Daily Dracula has been such a fun way to read the novel. And now the action is building up as we approach Halloweentide! Halloweentide begins, in our house, the day after Labor Day. Also, I know that it’s called Allhallowtide in the Christian tradition but this is our personal holiday. 😄

Monarch butterflies have been put on the endangered list. Folks, plant that milkweed!

I got a great bit of mail from @aa recently! The color of the leather coaster is beautiful. Check out his products here. He even has a snail mail list. Thank you, Aaron!

One of the perks of working remotely for the last couple of years: watching the Tour de France live. I got into watching cycling via the spring classics and they’ll always be special for me. But the Tour is really fun when you’re able to keep up with it live. 🚲

Spotted at a local greenhouse: tiny iridescent frog nestled inside a tiger lily.

Ted Goia on fourteen signs that you are living in a society without a counterculture. This is true. It is, however, ironic that the article takes the form of a listicle consisting of screenshots of tweets. As Cory Doctorow says, the internet has become “five websites, each consisting of screenshots of text from the other four.”

Clive Thompson on the words he has never spelled correctly. Likewise. I’m a good speller but words with double consonants—especially pairs of double consonants—get me every time.

I believe the amount of anger in the world could be reduced if everyone had the freedom to take short naps as needed. And yeah that’s funny but I’m also serious.

It appears we have ourselves a holy fool skating along the boardwalk in San Diego: “Slomo: The man who skated right off the grid”

Patrick Rhone: “The first approximation of others is ourselves.” Along these same lines, the most (the only?) profound thing I have ever heard in a corporate training session is that we always, always fail to realize how differently other people see the world.