Patrick LaForge

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Writer. Zen meditator. Traveler. Cyclist. New Yorker. Ex-NYT editor. I talk to strangers. I have friends everywhere.
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@siracusa I am not a developer but enjoyed the latest ATP bonus ep. Re copy/paste: I spent years begging reporters and editors who worked for me to copy and paste names and other checked facts (from notes, between articles, into captions etc). A large % of published corrections were the result of hasty retyping.
@agiletortoise @drdrang I disagree. Serious people should pretend April Fool's Day is not a thing (other than to privately be on the guard for dumb fake articles).
@caseyliss Casey, do you still recommed Fastmail vs Gmail and does your referral code still work?
@siracusa @hotdogsladies From the dept of “ponies are not baby horses” https://www.reddit.com/r/answers/s/bG16vP8fM9 Some good ones in here
I sent my MacBook to Apple for a repair. The good news: Fully covered, got it back in a week, feels brand new. The bad news: they wiped it, and when I installed the backup, I was now running Tahoe. Noooooo…… It’s fine.
Efforts like this might stitch the splintered indie journalism world back together after the corporate social media collapse. Maybe we can revive the dying web while we’re at it https://journalismatlas.com/
Don't buy food to get a free toy, and don't buy toys to get free food.
An 18th-century treatise by coffee enthusiast Benjamin Moseley, arguing for the drink's multitude of benefits when it was still relatively new to Europe: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/moseley-coffee
WarGames (1983) - CORN SCENE

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@siracusa @caseyliss After rewatching … We didn’t use an entire slice of bread, just a small piece. And the corn was piping hot so the butter melted onto it. They sell little corn dishes now that do the job better.