Monthly recap (Dec 2021)
Major update * Trip to San Diego got cancelled, bummer * Made a short weekend trip to Santa Cruz/Aptos/Carmel instead * Did a bunch of hikes! Minor update * A foosball table at home :-) * Fam…
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Skip to main contentMajor update * Trip to San Diego got cancelled, bummer * Made a short weekend trip to Santa Cruz/Aptos/Carmel instead * Did a bunch of hikes! Minor update * A foosball table at home :-) * Fam…
Every now and then I find something insightful on HackerNews. I usually don't share this, and store them as snippets for myself, but this is something that does seem generally useful: (original s…
History I have been using OmniFocus for over five years now. I started with version 2, moved on to version 3 and have even beta-tested the new version 4 on my phone for a while. A lot of cruft has…
Much as I tried to quit Roam previously, I've been back to using it the last quarter. It's good enough, and "doesn't suck". It is more fluid and immediate than the alternatives…
Family * Tara turned seven * had a birthday party at Safari Run * Halloween trick-or-treating with one of Tara's friends and her family * End-of-the-year hike at Stanford Dish * Go…
Found this little diagram I'd drawn on my daughter's "drawing tablet" from around May 2021 when we were reading The Hobbit.…
I made the previous post using my phone. It's annoying that I can't use the Wordpress app with self-hosted sites (which is what this is), but the "mobile web" experience for the sam…
Ruminating on how tiny bits of content are mixed in with larger bits, here, the options are 1. Don't share it 2. Share it somewhere else 3. Share it mixed in, as separate posts 4. Share it &q…
* Selections from DFW's personal library * An unedited interview with David Foster Wallace * an older interview (1989 ?!) with DFW * another (less) old interview from 1998: * The most recent…
Another long-form article that I found relevant to the current time; here's the full article, which was originally written in August 1941, or about eight decades ago. I present my selections here…
A perspective on waste and social media. From this article Waste books/Sudelbücher This sub-genre of notebooks comes out of the tradition of double-entry book keeping where accountants often kept a…
I took one of Tara's drawings from last year and placed it on OpenSea. Mostly just to see what the experience is like. So here it is, "A princess, her castle, and an apple tree". For…