Reading, 15feb2020.
Think I’m going to make a change to weekly public essay / private newsletter release schedule: instead of both publishing on Sundays, I’ll go with new essays on Wednesdays with the NL remaining on Sundays.
More intrigued by NO TIME TO DIE than most of the recent Bond films; Billie Eilish’s theme song makes me even more so.
Meanwhile, in life as a hostage to insulin manufacturers news… “The boom times of insulin sales” (via Axios).
Though iA Writer has been my go-to-workhorse for years (and likely will be for years to come), being able to select a particular document for quick haptic-touch access would make my mobile workflow even more flow-y (for want of a better, for real, word).
Retooled my site a bit in the wake of my switch from daily to weekly posting: only the latest post on the home page (instead of a scroll of seven) and a nifty new Archive page that my previous ramblings can call home.
A fascinating look at how open-world sandboxes like GTAV have become canvases for art and for protest, via The Washington Post.
As the forever campaign drags on, McKay Coppins’s latest in The Atlantic, “The Billion-Dollar Disinformation Campaign to Re-elect the President", is an essential - and terrifying - read.
”My own works, far from smiling on me, irritate me every single time I go over them again.”
— Michel de Montaigne, II:17, “On presumption.”
Because when your new desk is too big to fit through your old office’s door and you build a new office around said desk, KaijuDesk, in the back room paint shop, the only solution, a year on, is to add more desks.
”The wisdom of the journeyman is to work one day at a time and he always said that any job even if it took years was made up out of a day’s work. Nothing more. Nothing less… In the concept of a day’s work is rhythm and pace and wholeness.”
— Cormac McCarthy, The Stonemason.
Spent part of the afternoon visiting with Chloe, my 150-pound Newfy friend. The dog-children are not pleased.
Finished Murakami’s KILLING COMMENDATORE. First impression / one sentence review: it’s not as interesting as he thinks it is.