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Andy Ihnatko

@Ihnatko

Tech contributor to @bospublicradio @WGBH, podcaster (@macbreakweekly, @materialpodcast) fmr @suntimes columnist, and intermittently-beloved figure. He/Him.

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Joined March 2007
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Press photo of Bob Elliott and Ray Goulding, famous radio comedy team known as Bob and Ray.

ALT Press photo of Bob Elliott and Ray Goulding, famous radio comedy team known as Bob and Ray.

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In summary: (1) LOVE the concept, creativity, and commitment to high execution; (2) LOVE the tribute to a beloved entertainer and humanitarian; (3) NOT looking forward to the morning walk when I see a squirrel with its head buried in Dolly's ***s and going to town on them.
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Friends, I have been derelict in sharing a valuable piece of life advice. There is likely a Korean restaurant within easy commute of your home or work. There, you can obtain -- at very reasonable cost -- a dish called "bibimbap." I counsel you to do so, regularly, as I do. And not even as a special night out, mind you: I mean as a weekday lunch, when the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune are becoming particularly frisky and you feel the need to center yourself. (Break the yolk and mix everything up. Eat with the provided spoon, not chopsticks. Stir in the sauce after sampling it without; if it's spicy sauce, you can add exactly the amount of heat you like, and no more.)
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Halloween sociozoologists have determined that there's a clear intraspecific dominance hierarchy to Halloween skeleton communities. The ones who are playing the ribcages of the others like xylophones are usually the alphas.
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Boy, the number of times I've written a complete 1000-word first draft late at night, while lying in bed, on my side the whole time, because I wanted to just capture an idea so I could work on it in the morning...! I'm grateful for the unplanned sprint of productivity. But why not have me move to a desk, brain?
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Now that I finally have a phone that supports Android desktop mode, I'm finding out what it's like to do real work with a dang phone connected to a desktop display, a mechanical keyboard, and a desktop-grade mouse. It has plenty of rough edges but so far, it's quite credible.
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I'm fine with "Ontario," but any body of water as big as that one has a lot of nerve calling itself a "Lake." It's like a middle-aged guy altering the tag on his size 38 jeans to make it look like a 32.
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Every time I use my library's printer and click this button at the pickup kiosk, I feel like Charlton Heston in "The Ten Commandments." I should be raising a wooden staff or something.
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my team at @Apple is looking for a contract copyeditor to work on everything from apple newsroom press releases to features. the role is remote! more here applecontingentworkforce.wil…
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One of my favorite street interactions: when someone "apologizes" to me because their dog approached me for head scratchies during their walk, and I instantly sense that they're thinking "Yes, I _know_ my doggo is the most adorable and friendliest and most wonderful dog in the whole wide world."
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Spotted my first MacBook Neo in the wild today, at the library. Hard not to clock that Citrus, even from across the room…!
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Many of my friends here are fellow creators. They will experience some empathetic pity when I share that this weekend's goal is just to write an OK paragraph about myself and my credits. It is IMPOSSIBLE to accomplish this without feeling like a faded Southern belle in a Tennessee Williams play.
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Ray Bradbury's classic _Zen In The Art Of Writing_ is discounted to just THREE DAMN DOLLARS on the Kindle store! One of the few great "a writer writes about writing" books. amzn.to/4cBNouY
Zen in the Art of Writing

Zen in the Art of Writing

  Acclaimed writer of novels and short stories as well as screen- and stage plays, Ray Bradbury has established himself as one of the most legendary voices in science fiction and fantasy. In , he...

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I came across a bash script that performs handy maintenance on my Linux notebook. I just wanted to capture it to a very simple Notes tool so I could grab it whenever I need it. No such app was part of my Pop!_OS install. I couldn't find anything like what I wanted in its App Store, either. We're at the point where (at least for very quick apps) it's quicker to just vibecode a new app than to find what you want. Like, vibecoding an app is nothing new. Some people are kind of insufferable about it, to the extreme of inviting actual software engineers to point at them and shout "STOLEN VALOR!" But today was the day that I rewired my processes. From now on -- at least on Linux -- if I can't find an app I need in just a couple of minutes, and it seems like something simple, I'm just going to close the app store window and open up Gemini or Claude. There's no longer a reason not to.

ALT I came across a bash script that performs handy maintenance on my Linux notebook. I just wanted to capture it to a very simple Notes tool so I could grab it whenever I need it. No such app was part of my Pop!_OS install. I couldn't find anything like what I wanted in its App Store, either. We're at the point where (at least for very quick apps) it's quicker to just vibecode a new app than to find what you want. Like, vibecoding an app is nothing new. Some people are kind of insufferable about it, to the extreme of inviting actual software engineers to point at them and shout "STOLEN VALOR!" But today was the day that I rewired my processes. From now on -- at least on Linux -- if I can't find an app I need in just a couple of minutes, and it seems like something simple, I'm just going to close the app store window and open up Gemini or Claude. There's no longer a reason not to.

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The classic writer's dilemma: I spontaneously wrote a 1200 word thing, and an 1800-word thing. Yay! But I didn't write the 1000-word thing that I intended to write, and which I really wanted to get off my to-do list today. (Not a "boo" but maybe not ideal, either?)
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David McCullough's Pulitzer-winning biography of John Adams is just FOUR DAMN DOLLARS on the Kindle store. One of my favorite books...he really brings a great man and that era to life. I wind up re-reading it every year or two. amzn.to/4rfwGpE
John Adams

John Adams

In this powerful, epic biography, David McCullough unfolds the adventurous life journey of John Adams, the brilliant, fiercely independent, often irascible, always honest Yankee patriot who spared...

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Surf and turf, Winter style.
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A triplet of Hooded Mergansers. No doubt they're quite grateful that at least _some_ of the cove is finally splashy again, instead of crunchy.
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Today's discovery: if you google "Mustache," the Google logo sprouts a series of mustaches.
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This collection of interesting word usements structured by Steve Martin is just THREE DAMN DOLLARS on Kindle. amzn.to/3M2Zv9F (Amazon affiliate link)
Steve Martin Writes the Written Word: Collected Written Word Works by Steve Martin

Steve Martin Writes the Written Word: Collected Written Word Works by Steve Martin

 is a perfect introduction for new fans and a must-have for longtime fans, showcasing the longevity, range, and—above all—hilarity of the master. ​Filled with his singular characters and musings--D...

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TAKE DOWN THE ILLEGITIMATE REGIME THAT DROVE OUR BELOVED BULLWINKLE BALLOON INTO UNDERSERVED EXILE
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