A different kind of wreath.
pesosPlease Sir,
What does hypeisis mean?
The internet does not know and keeps thinking I mean hypnosis, which I do not.
Thanks
Jeremy
Inspired by @domenicacooks to attempt one of the great snacks of Naples (and Ischia, where we first came across them).
pesosIs there no way to stop the idiocy of having to prove I am a human when I try to use my phone to access a site “protected” by @cloudflare?
I went to your site at https://simulacrum.party/, as advertised in your profile, to see what your interests might be, with a view to making a sensible suggestion. It returned a 404. So, you know, maybe tech is hard?
I have Chrome installed for one reason only: to chat with a good friend who won't use anything else. I used to use Adium, but it won't do it any more. What are my alternatives to interact with Google Hangouts?
Such a fine example of endearing grumpiness in the pursuit of truth and beauty.
I too have been ignoring Spotify's apparently magical Discover Weekly these past several weeks, not because I was feeling algorithmicly manipulated, but because I've just had more of a hankering to listen to whole albums. Unfortunately, unlike Phil Gyford, even when I was doing Discover Weekly regularly, it didn't seem to surface anyone in particular for me. Maybe I should try again.
Watched The Right Stuff, which I had never seen, for the obvious reason, and was very pleased to have done so. 🎥
I was tempted by a fully electric car earlier this summer, but the cruel fact is that in a city or apartments, in which we have no access to a garage (or "box" as they are known here) there just wouldn't be any way to re-fuel. So I got a hybrid. Then, over the past few weeks, the city has been hard at work installing two charging stations on the corner. Currently they are not yet functional, and occupied by gas-guzzling SUVs.
When they are functional, I wonder how the city plans to keep other cars from occupying the spaces. I suspect they won't.
I have not yet been bitten by this particular version of helpfulness gone awry, but I am aware it could happen, and I agree with Peter that there really ought to be a simple way to indicate that someone is no longer available to be shared with.
Cannot wait to watch this. For as long as I have been a biologist, I have regarded this as the one thing I wish I'd been around for. Well, maybe poly-U too ...
The past month of micro posts served to reinforce my belief in my need for extrinsic motivation.
#mbnov
Crossing pedestrian off my list.
#mbnov
In tomorrow's episode, the story behind this earlyish inforgraphic.
How did the Brits become a nation of tea drinkers?
“Comparative Consumption,” Sir James Buckingham, A Few Facts about Indian Tea and How to Brew It (London: Indian Tea Association, 1910, p. 4. British Library shelf mark 07076.48 (4).
pesosI absolutely refuse to be bullied by a “random” word generator into using a word like mask. #mbnov is a hoax.
Dilemma is one of those words that never looks correctly spelled to me. I dither between dilemma and dilemna for reasons that escape me.
#mbnov
It seems I’ve done nothing but adjust for the past nine months.
#mbnov
Call me the breeze?
#mbnov
A university press department that can't be messaged on Twitter? That's a new one for me.
PESOS from Reading.am.
PESOS from Reading.am.
I’m a good listener. I can say things like “provision another instance,” and have no idea what I’m talking about.
#mbnov
John 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.
#mbnov
Not sure when I will next cross a physical border to another country, but independent cyberspace remains open, for which I am thankful.
#mbnov
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.
Fade to black.
Not the end
#mbnov
No, anything is not possible.
#mbnov
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.
#mbnov