There is an R40 Cinema Strangiato thing happening on Sept 9. Anyone want to go with me?
Celebrating 40-year anniversary of the release of Moving Pictures.
We had to let it go.
We had put in a bid on a home of a scale and from a time that I have long appreciated. We did due diligence on the house and property and learned more about regional history, architectural styles, and what it takes to be more than a homeowner, but also a caretaker or conservator.
Making the leap would have been exciting in all the right ways, save one: it would have tapped all of our resources and left little for the future. Despite all of the modernization we could have hoped for and a house in extraordinary condition, we would have needed half again the purchase price for remediation of issues on the property.
This leaves me grateful that I could have even considered the change. I am glad for what I learned. In the end I still own a lovely home in which I will continue to invest.
Coffee and morning naps and breakfast sandwiches and house TV shows and brainstorming ideas is about the best kind of Saturday I can think of
Does anyone else experience time travel via music? I Listen to First Wave on Sirius XM and have heard Two Tribes several times, recently. It’s striking how the targets of existential fear shift from age to age.
Found my bike helmet. It’s about twenty years old, by now, but never suffered an impact. Working on getting back in the saddle.
Yesterday our family learned the hard way that security cameras don’t see everything. And my daughter learned people are brazen and will take.
“…We have become the data we were supposed to be stealing or subverting.”
Cyberpunk, Anti-Politics, and Postmodern Despair
I am Gen X. I was a Mondo 2000 reader.
Pleasantly surprised today. My watch let me know my phone was in the car when I walked into my work building this afternoon. Not in so many words, but the obvious conclusion as I was heading to my desk and the alert popped up. As an ADHD’er, I approve of this feature!
We will see how pushy Evernote is on the new subscription prices… I have been contributing $5/month since at least 2010 for Premium. New price point for Personal is $7. Maybe I switch wholesale to iOS notes, now, with the feature set they have expanded to there is enough of an overlap to be effective
I have a new vice: Spicy Japanese Peanuts from Picosita Candy
They are covered in Tajin
16 hours without power. Grateful for the workers who improved local infrastructure to bring it back. Super grateful for AC again!
TIL: WatchOS 8 will allow reactions in Messages
Coffee: For the win
iPad Air: being able to use the pencil on-screen feels better than hunting and pecking. But in Notes, I wish we had dot-grid in addition to quadrille ruled.
Apple Watch: speaking replies to messages is my new jam. Having the option to leave my phone in my pocket keeps growing on me. This after making significant reductions in the types of notifications I will allow there.
Answered some questions I didn’t know I had:
The Police, Synchronicity II
The workaday world, some events in my life, and this song
With respect to an app store, well-played, Microsoft!
Your move, Apple.
The Cutter - Echo and the Bunnymen
A second song Shuffle Play dredged up that I haven’t heard in a very long time. I’m sure this is the first song of theirs I was familiar with until I rediscovered New Wave late in the 80s. Yeah, I’m never on time. Later in the 90s at the record store I started doing musical archeology to understand what had blown my mind in the decade before.
Frankly, I unashamedly revisit the past frequently via music. It’s my favorite form of time travel.
Enjoy.
- Wake Up
- Breathe
- Keep Breathing
Shuffle Play unearthed a favorite. Nicole Blackman vocals with The Golden Palominos
A lovely night for a pint
This includes my Dad’s favorite chair in a favorite room.
I took this shot, visiting my mom, a few months after he passed away in 2015.
Naturally, the Photos widget chose Father’s Day 2021 to present it to me from all the images it could have picked.
To all the fathers, to all the people who have fathers, to all the people contemplating becoming fathers, this day is richly varied, emotionally. I’m sure my experiences and yours overlap at least a little. I feel you.
If anything, being a father has shown me so many ways to improve who I am and what I do in the world. It is supremely humbling.
On this day, I wish you peace, joy, and love.
Struggling super hard with organization. As an ADHD’er, this is career defining/limiting. I haven’t found the method or the tool that sticks past overwhelm.
Is it just me? On Windows 10, an Intel Core i5 can’t seem to keep up with Teams, much less other things you may wish to work on while in a meeting. Have run into this on laptops and desktops of different manufacture. I don’t have this issue on a Core i5 MacBook Pro.
Shout out to Tony, who I have missed these many years.
I explained learning about The Game to a colleague at work. So, naturally I’ve lost many, many times in rapid succession.
Miss you, brother