Nicholas Bate on getting rock-star good at something.
Photos with my son are more rare because he’s a hard working adult but we got to take him out to dinner tonight and I’m damn lucky and proud.

Just posted the first couple of new things to The Cramped in a while. I really like the site and really should post more there.
If you are into analog writing tools and methods at all it is worth a spelunk though the site.
Octavia Butler’s Kindred to premiere on Hulu on December 13 | Boing Boing
Adding to my must watch list.
On my list: A Bunch of Pretty Things I Did Not Buy by Sarah Lazarovic.
Like most people, Sarah Lazarovic covets beautiful things. But rather than giving in to her impulse to spend and acquire, Sarah spent a year painting the objects she wanted to buy instead.
Also, just some quick praise for tiny tools that just do one thing or add some functionality to a tool that otherwise should have been built in.
In this case, a plugin for WordPress called Bulk remove posts from category that simply adds a checkbox to the bulk post edit pane.
Sometimes, nothing feels better than doing some long put off general blog maintenance. This time around, I cleaned up the categories that were added when I imported all the posts from my old blog domain. Also, I updated my Now page.
Winter of wine.

The view from my morning coffee…

Your sunset photo for today.
