Finished reading: Akata Witch by Nnedi Okorafor 📚a fun YA read with great characters
Uh oh. I bought myself one of those Ember mugs that keeps your beverage at the perfect temperature for hours. Now I can drink an entire pot of black tea in the morning. #overcaffeinated
She’s checking to see if possibly this spot will be warm enough for her
@help Bookshelves still broken in web, so I went to Epilogue on iPhone. Wanted to make a post and Epilogue would not let me make a new post
Finished reading: Morningside Heights by Joshua Henkin 📚I could not grasp the point of this novel. Lots and lots of exposition but why?
Chan School event seeks way forward for long COVID patients – Harvard Gazette
Me and my buddy climbed the local mountain on that warm day last week.
My brother is interviewed in this piece about Long COVID
OMG this is so good, especially if you’re an Agile geek like me. @chadgmoore, I think you’ll appreciate this one.
Help! I’m trapped in an Agile Terminology Charade! | by Sjoerd Nijland | Serious Scrum
Article about new vaccine ad that shows the toll of Long COVID on young people-Wash Post no paywall
Good use of NIH money at UMass
Liisa Selin and Anna Gil study links between viral infections and ME/CFS
50% of people who get COVID-19 have long-term effects
At the local coffee shop. So many mask fails in so many ways. Guy with bandanna. Gal pulling her shirt up over her nose. Guy with mask but not covering his nose. You’d think after a year, in Vermont, people would be smarter.
I made a Racket with @chadgmoore today. Our topic was virtual whiteboard tools, such as Miro, Mural and Microsoft Whiteboard. I’m evaluating them for my class and Chad has lots of experience. I think it was a good Racket!
No answers, but these are good questions
is the threat of long covid an ongoing reason to avoid contracting the virus? Could endemic covid leave millions disabled with long-haul symptoms every year, creating a growing public health crisis?
Column One: How does COVID-19 change the brain? This scientist is finding out - Los Angeles Times
Currently reading: The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell 📚
Finished reading: Cloud Atlas: A Novel by David Mitchell 📚I did love it, to the point of slowing down in order to make it last longer. I was saddened by the end, which seemed hopeless as we are all consigned to a word of violence and inequality. Still thinking about it, though.
Currently reading: The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2021 (The Best American Series ®) edited by Ed Jong 📚
Thinking about whether to use Miro to replace my use of Trello and even some of my use of Google Docs in my online Agile Project Management course. Initial verdict is no for icebreaker type activities and maybe as my replacement for Trello.
Art from my mother’s home, reflecting her dining/living room. This was my home away from home, until she died in 2019.
#mboct
Red
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My ancient but beloved cycle
#mboct
I found this song after I fell into indigenous TikTok and now I can’t hear it enough 🎵
35 by Rob Ruha and Ka Hoa
I am so loving Monterey on my iMac. I made my cursor turquoise and pink and big, and my accent color purple, and these things make me happy every minute of the day. Unfortunately, it’s hard to screenshot the cursor but here’s how I did it.
