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.

Useful guides to navigate the current moment - and those yet to come.

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.

Reading, 13mar2020…

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.

EarBliss, 11mar2020… THE WORD AS POWER, by Lustmord.

The Disgruntled Morkie, post-impromptu sink bath; the allure of something to roll in in the backyard was just too great to resist.

Started the third season of CASTLEVANIA: so good to have it back. Great series.

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.

Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… Quieter Internet / Personal Digital Scarcity / Frequencies / Yadda Yadda Yadda.

First afternoon working with my new TWSBI ECO fountain pen. I might already be in love.

Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… WearyBleary Ambient Monday ThoughtBuffet

EarBliss, 09mar2020… ASTORIA, by The OO-Ray.

Frisbee.

Great profile of one of my favorite bands, Algiers, via The Washington Post.

Newsletter 0092 is in the digital ether; the week is done, another begins. (Piss off, daylight savings time.)

Wild and Mythical New Bricolage Paintings by Yusuke Asai, via Spoon & Tamago.