2020
Even if the bowl is broken (and the bowl is broken), from the clay and the making and the firing and the pattern, even if the pattern is incomplete (and the pattern is incomplete), let the mind draw its energy. Let the heart complete the pattern.
Ursula Le Guin, Always Coming Home
The Precursor is one of the most interesting tech hardware projects I’ve seen. Everything Bunnie Huang makes is years ahead of the curve. Help support this project!
Me watching other people chop with kitchen knives: 👀 😱😩💀
Me chopping in my own kitchen: 💃💨🪓
It’s never a bad time to listen to Tortoise’s Beacons of Ancestorship again. 🎵
I’m not sure when this happened, but the media controls in Windows 10 suddenly seem to work with Firefox. It’s a small thing, but it’s so nice that I can pause/play or change tracks/volume from the keyboard or trackpad while I’m streaming music or video.
Having finished the book, I can strongly recommend Subprime Attention Crisis by Tim Hwang 📚. Though maybe the folks here on Micro.blog are the proverbial choir :)
My choice of light reading to distract me from the election: Subprime Attention Crisis by Tim Hwang 📚
Halloween was epidemiologically unsound long before any pandemic… At the beginning of flu season each year, let’s have every child in the neighborhood, no matter how sick, walk to everybody’s house, and touch a bunch of things.
I’ve been listening to Songs by Adrianne Lenker - it’s better each time I listen to it. 🎵
Good accompaniment to making some jam, applesauce, and roasted squash.
I love making granola flavors that nobody would ever sell; today’s batch was pumpkin, chia, and flax seed with dried Asian pear, sun butter, and maple syrup. Basically using up pantry items but it’s really quite good.
This article wonderfully explains why vim is so appealling.
I hadn’t considered how composability is the unifying theme that binds most of my favorite software, but it seems obvious now that it’s been stated. To me, that’s the hallmark of an elegant idea.
If I had known how easy it is to back up Google Drive and other cloud services to a Synology NAS, I would have purchased one years ago! They even do a thing where they convert docs to MS Office equivalents, which is crucial.
I had to laugh at the phrase “LARP security”, and I’m definitely guilty as charged.
But I also got my family to use Signal, which hopefully counts for something!
Stop Using Encrypted Email latacora.micro.blog
Currently reading: Ursula K. Le Guin: Always Coming Home (LOA #315): Author’s Expanded Edition (Library of America Ursula K. Le Guin Edition) by Ursula K. Le Guin 📚
It’s very different from Earthsea and the Hainish novels, and I’m curious to see where it goes.