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A Plethora of Tweezers
Today in Tedium: In a world full of big problems (including some that were delaying me from starting this newsletter at a proper time), I’m going to focus on the smallest possible problem I can think...
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Over the Vinyl Moon
Hey all, Ernie here with Tedium’s resident vinyl-head, David Buck. This time around, he highlights how a digital music curator got into the vinyl subscription service game. Read on: Today in Tedium:...
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An Impromptu Story
Hey all, Ernie here with a fresh piece from Andrew Egan. This time, he talks about NYC, COVID-19, and chance celebrity encounters. You never know when someone famous will start telling jokes. Today in...
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Turtlemania, Revisited
Hey all, Ernie here, reporting from weak Wi-Fi on an attempt at a disconnected vacation. The world is a crazy place right now, and sometimes it helps to dive into something fun. So, here’s a new piece...
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No More Eternal Septembers
Today in Tedium: For nearly 30 years, the internet’s culture has been defined by a corporation’s move that seemed to, without any care about what was left behind, ensure that a sense of order would...
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Social Media, McAfee Style
Today in Tedium: Let it be said that we must live in particularly interesting times when John McAfee, one of the most interesting and controversial people the world of technology has ever produced,...
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Strip-Mined News
Today in Tedium: Sometimes, a news story smacks you in the face thanks to a single word. That was a feeling I had when I came across a New York Times story about a phenomenon of local news outlets...
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Such Low Heights
Today in Tedium: To start off, I just want to offer a shoutout to the folks who have managed to ride out the pandemic in an RV. It apparently has been a booming industry, per CBS Sunday Morning. “It’s...
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Plastic Pail Perfection
Today in Tedium: This Halloween is not going to be like any other Halloween, unfortunately, in large part because of mass confusion created by whether or not people can even trick-or-treat this year....
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Meet The Medieval Insomniacs
Hey all, Ernie here with a piece from Fahad Sperinck, who is making his second appearance in the newsletter after writing a great piece on death metal and normalcy. Check out his latest below: Today...
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Nonpartisan Zen Arcade
Today in Tedium: Hi, I don’t know if you heard, but today is going to be the day where a lot of tension gets worked out at the polls in the United States. Building up to this moment has been...
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The Internet's First Election
Hey all, Ernie here with a refresh of a timely article about the internet and presidential elections. The internet has been a deep influence on the 2020 election in stark ways. Given that, looking...
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Sorkin, Strunk, and White
Hey all, Ernie here with a piece from Andrew Egan, in which he takes a stab at explaining why so many of Aaron Sorkin’s characters are grammar nerds. Today in Tedium: Writing is hard. Writing...
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Messy Convergence
Today in Tedium: “An iPod. A phone. An internet communicator.” These were the words Steve Jobs used to describe the first iPhone immediately before introducing it during a landmark keynote in January...
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Rock Of Age$
Today in Tedium: I’m starting to get up there in years, but I’ve yet to pass the abyss that is 40. (That’s coming next year.) However, I spotted something on the internet recently that made me feel a...
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By Our Powers Combined …
Hey all, Ernie here with a refreshed piece about webrings. Sometimes it happens that you get really far on something (in my case with a piece on Linux and video game consoles, coming soon) and you...
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Turkey Hotline
Hey all, Ernie here with a piece from David Buck, who decided to hit us with a whole lot of Thansgiving talk. Dig in. Thanks! Today in Tedium: Thanksgiving is normally a time of celebration and family...
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Worst Firmware Update Ever
Today in Tedium: As companies innovate over time, they inevitably take things away. In the case of Apple’s M1 chip, it took away the ability to upgrade basically anything. (I want one.) As I wrote...
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Reading Below The Surface
Today in Tedium: In our modern era, we tend to choose devices with as many functions as possible, and bristle at the thought of an object with a single use case—hence why umbrellas can be so...
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Hack Back to the Mac
Today in Tedium: I warned I was going to do it. Then, I did it. I got an M1 MacBook Air this week, returning to the Apple fold to give the company money for a Mac product for the first time in years....
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