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I’ve started a dangerous practice of starting sentences with conjunctions. And I feel so rebellious.
I read a great article in the New York Magazine — the content was fine, but I really enjoyed the writing style. I need to do a better job of following authors, writers, directors, and other people who create things that I enjoy.
It’s good to keep a design cohesive, but sometimes you need to push some design in a specific area of the site, and let it get a little ahead. It’s ok, the rest of the website can catch up later.
It’s that time of year where I’m starting to get really nice evening light on the trees out my window towards the end of my workday.
Finished Diaspora by Greg Egan. Honestly I was lost for a few segments of it, but I got hints of pretty interesting concepts and ideas. I’ll probably re-read it at some point in the future, now that I have a better overall view of it (and since I found the glossary at the end, once I finished the book. Would have been helpful to realize that was there when I was getting started).
I’ve been wanting to read more, so I recently started making tea after dinner, heading out to the patio, and reading under the stars and patio lights for twenty or thirty minutes. It’s been a really nice way to wind down the day, and something that I’m really starting to look forward to.
It’s always nice to have some business budget in the bank for those times when you’re not really all that inspired to do real work.
https://cas.uoregon.edu/news/Fascinated-with-Fractals
I think 75% of my days are spent just trying to figure out why something isn’t working.
I keep thinking of fall in the northwest. Hiking around lakes, just below treeline. Blueberries and red leaves. Clouds and mist swirling in the trees.
The second time I’ve done this style — olive oil and garlic base, blobs of mozz and homemade pizza sauce, basil soaked in olive oil, and topped with parm. I always love oil/garlic together, and this version gives me some of the tomato that I also like.
The clouds have thickened today. It’s still pretty warm, but I’m liking the atmosphere (I like when it’s a little dark outside, my workspace inside illuminated with just a little lamp). If it begins to rain, I’m totally making some Chai.
One of the greatest things about about being a freelancer is that I can take an early swerve without clearing it with anyone.
I likely get too much enjoyment from watching the neighborhood squirrels. It’s good that I can’t keep any of them straight, or I would probably start naming them.
I’ve missed working my way through the Sunday newspaper, and so decided to bring it back. Some crepes for Sunday morning breakfast, and then a lot of time on the couch browsing the various sections.
I often find myself working a little longer, not out of reluctance to move on, but simply to let the song I’m listening to finish.
I’ve always liked Human Sadness, by Julian Casablancas+The Voidz. It’s certainly not for everyone, but I find it profound and haunting, similar to Interpol’s Mind Over Time, which has a completely different sound, but which I would also describe in the same way.
Every once in a while I think about posting on Facebook once again. It’s hard to think of any positives that Facebook brings to the world, and I’m someone who thinks it’s been pretty disastrous for society in general. But perhaps ignoring it isn’t the right path either.
I’m always weirded out when people spell out “okay”. What kind of time do these people have? They’re obviously not operating at peak efficiency.
Really enjoyed the short story Utriusque Cosmi by Robert Charles Wilson. I’ll have to check out more of his work.
I have a weekend marked on the calendar a few weeks away — “Do nothing at home”. Perhaps I should mark out a few more weekends.
I haven’t had an afternoon of just pure design work in quite some time. This is fantastic!
I think that the entire idea of upvotes/downvotes/liking/etc.. has probably damaged society to a far greater degree than what we realize.
Goliath’s Curse – Luke Kemp
Read some David Foster Wallace – an American writer and professor who published novels, short stories, and essays. Wallace published three short story collections: Girl with Curious Hair (1989); Brief Interviews with Hideous Men (1999), which was adapted into a 2009 film; and Oblivion: Stories (2004). His short stories and essays were published in outlets like The New Yorker and Rolling Stone magazines, and three collections of his essays were published as books: A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again (1997); Consider the Lobster (2005); and Both Flesh and Not (2012). Wallace also taught English and creative writing at Emerson College, Illinois State University, and Pomona College. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Foster_Wallace
I still don’t have a good way of dealing with bombs thrown into my daily schedule.
It’s generally at this point every year, after I return from a trip to the lush Pacific Northwest, that I begin wondering how far I have to drive to get close to that level of lushness.
My daily schedule in Dash has become a bit of a journal as well. I’ll add events for breaks taken, and for more special ones, I’ll write a little note and tag it as “life”, so I can view all of those together. It’s kind of nice to read little happenings during the day that I would normally forget.