And lo, the yards were filled with bits of dismembered snowmen.
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EarBliss, 04dec2020: SPEAK LOW II, by Lucia Cadotsch.
That crack was the sound of my heart breaking as my beloved Lamy 2000 fell to the concrete floor.
Links, 04dec2020
Ohio coronavirus picture darkens rapidly, via Ohio Capital Journal.
The Macabre and the EroticーArtworks Tell the Story of Japan’s Diversity, via Japan Forward.
Does it matter if The Crown Fictionalises Reality?, via The Economist. (No.)
Why Warner Bros. had to move its 2021 films to HBO Max, via The Verge.
Update: the tree is assembled; I have Christmased.
Tree assembly aides.
“To see complex systems of functional order as order, and not as chaos, takes understanding.”
— Jane Jacobs, “The Death and Life of Great American Cities,” p. 489
Izzy’s folly; a bad idea in progress.
Links, 03dec2020
How Francis Ford Coppola Got Pulled Back In to Make ‘The Godfather, Coda', via The New York Times.
Warner Bros Sets Entire 2021 Movie Slate To Debut On HBO Max Along With Cinemas In Seismic Windows Model Shakeup, via Deadline.
Why Web Scraping Is Vital to Democracy, via The Markup.
COVID-19: Hand Sanitizer Poisonings Soar, Psych Patients at Risk, via Medscape.
Sanctum / office post-expansion.
Random evening thought: I miss writing for other people, for platforms other than ones I’ve built. Love my gardens of thought, but it’d be nice to branch out again.
After numerous and creative profanities, the printer is connected to the new router and the elliptical is reassembled: disaster averted - at least until one of us is brave enough to use it again (it being the elliptical, not the printer, but maybe that too).
Update: the printer worked and the elliptical has neither fallen to pieces nor blown up. Little victories.
EarBliss, 02dec2020: FOGHORNIA, by Tapani Rinne.
Links, 01dec2020
Ohio’s anti-vaxxers shift aim toward COVID-19 laws, via Ohio Capital Journal.
Commenters are complaining about candles they can’t smell. Is the coronavirus to blame?, via The Washington Post.
View from the ICU, via The Economist.
En Pleine Mer: The Underwater Landscapes of Eugen von Ransonnet-Villez, via The Public Domain Review.
Indeed it was the ten-year-old router causing those ten years of slow internet. Surprise surprise / shock of shocks.
EarBliss, 01dec2020: HUNDREDS OF DAYS, by Mary Lattimore.
No matter how tired I may get of winter, having mine be the first human tracks on the day’s running trails always brings a glimmer of joy.
As was the case with its predecessor, I might be just a little hooked on the new UNSOLVED MYSTERIES.
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Morning.
EarBliss, 30nov2020: L’INATTINGIBLE, by Delphine Dora.
