Currently reading: Balm in Gilead: Journey of a Healer by Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot 📚
Stopped reading: Bone Rattler: A Mystery of Colonial America by Eliot Pattison 📚 Started and stopped in the same night. Read the first 30 pages, skipped to the last 10, said “Nope I don’t want to read this.”
NK Jemisin receives MacArthur grant -- and trying out the bookmarks feature
Very excited about NK Jemisin receiving a MacArthur grant. Wondering what this amazing world builder will create.
MacArthur Foundation Announces 21 ‘Genius’ Grant Winners - The New York Times
Ms. Jemisin, 48, said she typically writes under contract, meaning that her books are held to an agreed-upon timeline. But with the financial freedom that the grant offers, she said that she now has the option to forgo those strictures and write on her own schedule.
“I will write my books first and sell them as I feel like selling them,” she said. “It presents me with a lot of freedom.”
Finished reading: Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin 📚And Nabokov as translator redeems himself in my eyes with his excellent notes. Now I need to find a version in verse in English.
My very sane brother is suffering 6 months post-COVID
Nearly One-Third of Covid-19 Patients in Study Had Altered Mental State - The New York Times nytimes.com
Finished reading: Gertrude and Claudius by John Updike 📚
Currently reading: Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin 📚
Started and stopped reading: Hyperion by Dan Simmons 📚 When the 6 main characters were introduced and 5 were men and the only woman was immediately subjected to the male gaze, I said “life is too short to read this garbage” and quit.
Finished reading: The Book of Longings by Sue Monk Kidd 📚 I didn’t love it. The main character is so self-absorbed that she barely seems human.
Inktober day 2 wisp. So far it’s mostly about workflow
Inktober
Super annoyed to have had to do this
which involves a FULL RESET of Phone and Watch including hours of re-downloading apps.
Problems were no GPS tracking, high battery use
Currently reading: Gertrude and Claudius: A Novel by John Updike 📚
Finished reading: The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri 📚 Excellent book. More sad than uplifting, but definitely worth the read. Crossings of cultures, crossings of politics, crossings of children. The ways in which history does and does not matter.
Can you imagine getting a thank you card from Twitter or FB? Thank YOU @macgenie
A bright Fall, after all, despite the New England drought
Currently reading: The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri 📚
Finished reading: The Table Comes First: Family, France, and the Meaning of Food by Adam Gopnik 📚
Internet is down, must be time for lunch. On the positive side, CCI is putting in fiber on my street RIGHT NOW! Can’t wait to have awesome internet.
Hey, in all of my research around Mailmate and the 5 months it took me to figure out how to make my own key bindings work (problem was an unmatched parenthesis, ain’t it always), I never found this page until I was today years old and it’s so useful that I’m sharing it here. MailMate All Key Binding Selectors
Remember my web scraping project? I’ve read 8 chapters of Python Crash Course and have written a script that successfully loads BeautifulSoup and requests. Remembering how to use vi. But I still have a long way to go.
Currently Reading: The Table Comes First: Family, France, and the Meaning of Food by Adam Gopnik 📚
I'm looking forward to Apple Fitness+ and Apple One
I’m looking forward to Apple Fitness+. It sounds like it will be perfect for me. All I want is one yoga and one pilates class to add to my functional training and running regimen. I am hoping that the audio and video will be much improved from the somewhat sad classes I take today over Zoom, with grainy video and fuzzy sound.
So yeah, I’m planning to sign up for the Premier level of Apple One. It’s no more than I’m already paying them and I’ll be happy to have all the services.
Currently reading: The Book of Longings by Sue Monk Kidd 📚
Finished reading: Ada, or Ardor by Vladimir Nabokov 📚 Quit reading is more like it. Awful, awful book. It sure has not aged well. Trigger warning: Nothing like lots of child rape to make one have to stop reading.