Sönke Ahrens
Made some good progress today redesigning information architecture for VerseNotes.
Current theory: only standalone articles are dated; everything else is a Jekyll collection.
New theory: (almost) everything in one river of dated posts with judicious …
Just dropped off our skis to get waxed. Starting to get excited for Santiago next week!
I do feel a bit silly waxing snow skis in Texas in July. 🎿 🇨🇱
Finished watching: Oppenheimer. Superb acting from a cast I didn’t expect tells a story I of which only knew a small fraction. Fun sound design, although parts were noisier than they needed to be. Only real complaint is that it did not need all 180 …
Finished reading: The One Hour Bible by SPCK. Edited by Philip Law. A great idea—not paraphrasing or summarizing but eliding: using the actual words of the New Living Translation to tell the story of God in fewer words.
Unfortunately, while this …
My yoga app introduced me to a new pose tonight: locust pose. I’m reasonably certain you can see it in my heart rate just after the two-thirds mark. 🧘♂️
We have tried a bunch of non-alcoholic (n/a) beers lately, looking for something that satisfies the desire for something bubbly and refreshing but doesn’t have the associated buzz, drowsiness, lack of focus, terrible sleep, and other downsides …
Finished reading: For the Body by Timothy C. Tennent. A critical exposition of the need for the modern church to develop and espouse a positive theology of the body rather than the decades of pure negative theology: “don’t do that; that’s wrong.”
A …
Finished watching: Silo (2023). Incredibly slow start, but every episode was better than the last, and the final scene is worth all ten episodes. I’m not sure if it was better that I’d read the books first, or worse because I didn’t …
I had forgotten how much getting a car serviced costs. My 2014 Altima has been solid since I got it in 2016, modulo oil changes and tire changes, but today it needed some (expensive) help.
It was a lot of time and a lot of money, but I guess I can’t …
Finished reading: Senlin Ascends by Josiah Bancroft. Tremendously dissatisfying. A chaotic run through a fascinating world, but the plot was so contrived to prevent progress as to frustrate me with every page turn.
Not recommended. If you want a …
Today, Phil Schiller celebrated the 15th anniversary of the iOS App Store, and many people posted the first apps they downloaded. Here are mine.
Back in 2014, there was a Twitter account, or maybe a Tumblr account, that published pop songs as sonnets1. I loved the spin on genre, but I noticed that they were all Petrarchan (Italian) sonnets, which go ABBA ABBA CDE CDE, or Shakespearean …
Finished watching: Ted Lasso. Three seasons and only two clunkers. Amazing record. It’s not common that we get a mostly wholesome high-quality smash hit show, and I’m so glad to have seen it. Believe! 🍿
I’ve been obsessed with Demonin’s Array Game since Andy Baio linked to it a month ago.
After getting effectively to the current endgame (there’s no real end, but at some point there’s no “next upgrade”), it …
I just accidentally used the Universal Control feature built into macOS Ventura. I had set up my work MacBook Pro next to the monitor for my personal Mac mini, where I used to keep my laptop when it was connected to this monitor. So I naturally just …
Gave a bunch of stuff back to Apple today. These computers got both Meera and me through college and grad school, and it’s time to let go.
The white iPod (3rd gen, I think) was a birthday present when I turned 17 or 18; the iPods Touch tided me over …
Makeshift parfait at the BOS (Logan) Admiral’s Club this morning waiting for our flight back to Austin. 📸
Brunch at In A Pickle in Waltham ahead of a wedding yesterday afternoon. Hot honey chicken and waffles, pumpkin bread French toast, and coffee. Perfect.
Today I discovered Merlin Mann’s Wisdom Project, and it’s the kind of thing at least part of my Micro.blog should aspire to be.
Little snippets that are helpful to me now and might be helpful to me or others later.
Some of them are very …
Mostly final desk setup, shown here during a video conference we were both attending (on the iPad). The room looks mostly the same, except it has real curtains now and more stuff on the shelves. And we don’t use it nearly as often—we’re in the office …
Our other early-COVID desk, set up not in the office but the guest bedroom. Like everyone else, my wife and I spent too much time on videoconferences to sit in the same room, so we were fortunate to have space to spread out like this. Same monitor, …
Standing desk evolution, a few weeks in COVID. At this point, we still had the blinds open to remind us what “outside” looked like. It still kind of felt like vacation, not yet like the terrifying pandemic it turned out to be. (It did, and still …
Our home office desk before COVID. Made of an old kitchen table and K’nex, naturally. 📸
Day three of desk pictures. This one is an actual working desk of mine from my first apartment in San Antonio after grad school. It looks so much like my grad school desk in my Blackburg apartment I first guessed that’s what it was before …
Yesterday’s desk post made me think of other interesting writing desks I’ve encountered.
This one is from our house in Sóller, Majorca, Spain, from November 2021.
An iPad instead of a MacBook because this was a vacation, not a business trip.
