Notebook requirements
Here's what I want from a paper notebook: * Tomoe River Paper (with an exception for Midori MD) * Grid (i.e. not plain pages, not lined pages) * Page numbers (a new addition) * Size (A5 or A6…
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An old television
Saw this "for pickup" on the sidewalk recently. I can't imagine who would use something like this, but it was pretty high-end in its time! This is as old as me! The style then was to &…
Tools for thought
A quote from "Tools for Thought" by Howard Rheingold, from the chapter titled "The loneliness of the long-distance thinker" * Harry Truman was President and Sputnik was a word th…
Tomoe River Paper
A few years ago, when I first came across it, it was hard to find a notebook that I liked that contained Tomoe River paper. It's thinner than any other paper, it's strong, and it doesn't…
On old software
George R. R. Martin, when asked by Conan O' Brien, on why he wrote on on an old PC, running MS-DOS, not connected to the internet, in Wordstar 4.0. I actually like it, it does everything I want a…
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 ……
A decade (nearly) of Lamy
I’ve had this pen for about nine years now, which is longer than I’ve had my laptop, or my phone, or my current pair of jeans, or my bed, or the tv on the wall, or the lamp next to me, or … you get th…
Declaring “watch-later” bankruptcy
I’m sure a lot of people get to this point … it’s a form of procrastination, clicking on the tempting little Watch Later mini-clock-face. “Of course I’ll watch you”, I say to the little thumbnail. F…
The weirdness and awesomeness of long-form YouTube
I found myself listening to this recently: From the description: This is the ambient electromagnetic signal of our Sun and Neptune which have been combined with each other and then deepened and smoo…
Turtle graphics
Discovered the PythonTurtle library, reminded me of LOGO a long time ago (!) A sample session: $ bpython bpython version 0.18 on top of Python 3.7.6 /usr/local/opt/python/bin/python3.7 >>>…
On Airtable and Numbers
I tried out Airtable for a year, for a simple personal spreadsheet that I’ve been keeping for a few years now. It’s slick, and quick to enter data, but in the end I’ve decided to go back to Numbers.…
Sky Guide
Apps on our smartphones get a bad rap for wasting our time, and deservedly. It's true that most are either harmful or neutral, or a distraction, or a minor convenience. One set of apps that are…