Monthly recap (Feb 2021)
Major updates * Hiking at Long ridge trail Minor updates * Uneven sleep, gotta fix that * Tara had a "zoom lego camp" for a week, which was ... not bad Watched/read/played/made *…
Switching to self-hosted Wordpress
For various reasons, I decided to ditch wordpress.com and self-host this blog. It might turn out to be a terrible idea, but I’ll stick with it for a year. Some motivations: * better control throug…
Generally interesting links - Mar 2021
Books * Damn, Douglas Adams didn't enjoy writing either 😟 (pic above) * Math in Moby-Dick * Pynchon's piece in the NYT Books section Tools and practices * In which I develop an unheal…
The Hobbit
Mid-way through a reading of the illustrated version1 of The Hobbit. * Well, there are many today, this is the one by Jemima Catlin)…
Old soundtracks and new ones
I just discovered the music of Eduard Artemyev, and … it's something I like now. I came across the soundtrack for Stalker, then realized the same person had composed the soundtracks for other Tar…
Roam isn't there yet
I've observed Roam periodically slowing down to a crawl, with individual keystrokes (yes) taking a second to be played out, filters taking several seconds to process "selections", and ……
Crystal growing
Got one of these and it pretty much worked as advertised. This is after about three weeks of leaving it unattended. I was pleasantly surprised by how it turned out, because we didn’t stir it too wel…
Monthly recap (Mar 2021)
Major updates * Weekend trip to Carmel Minor updates * Got a haircut after a long time, lol * Trying out Fastmail as an email provider Watched/read/played/made * Re-started reading Against…
The little wallet that could ...
Recently became _aware_, for a few moments, of the wallet in my pocket. I used to have a big, thick one I carried around everywhere. One day, I got sick of it and looked into card wallet instead. I…
Random post 592817
I didn't know "Dark Academia" was a thing, but it seems like a source of optimism.…
Generally interesting links - Feb 2021
(A short list this time) * On the “insane biology of the Octopus” (there’s always an Octopus link here, right?) * Somewhat extremist (in a minimalist sense) take on how to write for the web to outl…
Watching Adam Curtis
The first time I watched an Adam Curtis documentary was “Century of the self” about a decade ago. After that, I have, on-and-off, tried to watch everything by him that I could get my hand on. Not all…