Marfa, Texas was fun though RIP to the El Cosmico Hotel and its Airstream Digs 2025 marks the fourth year that I've made a Things I've Learned compilation. I was originally inspired by Jason Kottke and Thomas Whitwell who each find a bunch of cool facts each year on the internet. On Whitwell's list this year for instance is the fact that "most characters in the film Idiocracy wear Crocs because the film’s wardrobe director thought they were too horrible-looking to ever bec

Balloon Fest! In keeping with a tradition I started several years ago, I wrote down interesting facts (or at least interesting to me) that I learned in the past year. Also, for the first time, I started keeping track of words I read that I had never run across before and collected 30 words. I cite to my source for several of these facts, but some others, I read in random articles or posts, so consider these more as “facts” than facts, and take all with a grain of salt. (1) Ru

I am proud to say Monty has inherited my photogeneticity In the spirit of Tom Whitehall’s and Jason Kottke’s annual lists of things they’ve learned throughout the year, here is my list of things I learned in 2023. While I strived for one for every week, I came up 10 short! However, I still wanted to share these 42 things that somehow I did not learn the first 38 years of my life on this planet. Here is last years list! (1) The Yankees play the song “New York New York” after

Another New Year’s resolution this year was inspired by Jason Kottke and Tom Whitwell who keep a list of interesting things they learned throughout the year. Inspired by them, here is my list of 52 things I learned this past year. Here is Tom Whitwell ’s list from this year, and Jason Kottke’s from last year. (1) Clover is a legume. (2) In 1938 New York had a ticker tape parade for Billy “Wrong Way” Corrigan who was trying to fly from New York to California and instead fle