Since 1999, I’ve run a book-price comparison site called https://isbn.nu. Over time, it had run out of steam, a bit. I just spent a few hours over the last couple of weeks refreshing it and tuning performance. The search data is a bit out of date; that’s my next task. (I receive affiliate fees.)

Hermann Zapf wrote this little sidebar in a book in the 1970s. (Alphabet Stories: A Chronicle of Technical Developments by Hermann Zapf, via Katherine Small Gallery https://ksmallgallery.com/products/alphabet-stories-1 )

@mwichary Devil in your ear, it's not too late

@Ashedryden My father once said, "Nobody in our family willingly went out in the cold," when I told him I had taken up skiing. I had to remind him of Irv!

@mwichary Devil in your ear says it’s not too late for that.

@mwichary Accurate statement at the time.

You wouldn’t know it to look at me, but my grandfather's first cousin, Irv Jaffee, won two golds in speed skating in 1932. https://www.olympics.com/en/athletes/irving-jaffee

@paulhabeeb Thank you! Among similar lines but all stories instead of chronological! Much less dry honestly.

Happy to pre-announce my upcoming book, Flong Time, No See! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/glennf/flong-time-no-see I’ve gathered my most interesting reported stories and essays of the last seven years, and will revise and expand them for this print and ebook collection!

There are idiots with dangerous machines in charge.

Follow the link to opt in to get an automatic alert when the project launches, later this month!

https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:aorbdsa5m6q5pw6japzuatds/post/3mer7agilgc27

@shadychars Thank you, Keith! Also listen for a shoutout by me on a future episode of @grammargirl’s podcast!

Happy to pre-announce my upcoming book, Flong Time, No See! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/glennf/flong-time-no-see I’ve gathered my most interesting reported stories and essays of the last seven years, and will revise and expand them for this print and ebook collection!

@PenguinToot Congratulations! We didn’t get married 29 years ago—that came later! Married over Labor day weekend, which was lovely.

@thaddeushunt That is a very good marker! Happy relationship to you, too!

Our first meeting, I completely ignored she had a Starbucks cup and took her to a tea shop to answer some questions she had about my workplace. Our first date, I took her to a tour of the Arboretum winter garden; she is a horticulturist by training. It was a hit!

https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:s6j27rxb3ic2rxw73ixgqv2p/post/3meqvjfybck2o

This would be funny if not so serious. Dr Oz had a true crimes show, one that featured Epstein in 2019. In it he talked about frustration around finding those who had enabled Epstein. In the Epstein files, there is an email of Oz inviting Epstein to dinner a few years earlier. The fact he can talk about this as if he didn’t know him is just another look at what shameless liars they are.

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt10462416/
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DUr3r45EbBr/

29 years today with my sweetheart. Well suited to each, we both forgot to wish each a happy anniversary this morning and then simultaneously remembered later in the day.

Federal judge orders return of Venezuelan migrants deported to El Salvador under Alien Enemies Act
https://www.npr.org/2026/02/12/nx-s1-5712542/federal-judge-orders-return-of-venezuelan-migrants-deported-to-el-salvador-under-alien-enemies-act?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into U.S. News @u-s-news-npr

@jochenwolters I did write a BBEdit Take Control book that I think went through a few revisions. In the end, I don’t think it proved valuable enough as a complement to the manual for BB to continue to have it updated.