macro.experiment
A reset and rebrand
January 11th, 2026
It’s been a minute since I posted something here. Been in the doldrums for a bit as of late. Lots of uncertainty in life the last month, more than I can take at one time. Thankfully feel like today I’m coming out of it. Too much AI hand-wringing
January 3rd, 2026
Moving on to another favorite artist for the featured images: René Magritte. Feature image: “Le temps jadis” Great video on Chicago’s basement bars. My house, a Cape Cod built in 1943, had a bar when we moved in. I tore it out years ago but someone put some real
January 1st, 2026
Hey hey here we are in a new year! Welcome 2026! I rang in the New Year doing two things, one of which I normally loathe if I’m even awake when the clock strikes midnight: watching “Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve”. Why this year? Because it’
Happy New Year!
Hoping everyone has a wonderful 2026!
2025 Year in Review
Good Riddance!
Christmas Eve 2025
However you celebrate I hope you’re having a good evening. I’ve tucked in with a favorite movie.
December 23rd, 2025
Harvard’s New Health Bombshell: It’s Not Sleep Loss or No Exercise—It’s These 15 Daily Habits Silently Destroying You Some serious problems with this article not the least of which is that the author doesn’t actually provide a link to the “groundbreaking Harvard health study”. Problem
December 22nd, 2025
My zeal for “privacy” on the Internet may be my undoing. All of these tools to combat ads and trackers are wonderful but having them work together is a bit of a mess. If I have a problem is it Enhanced Tracking Protection in Firefox? Is it uBlock Origin? Maybe
December 21st, 2025
I love Adam Mastroianni’s Substack newsletter “Experimental History”, one of many great Substack newsletters that I’d miss if I wasn’t on Substack because it’s a “Nazi bar” (as a friend noted recently — is it really a Nazi bar if you’ve never actually seen a Nazi