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CONSUME THIS LIST 25
REVIEW.2025.CONSUMPTION.
MOVIES.TV.GAMES.MUSIC.
CONSUME.STAT.
MOVIES
These are the best films I watched in 2025, in order of strength of recommendation. Movies from prior years qualify if I saw them for the first time last yea...
The Gist of Orkney: Audio Edition!
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Woah! You can now listen to me(!) reading(!) Pen, Ultimate! instead of, or in addition to, reading it yourself!
This is the inaugural episode of the Pen, Ultimate! Audio Edition. It’s admittedly a little rough...
The Gist of Orkney: Mornings at Riff Farm
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Orkney is here.
“The Gist of Orkney” could be an extraordinary geological feature. Something like a long, deep, narrow hole plunging down into the earth of a coastal cli...
The Essential Summer Movie List*
**According to one Collins and ignoring the input of all other Collinses.
My family has always been a movie family. Not a “film” family; we neither worked in “the industry” nor had any patience for independent, low-budget, old, or “artsy”...
$3.30 on $21.56
This week a customer left a $3.30 tip on a $21.56 check.
Why?
How did they arrive at this number? Why the 30 cents?
How does any customer arrive at any number?
We speculate:
The percentage a customer tips can tell you a lot abou...
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