Andreas Matern

Today’s short story read.

A photo of a magazine cover article. The Wekfare State by Nell Zink. The image is a painting of two hands holding a cup of hot chocolate with a 5 Swiss franc coin on the table.


OK, got some reading done, watched half a movie with the better half, got some guitar practice in, and then …. THIS!

I love TimeOut in the Fenway! What an awesome place to grab whatever you want! This sucks, I hope something cool goes in its place!


Well, this certainly has been a day. Time to put away the screens and read. One short story a day, working out well so far! Any fantastic short stories to recommend?


www.nytimes.com/2026/01/1…

E.P.A. to Stop Considering Lives Saved When Setting Rules on Air Pollution

Gift NYT article


Of course they had ties to the beef industry!

A group of researchers that formed the scientific basis of new dietary guidelines included people with financial ties to the beef and dairy industries, as well as food companies and other groups.

From STAT


Fantastic post - https://technicshistory.com/2026/01/02/the-rise-of-computer-games-part-ii-digitizing-nerddom/

My entire youth in the 80s was spent playing games like Wizardry, Zork, and other D&D variants.

Now, to prepare my own DM notes for tomorrow night’s D&D game with my son!


OK, this is cool: wantmymtv.vercel.app Check out MTV from the different decades!


Happy Tuesday. Just found this fun game on hackernews. I stink at it, but it was a fun pre-meeting distraction. How well can you do? https://enclose.horse/


Found this interesting site on hackernews this morning. Moving from an individual contributor to a manager? Try the game and see how you do.


I am trying to declutter, especially electronically. I think I’ve unsubscribed to over 25 newsletters and marketing schlock in my gmail account already. All the comics are put away in bags and boards, and I’ve indexed them all in a comic collecting app. Office is the cleanest its been in forever.