Thank you for creating that space. I only made it to a few, but the ones I attended gave me some life in that moment.
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Thank you for creating that space. I only made it to a few, but the ones I attended gave me some life in that moment.
weird timing globally to announce something as trivial seeming as a book club. I'm fulfilling something I signed up to do months ago. I do hope folks participate.
For March I'll be hosting a virtual, asynchronous, #IndieWeb book club, on Christopher Alexander's 'The Timeless Way of Building'. www.nicksimson.com/posts/2026-t...
I did it, #Portland.
You’re welcome.
#BixDotBlog #Blogging #Domains
if you can afford it, often $25 or less a year, get a custom domain name so you have somewhere to always point to so people can find you when they want/need to. having jennschiffer.com for so long has been paramount to my mobility online over the past 25 years
A prickly pear donut with bright pink icing.
I can just forward them to you, Ty.
🍩 Remind me why I signed up to get donut pics texted to me in the middle of the afternoon.
⚾ Baseball is back!
Amazon warehouse?
📚 Hitting the book sale today.
A hand holding a signed vinyl copy of Singin' To An Empty Chair by Ratboys
Let me thank The Ratboys for their music.
ratboys.bandcamp.com/album/singin...
🔕 I do not like notifications, Sam I Am.
I'm reading Marx's Capital this year, starting with Volume 1. Hoping to close what feels like a huge gap in my reading.
I'm a slow reader, so we'll see how far I get in December. But if you decide to pick this up and read along in 2026, let me know?
www.nicksimson.com/posts/2026-r...
🚲 Started teaching my kid to ride a bike.
I do completely believe Thurston listened to 350 records in 2025: 72558.substack.com/p/350-best-r...
I just kind of wonder if Abysmal Vacuum was really ranked a bit higher than Rhizome Weaver or if it was all a bit random after about 250...
This one made my 2025 list. It was a good year for all kinds of music.
🪞 Noticeably more gray hair than I started this year out with.
❄️ Have yourself a merry, merry Christmas Have yourself a good time But remember the kids who got nothing While you're drinking down your wine
the forest green homepage of nicksimson.com, complete with falling snow
Shipped a lil holiday theme for my personal website. Details here: nicks.im/notes/2025-1...
For the IndieWeb Movie Club, December 2025: A compelling story with flawed characters where nobody ends up happy in the end. Is anyone still making movies like this?
www.nicksimson.com/posts/2025-g...
Just a moment this week for Alonso (I don’t know how to explain to my three year old he’s not coming back in the same uniform), Diaz (amazing record with the team; gonna miss the trumpets), and Nimmo (happiest dude to ever sprint to first base).
#LGM
They were “the guys”, along with the rest of the guys in this photo and a few other guys that didn’t make it in this particular photo that day.
I know there will be new guys and I will see the new faces as “the guys” soon enough.
2025 Sports Illustrated cover with Pete Alonso, Mark Vientos, Juan Soto, Sean Mannea, Francisco Lindor, Edwin Diaz, and Brandon Nimmo.
Got a bit emotional looking at this cover from April. I know, the team collapsed in September, but I’m still going to miss the guy on the left and the two guys on the right. #LGM
I read the resonant computing thing (or tried to read it anyway) and am suddenly reminded why I no longer add my name to open letters. Or manifestos.
🎁 Go to the show. Buy the zine. Put your name on the mailing list.
My employer, Dartmouth College, today boasts it's 1st Ivy "to launch AI at an institutional scale." It is doing this by partnering--"more than a collaboration"--with Anthropic, a company that stole the books of many faculty, me included, which many of us are suing.
Libraries on personal websites are a favorite feature of mine. I’ve discovered so many great books through personal recommendation.
I haven’t seen any of Better Call Saul yet, but I think I’m going to skip right to Pluribus. No idea if it’s the same universe except for Vince Gilligan and his favorite character, “Albuquerque”.
🤍 Maybe the real Pantone Color of the Year was the friends we made along the way.
I'm currently reading 'They Said It Couldn’t Be Done', Wayne Coffey’s book about the 1969 World Series. Chapter 12 (Game Three against the Baltimore Orioles) includes a biography of Karl Ehrhardt.
You can't tell the story of the 1969 #Mets without the Sign Man.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Eh...