Friends of the Fountain Pen: How do you cope with bottles of ink that are wide and shallow? Is a syringe the only option for making use of the remaining ink when the pen filler simply won't work?
I have never, for one second, regretted the money I spent on my chair more than 20 years ago. Not even when I had to have two technicians here to replace the seat. And now that the gas spring is leaking a bit, I might have to have them back. Truly, what's the point of a decent keyboard if you tie yourself in knots using it all day?
Julia Reda on Twitter: "Dark day for internet freedom: The @Europarl_EN has rubber-stamped copyright reform including #Article13 and #Article11. MEPs refused to even consider amendments. The results of the final vote: 348 in favor, 274 against #SaveYourInternet… https://t.co/Wb2xwuNUZQ";
A sad day indeed.
"“But I’m not a lawyer. I’m an agent.”"
PESOS from Reading.am.
"Take my wife, please !"
PESOS from Reading.am.
Checked into Alfredo e Ada
Wonderful old-fashioned trattoria that we've been itching to get to. Most excellent lasagne ai carciofi and then tripe in a wonderfully dense, rich tomato sauce.
Waiting to hear Lawrence Lessing talk about the EU proposals and other stuff. A tick for the life list.
Still trying to work out why a photo that includes a hashtag (from Instagram) fails to show as a photo on micro.blog, while a photo without any hashtags shows up just fine.
Anyone have a clue?
Adactio: Journal—Going Offline—the talk of the book
logic is more important than code. In other words, figuring out what you’re trying to accomplish (and describing it clearly) is more important than typing curly braces and semi-colons. Programming is an act of translation. Before you can translate something, you need to be able to articulate it clearly in your own language first.
@kevinmarks Very much this.
2019-03-05
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There is order in the universe. I know, because on the very day that I finally knuckled down and wrote a pathetic little spreadsheet to do some bread calculations for me, the Gods of Serendipity put in one of my RSS feeds, and my gob is smacked.
Deep text: a catastrophic threat to the bullshit economy?
Interesting (and scary) counter-trend thought, that deep text could make dull kinds of writing easier and better. I'd be out of a job.
h/t Chris Aldrich
Something Like a Scent — Ridgeline issue 009
Might be odd to bookmark a newsletter, but why not. And "little lexical tchotchkes from the past" -- even though it is in something Craig Mod quotes -- is too good to pass up.
"Tidying up is not joyful but another misuse of Eastern ideas"
I do still prefer folding my T-shirts the way Marie Kondo suggests.
PESOS from Reading.am.
The tragedy of Brexit: not enough Pringles
Keep calm and snack on.
22 Brilliant at The Basics - Nicholas Bate
3. Make your own coffee. It's cheaper, it's better and it's therapeutic.
4. Make your own bread. See 3, except it's not cheaper.
Depends how you measure cost, obviously
h/t Matthew Lang
Real bread week, eh? Or, as I like to call it, Bread Week. Every week. 3kg of 50% wholewheat out of the fridge and ready for action.
https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/beneath-the-ballpark/ Now to listen to Chavez Ravine again.
