NewsBlur does what an RSS reader should do, plus allows me to do some filtering of individual feeds. For example, I want local news without sports from my local newspaper, and I’m able to set this up easily in NewsBlur.

Many points for being among the last writers to know the difference between “less” and “fewer.”

Add Vivaldi to browsers. Add FastMail to mail services.

Sixty dollars for a haircut? Different worlds.

I use a lot of tomatoes and bell peppers, have never peeled a single one, and never intend to.

Thanks for the helpful article. Ignore those snarky responses.

People talk about how burdensome it is to have thousands of physical books. How many books do we really benefit from owning after we’ve read them? No more than 100 I’d guess. The rest can be passed along for others to enjoy.

A while back I read a bio of George Washington Carver, a hero of mine, who traveled around the south giving presentations on better farming methods for poor farmers. He attracted interested audiences, both black and white: the southern white farmers called him the “peanut nigger” but came to hear what he had to teach.…

The two Aldi stores we’ve used (in OH and NY) have started accepting credit cards.

When I read “When I played roller derby” my immediate thought was “forget the rest of the article; tell us about that instead!”

What kind of convenience or security does this offer over just archiving in gmail?

I had a woman friend years ago who was very short and slightly built. The only off-the-rack clothes that would fit her were in the children's department — OK for jeans but not for dresses or business clothes. Her routine was to buy clothes she thought looked good, and take them straight to a tailor who had her…