EarBliss, 16mar2020-2… LIVE IN HEALDSBURG, by Anat Cohen and Fred Hersch.
The Coronavirus, Emergency Powers, and the Military: What You Need to Know, via Just Security.
This morning, at Parenthetical Recluse… Lockdown and Other Buckeye CoronaThoughts
Hoping that the new indoor gill-babies (transplants from my wife’s corona-vacated classroom) don’t get a complex from their vacation under Aerosmith’s gaze.
Highlights of Expert Panel on COVID-19 from Harvard, MIT, Mass General, via Just Security.
Newsletter 0093 is in the wild. The week is done; the day’s run awaits.
Today I learned that it’s not wise to do DIY auto body repair while wearing a smartwatch. The auto part worked out fine. The watch? Farewell, wrist cyborg.
On Digital Minimalism and Pandemics, via Cal Newport.
One of those days that reminds me that the creative process, no matter the medium, is like that episode of DOCTOR WHO when he punched the crystal wall for a billion years, chipping away at it, one shard at a time, until he was free.
Finished Shoshanna Zuboff’s THE AGE OF SURVEILLANCE CAPITALISM: will write more once I’ve processed it, but I’ve already added it to my list of books to understand the madness.
Original Super Mario Bros. illustrations found in a 1985 Famicom picture book from Japan, via Supper Mario Broth.
A Glass Jug That Looks Like Running Water Designed by Jin Kuramoto, via Spoon & Tamago.
A three-week+ spring break for my wife (and all of her colleagues and students). A relief. The governor and his administration are sounding all the right alarms and taking proper, difficult steps.
Retooling my work schedule / routine to focus solely on the things I want to accomplish. Though I wanted to do the daily pieces again - and enjoyed them - I’m letting those go by the wayside in order to give more meaningful work (and reading) its due.
The Disgruntled Morkie, post-impromptu sink bath; the allure of something to roll in in the backyard was just too great to resist.
Anecdotes of Painters, Engravers, Sculptors and Architects, and Curiosities of Art (1853), via The Public Domain Review.
Any bit of promise is worth investigating. Fascinating read: Will ViaCyte’s Encaptra Cell Delivery System ‘Cure’ Type 1 Diabetes?, via Insulin Nation.