It's easy for her: she reads at an incredible speed. Her blog, Katherine's Bookstore is in Hungarian, but even with a browser's translation, it's a treasure trove.
My maternal grandfather’s library always fascinated me. It was a space where every part of…
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Me and my SFF PC that travelled a lot in past 3 years
A bit late, but a very important post – introducing myself. I actually lost the “About me” page in the Backupocalypse that I mentioned before, so there’s no official introduction of me outside of a little paragraph in my Twitch channel description I guess. Will return that page with “official” introduction at some point, but today is a bit free format one, because I feel like it’s not going to be the first time introducing myself during annua…
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As I was working on something today and had music going in the background I went to switch gears and I swore Apple Music had experienced a stroke and when I clicked to this song:
I clicked play and it fit the EDM style of music I appreciate and it sounded like an artist / DJ I liked, but couldn’t place it. But, I was deeply thrown by the type as it was well outside a Latin character set. Not only was the song and album in this outside the usual character set, but the artist name and label were t…
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This past week, we found ourselves back at Heidrun Meadery.
The last time we were there was almost a year ago, in August celebrating my birthday, with Cocoa. It's one of our favorite places to spend a quiet afternoon, tucked beneath the trees with a glass of mead and our very own DIY charcuterie board.
I wasn't sure how it would feel to go back without her.
We brought her leash and tags with us and took a photo beneath the same tree where we had taken one with her last year. There was a quiet sa…
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🎞 watched “The Odyssey” at the Metreon in 70mm IMAX on opening weekend, and mostly enjoyed it. No spoilers in this post.My pal Rohit (@rohit.khare.org) had bought tickets last year, had a spare, and invited me along last minute. After an early dinner at Cha Cha Cha (@chachachasf.com) we made our way to the Metreon.There was a line to get in. I have never before seen a line merely to get into the IMAX theater. We only missed maybe 1-2 movie trailers.Our seats were in the front row, only a few sea…
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I want to participate in Blaugust this year. It’s an annual event that takes place in August and focuses on inspiring folks to blog daily throughout the month. Given I was at GenCon until yesterday, I’ve already missed two days; however, I don’t have any more travel scheduled for this month, so I’ll hopefully be able to imperfectly participate quite a bit in this challenge.
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Brennan wrote about phoneblogging and I have thoughts! Mostly: If you took away my tablet and laptop so I had only my phone it would make no difference to my blogging or any other writing output.
I almost exclusively phoneblog. If I'm on my laptop or tablet when the mood strikes me to write then I will but I don't wait until then, or get them out deliberately.
I've written CSS on my phone and worked on my theme. I've researched, written, formatted, linked, and published so many posts entirely on…
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Some may consider this to be controversial, but here goes: I don't really care for the Beatles. I am not denying their influence. Their music just never really resonated with me. I don't love them and I don't hate them. I can't remember the last time I heard a Beatles song. I can remember one time the Beatles were played in my music class.
Love Me Do by The Beatles
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Well, this is embarrassing...
Remember when I complained about not being able to remember my login details for Wuthering Waves? I wrote a whole post about it under the (entirely intentionally) click-baity title "Wuthering Waves Is Dead To Me Now." Remember how, in that post, I said "I've tried everything and every account I can think of and nothing works"?
Yes. Well. About that...
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I dropped back into consciousness at one point yesterday (I wasn't actually gone - consciously speaking - even though it feels like it at times, coughthxADHDthxcough) and quite viscerally realized it was August. AUGUST.
This fact hits me upside the head for a couple of reasons,
It means there are only 35 days until I begin the final home stretch gathering of practicum hours to finish this MA - and that is incredibly surreal and
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For the past month I've been going through and putting the Riverside services through its paces. Mostly because I had used them in the past for other things, I wanted to see how their current lineup had grown to fit within my workflow. There were a few roadblocks that had turned the whole experience into something I couldn't get past.
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Wow, I am so proud of myself for showing up for Blogust! I don't know if I will be able to keep this up all month, but really getting started is the difficult part (for me. And everyone else with bad executive functioning.)
I don't really know what to put here, it's barely been 24 hours since the last post. Today, I was struggling with executive functioning a little bit more than I usually do. I went to office in h…
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As in the actor, yes. It almost seems like a dream to me. Now here I am, waiting to watch the new Spider-Man movie. I can’t believe I have followed the guy’s different films for a decade now.
