Skip to content
R E A D E R

Selected writing by Mark DeLong

  • About Mark DeLong
  • Technology
  • Automobiles
Subscribe

Living

  • Home
  • Living
A loaf of bread with a freshly slived piece laying beside it. The bread crustis dark brown, and the slice shows light and airy center of the slice. It is a batard, basically a fat baguette.
Posted inLiving

Perfect(ing) the French baguette, kinda. (Actually it’s a bâtard)

A second perfect bread. Or, more accurately, a bread close to perfection. A lesson in life through baking.
Read More
March 20, 2026
2026 resolutions BINGO
Posted inLiving

2026 resolutions BINGO

I've got an empty card for the year. I hope I get at least one BINGO!
Read More
February 3, 2026
Uff Da! Yeah, You Betcha.
Posted inHistory Living

Uff Da! Yeah, You Betcha.

Lutefisk does have a distinctive odor, but it's a unifying force, too.
Read More
January 31, 2026
Fiat ars, pereat mundus
Posted inLiving Poetry Technology

Fiat ars, pereat mundus

Can one use art in times when it feels so useless? Should one do art at all?
Read More
January 30, 2026
IMAGE & WORD—January 2026
Posted inLiving Poetry

IMAGE & WORD—January 2026

How do images and words fit together? My question in a January project.
Read More
January 5, 2026
A classic 1963 green Jaguar E-type is loaded onto a car transport trailer. The trailer is at the side of a country road. Green trees line the sides of the road.
Posted inLiving

No BINGO in 2025. But good progress, too.

The Jag got sold and other resolutions for 2025. Wins, "almosts," and fails.
Read More
December 31, 2025
Slips of yellow paper with typewritten words. Austin Kleon poses interview questions to interviewees on paper in this manner, and the person being interviewed takes the paper and responds to the question using his or her own typewriter. The image shows two such interactions on two slips of yellow paper, side-by-side.
Posted inHistory Living Technology

Today, typewriters are for art

Your grandfather's typewriter is coming back as a tool for creating art.
Read More
December 30, 2025
On a grey mass in the shape of the Southeastern US, orange colored blobs and slight orange strings connecting them appear. The image was created by a computer model, but it looks like a view from space of urban lights against a dark background of undeveloped land.
Posted inAutomobiles History Living

Deep influence of the asphalt below us

Four meditations on roads, highways, and ancient paths
Read More
November 11, 2025
Title page of the Royal Society's first edition (1667). The text reads "PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS: GIVING SOME ACCOMPT OF THE PRESENT Undertakings, Studies, and Labours OF THE INGENIOUS IN MANY CONSIDERABLE PARTS OF THE WORLD. Vol I. For Anno 1665, and 1666. In the SAVOY, Printed by T. N. for John Martyn at the Bell, a little with- out Temple-Bar, and James Allestry in Duck-Lane, Printers to the Royal Society." Below in handwritten ink: "Presented by the author May 30th 1667.
Posted inHistory Living Technology

“Creativity is just deviance put to good use”

Maybe everything is slipping to boring sameness?
Read More
November 9, 2025
A collection of hickory nuts, all brown and laying haphazardly on the ground. Some of the nuts have lots parts of their outer shells, leaving the hard, light brown inner nut. They have the same shape a pecans in the shell, but are much smaller.
Posted inLiving

23:PA81&XE8XA or Nuts from Hell

Falling nuts are a hazard in summer and fall. Might there be a way to use medical records to learn of their injuries?
Read More
November 3, 2025

Posts pagination

1 2 3 Next page
Categories
  • Automobiles
  • Book Review
  • Commentary
  • History
  • Living
  • Poetry
  • Technology
Archives
  • May 2026
  • March 2026
  • February 2026
  • January 2026
  • December 2025
  • November 2025
  • October 2025
  • September 2025
  • August 2025
  • June 2025
  • April 2025
  • March 2025
  • February 2025
  • January 2025
  • December 2024
  • November 2024
  • October 2024
  • September 2024
  • August 2024
  • July 2024
  • May 2024
  • January 2024
  • December 2023
  • September 2023
  • July 2023
  • June 2023
  • May 2023
  • March 2023
  • February 2023
  • January 2023
  • July 2022
  • April 2022
  • February 2022
  • January 2022
Contact — reader@markdelong.me
Subscribe — monthly (or so) emails. Handy.
The book — Re:tooling (coming soon)
Copyright 2026 — Mark R. DeLong. All rights reserved. Bloghash WordPress Theme
Scroll to Top