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A stack of gift books, round 1

05.31.2025 by Greg Kemble // Leave a Comment

A stack of books

Here’s the first round of books I bought from our local bookstore, The Book Seller, using some generous gift certificates I’d accrued — a retirement gift from my colleagues, as well as a birthday gift from The Younger and a Christmas gift from his mom. These were, for the most part, impulse buys, based on what the store had in stock.

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Categories // Prattle Tags // amor towles, art spiegelman, attention span, books, j.g. ballard, james joyce, neal stephenson, quentin tarantino, richard powers, teaching

Schrödinger’s Retirement

05.25.2025 by Greg Kemble // 1 Comment

Lolcat meme of a cat looking up from a box with the text, "In ur quantum box... ...maybe."

I exist in a state of superposition, simultaneously retired and not-retired.

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Categories // Prattle Tags // A.I., dreams, lolcat, retirement, schrödinger

The Best, Etc., of 2024

12.31.2024 by Greg Kemble // Leave a Comment

I missed 2021’s “Best, Etc.” post without realizing it. I almost skipped this one on purpose, thinking that (aside from a wildly disappointing election) it had been a relatively uneventful year.

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Categories // Prattle Tags // aaron james, amazon, assholes, bilquis evely, books, bullshit, comics, david tennant, donald trump, epiphone, foggy mountain music, gibson, good omens, goodreads, guitar, les paul, low-iodine diet, michael sheen, neil gaiman, netflix, outdoor elvis, paint, retirement, sandman, supergirl, terry pratchett, the guild, the swirling eddies, tiki bar tv, transgender

The best, etc., of 2023

12.31.2023 by Greg Kemble // Leave a Comment

Graphic showing 2023 changing to 2024

Well, it was a year.

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Categories // Prattle Tags // abigail thorn, ai, awkward spinster, cakewalk, calliope, comics, death, dobbs v. jackson women's health organizaton, donald trump, generative ai, irony, low-iodine diet, mitchell froom, neil gaiman, outdoor elvis, peter gabriel, philosophy, philosophy tube, recording, sam phillips, sandman, shakespeare, studio one, suzanne vega, t-bone burnett, tchad blake, the prince, the swirling eddies, tom stoppard, transgender

Ten years ago today…

09.21.2023 by Greg Kemble // Leave a Comment

The number 10 painted on concrete

… I bought the ohick.com domain.

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Categories // Prattle Tags // fictionary, fixed mindset, guitar, iceland, pragmatism, the practice

Late to the party…

09.17.2023 by Greg Kemble // Leave a Comment

Shushing finger to lips

…but I think I’m finally starting to understand.

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Categories // Prattle Tags // abigail thorn, contrapoints, jay rosen, journalism, natalie wynn, nebula.tv, patreon, philosophy, philosophy tube, the prince, the transgender studies reader, transgender, youtube

Turning 62, I guess

09.14.2023 by Greg Kemble // Leave a Comment

Kids in a carnival ride car, number 62

Hard to keep track, ’cause it changes every year.

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Categories // Prattle Tags // birthday, cakewalk, guitar, mixology, recording, studio one

Under 200

04.07.2023 by Greg Kemble // 2 Comments

Public scale in Italian - Bilancia di Precisione Automatica

For the first time in over two years, I weigh under 200 pounds.

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Categories // Prattle Tags // pandemic, slow carb diet, thyroid, tim ferriss, weight loss

Thanks, Elon!

03.29.2023 by Greg Kemble // Leave a Comment

RIP Twitter meme that Elon posted on his account

The best thing Elon has done for my life is to fuck up Twitter.

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Categories // Prattle Tags // cal newport, elon musk, facebook, jay rosen, margaret sullivan, seth godin, the practice, twitter

Here we go again…

03.12.2023 by Greg Kemble // Leave a Comment

Why are we still doing this?

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Categories // Prattle Tags // amanda palmer, dustin buehler, jane coastan, joseph takahashi, matt walker, sleep, the argument, tim ferriss

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