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This concerns neither food nor hamburgers. Sorry. Hit the food category of this blog for that sort of stuff. Even if you're not familiar with the term "hamburger menu" you've seen one. Three horizontal lines, like in the image below, but much smaller, on a mobile webpage, usually up in a corner. Hamburger menu on … Continue reading Hamburger Menu Breakpoint Best Practices
I shed a collection of comics before a cross-country move the better part of a decade ago. I kept one long box of some favorites. This is a short blog post about one subset of that box: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle (TMNT) comic book knockoffs. It's July in San Diego, and that's usually when we … Continue reading TMNT Comic Knockoffs
Or: How I learned about EVERYTHING from a coin. Who likes to collect money? I do! If you travel abroad, it’s not strange to see different sorts of money, but 35+ years ago when I first stumbled across a coin bearing non-Latin characters, it seemed a magical treasure. A mystery to be solved. So money! … Continue reading A Comprehensive Coin-based Curriculum for Curious Kids
Or: I used to write a weekly column. Big piece about coins and COVID in the works, kids, but it's been stuck at the 88% done mark for a few weeks. Maybe this'll help to break the blog content logjam? (It did!) Well, I actually have drafts of several mundane blog posts gathering digital dust, … Continue reading Me Writing About Me Writing About Me Writing
A pizza story in three acts: The Recipe, The Interview, Lessons Learned. Act I: The Pizza Recipe There’s an online recipe trend wherein chef-writers write endlessly before giving you the recipe. That sucks. Those people deserve your ire and scorn. So, without ado, here’s one of my favorite pizza recipes, from Late Night Pizza’s Michael … Continue reading Late Night Pizza Grilled Cheese Pizza Recipe
(Or: How I Learned to Hire Smarter) Do you think you're a good judge of character? Studies show that not only do we suck at judging other people's authenticity, we also vastly overestimate our ability to sniff out the fakers. Leaning on AI-assisted hiring help is similarly troubling because of biases in its training data; … Continue reading Improved System for Screening Job Applicants
Perhaps influenced by Jonathan Richman, James Mercer frequently used the mall as lyrical metaphor. Well, at least for a few productive years he did. Before that, the mall was more mall than metaphor. ...At some point, Mercer and the mall had a falling out. The Early Mall Period: The Mall as Friend Know Your Onion … Continue reading James Mercer and the Shopping Mall
A decade ago, at the end of the aughts, I succinctly summarized the decade in health. Well, at least what I thought were the two biggest takeaways. You should read it. I mean, clearly, there's probably nothing earth-shattering in there. But y'all shoulda listened ten years ago. Just sayin'. Covid-19? Intrigue? Handshakes? Pop culture? Coughing? It's … Continue reading File Under Coronavirus Regurgitation
I used to love drawing. My parents stuck me in a couple art classes at the Cleveland Museum of Art when I was a wee one. I'm thankful for it. I drew semi-regularly for almost a decade, until I discovered playing the guitar, chicks, and bangs. After that, my scribbling diminished to almost nothing for … Continue reading Dan Dreifort Today: Reflections on Sketching 2.0
This is a film review. I promise. But when hack-writer prima donnas edit ourselves, we get to scribble a few unnecessary intro paragraphs for literary effect. If you want to skip the setup and get to the fake beef, click this to go to the meat of the review, slacker. But don't blame me when … Continue reading Review of Zombarella’s House of Whorrors
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