Recent posts
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?
“Where do your Steam games go when you die?”
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May 24, 2024
I think probably think about this sort of thing too much. It’s one of the reasons I routinely consider giving up any kind of streaming service - I like the idea of leaving behind a media legacy and an explanation of who I was, for whomever might care to know.
The way to the center of the galaxy
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Feb 20, 2024
I love this idea. Knowing where you stand in the universe.
Now
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.
- The Rehearsal
- Nathan For You
- Scavengers Reign
Listening
- Javelin, Sufjan Stevens
- Again, OPN
- Tim Hecker discography
- Cousin, Wilco
Reading
- The New Yorker
- The Waste Land: A Biography of a Poem
- Fates and Furies, Lauren Groff
Recent notes
The fact that apple has a global database of ear shapes is both inspiring and very odd and dystopian. I’m not trying to say they’re up to anything nefarious - they use them to determine the shapes of AirPods and other heaphones.
- Wed. Oct. 16, 2024 07:21:33 PM
is it possible that changing my font will make me a better person? or make me more productive? i feel like i’ve been secretly asking that question for around 25 years.
- Fri. Oct. 11, 2024 10:00:17 PM
One little thing I low key love about being a crossing guard is that I can stand at my corner and fart as much as I care to
- Fri. Oct. 11, 2024 08:55:11 PM
now begins the regression to mean when the talented child sees it isn’t enough
- Fri. Oct. 11, 2024 07:30:39 PM
I had a sleeping dream that i went to a very traditional style church service with the father of one of my kids’s friends from school. Then I had a waking dream that I was in the school hallway and a teacher jerked their head to the side in a signal for me to get up against the wall.
- Fri. Oct. 11, 2024 07:10:28 PM
there are folks in iowa who pronounce the SE iowa town Ottumwa, “autumn-wah.” which is wrong, of course.
- Fri. Oct. 11, 2024 06:45:45 PM
Songs in my head:
- NDA, billie
- Women of the world, Jim O’Rourke
- Ten Second News, Son Volt
- Fri. Oct. 04, 2024 07:41:04 PM
I’ve always been a Check the website kind of person, when I want to find out details of an event. But I should give in and be more of a Just check Facebook kind of person.
- Wed. Oct. 02, 2024 01:49:57 AM
Songs in my head:
- One Wing, Wilco
- Xanny, billie
- Rewind, Charlie
- Tue. Sep. 17, 2024 07:52:33 PM
I am in constant awe and curiosity and filled to the brim with wonder - just by this simple notion: “How do you live? Why are you doing that thing you’re doing? Why did you do this thing when you usually do THAT thing (yes, I noticed that you usually do THAT thing, not because I’m weird, but because I am a noticer and I am curious and I care).
- Fri. Sep. 13, 2024 07:12:48 PM