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June 2
We’re just starting Pride Month, so you’ll see plenty of rainbow flags — and as it happens, Gilbert Baker, who was born June 2, 1951, designed that flag. He was born in Kansas, and ended up in San Francisco when he was in the US Army — he was stationed there as a medic. After Continue reading
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June 1
Exactly 180 years ago today, Henry Faulds was born in North Ayrshire, Scotland. His family was not wealthy, so when he was just 13 he had to leave school and work as a clerk to help support them. But when he was 21 he went back to school, enrolling at Glasgow University to study math Continue reading
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July 21
One of Shakespeare’s famous passages is Hamlet’s concluding speech, which includes the phrase “aye, there’s the rub.” You can tell from the context that what Hamlet means by “the rub” is an obstacle or difficulty of some sort. But without the context — and in fact, without that particular famous passage — how would anybody Continue reading
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Latest Experiment
This is my latest approach to pasting pages to the walls and poles around town. It’s going to take the place of a couple of SubStack newsletters. When I publish newsletter issues I feel like I’m contributing to the world glut of spam. If you want to read what I publish here, you have to Continue reading
About Me
I’m Pete Harbeson, a writer located near Boston, Massachusetts. In addition to writing my own content, I’ve learned to translate for my loquacious and opinionated pup Chocolate Bossypaws. I shouldn’t be surprised, but she mostly speaks in doggerel. You can find her contributions tagged with Chocolatiana.
Check out my other blog, Techlimitics, where I’m grappling with the nature of simplicity.
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