Some random images I generated
My favorite: it’s view of Thomas Pynchon
Midjourney fun
Author: Agam
“Curations” is moving
Some sort of monthly curated links has been a staple here for about a decade now (I started with a breakdown by category, but towards the end had just a “bag of links”).
In an effort to consolidate and de-duplicate (because, why not!), I’m trying an experiment — I’m going to leave the curations in my shared Roam graph, and just surface them better there.
The URL for that is here: https://roamresearch.com/#/app/Homepage-Agam/page/TkD7GK6nJ
It can also be reached by starting at this “Home” page: https://roamresearch.com/#/app/Homepage-Agam/page/Qw3Cv9aOP, and then following the links for “Sticky Board” -> “Linkblog”
This is an example of what it looks like:
Clippings: tech companies, hyper-log-inflation, hobbies
Clippings: Enforcement at work, learning to lose money, and drawing lots to leave
A comic I can get behind
On the ails and aims and means of education
Surely a controversial take 🙂
(But I tend to agree)
The Art of John Harris
Gorgeous, expansive, cosmic.
That’s how I felt when I first discovered this book. I had seen some of these on the covers of various old sci-fi paperbacks, from long ago.
Monthly Recap: February 2023
Major updates
Trip to Carmel where we stayed in an AirBnB in the woods
- No internet: board games, reading, sleeping early
- Fortunately got back in time before the storm closed the roads
Tara’s school was off for a week, went to a great camp by Peninsula Youth Theater — and put on a short play at the end (“The reluctant dragon”)
Minor updates
- Visited Treasure Island (finally, after over a decade of living here) for a friend’s 40th birthday party
- Slightly better eat/sleep 🤞
- Saw a bunch of snow on the peaks
- Got an annual medical check-up done after a few years’ break (all good)
- Visited Michael’s after many years with Tara — it’s still around and still a “craft-y wonderland”
Watched/read/made/listened
- Gosford Park (re-watched) — discovered the music of Ivor Novello
- Read “Digital Minimalism” (plan to practice some of that this year)
- Tried out a family board game: Dragonwood
- Knives out (re-watched)
- And then there were none (the old version!)
Monthly Curations: February 2023
- Something truly novel for me, “reaching before and beyond spacetime” through deep learning
- A long essay on the war in Ukraine. Goes against the grain but has a thorough overview of a lot that has been overlooked in the coverage over the last year
- Also, some plain talk on the war
- Roam has been getting constant improvements, and it has joined my list of “forever tools”
- A fun (niche) idea, the “Mouse Book Club”
- Remembering the value of public education, a moving talk by Catherine Liu
- In praise of small cameras
- Social media is a cause, not a correlate, of mental illness in teen girls (hard to read)
- The broken state of open-source
- Realized that people have built GPUs within Minecraft
- Even crime organizations are doing tech layoffs (this one needs a comedy sketch)
- Fascinating look at Forth
“Blogging” vs “writing about blogging”
This image (from a great webcomic) brought a smile to my face, and if you’ve procrastinated by blaming your tools, it might for you too.
Abacus Noir 