What if you took the opportunity to turn your secure pass-phrase into a positive affirmation?
Or a goal? A mission statement? Your intent?
TIL The Trashmen were from Minneapolis.
Listening to the Nineties, today.
The author of a sub-blog I follow produced a series of posts called Insanely Great Nineties Songs You Aren’t Sick Of. Start here if that speaks to you… He has a post per-year and links to YouTube videos of all of the songs he mentions.
I worked for a record store from the summer of 1990 to the summer of 1994 and these hit home for me. But fair warning, these are mostly not Top 40 song lists.
The forgotten director who gave us The Force, inspired 2001, and changed film
@ Ars Technica
I’m old because I remember MTV playing music video always, and I’m up early enough to watch AMTV
This makes me very sad:
The Case Against Year-Round Daylight Savings Time: We Tried It Before
I was a child, then. I have no recollection of this.
You do you, Elon.
I’m just gonna enjoy some popcorn.
New model of Antikythera mechanism solves front gearing system puzzle
A few more specifics, still many assumptions.
History is neither simple nor linear.
How to Tell Which Emails Quietly Track You
:: sigh ::
Today I learned about xkpasswd, a password generator inspired by the xkcd comic.
The internet is brilliant when you look for the helpers.
100-ish Books on Autism and Neurodiversity
Books approved by the autistic community about the autistic community
My friend Paulio has a discussion of what makes a good password manager. He has solid criteria and a recomendation: What You Want in a Password Manager
Hoping privacy remains a thing.
A colleague shared this and I don’t want to lose track of it:
Ric Elias: 3 Things I Learned While My Plane Crashed
It is a powerful few minutes.
Between the apps I use and my browser history, I can’t figure out who had the link to the “Beautiful Bubble”–however I fully support and endorse this. I had already taken several of the steps outlined and this is a great framework for improvement.
More like this, please:
Mental Health Professionals Responding to Police Calls Has Lead to No Arrests in the Past Six Months
META:
To render a blockquote correctly in the Micro.blog Timeline and in the Marfa template, the blockquote must be preceded by a blank line. The Post Preview function shows what I expected, but the timeline and the published content did not until I added the blank line.
Gandalf and the Roman Cult of Mithras
Via Explorator
Nature Illuminated at the Minnesota Zoo is beautiful. It runs through January 17th, 2021. Highly recommended! Soundtrack on SoundCloud.
Bags are very much a Goldilocks thing for me. Size, capacity, pockets, compartments. I went small recently and then larger and just haven’t got it quite right. I’ve have been through briefcases, Big backpacks and Small messenger bags. Right now moving to a medium, custom messenger bag from Timbuk2. Fingers crossed.
Listening to Wolfmother today.
They are a retro-looking blend of 70’s hard-rock, prog-rock and a little punk-rock. But with the vocal strength and musicianship to back it up. Not to mention cowbell and distorted organ.
I wish I could say I have been listening to them for a long time, but they came to me via a compilation from a friend. Today, I have been mining Apple Music for their back catalog.
On Main Viewer: The Polar Express (2004)
I don’t know to which deity I owe the most thanks and praise, but I am grateful for the shoegaze genre and for Apple’s recommendation engine. I listened to a group called SPC-ECO on my commute this evening and loved it.
Do I start by genuflecting toward Grangemouth, Scotland?