I document putting together three DVÄRGTALL figures from Ikea. What is DVÄRGTALL? Surely you can tell from the descriptive product name.
On using domain-specific Google News search RSS feeds as a way to receive updates from sites which block some feed readers or do not offer RSS/ATOM feeds.
A syndicated copy of Newsletter Leaf Journal 234. This issue comes with 27 links from around the web and news and notes about The New Leaf Journal.
A short personal update explaining why June 2025 has begun without new New Leaf Journal articles.
On missing out on the opportunity to try Illy vending machine coffee at an airport (but not to write an article).
Documenting a display about William P. Hobby, the former governor of Texas and a famous journalist, seen at Houston Hobby Airport.
A NYC Votes mailer about ranked choice voting in the 2025 city primaries reminded me of a certain maxim about bad jokes.
I downloaded a new open source Android app from F-Droid. One thing led to another and “another” involved a Skitty running from Saudi Arabia to Egypt.
I found a negative review of a “smart” automated litter box left outside in Brooklyn, New York. I re-print and share the review along with my review of the litter box’s website.
I read about a possible traffic cone shortage in Brooklyn. One day earlier, I watched a truck back over and crush two traffic cones in Brooklyn Heights.
Two photos of a fog-shrouded Manhattn Skyline seen from the Fruit Street Sitting Area in Brooklyn Heights on the evening of May 4, 2025.
I came across a discarded Christmas Tree in Williamsburg Brooklyn on May 4, 2025. Wait a second… May!?