colinhowells.com
Wishes he was a headlight on a northbound train
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Toth took some weird gigs
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This and Seaguy were excellent ways to lose your mind
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One of the weirdest experiences I ever had was watching True Detective S1 and hearing an entire monologue sourced from this spoken
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Underread German hipped me to him; I think Max Lawton is really into him right now, and is trying to get someone to pick up a translation of the full Shoreless River (only a few bits of which have made it to English)
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Just picked up a couple Hans Henny Jahnns which purport to have a similar feel, pretty stoked
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An audio, not video, stream:
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Bored one day, popped into a shop, saw some comics, bought a couple to pass the time. The comics happened to be a few issues from the American Gothic as well as Superman Annual 11, 'For the Man Who Has Everything'. I found out then that truly incredible comics were being created and my life changed
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He's here chatting afterwards, about 50 minutes from the end www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAcz...
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One of the parks alongside the Colorado River, Austin, day or two before the 2017 US F1 GP
Fernando Alonso, with trainer/companion/bodyguard, jogging towards me. Couldn't think of what to do or say to the great man so doffed my Williams cap to him, catching his eye as he ran by
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Pike could at times sound like Alan Watts put through a paper shredder
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PKD fictionalized his friend James Pike, an extremely Sixties California bishop, in The Transmigration of Timothy Archer, one of Dick’s later, stranger, novels
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Interestingly Carrère is a huge Philip K Dick fan and wrote a … biography? Critical essay? on him
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`@apply` (which TW tells you not to use … though it exists and seems fine?) is excellent if you don't want to deal with classes everywhere
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Karl Hyde owes somebody royalties
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Wild creative lineup for this one
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The huge one for me was macOS-like features (file management, windows, menu bars, cursors) finally infiltrating the iPad. The inevitable beginning of the end for macOS, even though they'd never publicly characterize it that way
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the awl essay that coined it, wikipedia link www.theawl.com/2015/06/a-co... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chumbox
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXF2...
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Oops, hit publish before I added this cite: markets.businessinsider.com/news/etf/app...
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APPL always tanks after keynotes!
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Steve Rude inked by Carmine Infanto – excellent
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Still the best. Every ish revealed an entire universe
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I would say though if someone was in the same room as me and was chatting away closed cans miiight be better? Not a circumstance I have. But these things are so useful in so many contexts (auto-translation coming?? amazing) they're a no-brainer. I tolerate silicone in my ears v well, some don't, tho
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ANC is v good (be careful around cars!), transparency mode is good and safer. Battery life incredible. Auto-pairing when you switch devices can be annoying so turned that off, now select Pods manually
Probably the best thing Apple has made since the iPhone, I can't imagine life w/o