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The thing about Marathon (the game, not running)
The new shooter, Marathon, is proving to be pretty great against all odds and conventional logic. Rather than the Goldilocks rule applying (it doesn’t here at all), it’s actually great because of how imbalanced and hard it is. But only if you have a good crew to play with (and I’m lucky enough to have…
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Mammal Hands, Alexis Taylor, Champagne Bubblebath, and more of my favorite albums from March 2026
This music update is way late. I’ll blame spring break and the nice weather here in North Carolina for keeping me away from my laptop. There has been no break from new music, though, and here is what I loved most in March.
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The Sun Never Sets on A8C Relay X
Today we had our semi-annual relay at my all-remote workplace (Automattic). In case you don’t remember (see my past runs here and here), here’s how it works: instead of us all meeting and running together (which we can’t because we’re all remote and all over the world), we sign up for time slots over a…
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First camping trip of the year (sort of)
Vivian and I did a quick one-night sort-of camping trip to kick off our 2026 camping campaign. I say sort of because we stayed in a campground cabin, so it was really easy (and awesome), and no tent setup was required, but I’m still counting it as camping! We stayed at Raven Rock State Park…
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A few words can be much better than none
I tend to err on the side of avoiding small talk with people that I run into. With some minor exceptions, I would go even further and say that I’m often antisocial around those new to me. It’s probably mostly to my detriment and something that I’ve been wondering about a lot recently. Maybe that’s…
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2026 American Tobacco Trail Marathon
I finished my second full marathon today. It was mostly awesome. The first half seemed to fly by. Just don’t ask about those last 5 or so miles. Brutal. My watch says I’ve gone nearly 50,000 steps today. My two big toes are so sensitive to touch I nearly howled when Vivian accidentally stepped on…
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The Shape of Paris
I’m no connoisseur of skate videos, but I’ve never watched one that made me feel like this one did. Also, I hadn’t heard of the skater Andy Anderson featured in this film, but I dig that he is infamous for ALWAYS wearing a helmet, which is pretty rare among skateboarding pros. From KK.org The Shape…
Writing and drawings by Nick.