Way back in 2018, I was going to smaller Comic Con events, I somehow got lucky and managed to travel for it twice. First I went to Glendale, AZ. Then Seattle, WA later in the year. I had a goal in mind to meet an another MCU actor that shall not be named. Due to various reasons, it never happened. I felt de…
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I suppose if one is going to steal, one should be completely shameless about it. The above graphic was – to the best of my knowledge – created by Belghast for his Mixtape Mondays series of posts. I have snagged it, because there is zero chance of me coming up with anything cooler than that.
If there was one thing that very nearly dragged me back to my blog over the last several months, it was this. I feel like I’ve rediscovered a deep affection for music over the last year, and although I am for…
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This essay was super fun to write. Thinking about how to keep your thoughts interesting in the age of AI. Nakatomi Drift
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Why am I doing Blaugust? Answering the week one prompts!
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You can find loads of reviews. Mine is mostly the title of this post.
I have the X4. It was delivered on the 25th June. I have just finished reading a series of six books (Gone - series 1). Looking forward to getting stuck into another one. That would not have happened without the X4. It’s made reading regularly very low effort. That suits me. I would miss having it.
I use it with the forest green magnetic case and when needed the magnetic reading light.
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BYOB前三个字母还挺好记：Bring your own……然后B是什么呢？我老是忘记。仔细一想，脑子里第一个冒出来的居然是Boisson（法语饮品）。其实应该是Beverage（英语饮品）吧。不过，怎么长这么像呢？
一查之下果然，Beverage源自古法语中的boivre，这个词在现在法语里就是boire（饮用）。
From Middle English beverage, from Old French beverage, variant of bevrage, from beivre (“to drink”), variant of boivre (“to drink”), from Latin bibō.
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而drink这个词是英语本土的词汇，据说可以追溯到古日耳曼语。
不过后面这个B也可以是Bottle、Booze等等。
说起来英文好喜欢缩写啊，马上就能想起BOGO：Buy one get one（买一送一）。据说为了凑缩写而努力瞎编名字的也不少。不过缩写太好用了就会慢慢忘记原名呢。
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Peter Gabriel’s songs from his New Blood album have surfaced in playlists lately and they really resonate more than the original versions. The New Blood album is a hi-res recording with Gabriel reinterpreting his works to work with a symphony. Unlike nearly every rock or pop group that does an album with their songs it isn’t layering in swoopy strings and creating syrupy saccharine interpretations. Gabriel’s New Blood rewrote the pieces to be solid pieces and uses the orchestra as a percussive a…
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Uncovered.ink · Judge a book by its first pages - Thanks to Jason Kottke for the recommendation for Uncovered.ink, which is a site that shows you a few pages of a book with no book cover, title, nor author. This is such a brilliant idea. The interface is clean and just has options for genre and a nice display of a page at a time show up. I like this far more than Amazon’s book preview (for narrative books / fiction). The focus is on the words and if you like it you can get the title, author, and…
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Album Zero, the Monkey
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'Lo, ev'ryone! Well, it's been a month and one day since I wrote the ninth chapter of Album Zero, the Monkey, also known as [A0, 🐒]. There are reasons why this is the case, but you know what? It's a sad thing, it really is. It comes down to...fight scenes. Action scenes. These are my weaknesses in writing alongside spicy scenes!
Before I continue, I want to acknowledge that this is my first entry as part of Blaugust: Festival of Blogging 2026! I would have made…
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Some random small thoughts provoked by nothing in particular and collected over the last few months.
should write a post about my ideal writer cooperative community
I bought poetry I'm not that into because I think my city ought to be able to support a poet laureate. We should be capable of that, as a place
I'm not sure why the writing group has dwindled again when I think a lot of people are really into writing? And really want community?
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Somehow I’ve never written “Man vs. Nature” in the margins. B. Collins urges me to do so now, but I don’t see it. Man is also nature, and hmm… that’s the right way to bookend that vs.
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In yesterday's post I mentioned my father had a bunch of cassette tapes of songs he recorded off the radio. There was a good deal of 80s music among those tapes. Take On Me, 867-5309, and Spirits in the Material World are the notable entries I remember, but there was another song that was popular with my young self that many had not heard of.
Shiny Shiny by Haysi Fantayzee
The big question on my mind is: Why? It's a very eclectic song with a guitar riff, clacking spoons, and repetitive fiddle in…
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Things Take the Time They Take: A 42nd Thought at 42 via Brad Frost
You can’t make a baby in one month by throwing nine people at it.
I think I had heard this quote before but after thinking about it for a little while I think I will definitely be using it in the future. As someone who has spent decades now discussing timelines and setting expectations this really hits home for me.
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Kelvin and Glasgow Uni Tower flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license