20 years, posts have slowed down a bit. A random slice through the 3100+: every 100th post, counting backwards, first sentence, more or less.
- 25 June 2025: Sunday, more of the same heat.
- 24 July 2024: Florida’s Commissioner of Education thinks Jane Austen was an American.
- 30 August 2023: Reminders from John D. Cook and Valerie Tiberius that my next planning session should focus on deciding not to do something.
- 30 October 2022: One more nuance in Shakespeare to look out for: pronoun choice.
- 1 August 2021: “The Lost Episodes of I Love Lucy,” by Julian George.
- 13 August 2020: [Clem] Whitaker and [Leone] Baxter won nearly every [political] campaign they waged….
- 31 August 2019: More scouting of Rachel Carson Conservation Park, in preparation for next weekend’s walk.
- 30 September 2018: I attended the Strange Loop conference in St. Louis this past week.
- 19 November 2017: Keegan Theatre delivers a solid production of this story of the accomplished businesswoman Marlene (Karina Hilleard), recently promoted to managing director of her employment agency, who may be having second thoughts about the sacrifices she has made to ensure her success.
- 25 November 2016: A message of hope from Vi Hart.
- 21 February 2016: David Crystal and Ben Crystal talk to Michael Rosen and Laura Wright of BBC Four’s Word of Mouth about Shakespearean Original Pronunciation (OP), with generous audio demonstrations.
- 30 July 2015: Mark Garland led two days of field trips to various off-the-map locations in southern New Jersey.
- 8 December 2014: State-of-the-art stormwater management—in Los Angeles?
- 17 June 2014: Joshua J. Tewksbury et al. make the case for restoring natural history’s importance to answering questions of public health, food security, and biology as a whole.
- 3 November 2013: Round House Theatre marks its return to more engaging, contemporary material with a balanced ensemble performance of Melissa James Gibson’s This, a romantic comedy-drama for grieving grownups.
- 15 March 2013: Ian Bogost ends a call.
- 3 September 2012: Kathleen Akerley premieres another of her enjoyable head-scratchers.
- 8 February 2012: Dear David L Gorsline: This letter is to acknowledge that Chase has received the funds to pay off your mortgage loan referenced above.
- 22 September 2011: Eric Fidler answers a question that’s been gnawing on my mind ever since my last ride down North Capitol Street from the Catholic campus: what’s with the brick silos and open fields between Michigan Avenue, N.W., and Channing Street, N.W.?
- 31 March 2011: Because there is no end, happy or otherwise.
- 24 October 2010: We had a good, if tiring, time over the last two days talking to the kids visiting the USA Science & Engineering Festival.
- 24 May 2010: James Ellroy’s editors let him down a few times in the early chapters of American Tabloid.
- 25 December 2009: Taking a couple of classes, plus a concerted effort to spend more time in the field and documenting it, means I have lots of field trip notes this year.
- 8 July 2009: The image from Henry Darger used in the cover design of the NYRB’s reissue of a novel from 1929 by Richard Hughes, is apparently all too appropriate, if we trust reviewer Andrew Sean Greer.
- 7 January 2009: HP is offering to buy back your used computer, PDA, printer, camera, or smartphone—anything with residual value, irrespective of manufacturer, report Gina Trapani and Candace Lombardi.
- 25 August 2008: I am not this guy, either.
- 4 April 2008: 60s spandex stunner Yvonne Craig—Batgirl, alter ego of Barbara Gordon, daughter to Police Commissioner Gordon—played by Neil Hamilton: Craig and Hamilton appeared as father and stepdaughter in a 1958 episode of Perry Mason titled “The Case of the Lazy Lover.”
- 30 October 2007: Fup, mascot of Powell’s Books, has passed away.
- 9 June 2007: A leader from the traditionally eco-skeptic Economist admits that recycling is “mostly worthwhile,” and proposes three steps to encourage the practice.
- 4 February 2007: Septime Webre and the Washington Ballet mix it up Latin style with live music—in the lobby, on stage, and in the pit—and Latin works by three choreographers, including a restaging of Webre’s own Juanita y Alicia.
- 14 September 2006: Tales from the computing trenches, back in the time when we wore those funny flat helmets: Jim Horning’s The Way It Was.
Of the posts above, I didn’t track how many have succumbed to linkrot. Too discouraging.
Hoping that I’m still kicking for a 30-year roundup—hey, that’ll be only 18 months from the Y2K38 apocalypse.
