“Mr Bergman, I’m ready for my close-up!”
Apple weather: 100% chance of rain tonight.
Carrot (using Accuweather): 0% chance of rain tonight.
Currently reading: Reinventing Bach by Paul Elie. Read it and loved it when it came out a decade ago, time to return to it. 📚
Finished reading: Leopoldstadt by Tom Stoppard. It seems wrong somehow to say that this was merely good, but … it moves quickly, and I think the story deserved a deeper treatment – something like the three plays of The Coast of Utopia. 📚
I rarely offer advice, but once I gave two items of writing advice, and another time I gave two items of productivity advice. I’ll now add one more widely-applicable suggestion: Instead of trying to find shiny new tools, strive to become a better user of the tools you already have.
Currently reading: Leopoldstadt by Tom Stoppard 📚
Irina Dumitrescu on the body’s memories, and the comparative ghostliness of digital experience: “I find it hard to articulate what this meant to me, how strange and wonderful it felt to be drawn into the past, to find out I carried a past within me somewhere beyond conscious recollection, and that it only needed to be activated. The body is already a memory device. The body already keeps count, of more than I know or care to admit. I can remember a dance partner’s breath on my face twenty years ago, but the months of text chats blur together, even if in the moment they gave me a feeling of connection for a while.”
Something about to happen here.
What @dave says about Mastodon has been my experience also. I look through Mastodon posts and think “Oh, right, these folks liked Twitter.”
Finished reading: Reporting World War II: The 75th Anniversary Edition: A Library of America Boxed Set. I wrote about the experience here. 📚