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Mostly Books

Posted in Holidays, tagged , , , , , on January 5, 2025| Leave a Comment »

Today is the last day before the day job resumes. I shall spend it wisely, with food, chill, and books. Mostly books.

“Sections in the bookstore

  • Books You Haven’t Read
  • Books You Needn’t Read
  • Books Made for Purposes Other Than Reading
  • Books Read Even Before You Open Them Since They Belong to the Category of Books Read Before Being Written
  • Books That If You Had More Than One Life You Would Certainly Also Read But Unfortunately Your Days Are Numbered
  • Books You Mean to Read But There Are Others You Must Read First
  • Books Too Expensive Now and You’ll Wait ‘Til They’re Remaindered
  • Books ditto When They Come Out in Paperback
  • Books You Can Borrow from Somebody
  • Books That Everybody’s Read So It’s As If You Had Read Them, Too
  • Books You’ve Been Planning to Read for Ages
  • Books You’ve Been Hunting for Years Without Success
  • Books Dealing with Something You’re Working on at the Moment
  • Books You Want to Own So They’ll Be Handy Just in Case
  • Books You Could Put Aside Maybe to Read This Summer
  • Books You Need to Go with Other Books on Your Shelves
  • Books That Fill You with Sudden, Inexplicable Curiosity, Not Easily Justified
  • Books Read Long Ago Which It’s Now Time to Re-read
  • Books You’ve Always Pretended to Have Read and Now It’s Time to Sit Down and Really Read Them”
    ― Italo Calvino, If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler

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Follow Your Own Tune

Posted in Writing, tagged , , , , , on January 2, 2025| Leave a Comment »

“Oh God, the terrible tyranny of the majority. We all have our harps to play. And it’s up to you to know with which ear you’ll listen.”

― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

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On Time and Trees

Posted in Holidays, tagged , , , , , on January 1, 2025| Leave a Comment »

On the first day of this new year, a short poem on the relative nature of time. And nature.

Do we seem as slow

To hummingbirds on the wing

As trees do to us?

Wishing you a happy new year.

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Photo by Joel & Jasmin Førestbird on Unsplash

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To the New Year

Posted in Holidays, tagged , , , on December 31, 2024| Leave a Comment »

“Look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else.”

― Tom Stoppard

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What AI Needs

Posted in Other, tagged , , , on December 30, 2024| Leave a Comment »

A thought: One thing AI really needs is a sense of disgust. So many of the images I see have some element that triggers at least a little body horror, at least for me.

One downside to not having a body, I suppose.

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Image by Neeqolah Creative Works on Unsplash

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Undoubtably, On Vacation

Posted in Holidays, tagged , , , , on December 29, 2024| Leave a Comment »

“What do you say, Pooh?”
Pooh opened his eyes with a jerk and said, “Extremely.”
“Extremely what?” asked Rabbit.
“What you were saying,” said Pooh. “Undoubtably.”
― A.A. Milne, The House at Pooh Corner

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Should Strikes Again

Posted in Writing, tagged , , , , on December 28, 2024| Leave a Comment »

You know when you need a bit of new tech and you spend ages researching what you want and reading all the fine print to ensure that everything looks good before finally hitting the Buy button, only to have it arrive and (fill in the blank).

Maybe the module doesn’t sync with the old system, even though it absolutely should. Maybe the form factor was altered in non-obvious ways that keep the new thing from matching the old thing. Maybe the cable that looks perfect mysteriously does not work.

A lot of things can go wrong, and it has inspired a new phrase: Should strikes again.

It should fit. It should match. It should connect.

It should work, dammit, but it just doesn’t.

Does it make me feel better to know that this type of problem is super common? 

No. And yes.

A little:)

So the next time your best-laid plans backfire, remember, it’s not you. It’s just life’s little shoulds, striking again.

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Choose Wisely

Posted in Other, tagged , , , on December 27, 2024| Leave a Comment »

Time is nothing but a collection of nows.

— Tina Roth Eisenberg

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The Shortest Day

Posted in Holidays, Other, tagged , , , , , , , on December 21, 2024| Leave a Comment »

Greetings, fellow space travelers! Today is the winter solstice, the Northern Hemisphere’s shortest day of the year. 

Winter solstice 2024: How to celebrate the start of winter – NPR

“At 4:20 a.m. EST, the solstice marks the beginning of winter in the Northern Hemisphere and summer in the Southern Hemisphere,” NASA says on its website.

That means from now until the end of June, each day will get a little bit longer — and brighter…

Read the full article for some fun facts on the solstice, plus a link to solstice-themed music, food and writing, including work by beloved children’s author Susan Cooper (my brother and I loved The Dark Is Rising).

Today is also the official start of winter, and the temperature is dropping like a rock in a gravity well. Stay warm, it just gets brighter from here!

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I think there’s a druid in there somewhere. Photo by Dyana Wing So on Unsplash

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If You’re a Unicorn, Be a Unicorn

Posted in Other, Writing, tagged , , , , on December 20, 2024| Leave a Comment »

“Whether it’s money, grades, promotions, popularity, attention, or just plain material things we want, scientists agree: seeking out external rewards is a sure path to sabotaging our own happiness.”

― Jane McGonigal

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