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drafts/The Psalms' 2020.md

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 ## Screens and software subjects big & small discussed within my most moderate 35,000 words ever.
 
-Believe it or not, the cyclical cold season has once again come to pass! Oh, the [W̘͖̯E̟̹À̫T̯̫͓̪̮͓̼H̝E̪͇̰̘̖͍ͅŔ͍̖̱̟̪](https://youtu.be/qg0ZPmSux_4)!! If the past two days on Twitter were any indication, it is indeed time for a year's-end retrospective on what has been published on this Web Site. Given the extent of the attention I've devoted to bilge.world this past year - both technically and editorially - I thought it would be nice to chuck in a bit more in the pursuit of whacking myself on the back.
+Believe it or not, the cyclical cold season has once again come to pass! Oh, the [W̘͖̯E̟̹À̫T̯̫͓̪̮͓̼H̝E̪͇̰̘̖͍ͅŔ͍̖̱̟̪](https://youtu.be/qg0ZPmSux_4)!! If the past two days on Twitter were any indication, it is indeed time for a year's-end retrospective on what has been published on this Web Site. Given the extent of the attention I've devoted to bilge.world this past year - both technically and editorially - I thought it would be nice to chuck in a bit more in the pursuit of whacking myself on the back. I understand that 2020 has been one helluva catastrophic marker of linear time for just about everyone on Earth - as I write this on its last day, the [inexplicable news of MF Doom's death](https://www.complex.com/music/2020/12/mf-doom-dead-49) has just surfaced and has already hit my adjacent communities remarkably hard.
 
 <blockquote class="twitter-tweet tw-align-center"><p lang="en" dir="ltr"><a href="https://t.co/qb7NsZ8os6">https://t.co/qb7NsZ8os6</a> - May 1st of this year vs. today.<br><br>I had forgotten *a lot* more about CSS and HTML than I originally thought. glad I ended up comfortable enough to find myself with a completely original stylesheet before the end of the year, I suppose. <a href="https://t.co/4QwlbEJECU">pic.twitter.com/4QwlbEJECU</a></p>&mdash; ※ David Blue ※ (@NeoYokel) <a href="https://twitter.com/NeoYokel/status/1334355680078270464?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 3, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
 
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+## Coming Soon
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+For better or worse, all of these new exploratory avenues have so far led directly away from the business of *actually writing*
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 ## GitHub
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 - [ ] "[Software Thanksgiving](https://bilge.world/big-thank)" - November 25th
 - [ ] ~35,000 words, ~2 hours of reading.
 - [ ] Most Overdue Drafts!
-- [ ] Imported "[Through an iPhone 4's Lens](https://bilge.world/iphone4-photography)"
-- [ ] Tevin Futureland episode
 - [ ] [Dinkus Discord channel](https://bit.ly/extdinkus)
+  (I may or may not have made the *Extratone* Discord totally uninhabitable with automated posts.)
 
 <iframe sandbox="allow-same-origin allow-scripts allow-top-navigation allow-popups allow-forms" scrolling=no width="100%" height="auto" frameborder="0" src="https://embed.radiopublic.com/e?if=extratone-radio-WYDa1L&ge=s1!8745637f40247e604f90a6eb871ba02f104cab10"></iframe>
 
 ### Archive?
 
 - [ ] [David Blue Draws Gallery](https://www.notion.so/rotund/7f4664a737d1429eb94d33cb3486e9e0?v=aad96df288034d2dbe4dd667d6b7f543)
+- [ ] Imported "[Through an iPhone 4's Lens](https://bilge.world/iphone4-photography)"
+- [ ] [Tevin Futureland episode](https://anchor.fm/extratone/episodes/Esporting-Psycholiterates--Favored-of-Email-en398f/a-a3vklt8)
 
 ## Notes on Upcoming Work
 
-[Siri Shortcuts Repository](https://github.com/extratone/shortcuts)
+- [ ] [Siri Shortcuts Repository](https://github.com/extratone/shortcuts)
+- [ ] [iPhone 12 Pro Max Review](https://github.com/extratone/bilge/issues/45)
+- [ ] [Underdocumented iOS Manuevers](https://github.com/extratone/bilge/issues/56) 
+- [ ] [The Notion Cult](https://github.com/extratone/bilge/issues/12)

posts/2019-volkswagen-atlas-sel-vr6-review.md

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 Upon meeting an elderly recently immigrated German friend of my mother's for the first time yesterday, she exclaimed *He looks German!... and so tall!* Both of these compliments were *relatively* true, but certainly not extremely. I am more German-looking than not, perhaps. Supposedly, I am half a product of a very large family whose elders are only one and two generations from German royalty - my legal last name is on a state sign in front of a small black castle somewhere in *Der Vaterland*. I slacked through two years of high school German language classes - Frau Rosa once took me aside to ask *you’re not going to shoot up the school or anything, right?* (Sorry Frau & peers.) Though my much-older half siblings grew up mostly in the town of Schweinfurt, I have never actually set foot in Germany, yet I’ve come to identify with and admire its culture enough to (perhaps unjustly or inappropriately) feel comfortable joking about Deutsche peculiarities as vain self-mockery.
 
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 Despite all of this (carefully nationalism-free) affection, the real truth of myself is an American one. I have long since broached the point of no return: no matter how hard I might try, I would never be able to mold the Me another perceives in such a way that I’d become observably German-native. I’m just a midwestern boy with a Germanic name on his paperwork, and therefore have more in common with Volkswagen’s newish entry into the *dramatically* different full-size Sport Utility Vehicle segment. The Atlas bears a [remarkably good name](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-11-17/what-s-in-an-suv-name-redemption-with-u-s-consumers-vw-hopes) (annoyingly, [literally everyone's reviews](https://www.thedrive.com/new-cars/9083/the-2018-volkswagen-atlas-finally-solves-vws-america-problem) seem to begin with a comment on how *decipherable* the new name is for Americans) - especially among new automotive products introduced to market in recent memory. Honda’s *Clarity* **should** be clever alongside the definitively 21st-century *Insight* marque, but violates an unfortunately universal law in the industry: never name a car for a *state of being* (Introducing the New 2020 Honda *Ambiguity* [*Insolence*, *Fugue*, *Debacle*, *Setback*]) ~especially~ one so obtusely irrelevant to the product itself. *Insight* comes from a chat with a colleague over coffee, but *Clarity* is a metaphysical, zealous plane that sounds our ever-inadequate platitude alarms in a very unsettling manner. *Um... Is Honda doing okay?* It not only ends up irritating and off-putting: after Hannah’s season of *The Bachelorette*, it’s just dumb, lazy, and foul.
 
 > After decades of trying to force Yankees into models that many found too small, VW has figured it out: Big-ass SUVs are what Americans want, and the Atlas is designed around the biggest asses you can imagine.