So I gave up on Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake 📚 a few weeks back. I found that the more I read, the more I forced myself to keep it up. It’s an OK book, well written, but there isn’t much content, and it seems like the author is repeating the same points over and over. Still, I learned fascinating things about mushrooms (for one, they’re not really plants; for another, they are the most likely to cause a zombie apocalypse), and I have way more respect for them now.
I guess it’s my turn to test Scribe from @amit. I’m especially interested in it because I tend to use the micro.blog web interface often. My tool of choice when writing long-form is Emacs. This post is in Scribe, and I closed the tab by mistake. Good test because when I re-opened Scribe, what I wrote was right there. It’s very clean, and I like the font of choice. It doesn’t look like it works with Grammarly (which I use in my browser), but that might be because of my own configuration on this Mac.
Another good design call is Markdown formatting when highlighting text. Some options are missing (like strikethrough, which I’m trying out above, and links), but most writing functions are there.
Somewhat better now… Added a bunch of my old posts with photos to the photos category, so they now show on the photos page. Photos, just to say the word one more time.
Meh. A second morning of poor sleep. The humid grey depressing weather outside doesn’t help much. I need the energy to work on several projects, but I’m all out. A stamina potion would be nice.
Cactus test, from the kitchen window 📷.
This weekend, I wiped my Windows partition and managed to delete my local Linux backup & games with it. Reinstalled Windows. Windows was happy to kill Grub. Fixed Grub. Found out I can’t boot into my Linux Mint partition. On the other hand, Windows can now finally handle VMware, so I’m setting up a virtual Linux machine for my Linux needs. Windows runs smoothly like it hasn’t for more than a year, making it a good gaming experience.
A new S3 Video..! About time.
In this video:
- Arc browser
- My new Photos page, why, and what it shows
- How to talk to people - a podcast
- Using the iPhone (or just using a "normal" smartphone again)
- How much should we blog? (inspired by Jack's blog)
- A couple of updates
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, 2018 - ★★★
A collection of shorts by the Cohen brothers that takes place in their favorite time period. Some are golden nuggets, and some are just, well, ain't that good. All in all, it was fun to watch them. I don't think I can go wrong with the Cohen bros. Solid and fun acting, good storytelling, and symbolism you may or may not miss.
It’s all a matter of perspective 📷.
Today we ran out of almond milk, so I tried flax milk. Bleeeh 🤢. Not a fan. I will need to make myself a regular latte later. Almond and sometimes oat milk with 0g sugar please, That’s how I roll.