# moby dick (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 4 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover moby dick. Page: Feed: --- ## [Which dragon I maintain to have been a whale](https://hodgman.substack.com/p/which-dragon-i-maintain-to-have-been) _2026-08-14 · John Hodgman · Secret Society_ Fish, flesh, and fowl idol: more MOBY DICK for you. ## [file uploading with fupfup](https://cblgh.org/posts/2026-08-05-file-uploading-with-fupfup) _2026-08-05 · cblgh.org - all_ Using one-time-passwords to reduce the friction for getting phone pictures on my server ## [An uncommon specific gravity in the fish so sinking](https://hodgman.substack.com/p/an-uncommon-specific-gravity-in-the) _2026-08-04 · John Hodgman · Secret Society_ I am reading Moby Dick to you in a bad Maine accent ## [pizza box project stack](https://cblgh.org/posts/2026-07-31-pizza-box-project-stack) _2026-07-31 · cblgh.org - all_ Crafting a personal task tracker using a pizza box ## ["I try all things; I achieve what I can"](https://hodgman.substack.com/p/i-try-all-things-i-achieve-what-i) _2026-07-09 · John Hodgman · Secret Society_ or: "...the mere handful of this monster's brain" ## [Five perspectives on speedrunning](https://longersky.com/2026/07/07/five-perspectives-on-speedrunning/) _2026-07-07 · - · More longer friend see that sky?_ Bear: this is fun! I have not had this much fun in ages. Lets go again, whooosh, vroom, roar! Bird: wow, to think that so many got together to sing this particular tune. Play it again, Sam! Cat: myes, this is something I am good at, it is my wheelhouse, bailiwick, domain, playground Snake: fast, \[ \] ## [NEBRASKA](https://hodgman.substack.com/p/nebraska) _2026-06-30 · John Hodgman · Secret Society_ a quick update between readings of Moby Dick due to a news event that strangely doesn't suck ## [Having a strong sense of justice in no way implies also possessing a good understanding of it](https://longersky.com/2026/06/27/having-a-strong-sense-of-justice-in-no-way-implies-also-possessing-a-good-understanding-of-it/) _2026-06-27 · - · More longer friend see that sky?_ “God bless ye,” he seemed to half sob and half shout. “God bless ye, men. Steward! go draw the great measure of grog. But what’s this long face about, Mr. Starbuck; wilt thou not chase the white whale! art not game for Moby Dick?” “I am game for his crooked jaw, and for the jaws \[ \] ## [So treacherous and oozy](https://hodgman.substack.com/p/so-treacherous-and-oozy) _2026-06-19 · John Hodgman · Secret Society_ MOBY DICK as read aloud on a 144 year old wooden schooner in Maine ## [Living with the Pharmakon](https://samplereality.com/2026/06/15/living-with-the-pharmakon/) _2026-06-16 · Mark Sample · @samplereality_ I was honored to give the keynote address at Carleton College’s 10th Annual Day of DH, a one-day event that draws together digital humanities professionals from the broader Minneapolis/St. Paul region. The full text of my talk is below, or you can just view the slides. Thank you to Austin and the rest of the… Continue reading Living with the Pharmakon → [Listen](https://samplereality.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/8a743ee7_supercut.mp4) ## [Snapshot Showdown on Google Play (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/ec21BGqmYAWO) _2026-06-16 · **Sponsored**_ Available on Google Play for Android devices. ## [Our final UNION HALL show...](https://hodgman.substack.com/p/our-final-union-hall-show) _2026-06-11 · John Hodgman · Secret Society_ is on June 25 ## [Tonight at Union Hall, Thursday at the Coolidge with Eugene Mirman.](https://hodgman.substack.com/p/tonight-at-union-hall-thursday-at) _2026-06-09 · John Hodgman · Secret Society_ WHAT ELSE IS THERE TO DO? ## [Josh Gondelman, Jean Grae, and John Hodgman in Alphabetical Order](https://hodgman.substack.com/p/josh-gondelman-jean-grae-and-john) _2026-06-05 · John Hodgman · Secret Society_ Next Tuesday at Union Hall, Brooklyn, NY ## [Good Lord! is this the road that Jonah went?](https://hodgman.substack.com/p/good-lord-is-this-the-road-that-jonah) _2026-06-01 · John Hodgman · Secret Society_ New shows at Union Hall announced, and some whaling lore. ## [local git remotes](https://cblgh.org/posts/local-git-remotes) _2026-05-23 · cblgh.org - all_ How to backup with git using machines you have at home ## [mitigating git forge lock-in](https://cblgh.org/posts/2025-10-18-git-forges-without-lock-in) _2026-05-23 · cblgh.org - all_ Using golang vanity domains to enable migrating away from Github ## [cani](https://cblgh.org/cani) _2026-05-23 · cblgh.org - all_ service for permanent shareable + reusable checklists ## [Gondelman, Grae, and Hodgman](https://hodgman.substack.com/p/gondelman-grae-and-hodgman) _2026-05-22 · John Hodgman · Secret Society_ And underground show that is literally underground ## [The skateboard academic’s stratagem](https://longersky.com/2026/05/18/the-skateboard-academics-stratagem/) _2026-05-18 · - · More longer friend see that sky?