Finally, Facebook shows me an ad that’s relevant to my interests! It was bound to happen at some point. A Washington Nationals Peanuts 75th-Anniversary baseball jersey. Facebook has shown me Peanuts-themed baseball jerseys before, but not for the Nationals. For example… I didn’t hate these — they still pop up in my feed, and fromContinue reading “Charlie Brown’s Nationals All-Stars”
Author Archives: Allyn Gibson
The View from Afton
I visited my parents for Father’s Day. I’d been down to Lynchburg in May, I think the weekend before Mother’s Day, but my mom had been agitating me to come for a visit, and my sister was planning on coming up from Raleigh. I didn’t commit to anything — the weather looked a bit dreadful,Continue reading “The View from Afton”
Don’t Be a “Brand”
I have spent more time in the last two months on LinkedIn than the last ten years combined. I’ve come to the conclusion that my brain doesn’t work in the LinkedIn way–the relentless selling, the endless cheeriness, the buzzword-speak, the staccato writing style–and it never will. I saw this post this morning, and it wasContinue reading “Don’t Be a “Brand””
A Hard Week
Last week was a hard week. The July issue of PREVIEWS went to press. #442, my 217th issue. Except. It didn’t go to press. Not really. This issue is PDF-only. We had to buy the paper for the catalog when the sale of Diamond’s assets to Universal and Ad Populum closed, and the decision toContinue reading “A Hard Week”
A New Neighbor
A new neighbor moved in recently. A bunny! A tiny little bunny! I hope bunny hangs around. In 2019, a few days before my vision went permanently wonky, I took a tour of the National Cathedral. Not the usual tour. I took the “Behind the Scenes” tour, which was a lot of fun, very informativeContinue reading “A New Neighbor”
On the Eve of the Sale
Wednesday night, a former Diamond colleague contacted me and asked hpw I was feeling about Diamond and the bankruptcy. I talked her ear off, in the Facebook Messenger sense, for a solid hour. “You know the ‘Five Stages of Grief?’” I said. “I’m permanently living three of them–Anger, Depression, and Acceptance.” I’m angry about theContinue reading “On the Eve of the Sale”
Too Gorgeous a Day to Spend Inside
It is absolutely criminal to have to work inside today. The Geneva Conventions have never been so violated. Quite honestly, if I didn’t have critical publishing deadlines today, I would have given serious consideration to calling out sick and going to today’s Harrisburg Senators game. (It’s an 11 o’clock day game. An “Education Day.”) OrContinue reading “Too Gorgeous a Day to Spend Inside”
Plain Deranged
Lindsay Graham has an opinion on who the next Pope should be…. Graham is little more than an obsequious toady. He manages to get a “Trump 2028” in there, too. Malcolm Tucker deserves the last word…
A Day in FedoraLand
Friday was a work-from-home day. I could have gone into the office — on the one hand, I felt unproductive on Thursday, despite getting a great deal done, because the one project on my board that I knew would take multiple days was left unfinished; on the other, the office flooded last weekend and wasContinue reading “A Day in FedoraLand”
Workspace Keyboard Shortcuts for Cinnamon
One of the things I have come to like about Linux is its workspaces — or, if you prefer, virtual desktops. I actually get a little frustrated when I’m at work, or working in the VPN and remote desktop to work, when I’m in Windows and I don’t have them. Yesterday, for example, after upgradingContinue reading “Workspace Keyboard Shortcuts for Cinnamon”