I’ve never really been able to articulate my dislike of Android, especially to it’s users, but this really opened my eyes.
https://daringfireball.net/2023/02/making_our_hearts_sing
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Winding down.
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Blood Orange Salmon.
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Garlic Rosemary Pork Chops
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New year, new planner.
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Finished reading: Upgrade by Blake Crouch 📚
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““In 1905, Gennaro Lombardi applied to the New York City government for the first license to make and sell pizza in this country, at his grocery store on Spring Street in what was then a thriving Italian-American neighborhood.”
But research by Peter Regas (who looked in Italian-language newspapers from the late 19th century) has revealed a previously unknown pizza kingpin behind some of the NYC’s first pizzerias and moves the probable introduction date of the pizza back into the 1800s.”
Via Kottke.
The Forgotten Father of Pizza in the USA
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“Aristotle compared the sovereign rule by “the mass of people” to a great potluck dinner party: “For it is possible that the many, no one of whom taken singly is a sound man, may yet, taken all together, be better than the few, not individually but collectively, in the same way that a feast to which all contribute is better than one supplied at one man’s expense.””
(Aristotle, Politics III.11, 1281a)
James Shelley in the Caesura Letters, January 8, 2014
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“Science used to be a solo endeavor. A monk with some pea plants could figure out genetics. Today, there are millions of people advancing the work of millions of people, with new updates coming all day long. The problems are dramatically more difficult, but the solutions are possible because we’ve multiplied the speed of change.
Thinking of problems as things for individuals to solve is hopelessly out of date.”
From The Speed of Change seths.blog/2022/09/t…
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Cortado.
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“A Book on a Sunday allows you to travel. To escape. To become a better gardener, a more confident cook and even attempt to knit a Fair-Isle jumper. It will get you to think and think more and to ponder and sometimes have an epiphany. It will cause you to want to finally create that plan, write that long over-due real letter and go on that hike. Sometimes it’ll get you to cry, to become a page-turner and/or laugh out loud.
Add music and decent coffee and perfect company and you may well have bliss on a Sunday.”
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“But these long-haul people, they find a thing they want to do, that needs doing, that they do well, and they do it for the rest of their lives. We adore our flashing heroes, but these long-haulers we deeply love. I think they seem necessary to our continuance as a society, that human communities are worth the effort. I think they’re necessary to our sense of meaning as humans, that we ourselves are worth the effort. We count on these people, they’re keeping it all going, the only thing stopping them is death.”
The Last Word On Nothing | In Praise of the Bean Man
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Leave the edges wild…
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A Day in the Life driving the Appalachian Highway across southern Ohio this morning.
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“It is a brave thing indeed to trust there may yet be good amongst the broken parts of our souls, to believe that maybe a part of ourselves still holds beauty. A body fighting to live on through life’s pain wants to shrink into the safety of what is already known. But the imagination is not safe. It drags us through cloud-fields where raindrop horses prance. It lets us think we can smell the sun and that fairies surely live in the flower garden down the street. It plants the inconceivable in our minds and makes our hearts long for it to be true. In the moments when we feel most lost, the imagination can speak to us in the secret language meant just for our soul. It gives us hope that our pain has been seen by another and known. It makes us feel the impossible: that we are not alone.”
- Hannah Mitchell
The Rabbit Room | Imagination as an Agent of Healing (Part 1 of 3)
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Dinner and a view.
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“A Perfect Old Fashioned…Does not exist. It’s fiction. Fantasy. A flat out lie. Anyone who tries to sell you one, or convince you that they can produce one, is trying to hornswoggle you. Or, perhaps, it is better to simply agree that they all are perfect.”
Evergreen wisdom from @patrickrhone
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Today’s office.
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Annie Dillard:
“How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. What we do with this hour, and that one, is what we are doing. A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time. A schedule is a mock-up of reason and order—willed, faked, and so brought into being; it is a peace and a haven set into the wreck of time; it is a lifeboat on which you find yourself, decades later, still living. Each day is the same, so you remember the series afterward as a blurred and powerful pattern.”
How We Spend Our Days Is How We Spend Our Lives: Annie Dillard on Choosing Presence Over Productivity www.themarginalian.org/2013/06/0…
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“When it comes to technology, my knowledge largely comes from my lack of fear over trying new things and pressing buttons just to see what they do. My consulting clients ask me where I learned how fix that thing that they called me in for – even if I may not have encountered their specific issue before. I explain that the main thing is my lack of fear. That I’m willing to just try things to see if I can figure it out. Push buttons just to see what they do. And, in doing so, I can now fix that problem should I ever encounter it again.”
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Fountain.
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Refreshment.
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“For the history of our race, and each individual’s experience, are sown thick with evidences that a truth is not hard to kill, and that a lie well told is immortal.”
From Mark Twain’s “Advice to Youth”
Via @ayjay
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Our year old niece Bethany passed away early on July 12th as a result of injuries from an car accident near Jakarta.
She had just finished her first day of 1st grade.
We’re raising funds to help family in Indonesia with funeral and medical expenses.
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Summertime.
