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Simon St.Laurent @simonstl.com · 27/09/2026

You may not like it, but this is peak Dodge truck.

An old small olive green Dodge pickup truck in pretty good shape.

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Simon St.Laurent @simonstl.com · 02/08/2026

Managerial vision - AUTOMATION. from simonstl.com/articles/hal... (Was in a 2003 Extreme Markup Languages talk.)

A Playmobil figure in a suit and tie throws his arms up in exultation as he jumps on his desk to celebrate the too many ways XML will help him automate his workflows away.

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Simon St.Laurent @simonstl.com · 08/07/2026

Returning soon to a conference online, Playmobil mayhem! Many thanks to the organizers of the amazing and sadly final Balisage conference for having me back this August. balisage.net/2026/Program...

Three Playmobil figures - an adult pirate wearing a red cap, a girl with a dress with a star on it, and a boy with a bandana, striped shirt, and jeans, stand in front of The SGML Handbook and XML: Principles, Tools, and Techniques.

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Simon St.Laurent @simonstl.com · 30/04/2026

It's time for me to figure out what I want to do when I grow up.

The cover of Richard Scarry's Busy, Busy Town, with a street scene that includes various animals dressed up like humans and running and visiting businesses.

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Simon St.Laurent @simonstl.com · 24/08/2025

How the world feels to me lately.

Dark road with foggy sky, fields and trees, sun trying to emerge at right but can't.

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Simon St.Laurent @simonstl.com · 12/08/2025

Mozilla doll from 1996 Netscape Developer Conference (NYC).

A friendly sort of sleepy stuffed animal of a Godzilla-like creature.

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Simon St.Laurent @simonstl.com · 04/08/2025

Smoky parking lot sunrise.

Pale solar disk with red rim on orange-brown sky framed by trees and lightpost

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Simon St.Laurent @simonstl.com · 23/07/2025

Fall Creek at Campbell Meadow, Etna, NY.

Shimmering yellow reflections on a shallow creek.

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Simon St.Laurent @simonstl.com · 17/07/2025

Gotta keep calling out the lies and the liars, lie after lie. I know there's a lot of them. Thank you, Jerry Nadler.

‘Why Do You Continue to Lie?’:
Fight Over Subway Crime Erupts at
Hearing

A leading Manhattan congressman and the
transportation secretary clashed over how
dangerous the subway is at a House
hearing in Washington.

4 MIN READ

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Simon St.Laurent @simonstl.com · 06/06/2025

From the photo, my guess is that the next economy will be the late 19th century, but with delivery vans. At least architecturally, that will be okay. (Because after all, who wants to show photos of a contemporary downtown to indicate "main street"?)

Pre-World War I downtown of varied four-story buildings, with a tree on the left and a pedestrian on the right. A delivery van and a car are parked in the shadows.

Madeleine Horns for The New York Times
‘Nobody Likes Chaos’: Businesses and the Fed Wonder What's Next
for the Economy
Policymakers and business owners are navigating a highly uncertain moment for the economy, wary of overreacting but watchful of a meaningful downturn.
6 MIN READ

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Simon St.Laurent @simonstl.com · 03/06/2025

William S. Burroughs, Nova Express, page 57. I suspect this is the most important bit of all of his often repetitive writings.

STORM THE STUDIO—

Plan D called for Total Exposure. Wise up all the marks everywhere. Show them the rigged wheel of Life-Time-Fortune. Storm The Reality Studio. And retake the universe. The Plan shifted and reformed as reports came in from his electric patrols sniffing quivering down streets and mind screens of the earth.

“Area mined—Guards everywhere—Can't quite get through—"

“Order total weapons—Release Silence Virus—"

“Board Books taken—Heavy losses—"

“Photo falling—Word falling—Break Through in Grey Room—Use Partisans of all nations—Towers, open fire—"

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Simon St.Laurent @simonstl.com · 23/05/2025

Seems like this a lot lately (from questionablecontent.net/view.php?com...)

Marten Reed holding a sloshing drink while jolted by a massive BOOM that was a birthday gift, from Questionable Content 5576.

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Simon St.Laurent @simonstl.com · 15/03/2025

Cayuga Lake from Stewart Park.

Sky, then hills, water and mud with driftwood.

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Simon St.Laurent @simonstl.com · 07/03/2025

Fall Creek at Forest Home, NY

Forest with a few pines, lit up by the sun, with darker creek in front.

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Simon St.Laurent @simonstl.com · 04/03/2025

Huh. I remember setting up nervously for a Mike Arcuri event in Varna when the tea party was just getting started. It was full, but fine.

Headlines on Republican leaders telling their congressional members to avoid town halls with their constituents.

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Simon St.Laurent @simonstl.com · 22/02/2025

Cayuga Lake at probably maximum frozen for the season.

Frozen lake with snow surrounded by hulls, with a bit of open water in the distance and driftwood frozen in near shore

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Simon St.Laurent @simonstl.com · 12/02/2025

I am glad that my core career focus has not been cybersecurity, because reading this headline would make my eyes would roll so far back in my head that they land at my feet.