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Ho, Ho, Ho! I’m Regrowing My Foreskin!

Seasons greetings from your old friend Santa! With Christmas just a few short days away, Santa is hard at work at the North Pole, making presents for all you...

A Case of Old Code

We've talked about the For-Case anti-pattern many, many times. And while we've seen some wild variations, and...

It’s okay if the holidays look weird for you. Mine looks like a 10-foot monster on the lawn. – The Bloggess

I know many of us, including me, mourned the passing of Bone Crawford, but just in case you missed it: The instructions to put together the Bumble said that it...

PostSecret Holiday Story – PostSecret

—post on PostSecret Facebook page—Dear PostSecret,To the person who feels horrible for telling their child there is no Santa. My son...

Children In Danger, Part One

Lord only knows what could be going on here! The idea that we might want to leverage dreaded continuity to paper over some personal deficiencies - such as the...

‘This feels like her saying thank you and that it all worked out’: After Ninja crossed over the rainbow bridge, he sent T.K. years...

Years ago, a feral cat named Ninja wandered into the family and quietly decided who her purrson was. From that point on, she made it very clear. Any time...

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Nordstrom Anniversary Sale Haul Try-On

We just did our insane move into our new house (after being displaced for 7 months, ahhhhh!) and lo and behold, a few of...

The Least Reliable AWS Region in 2025

This updated analysis is based on StatusGator outage data collected from January 1 to December 9, 2025. We decided to review our AWS analysis...

Gregory's Meridian Line in Saint Andrews, Scotland

A meridian is a scientific term denoting an imaginary demarcation line that runs north to south and is drawn for astronomical purposes. The...

Heresy

April 2022One of the most surprising things I've witnessed in my lifetime is the rebirth of the concept of heresy.In his excellent biography of Newton,...