_ It was a simple request. Nothing out of the ordinary. Happened all the time. Sicknesses and contingencies. The person who was originally supposed to be doing the thing, was suddenly not doing the thing. Someone had to fill in. Thus, a request: Hey, could you sub these two lectures? The discipline, computer science, was ever \[ \] ## [A gravitationally accurate feline horoscope](https://longersky.com/2026/05/02/a-gravitationally-accurate-feline-horoscope/) _2026-05-01 · - · More longer friend see that sky?_ AriesCats gravitate towards you TaurusYou gravitate towards cats GeminiGravity cats towards you CancerCats you towards gravity LeoGravity gravitates towards cats VirgoYou are a gravity well. Cats think you are swell LibraThe universe bends towards one universal force that transcends all time and space. It is cats ScorpioCats weigh you down. This is a feature SagittariusFor \[ \] ## [Hire AI-Powered Freelancers Fast (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/7KYcyoljXN4B) _2026-05-01 · **Sponsored**_ Browse and hire skilled professionals using AI tools — free to post, free to apply. ## [The Subcutanean Variorum](https://samplereality.com/2026/04/30/the-subcutanean-variorum/) _2026-04-30 · Mark Sample · @samplereality_ Subcutanean (2020) is a queer coming-of-age novel by Aaron Reed. The narrator Ryan is an introverted college student whose love for his closest friend, Niko, goes unrequited. Subcutanean is a horror novel. Ryan and Niko discover a vast basement under their dilapidated off-campus house that branches into parallel worlds—the Downstairs. And they get lost in… Continue reading The Subcutanean Variorum… ## [A working email privacy template](https://longersky.com/2026/03/17/a-working-email-privacy-template/) _2026-03-17 · - · More longer friend see that sky?_ Unrelated to what has been said above: we note that you use a work email account for this correspondence. We have no particular insight into your specific workplace situation, but want to caution that in general, such an arrangement means that your employer has both the opportunity and at times obligation to partake of the \[ \] ## [The esotericism iceberg](https://longersky.com/2026/02/10/the-esotericism-iceberg/) _2026-02-10 · - · More longer friend see that sky?_ Surface tierThe surface of esotericism is the exoteric. This is, in plain language, what it says on the tin. The text itself. The words as literally and straightforwardly as possible. The butler did it. Moby Dick is about a whale Tier oneThe esoteric is what is left unsaid, for only the initiated to glean Tier \[ \] ## [My 2025 Highlights](https://samplereality.com/2025/12/31/my-2025-highlights/) _2025-12-31 · Mark Sample · @samplereality_ Unless you spend most of your time self-promoting, it’s difficult to get word out about your successes, not to mention your interesting failures. There was a time, maybe 2009-2015, you could post about a new project on social media, or even your blog, and people would hear about it. These days, the signal-to-noise ratio on… Continue reading My 2025 Highlights → ## [smol share](https://cblgh.org/smolshare) _2025-12-12 · cblgh.org - all_ service for sharing short-lived encrypted snippets ## [december adventure 2025](https://cblgh.org/posts/2025-december-adventure) _2025-11-30 · cblgh.org - all_ let's have fun while casually working on projects most days of december! updated daily for december 2025 ## [social rules](https://cblgh.org/posts/2025-10-17-social-rules) _2025-10-17 · cblgh.org - all_ a collection of social rules governing different collectives and groups ## [the done line](https://cblgh.org/posts/2025-10-10-the-done-line) _2025-10-10 · cblgh.org - all_ a simple satisfying way to track progress for homegrown digital projects ## [The Ghosts of ClipartFlash Fiction, Alt Text, and Steganographic Narrative](https://samplereality.com/2025/08/19/the-ghosts-of-clipart/) _2025-08-20 · Mark Sample · @samplereality_ In January 2025 I presented on a panel called “Alt-Text, Alt-Image: Multimodal Scholarship” at