Join me on a random Internet rabbit hole. While relaxing on my porch during sunset, I wondered: Does Google Maps do collective routing? I’ve always wondered this. Turns out, no. Google Maps optimizes for the current user only. It blends real time data collected from other users with historical data. But doing this for each [ ]
Our washing machine is broken and waiting on parts for a repair, so I found myself in a laundromat today for the first time in 20 years. For some reason, this laundromat chose to play — quite loudly — a UK streaming station called Smooth Relax. I noticed it because of the woman’s voice with [ ]
url.town is an indie web home grown URL directory of fun, interesting or useful websites. Spamming the random link link is a wonderful way to wile away a few hours and learn something along the way. I also enjoy Wikipedia’s random link and Indiewebring’s random link.
We used this yard stick (actually it’s 2 yards) to measure my daughter’s height from 1 week to 18 years old. I like to photograph important objects in case they are lost. This was a bit of a challenge, given the dimensions. I took 8 photos and then combined them in Gimp, using layer masks [ ]
I recently finished Stoicism and the Art of Happiness by Donald Robertson, a Scottish-born CBT practitioner and student of both Stoicism and Buddhism. I came to this book having read enough about CBT to be familiar with its main concepts, and many, many books on Buddhism. On Stoicism, I’d only read Marcus Aurelius’s Meditations. While [ ]
Here is my belated list of music finds from last month, November 2025. So much good stuff, coming in at a whopping 19 tracks. This is a playlist I can just listen to on repeat lately. If you want to skip the blah-biddy-blah, here is the Spotify playlist. Getting Killed by Geese Au Pays du [ ]
“A Leaf from the Tree of Songs” is a poem by Adam Christianson. I put the words to song years ago but never recorded more than a rough demo of it. The melody always stuck with me, so I finally got around to reproducing it as electronic music in Bitwig. Here is the poem — [ ]
This is my entry for November’s IndieWeb Carnival, hosted by Alex Siraç on the topic of cycles and fluctuations. It’s also my second attempt at flash fiction, coming in at 819 words. ~ Before That The alarm goes off at 6, playing “We Built This City” by Starship — a song he hates so much [ ]
I mentioned to my daughter and frequent concert buddy a while back that I was thinking of making — or trying to make — a list of every concert I’ve been to. She ended up beating me to it by making one of her own, which inspired me to finally get it done. So this [ ]
October was a big new music month. Here are 14 songs I’ve had on heavy rotation from October. If you prefer Spotify over YouTube, check out the Music Finds, October 2025 playlist. “Tumbleweed” is a fun ride and the third single from TWEN’s third studio album, Fate Euphoric, released November 4th. I’m looking forward to [ ]