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Pursuing it with eager feet / Until it joins some larger way
  • Ava is now at driving age

    By Aaron Lord
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    This is my second blog post from Jekyll. I’ve been going through 20 years of blog posts fixing formatting, updating broken links, and deleting some posts that could have been tweets. [Read More]
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  • Jekyll Migration

    By Aaron Lord
    So there’s more going on at Wordpress. The boss (Matt Mullenweg) isn’t sure he’s going to bring the open-source org back online after the new year. Even though I had meant to use Medium for new content, I wanted to preserve the archive of the last 20 years in a... [Read More]
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  • Moving to Medium

    By Aaron Lord
    After all the shenanigans over at WordPress, I've decided to start publishing on Medium. You can follow me there if you like. I have 15 subscribers here, so I'll probably be importing you over there after the waiting period is over. I don't know yet all the ins-and-outs of how... [Read More]
  • Concerning Fires

    By Aaron Lord
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    On July 24, 2024, at Upper Park in Chico, California, a man set his car on fire and pushed it off a 60-foot embankment. The dry vegetation around it was quickly engulfed in flames and the fire spread rapidly, climbing the ridge into the forest and eventually growing over 400,000... [Read More]
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  • A Deconstruction Reading List

    By Aaron Lord
    I would like this book list to correspond to a sort of roadmap, a progression from, say, a mainline Christian to a full-blown ethical progressive atheist and humanist, who has a sure foundation for morality apart from religion. I'm not all the way there yet, as I have some books... [Read More]
  • Owning Your Accomplishments

    By Aaron Lord
    I don’t talk about it much, especially as time has passed and I’ve moved on with my life, but 25 years ago I was in a band. We recorded a demo, and then the lead singer signed a record contract. We changed our name and re-recorded the demo material along... [Read More]