Granfalloon

Vonnegut never provided an etymology for granfalloon, but it’s not too hard to follow his logic. “Proud”? That’s the gran-. “Meaningless”? Possibly the -loon. This splendidly useful word is so puffed up, so grandiose, so silly — compare buffoon, lampoon, and the Bugs Bunnyism maroon — that it can only mean what it sounds like. One of my favorite Vonnegutisms. Ting-a-ling, too. Word of the week: Granfalloon

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Sunday Serial: BetterTouchTool, Lamy Safari Rollerball Pen, and Shoreline Vintage & Toy Show 2026

What a beautiful weekend! Saturday and Sunday were chilly in morning, sunny, and then exemplars of a warm, dry May weather. You could do worse than have a glorious, full-throated, naturally aspirated American V8 engine in your car on a day like today. Bellview Winery was an obvious choice for our Saturday, considering the weather, but they had a ticketed event, so we…

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Cotypist: AI Autocomplete for the Mac

Cotypist developer Daniel at Accelerated Thoughts GmbH sent beta users an email (“a sale for the people who got here first”) sent an email on May 20th letting early adoptersl know that Cotypist would be on sale starting today, with a generous intro offer for early adopters. I’ve been using it since learning of it on Bundlehunt, and while I’m loathe to add another subscription to support my software habit, the ineluctable sign that…

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Sunday Serial: Steve Jobs in Exile, MarkEdit, and JXA Scripting Using Claude

It’s a long weekend here in the United States; we are celebrating Memorial Day, which is a holiday to remember those who have died in military service. Like many federal holidays, it has been associated with retail sales, and is the informal kickoff of the summer season. As such, barbecues (lots of outdoor grilling, more accurately) are a feature of the weekend.

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“Language is Chaos”

Musings from a Tangled Mind, taking on some of our language's strangest words: Some words are just silly. “Queue.” Now this is nonsense I can respect. A queue is, fundamentally, just a line. A very simple concept. Yet the word itself contains four silent letters standing around doing absolutely nothing. Kind of like the poor suckers at the back of a line.

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Mini at Sunset

Aaron sent me a pic of his Mini at the inlet between Ocean City and Longport. I gussied it up in Affinity Photo.

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Even More Leisure, Orthogonally

Via Kottke, fnnch on making a living as an artist: When you turn an avocation (hobby) into a vocation (job) you have to do new things you do not enjoy. Emails, events, meetings, accounting, and more. These are not only a drag but can actually strip the joy from the rest of your art practice. This intersects with Arthur Brooks’s writing on leisure, which I’ve written about here and here. How to Make a Living as an Artist

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A Little ExtraBar Goes a Long Way

I’ve been farting around with ExtraBar since I got it, and I really like the approach. It’s effectively a replacement for your Menu Bar (or more accurately, utilities like Bartender that clean up an overstuffed Menu Bar), but there are a few ways of configuring it to make it, indeed, an extra bar. This is how I’ve set it up; I like having all of my menu bar icons showing when I’m plugged into a larger display.

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Sunday Serial: Bellview Winery’s Argento Blend, Schwinn 430 Elliptical, and Kagi Snaps

It’s the top of the summer, and we have a full house once again: Aaron is home from college. He’s got a neat job lined up at the NJ Motorsports Park as a marshall. He’s going to see a lot of cool cars in the next couple of months. On a related note, Rhonda and I nipped out to Maplewood for diner Friday, as the boys both had plans to go to the…

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War of the Rosés

Hopefully I’ll never write a headline that trite here again, but I couldn’t resist. We opened the ‘25 Myra tonight for Mother’s Day, and while I was fetching it from the fridge upstairs, I paused to assemble our humble collection. Rhonda wisely observed that the Stokelan puts her in mind of Bellview’s Fiori Rosé, less so their dry rosé. Both are paler, less berry versions.

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