Bag Three.
Links, 04jan2021
‘Doctor Who’: BBC Refuses To Deny Report Jodie Whittaker Is Quitting, via Deadline.
Spider-Man-style medical gun spins out ‘skin substitute’ for burns, via The Guardian.
GTA 5 fans are obsessed with watching Franklin get roasted, via Polygon.
Jack Ma’s Disappearance From African TV Show Sparks Questions, via Deadline.
A Frozen Installation by Makoto Azuma Preserves a Vibrant Floral Arrangement in Ice, via Colossal.
Running partner turkey update: he has re-emerged, though I wasn’t interesting enough to make him look away from his own reflection in the passenger wing mirror of a parked Honda.
EarBliss, 04jan2021: ALL THOUGHTS FLY, by Anna von Hausswolff.
Links, 03jan2021
Robin Williams’s widow: ‘There were so many misunderstandings about what had happened to him’, via The Guardian.
“To read the file was to see the basic virtues of twentieth-century corporate life (exactitude, determination, careful record keeping) repurposed in service of a mania”: The Real Republican Radicals, via The New Yorker.
William Gibson: ‘I read Naked Lunch when it was still quasi-illicit’ | William Gibson | The Guardian, via The Guardian.
“But most of the projects that move the needle in my career — working on a research paper, writing a major article — never get discretized into bite-size actions on a list. I instead treat them with the level of intention that their formidable difficulty deserves”: Projects vs. Tasks: A Critical Distinction in Productive Scheduling, via Cal Newport.
All 10 living former defense secretaries: Involving the military in election disputes would cross into dangerous territory, via The Washington Post.
My only real goal this year is to not nearly call emergency services every time I change my watchband.
Links, 01jan2021
Wisconsin health-care worker ‘intentionally’ spoiled more than 500 coronavirus vaccine doses, hospital says + Wisconsin pharmacist who ‘intentionally’ spoiled more than 500 vaccine doses is arrested, police say, via The Washington Post.
This maker built a working Batman grappling gun in only a year, via The Verge.
Deadliest serial killer in American history dies at 80, with police still searching for his victims, via The Washington Post.
LEGO Botanical Collection Designer Videos, via The Brick Fan.
New coronavirus variant may have been in US since October, via The Guardian.
A journalist had a seizure while playing ‘Cyberpunk 2077.’ Then she helped change the game, via The Washington Post.
Eugene Wright, bassist with classic Dave Brubeck Quartet, dies aged 97, via The Guardian.
Total Assembly Required Interlude
Bag One: in which I commence the assembly of our Christmas gift to my 94-year-old grandfather. Batmobile on hold.
In a happy confluence of interests, he loves both trucks and owning Legos of trucks (and making wooden display stands upon which to display his pre-assembled Legos of trucks) but can’t stand building them; I like to build them but lose all interest once they’re finished.
(He said he “already has some ideas” about the form his wooden display stand will take. )
And thus, the build begins.
