👁️ Asides
Throw way thoughts. Sometimes I wonder why I felt it was worth posting when I did. Other times even I can’t work out what I was trying to say.
👁️ TIL that Ukiah is the palindrome of Haiku … which is why Ukiah has an 🔗 annual Haiku festival.
👁️ Before LLMs how many writers included paragraphs containing two sentence that follow this pattern?
That’s not imagination. That’s reality.
👁️ Turns out when I wrote - “🖇️ We are back” - we weren’t quite. Just learned another little thing about Micro.Blog that I had never completely absorbed. Thank you @sod - we are now back .. at least functionally - css and layout remains a WIP.
👁️There aren’t that many great Sax players to begin with - to lose two in a week - on a ratio basis it’s kinda like losing 50 great guitarists in the same time period. 🤯
👁️ Sitting in Aotearoa, working at different times (literally) with people in Europe, the USA, the UK, Australia, Hong Kong, Singapore it’s become clear to me that just as ‘the sun never set on ‘the empire’ and thus it is ‘always cocktail hour somewhere’ - so too on any given day we’re having a holiday.
👁️ I’ve lost all frames of reference for comparison purposes between the ‘indie’ RSS readers that have come out in the past 6 months.
- Current
- Silverleaf
- Unread
- Inkwell
- Stream
.. those just off the top of my head - and doesn’t even get to
- the ones I forgot
- the ‘big’ ones we know
- the ‘flotilla’ of unknowns in the app store
RSS is definitely not dead.
👁️ And we are back - normal service has been resumed.
Special shout outs to @sod and @AndySylvester who were on the end of email helping me bottom out my problems (I have many) and unknowingly @danielpunkass who I was not in contact with - but is the brains behind Mars Edit - without which some of what Sven and Andy asked of me in problem solving would not have been possible.
And when I say ‘normal’ - that is with respect to the MB feed.
Life is not so normal on the 🖇️ website which is
- using sumo - not my theme
- only two plugins - not 11
- a confused mashup of CSS -
But all fixable. Right?
Good to be home.
Just a vote - lt of background work going on on Chez PHI⑊PIN this weekend - sure would be helpful to give me an idea of where this is occuring. Or can I search all the files to find it? Disabling plugins right now.
👁️ The only surprise is that it took this long.
🔗 Largest North American bitcoin ATM operator, Bitcoin Depot, files for bankruptcy.
👁️🤯 If I understand this correctly - Nilay Patel, Peter Kafka, Scott Galloway, Kara Swisher, Preet Bharara, Henry Blodgett, Maria Sharapova, Sean Illing (who all sit in my feeds) - and a whole host of other podcasts are shortly all going to be managed (if not owned) by … James Murdoch?
👁️ Back in the day @stefp / @stephenpieper.net was a welcome source of posts in my micro.blog stream - and then somehow he wasn’t. Probably moved on. Then I saw him on Crucial Tracks - found his site and added to my Feeds in NetNewsWire and of course he is here - just not as prolific?
Reminded me of others that seem to have moved on - and yet haven’t or I have just lost them somehow?
@pratik @pratik@writing.exchange for example … @pimoore.ca … @smokey … @jacob and of course @SimonWoods - interesting to see all their handles appear in the MB list.
Funny👁️ how suddenly things just come to mind. Take 🔗🎵 Russ Conway - not thought of him for decades - my mum was a fan (which is why I even know his name), but I still have no idea how he suddenly cropped up in my brain.
👁️ I occasionally suffer from night-time foot cramps - excruciating at the best of times.
Yesterday I threw my back out.
Word to the wise: avoid a middle-of-the-night foot cramp whilst nursing a bad back.
👁️ If you live in New Zealand .. try this game ..
Talk to your Bolt/Uber driver and discover how many qualifications they have. Note how often they are allowed IN to New Zealand, but once in - somehow they aren’t ‘qualified enough’.
Isolated story? Not really.
I see a pattern.
