Working on tonight’s webinar, #7 in the semester. The topics are team building, user roles and user stories. Spring break next week!
Our nutty kitty 🐈 loves to jump into piles of crumpled paper. It’s better if there are different styles of crinkly: tissue paper, butcher paper, cellophane, etc.
The last of our weekly contra dances was held one year ago today. Will we remember how to dance and play tunes and call the steps when we can dance again?
Hanging out until my “folklore” board meeting begins. It’s been a weird year because we had to cancel everything we do: dances, concerts, singings. But maybe tonight, we’ll begin plans to restart something before 2021 is over.
Currently reading: Forty Signs of Rain by Kim Stanley Robinson 📚
I’m grateful for a really nice morning of skiing. ⛷️🏔️🌤️ I’m looking forward to sleeping.
I’m 4 Brood X cycles old + 10. I was 10 years old, living in DC, for my first Brood X cicada cycle. I loved those bugs! Collected discarded wings, studied the enormous bodies. Fond memories. www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2…
What brains could teach scientists about the lasting effects of Covid-19
His goal: learning all he can about how SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19, affects brain tissue, potentially leading to long-term symptoms of the virus.
“The involvement of the brain is quite extensive,”
I’m grateful that I managed to get in a run this evening when it was 30 degrees F instead of waiting for tomorrow morning when it will be 0 F. I’m looking forward to what might be our last really cold night of the winter.
I’ve been a happy user of Hook for a couple of months, but I’ve mostly been using it to generate Markdown links. Today I went to the newly created Hook Productivity YouTube Channel and watched about three 2-minute videos. Whoa! Hook can do a lot more than I thought. Mind blown.
Finished reading: Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado Perez 📚I had high hopes for this book but ended up skimming through it. Every 50 pages or so I gave it another chance, but was again turned off by sophomoric complaining. Yeah, the past was terrible for women and the present isn’t so great but that doesn’t mean we need a book that says the same thing over and over and over, page after page. Could easily have been a 25-page monograph and then would have been a much more interesting and useful piece of writing.
Finished reading: Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson 📚Another novel that I stopped reading because I hated all the characters. I picked this up because I loved Ministry For The Future so much, but no go.
Currently reading: The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson 📚
Finished reading: Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid 📚Definitely worth reading. At first, I didn’t like this novel. So many unlikeable characters! But eventually I realized that it’s kind of the point. The protagonist and the 3-year-old make up for all the other unlikeable characters. I should confess that I stayed up most of the night finishing it, so there is that, too.
Today I am grateful for my workout app and the wonderful trainer who sets up my routines for me. The fact that I don’t have to think makes it so much easier for me to do my functional strength training 🏋🏼♀️.
I am looking forward to a bit more sunshine ☀️ every day.
It’s alive! We’re loving this blooming amaryllis providing color in mid-winter, as well as our still-blooming Christmas Cactus and about-to-bloom clivia.
More about COVID and the brain. www.washingtonpost.com
“Given that more than one hundred million people worldwide have been infected by the novel coronavirus, how the disease affects the brain might be the neurologic research question of our time.”
Currently reading: The Danzig Trilogy: The Tin Drum, Cat and Mouse, Dog Years by Günter Grass 📚
Finished reading: The Overstory by Richard Powers 📚 Totally worth reading. It’s a good companion to The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson. Why forests are worth saving, and why we should think of trees as more than a product. And also, love, loyalty, art, science, parents, and children.
Currently reading: Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson 📚
Currently reading: Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado Perez 📚
Finished reading: The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut 📚
Finished reading: Surfaces and Essences: Analogy as the Fuel and Fire of Thinking by Douglas R Hofstadter and Emmanuel Sander 📚 An 800 page slog. The one chapter about scientists and creative breakthroughs is quite interesting.
OMG Kitty Letter on the Apple App Store is a very funny, totally free game. From The Oatmeal.
It’s light enough to run 🏃♀️ after work!