the annual Modern Language Association conference. My talk wasn’t so much about multimodal scholarship, but it did take the Alt Text part of the title quite literally. Here’s that talk, along with key slides. I want to talk today about alt… Continue reading The Ghosts of ClipartFlash Fiction, Alt Text,… ## [Five Theses on E-Lit Scenes](https://samplereality.com/2025/07/20/five-theses-on-e-lit-scenes/) _2025-07-21 · Mark Sample · @samplereality_ At the 2025 Electronic Literature Organization conference in Toronto I participated on a panel devoted to If/Then, a computational poetics group/workshop/collective/community that has been meeting monthly over Zoom since Fall 2020. Carly Schnitzler and Lillian-Yvonne Bertram, the organizers of If/Then were on the panel, as well as three members of If/Then’s Community Advisory Board—Kathy Wu,…… ## [Realtime AI Arbitrage Terminal (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/MhrH7elcD15I) _2025-07-21 · **Sponsored**_ Realtime auto-trading across exchanges with scored setups, backtesting, and risk controls. ## [The Poetics and Power of Small Language Models](https://samplereality.com/2025/07/18/the-poetics-and-power-of-small-language-models/) _2025-07-18 · Mark Sample · @samplereality_ In February 2024 I delivered the keynote address at the DHU8 symposium, the eighth annual digital humanities conference sponsored by seven of Utah’s largest universities. Now, well over a year later, I am finally sharing a lightly edited version of my talk. There’s a simple reason for the long delay: in my talk I preview… Continue reading The Poetics and Power of Small Language Models → ## [rad reader](/rad-reader) _2025-06-05 · cblgh.org - all_ clean and simple cross-platform rss reader for your computer ## [Egg (disambiguation)](https://longersky.com/2025/03/28/egg-disambiguation/) _2025-03-28 · - · More longer friend see that sky?_ Egg (luxury good)Egg (fine art investment)Egg (timekeeping device)Egg (weapons component)Egg (arcane object from the beforetimes)Egg (an intensive body, crossed with several zig-zagging lines of vibration, changing its shape as it develops without being compartmentalized through organs)Egg (platonic)Egg (linkedin stratagem)Egg (institution within the EU)Egg (egg 2)Egg (theatrical prop)Egg… ## [eating rust: a wrong way](https://cblgh.org/posts/2025-03-04-derusting-bike-chain-one-wrong-way) _2025-03-04 · cblgh.org - all_ a null hypothesis for one way of derusting a bike chain which worked and simultaneously failed hard ## [remarkable](https://cblgh.org/posts/2025-02-27-remarkable) _2025-02-27 · cblgh.org - all_ thoughts on moving, habits, reading as a replacement activity, and the remarkable 2 ## [blogging](https://cblgh.org/posts/2025-02-19-blogging) _2025-02-19 · cblgh.org - all_ an announcement of an intent to blog ## [A semi-randomized list of movies to maybe watch sometime](https://longersky.com/2025/01/16/a-semi-randomized-list-of-movies-to-maybe-watch-sometime/) _2025-01-16 · - · More longer friend see that sky?_ A while back I started a thread on Mastodon, wherein I every week post a poll where four movie titles duke it out. I then watch the winner under ritualistic and ceremonial forms on friday evenings. This has gone on long enough to start to become a brand new ancient tradition, which as we all \[ \] ## [The graphic designer’s tale](https://longersky.com/2025/01/12/the-graphic-designers-tale/) _2025-01-12 · - · More longer friend see that sky?_ Traffic spiked. More than usual. Much more than usual. The spike went off the charts, even when adjusting the charts. It was as if suddenly an entire industry had suddenly come crashing down on this one singular magnet link, in a desperate attempt to rekindle the one last hope of getting things done. To escape \[ \] ## [december adventure 2024](https://cblgh.org/posts/2024-12-01-december-adventure) _2024-12-01 · cblgh.org - all_ let's have fun while casually working on projects every day of december! ## [Nine different kinds of social media drama](https://longersky.com/2024/09/24/nine-different-kinds-of-social-media-drama/) _2024-09-24 · - · More longer friend see that sky?_ Tumblr drama: the most particular people you could have ever imagined are having the most intense disagreement about the smallest of infinitesimal details in a fandom that, for all intents and purposes, is small enough that merely encountering another person within it would suffice for forming a lifelong friendship LiveJournal drama: I’m happy for you, \[ \]