etc., recall the word
resoldered here
in a pane of sand.
— R. Kenney

December 24, 2007  
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All of you on the good Earth

Apollo 8: December 24, 1968

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Hello friends! Last year when the lockdown started, I watched a lot of movies. Most of these were what’s considered horror or closely adjacent to it. I wrote about almost everything I watched (and why I think it was as much an immune response to the pandemic as antibodies). That long post, though, was the […]

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Cityfi? Like Wi-Fi? Or like … unify? Is it a thing or an action? I’m here to tell you it’s a verb. Everything about the work Cityfi does is about motion, progress, and change. So here’s a little update on my movement, as I take leave from this small but mighty company. July 2016, Before […]

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