First up is a pair: Nostalgic for past futures by Tracy Durnell and Nostalgia Always Includes a Temporal Context by Brain Baking. Both posts, as the titles suggest, are about nostalgia.
In It’s Pie day for me JTR shares a picture of some delicious looking pizza. I’m a very big fan of pizza.
Two more from Tracy Durnell: Bookshelves as mental constructs with some philosophizing on bookshelves. And a recipe for Chickpeas and pasta with rosemary oil —sounds yummy!
Aaron Hertzmann wrote an essay about dogs and the way dogs think: Dogs Do Not Know Things . In short, dogs do not think like we do, and trying to treat them like they do will not have good results for anybody involved. Also, with respect to training, intentional or otherwise, humans are not actually so different.
I have a couple of tabs with a classic topic: bloggers talking about why blogging is great. They are right; blogging is great. Marc Jenkins has a post about Personal Blogging —blogging as a better way to express yourself and connect with people on the internet than social media platforms. Meanwhile, Gordon McClean has written The Blogger’s Manifesto with advice and ideals born of years of blogging.
There’s another post from Brain Baking looking back at April 2026 with lots of interesting links that have really set this clean-up project back T_T.
Blast-o-rama has an exhortation: Dear Internet: Read A Little Deeper, It Won’t Hurt You, I Promise . This should be basic stuff. Think about the claims that are being made in articles. Think about the sources.
Well that was nice to clear out some of the blog posts I’ve had open. They accumulate. I open links in new tabs thinking I will read them later. But “later” doesn’t happen unless you make a deliberate effort to make it happen. It turns out, a lot of those links are actually pretty good. There were some interesting posts, and I’ve added a couple new blogs to my feed reader.
Now, at the end of this effort… I still have way too many tabs open. Oh well. I’ll just keep chipping away at it.
