In the Wallet app on iPhone, make your own passes from a physical card, photo, or screenshot.

Asteroid Alyankovic was discovered in 1981 and resides in the main belt of asteroids found between Mars and Jupiter.

I picked my daughter(Beatrix, age 7) up from her school play rehearsal and took her to the grocery store with me. I had parked next to the cart return area, and Beatrix was excited to help return the cart before getting into the car. After we got into our car, but before I’d started to drive away, a store employee came to collect the carts in the return area. Beatrix watched through the car window while this young man lined the carts up and stacked them together. 🛒 “He’s doing a cool trick,” She said. “He’s very talented!” She said...

A tropical storm passing by has given us rain today, in Southern California in September. Rain in September is unprecedented, and we won’t leave home again until it stops.  I had been warned of potential rain today, but based on the forecast, it looked like it wouldn’t start until the afternoon. When I woke up for church this morning, it was already rainy. The sidewalks outside were completely wet.  It was raining lightly when I walked out to my car, but raining much harder by the time I got to church for choir warmup.  By the time I got home,...

Recently, I was entering the weather for a blog post. I just type my weather in manually when I want to include it. It was for a review of a book that took place in a region where they use Celsius, so I decided to include my current weather in Fahrenheit and Celsius. In the Apple Weather app, I tapped the option to change between Fahrenheit and Celsius. It was then that I noticed that ℉ and ℃ were not just a regular F and C with the degree° sign symbol, but their own unicode special character. Degree Characters Degree...

My kids have already been in school for a week because the school board decided to start the year two weeks earlier than last year, just stealing two weeks of the summer break that we can never get back. They started school(2nd, 4th, and 9th grades) last Thursday. Yes, the first day of school was a Thursday. And then had a complete 5-day week this week. Longest week ever! I’m glad it’s Friday! I woke up to my alarm for getting the kids ready for school on Tuesday morning, and sincerely believed it was Saturday. It was unquestionably Saturday in...

We saw The Beths in concert. After seeing The Beths twice in 2023, we’ve had tickets to two other concerts that we didn’t make it to because of complications with our kids. This year, the perfect storm was created with The Beths playing on my husband, Jerrod,’s birthday right in our own county. We didn’t even have to drive to Los Angeles! For merch, we both got Straight Line Was a Lie t-shirts, and I got a tote bag and sticker! We took a selfie before the show started. It was actually a double headliner show show with Beach Bunny,...

“Today is Mr. Featherstone’s birthday. Today is the anniversary of Tilita’s marriage. Insurance is payable, as are the water, gas, and light bills.”

Testing out leaflet.pub and comparing it to other free options for website and blog hosting.

Testing out leaflet.pub and comparing it to other free options for website and blog hosting.

MOBI (Mobipocket, labeled as “older Kindles” on our download pages) was introduced in 2007. A couple of years later, Amazon launched an advanced version of MOBI and called it KF8 or AZW3 (it’s the do...

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State officials are warning that some ballots mailed too close to Election Day might not be counted. Here are other recommended ways to submit your ballot instead.

“In recent months, more and more administrative reports centered on LLM-related issues, and editors were being overwhelmed.”

I don’t know about you, but I can’t take anymore bad news. I’m ready for some good news. But since there doesn’t appear to be much of that these days, I’ve begun keeping my own list. Here it is (with ...

I don’t normally say this, but if you watch one thing on kottke.org today, this week, this month, make it this speech written by Shakespeare and performed by