Newsletter sent. In this one, I write about how the approval to move forward on a greefield project (at work) coincides with my growing interest in creating and further embracing Indiweb. ✉️
One of the more touching blog posts I have read in a while: Tyrant Lizard King by Audrey Waters.
Turn your ‘what if?’ list into a ‘to do’ list.
Wendy Suzuki, via NPR Life Kit.
Some mornings you make the coffee, others the coffee makes you. ☕️
Started watching Seaquest DSV (1993). 📺
A rewatch for my wife, first-time watch for myself. We're up to s1 e7, and while the series isn't great, I can see so much potential in what the show-runners were trying to accomplish.
This week, I read two poems that have stuck with me, Sarah Gillman’s “And yet still grow” and Elizabeth Bradfield’s “Plastic: A Personal History”.
Technology is the active human interface with the material world.
But the word is consistently misused to mean only the enormously complex and specialised technologies of the past few decades, supported by massive exploitation both of natural and human resources.
This is not an acceptable use of the word. “Technology” and “hi tech” are not synonymous, and a technology that isn’t “hi,” isn’t necessarily “low” in any meaningful sense.
I so love Ursula K. Le Guin’s wisdom, especially in her rants.
Watched Silverado (1985). 🎥
There’s nothing like a great movie to put you in a great mood.
Saturday morning calls for Sylvan Esso’s “Coffee”. 🎵
From Anne Helen Peterson’s “The Final Frontier of the Text Inbox”
West Elm will be emailing you once a day about the last day of its Summer Clearance until you die. Even after you die, maybe even after West Elm dies, the emails will still hit your inbox, like boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
and
The inbox has stopped being a place of intimacy or a place of enjoyment. It requires attentiveness in a way that breeds resentment. It’s open all the time on my desktop and I hate it, as most people hate it.
and, ominously,
For brands, the text inbox functions as a sort of newly-revealed layer of intimacy to colonize.
Watched episodes 1-3 of Only Murders In the Building and just watching the chemistry between the cast makes me happy to watch this. Funny, and looks like the story is going to be really good. 📺
Finished Reading Incredible Doom Vol. 1. 📚
I took @sod’s recommendation and am very happy I did so. There’s so much to love in each drawn frame and the story is stellar. I’m anxiously waiting for the next volume.
In airports, I have never been a resident alien; I am a traveler, just like everyone else.
I really love this comic by Shing Yin Khor.
Watched Tigertail (2020) 🎥
A beautiful story with excellent performances. This movie says a lot about the things left unsaid, stories untold, and actions never taken.
For me, success is not a public thing. It’s a private thing. It’s when you have fewer and fewer regrets.
~Toni Morrison
Multiculturalism is a grand, revolutionary concept. But I think its purpose is really simple. It is to live with each other without the fear of each other.
~Nyadol Nyuo
Our constant interaction on and with social media platforms has trained us into a hyper-transactional society.
Yep.
~Me.
I just sent my newsletter after taking a few weeks off. Not too late to subscribe, please and thank you.
Kam Redlawsk is someone I only recently became aware of. Her voice, not only as a Korean Adoptee but as a person with a disability, and her advocacy for inclusion in outdoor spaces, is something I very, very much admire. This is an excellent video worth your time.
Watched Bob Ross: Happy Accidents, Betrayal & Greed (2021) 🎥
Though I always watch documentaries with a grain of salt, it’s not difficult to imagine people exploiting others for profit in the way that it’s portrayed here.
I discovered very very early in life, that life was filled with questions. And it was the questions that were important, never the answers. The answers always change; the questions grow.
~ Betty Reid Soskin, as heard on the This Is Love podcast. 🎙
Watched episodes 1 and 2 of Korean Cold Noodle Rhapsody (2021) 📺
Beautifully shot, as most modern food shows are. I didn’t like the pacing of the show; it moved a little too quickly from story to story. But it left me hungry, both for naengmyeon and for Korea itself.
It bothers me that writers can’t create audiences on their own websites, with their own archives, and their own formats. And they certainly can’t get paid in the process. (Although yes, there are exceptions).
~ Robin Rendle, on newsletters and websites.
I love this argument for many reasons (not to mention the visual layout). A similar thought process is what lead me here, to micro.blog.
We grow mostly genetically modified corn on nearly a quarter of our farmland to feed cruelly confined animals not meant to live on it, so that there is a seemingly endless supply of meat in the supermarket, inefficiency be damned. That isn’t abundance; it’s a lie.
~ Alicia Kennedy, “On Abundance”
Watched The Green Knight (2021) 🎥
One of the most visually beautiful movies I’ve seen, which helped by giving me something to appreciate when the story slowed. It’s a slow-burn which isn’t necessarily bad. I went in expecting an action-adventure, which isn’t what I saw.