Winter fuel, part 2
pesosJohn Naughton gets it:
although I use both Medium and Substack, everything I write therein is also published verbatim on my ‘live’ blog, which is completely under my control, and for whose hosting I pay with my own money. For me, Substack provided merely a convenient and reliable way of sending out the email version of what really matters — the live blog on the open Web.
I confess, I’ve never really liked the idea of “nice capture” applied to a photograph, even a stunning wildlife image. It smacks of snapping the soul, and the hunting side of it doesn’t appeal either.
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Not sure when I will next cross a physical border to another country, but independent cyberspace remains open, for which I am thankful.
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The Substackerati - Columbia Journalism Review
Very interesting article about Substack that can't quite decide whether it thinks Substack is a good thing or not. Also, I don't buy Substack's excuses about showing only the top 25 earners. Why not show earners 26-50? Or a random selection of 25 newsletters? It's the Matthew Effect all over again.
Working well. Just some minor CSS to fiddle with, at least in mobile.
Fade to black.
Not the end
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No, anything is not possible.
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I need to train myself to dig deeper before trying tricky computer stuff, but it is actually quite hard to find the tutorials that give understanding before they give instruction.
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My memory is that my first USB stick had 128Mb of memory and cost and arm and a leg, in 2001, I think.
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The Far Side used to be one of my favourite cartoons, but Gary Larsen’s return hasn’t really stuck with me.
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I’m just not very good at spooky movies, can’t suspend disbelief for things I find it hard to believe in.
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Keeping things minimal, I guess this will have to do.
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The Fall of Rome (just the poem) (Interconnected)
So few words, so much intent.
That picture is worth so much more than 1000 words, and yet I don't expect it to have any impact where it matters most, among the people rejecting "socialised" medicine all the way to their early graves.
Wear and tear is a concept that I like to embrace. My jeans, for example, are worn and torn in a way that directly reflects how and why I wear them, not a fashionista decree.
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Say what?
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I wish I could force m.b to look further back in my RSS feed and find yesterday’s microblogvember post.
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2020-11-08
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This is odd. The previous two posts have failed to post to m.b and I have no great expectation that this one will get through either. @help
@bsag How feasible do you think it would be to build a headphone only Raspberry pi DAC as a Roon endpoint?
I have enormous admiration for John F. Appleby, who in the 1870s perfected a machine that would tie a knot in twine, thus enabling a machine to bind sheaves of grain together and setting in motion the giant combine harvesters that enable our daily bread.
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There is no way I can inflate my relief at the day’s events, or my gratitude to cyber-friends here on mb for their generosity of spirit.
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Erk. I seem to have misplaced today’s #mbnov prompt.
Puzzling? This stuff writes itself, doesn't it. Not that I am going to let it, but the thought is definitely there. We've had near and anxious (ha; not anxious, astonish. Mr Freud, your slip is ready.) and stoop and now puzzling, and you still expect me to believe the choices are random?
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Americans Need to Kick Addiction to Polling - Bloomberg
Yeah, and maybe not just Americans, eh?
Is the architectural stoop derived from the same word as step, and what exactly is it? Is it what I might call the front porch? Or is the little flight of steps leading up to the porch?
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Just fancy that
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But in practice, Trump campaign officials were supporting continued vote counts where the president was behind and vigorously opposing them where he was ahead.
From today's Guardian.
I have resisted the temptation to look at the news today, aside from scary hints in social media, and I am going to sleep. Perhaps tomorrow will bring actual information, reducing uncertainty.
The only thing that makes life bearable right now is that I am near the person who makes my life worth living. I can’t imagine surviving so much forced proximity with anyone else at all.
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Whatever happens today is likely to astonish me.
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I do remember orange juice made from concentrate and it seemed sensible; remove the water, ship, replace the water.
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I don’t mean to be churlish, and I’m very grateful to have got it back, but I do wish it were a different colour.
I don’t mean to be churlish, and I’m very grateful to have got it back, but I do wish it were a different colour.
pesosNot at all dreary the past few days. We had a great outing under warm, blue skies to stock up on culture. It may be a while before we can do that again. #mbnov
Don't Contribute Anything Relevant in Web Forums Like Reddit
Here's hoping this sensible person soon becomes active in IndieWeb things.
There’s a first for everything
There’s a first for everything. Never before been served anchovies still in the tin. They were good, I admit.
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I know. And it isn't even as if the person responsible will ever see my comment. But given what they wrote, I don't see any point in pushing it any further. People suit themselves now, and don't give their future selves much thought.
Sad to learn that James Randi, magician and stage artist devoted to debunking the paranormal, dies at 92 - The Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/james-randi-magician-and-stage-artist-devoted-to-deb...
I had the honour to know and work with the Amazing Randi for a while in the 1970s and 1980s, and it was always fun.
OK, so you want to move to Medium because it'll be more rewarding. I get that. But as someone who follows via RSS from your own site, I don't understand why you would not also post there. I don't care whether you POSSE or PESOS, I do consider myself dumped.
Interesting how in the first flush of enthusiasm, people build a now page, and then it becomes an a while ago now page, and then, er, something else entirely. I'm not regretting a failure to embrace the /now.