Winter 2024

Now (and sorta now)

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2024-12-21

Site updates: I've taken a break from migrating posts the past few weeks. Will carry on in the new year.

Life updates: Living in a rural setting there's always something to do outside and for the past few weeks I've been focusing on more active landscape management. In previous years I've tended to let nature be nature, which is to say, keep my hands out of things. Working on a longer, proper blog post about why this isn't sustainable. Suffice it to say, I've been spending a lot of time outside working in the woods.

Micro Posts

# I really enjoyed reading James Thompson's blog post about building the first pre-OS X Dock. Fun story and bit of Apple history. Also, Jason Snell's MacWorld article about OS X back in February 2000 where he highlights all of the big changes that were announced. I'm sure I read it back in the day, fun to re-read today on the 25th anniversary of the MacWorld reveal of OS X. I remember the excitement of the announcement and then installing the public beta. Good times.

2024-12-26

# Watched the ForeverNotes videos on YouTube and considering trying it out as a supplement to the OBTF that I've been happily using the past 9 months for a basic daily notes that primarily serves as a springboard for blog posting. A helpful minimal implementation of ForeverNotes might cover non-blog text for tracking projects that I would otherwise not add to Reminders app. Maybe deeper notes for nature studies like bird observations?

2024-12-22

# So, Luigi Mangione is labeled a terrorist by the same government that deliberately carries out a War on Children?

"In November, over a year into Israel’s genocide in Gaza, a report by the Gaza-based Community Training Center for Crisis Management produced a grim statistic: “Nearly all children in the embattled Palestinian enclave believe their death is imminent — and nearly half of them want to die.”

That's interesting.

# "What's the function of a galaxy? I don't know if our life has a purpose and I don't see that it matters. What does matter is that we're a part. Like a thread in a cloth or a grass-blade in a field. It is and we are. What we do is like wind blowing on the grass."
- Ursula K. Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven