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I love Matt Baume’s podcast The Sewers of Paris. He interviews gay men about a piece of culture that changed their life. A question which occurs often in these interviews – and in any interview that touches on sexual identity … Continue reading →

I sure hope a math nerd sees this and helps me make sense of this stuff. I do math in my head to get myself to sleep. One of my favorite methods has been converting numbers between different bases or … Continue reading →

I’ve been using a combination of journaling styles from bulletjournal.com and Chris Hardwick’s The Nerdist Way; both exploit the flexibility of graph paper in really cool ways. I have a medium size graph paper journal l carry in my briefcase, … Continue reading →

Named “Pedestrian” as a sort of pun on that word’s double meaning, this is a kit for the flâneur, to address quotidian emergencies. This is not a wilderness survival kit. This is a kit to carry every day, designed for … Continue reading →

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There’s a viral email going around that you can probably google, in which violinist Joshua Bell plays in a DC Metro station wearing a ballcap and jeans. The fact that commuters rush past him notwithstanding the fact that his violin … Continue reading →

I had this brewing while, so when I saw that a friend who used to make me the freaking best mixtapes ever had a birthday coming up, I decided now was the time. Putting this together was remarkably easy – … Continue reading →

One might call it Bachelor Chow (Futurama) or a Bowl of Sadness (Patton Oswalt), but I think this is delicious: mix sriracha, tahini, vegenaise, sesame oil, and spread on a pita.  I think it’s pretty darn good, if a bit … Continue reading →

This is, supposedly, the entire text of Jessica T.’s useful Python script LinuxOutlawsGetter (which you can use to download the Linux Outlaws podcast early by recording the stream from the live show rather than waiting for the podcast release) in … Continue reading →