Two questions, Micro-verse: one, I’m looking for a good guide to starting a podcast; and two, I’m considering creating a “comment via email” system for my main site. I’m assuming the simplest way is to just make “comment via” a mailto link, but I’m open to other suggestions.
Finally finished Costa-Gavras’s Z: easily one of the best political thrillers I’ve seen - and frighteningly prescient, 50+ years on.
Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… Stable Permutations / MIDNIGHT’S CHILDREN.
Links, 26jul2020
Ohio’s businesses were all for mask mandates. Then politics got in the way, via The Washington Post.
Xbox Game Pass is Microsoft’s true next-gen Xbox, via The Verge.
‘That’s an illegal order’: veterans challenge Trump’s officers in Portland, via The Guardian.
Ancient teeth show history of epidemics is much older than we thought, via The Washington Post.
Portland Protests: Mary Poppins Has Had Enough, via Reading The Pictures.
The shadowlands of language, via The Economist.
Biden’s path to the White House could hit a dead end on Facebook, via The Guardian.
Look at this cool LED face mask made by a fashion entrepreneur, via The Verge.
Daily running route yard signage report for 26july2020: 110 houses, 8 Tumor/Pestilence signs (+/-0), 0 Biden signs (+/-0); 99 days and 12 hours remain until the 2020 election.
Issue 0014 of MacroParentheticals is on its way to subscribers. The week is done - and more in-ground Morkie pools await.
Today’s yard work: the in-ground Morkie pool is complete - and enjoyed by both The Morkie and The Greyhound. And now: figuring out what I’m going to do with the rest of that space.
Made the switch to an annual subscription. Sorry, Micro-verse, but you’re stuck with me for at least the next year.
Daily running route yard signage report for 25jul2020: 110 houses, 8 Tumor/Pestilence signs (+/-0), 0 Biden signs (+/-0); 100 days and 12 hours remain until the 2020 election.
Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… Of Plans Crushed by Henry’s Whims.
Nearing an important milestone: we’ve scattered / moved / spread 19 cubic yards of mulch since May. When we hit 21 we can drink.
Daily running route yard signage report for 24jul2020: 110 houses, 8 Tumor/Pestilence signs (+/-0), 0 Biden signs (+/-0); 101 days and 12 hours remain until the 2020 election.
Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… SitRep, 24jul2020.
Props to the fly that tried their best to make this morning’s work block a re-enactment of that great fly-in-the-lab episode of BREAKING BAD.
Links, 23jul2020
Improved Insulin Patch Could Replace Pumps, CGMs, and MDI, via Insulin Nation.
What Could Happen If Donald Trump Rejects Electoral Defeat?, via The New Yorker.
Control developer Remedy explores military shooters with CrossfireX on Xbox One, via The Verge.
U.S. hatches plan to build a quantum internet, via The Washington Post.
Star Wars: Fanmade Baby Yoda/Maul Mashup Is Adorably Deadly, via CBR.
Today’s yard work: flower bed expansion, Jorkie assistance, and cool plants that my wife told me the name of but I can’t remember because I don’t listen very well.