Adam Thomas

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Recent posts

Russia’s Espionage War in the Arctic

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Nov 09, 2024

This piece is illuminating — drawing together many political and cultural threads,—to weave a picture of one of the planet’s most remote regions,—that somehow also seems to mirror what is happening in locales more central to world and local affairs. Even your own town.

American Football Retirees

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Oct 29, 2024

American Football takes a toll. And the players are starting to get the full picture. They don’t want to mortgage their future health for a ballgame.

on the Impermanence of All Storage Mediums

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Sep 14, 2024

Is it possible that we will all come back around to paper and pencil as the best option for cross generational, cross millennial, transmission of information and culture?

An exciting upcoming chess rematch

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Aug 23, 2024

This story will be worth following. And might be as close to “must see livestream TV” as a chess match could ever get. I’m hoping to watch. Will I remember … Hopefully so.

There's also liquid water on Mars

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Aug 22, 2024

Yes, there’s ice. Ice is frozen water. But there’s also liquid in those hills. Can we glimpse the earth’s future here? How was the water cycle disrupted and the atmosphere destroyed?


Now

Updated: Nov 12, 2023 — Posted 375 days ago

This is a now page. Essentially an answer to the question, “What have you been up to recently?” I update this page as the focuses of my daily life ebb and flow.

Feeling

I broke my Wordle streak this weekend - not on purpose - and I still felt fine about it. Didn’t even a slight pang of regret. Which felt like progress. Getting a bit of unencumbered enjoyment out of Wordle is the main reason I picked it up again.

I am feeling vaguely adrift. I’ll just leave it at that. I am also feeling proud of my kids for what they’re up to this school year - the progress they’re making.

I am also feeling physically beaten up. A new plantar wart developed near the heel of my left foot and it is dramatically impacting my steps. I am practically hobbling around. I am also still contending with the slight dizziness that I’ve felt since our Chicago trip last April. Yes, I’ve had sea legs since April - every moment of every day - except for a few hours one evening at the tail end of September. I’ve been dedicating myself to doing the Epley Maneuver every morning. All the while I’m worried that I’ll be stuck with these floating sensations for the rest of my life.

Thinking

On which day should I try to carve out music recording time? For how long? Should I get to that Christmas album?

On which days should I play pickleball with the seniors over at the Rec?

Will I ever actually get to know somebody here? What are the chances that my constant curiosity and reportage mindset will stop irritating those close to me?

Watching

The Fielder-verse.

Listening

Reading



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