Personal Media Summary, September 2015
In no particular order: * This is the month I discovered ASMR (I'll let you look that up) * Finally saw "Inside Out": people still come up with incredibly original ideas (anthropomor…
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Monthly recap (Sep 2015)
The big highlight for last month was our trip to Hawaii for a week. I was quite nervous about her in the plane and so on, but things were way better than I thought. We were staying in Kihei, and manag…
Personal media summary, August 2015
In no particular order: * Roughly halfway through "Gravity's Rainbow", have rarely enjoyed a book this much. * Came across some of the best surreal art I have ever seen, in an art gal…
Monthly recap (August 2015)
This month went by fast. Tara is now regularly eating breakfast/lunch/dinner, which was unimaginable a while ago, and crawling/standing all over the place, which is a bit scary. Notable "firsts…
Monthly recap (July 2015)
(Intended to make up for an absence of Facebook, and for personal archival ... this one is rushed, will do a better job next month!) Yosemite was the first long-ish "go somewhere and stay there…
Personal media summary, July 2015
I finished reading listening to Fukuyama's "The Origins of Political Order" (very interesting stuff), and moved on to his sequel, "Political Order and Political Decay" (corresp…
A Retro Diner
Went to the Palo Alto Creamery this weekend, thrilled to see these (non-working) old pieces of technology. The brand of television is unknown, but the jukebox was a Seeburg (see this similar model on…
Experiences in framing
There was a painting we bought during December 2013 in New Orleans that had been lying around in a roll in the trunk of my car. A year and half later, it's finally up. I've hung up photograph…
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From a usenet posting little less than a decade ago, something that explains a common pattern in "high-level flame wars" on the internet ... the intelligence is being perverted in the servi…
A weekly recap of reading ...
... would be a great idea! Here is something I found from ten years ago on The Rad Geek People's Daily: It should be a matter of one or a few paragraphs. There’s no commentary above and beyond…
The only way to read these days ...
(By way of "what have you been up to?", or "have a blog, say something!") I just finished two fairly large reading projects, and I'm quite happy I stuck with it and finished i…
The Asocial network
I've been online for a while now. I remember having a Hotmail account around 1998 or so, discovering Geocities perhaps a year before that. I first browsed on the old Netscape Navigator. You get th…