Finished The Lathe Of Heaven by Ursula K Le Guin 📚
She was the master. I need to read more of her books. What a great tackling of Utilitarianism… and in 1971!
CURRENT STATUS: Night run along the river 🏃♂️
Happy Monday #bloomScrolling
Squeezing onto the crowded train. Hair coiffed. Long dark slacks. Shirt tucked in. Hip hop in the earbuds. Monday morning rush hour. Been a long time for this remote worker!
(It’s just for a meeting at the kids’ school. I am just having fun salaryman cosplaying 😇)
🤔 Thought provoking: 🖌️ Creative > Productive ⚙️
From a Sari Azout presentation about how she uses Sublime.app
Started the audiobook of The Lathe Of Heaven by Ursula K Le Guin 📚
Started listening to: The Terraformers by Annalee Newitz 📚
(Abandoned at 25%. Just not enjoying it enough to continue… so many other books out there that need reading!)
Very interesting map. Iraq and Syria have started shutting down again during May, and apparently have been doing so to prevent cheating on exams for the last several years 🤨
pulse.internetsociety.org/shutdowns
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Current Status: Night run 🏃
Watched The Beautiful Game which wasn’t the greatest movie but I had to because 1) it was football, and 2) I love seeing things like the Homeless World Cup and CONIFA World Cup in popular media (look ‘em up!) ⚽️ #football #footie
Gorgeous day. Went with my wife up to Minoh Falls. Took photos of falls, the river, leaves, the city view, and all the insect illustrations on the public toilets 🐝🪲🚽🤔
Current status: Minooo Falls
#Osaka #Japan
Read in 2024: Prophet Song by Paul Lynch 📚
… this wore me out. Emotionally… wrung out. Each chapter he just squeezes, squeezes, squeezes. The characters are so real. Lynch’s writing is very poetic. He uses denominalization heavily. The writing makes everything feel alive, even the dead.
Jiufen
Monday, June 3, 2024
This post is part of a series. See the introduction here → (see the whole album in full screen on Flickr here) The gold rush at the turn of the 1900s caused a boom in the small mountain town of Jiufen, with its sweeping views of the sea towards both the northwest and northeast. The narrow road switches back upon itself numerous times as you climb up the rugged mountainside.
Popped down to Kobe Chinatown for some snacks 🥮🥟 before heading over to Merikan Park to see the Port Tower 🗼 and discovered an Aloha dance festival! And me in my Hawaiian shirt! 🌺👕 #otp 💅🫰
Visited ⛰️ Mount Maya today 🚠 and took a few photos: cable car timelapses, cityscapes, mountain-top temples, and snakes 🐍
Started Justice by Means of Democracy by Danielle Allen 📚
AMAZE 😍💅🧝♀️🧝♂️👑💍 #lotr
Since I was travelling last time, this edition of my personal newsletter is a little full. Covers all the hits from the last two months: chopping up tuna in a back alley, baby sushi, and existential ennui. 🍷