Recent and good links
Sat, Feb 08, 2025 at 03:03:36 PM
“The Sanctuary Pub Closes"My favorite Friday night hangout spot for live jazz and folk music in college. Sad to see the place change so much. Permalink 🔗
Sat, Nov 09, 2024 at 09:14:55 AM
Russia’s Espionage War in the ArcticThis 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. Permalink 🔗
Tue, Oct 29, 2024 at 09:54:23 AM
American Football RetireesAmerican 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. Permalink 🔗
Thu, Sep 12, 2024 at 09:25:00 PM
on the Impermanence of All Storage MediumsIs 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? Permalink 🔗
Thu, Aug 22, 2024 at 10:41:56 PM
An exciting upcoming chess rematchThis 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. Permalink 🔗
Wed, Aug 21, 2024 at 10:11:54 PM
There's also liquid water on MarsYes, 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? Permalink 🔗
Thu, May 23, 2024 at 10:27:00 PM
“Where do your Steam games go when you die?”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. Permalink 🔗
Now
Updated: Nov 12, 2023 — Posted 266 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:
- 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
Testing yet again, this time to see if a new deployment method is working correctly.
- Tue, Feb 11, 2025 at 11:55:29 AM
Testing again - a new build script that uses a symlink approach.
- Tue, Feb 11, 2025 at 06:20:46 AM
Testing again. Also breaking news: the super bowl was entirely MID-TIER. Everything about it. That includes the game and the halftime and the Tom Brady.
- Sun, Feb 09, 2025 at 11:08:08 PM
Henlo friends, from the command line on the server.
- Sat, Feb 08, 2025 at 03:00:22 PM
Hello friends, from my Mac at home in MarkEdit.
- Sat, Feb 08, 2025 at 02:58:20 PM
Testing 1234
- Fri, Jan 31, 2025 at 08:03:23 PM
Testing 1234
- Fri, Jan 31, 2025 at 08:03:20 PM
Reading update: gave up on Mason & Dixon. Life update: questioning the competitive element of youth music programs.
- Wed, Dec 04, 2024 at 09:43:55 AM
Giving up on Mason & Dixon. Maybe a better summer read. And starting the Roth “Zuckerman” trilogy.
- Tue, Nov 26, 2024 at 06:48:57 AM
Just now Google Gemini told me that Matt Lauer, Katie Couric, and Meredith Vierra all graduated from The University of Iowa.
- Sun, Nov 10, 2024 at 08:33:30 PM
“12When you sin against them in this way and wound their weak conscience, you sin against Christ. 13Therefore, if what I eat causes my brother or sister to fall into sin, I will never eat meat again, so that I will not cause them to fall.”
- Sun, Nov 03, 2024 at 10:14:31 AM
Up early-ish (but never early enough for my conscience) to ready. Nearing the final 100 pages of Plot Against America. The book is picking up steam and seems headed for a tidy resolution. Taking him to class today - Lady Raider donut party - another party. Then maybe fulfilling my dream of a pickleball late afternoon in the autumn shadows.
- Sat, Oct 19, 2024 at 08:04:36 AM
There was a school lunch worker who often came by my crossing corner and would give me a donut out her car window. I haven't seen them recently. I am worried that they were fired for giving me those donuts.
- Fri, Oct 18, 2024 at 10:13:12 AM
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 at 02:21:27 PM