Woo hoo, I’m at 69 books read for the year and expect to finish a few more before Dec. 31. Maybe I’ll catch up to @artkavanagh. Very happy to have Micro.blog Bookshelves keeping track, though it would be awesome if it would do the math for us LOL!
Currently reading: The World We Make by N. K. Jemisin 📚
Currently reading: The Magic Kingdom by Russell Banks 📚
Finished reading: LaserWriter II by Tamara Shopsin 📚Had some good moments but was fundamentally unsatisfying.
Currently reading: An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us by Ed Yong 📚
Currently reading: Ithaca by Claire North 📚
At my location, today is the earliest sunset of the winter. A blessed milestone.
Is web development personal expression?
The Supreme Court case about the web developer believing she has the right to discriminate seems off to me. I know many people who create websites for a living. I don’t think they consider themselves artists who are putting themselves into their work. A good website represents the client, not the developer. Am I wrong? Here’s an essay by the always brilliant Robin Givhan where I think she agrees with me.
Currently reading: LaserWriter II by Tamara Shopsin 📚
Finished reading: The Balliols by Alec Waugh 📚So unexpectedly good! Written in 1934, looking back at 1900-1925. Lots about the role of women changing, lots about the disappointments post-WW1. Highly recommended.
Finished reading: The Women Could Fly by Megan Giddings 📚I didn’t love it. Parts of it were great, a lot of it was preachy.
Shoutout to @acfusco for writing such wonderful short stories for Micro.blogvember. You are an inspiration to us all. You didn’t just go for safety, you took chances and we all benefited.
I ain’t got nothing to say today. So it’s just fish.
Just reported a bug to Apple. When I use my iPad in Sidecar mode to hold the Zoom window, thus freeing up the rest of my iMac for screen share, etc., the iPad becomes very unstable and Zoom often freezes to the point of unusability. Worked fine under iPadOS 15. @burk
Yeah, my weight is definitely trending higher after the past food-filled week. I’m counting on intermittent fasting to bring it back down to normal.
What’s my motivation for looking at Mastodon at all? I’m pondering when to use Mastodon and when to use Micro.blog. I have a vague idea that Micro.blog is for friends, even though I’ve met none of you, and Mastodon is for professional interests. But I haven’t found those folks.
Desperate COVID long-haulers turn to costly, unproven treatments
Data released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention suggests that almost 15 percent of the population has had long COVID, or symptoms that lasted three months or longer after the acute infection.
Currently reading: The Women Could Fly by Megan Giddings 📚
Currently reading: Learning Science for Instructional Designers by Clark N. Quinn 📚
Another case of history rhyming: the wonderful book Chants Democratic is teaching me about 1829 New York and the movement that won a NYC election with a commitment to redistribute all property. They were soon co-opted and made to disappear. Much talk of inequality in those times.
Yankee breakfast: apple pie and cheddar cheese
Ritual! What a funny word to come up the day after Thanksgiving which was a day of such ritual. Everything I cooked, everything we ate, was spiced with nostalgia.
Making mashed potatoes with celeriac and garlic. The trick is figuring out how to retain the right amount of cooking water for good texture.
An update: I am leaving work at 1 PM in order to do a bit of last minute shopping and then begin cooking. Excited!
Finished reading: Beware of Pity by Stefan Zweig 📚Such an interesting novel. I suspect it works on many levels. Thank you to my friends in the Readers Republic for recommending it.